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Yes, all too often in Islamic countries countries women are prosecuted against. Yes, it is sad and wrong. Does that mean that all Muslims are bad? No. It doesn't even mean Islam itself as a religion is bad. I've been in religious debates with just about someone from every religion. Whenever a violent quote is point out from their holy book, they say that it's context or interpretation. I don't particularly buy this, but just about every religion, and particularly the big three monotheistic religion, use the same excuse. Muslims in and of themselves are no worse than Christians or Jews in my book. Extreme Muslims are bad, just like extreme Christians and Muslims.
Point is, I see no reason to believe that Islam is violent and Christianity is peaceful. The Qur'an, Torah, and Bible all have some pretty messed up stuff in them, yet the follows of the religions don't always follow them. As long as Muslims obey the rules, and they can and do, I'm okay with them.
The thing that I see as a major difference is that it is still the mainstream view held in all five major sects of Islam that apostasy, adultery (including premarital sex being punished by 100 lashes), and sodomy are all punished through death by stoning. The adultery codes are really bad because women who accuse men of rape have to have 4 witnesses, if they do not then if they accuse a man of rape they themselves can be executed which is just insane. And again this isn't some fringe thing, it is the THE viewpoint throughout all of mainstream Islam. It is the counter viewpoints which are in the fringe minority.
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