The reason criticism of Islam is called 'racist'.

Submitted by agent (United States), Dec 14, 2008 at 15:04

Simply put, they lie to defend Islam b/c there is no truth that will defend Islam. I'm an atheist but the existence of Islam seems like fairly good evidence that there is a Devil. It's built on lies, it gets people to thinking they're doing the 'openminded loving Christian thing' accept people as equals even though those people support evil. Look, it's simple. Muslims support Islam. Islam supports terrorism (in reality and the Koran supports (and condemns) it as well) and sharia law (in reality and the entirety of the Koran) which is terror all by itself. Therefore Muslims support terror. Therefore they are terrorists. If they really so strongly hate evil then they'd leave Islam. ... There's no amount of lower back and leg strength or excellent bread recipes or anything that can't be had by some other source and there's a humongous wealth of suffering and sin that could be avoided by dumping Islam. The actions of every terrorist, every sick sharia decision, every honor killing is on the head of every Muslim for supporting the 'religion' that creates those things.

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