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Re: Is Islam a religion of Peace?
by
Spendulus
on 12/03/2016, 02:55:17 UTC
I think...
This is hard to answer....
But looking into the past, and thinking about those poor scorched women, which were declared as witches,
I do not know how to answer in that respect....

Witch burning certainly was wrong, and I think the human race can do better.  It appears that from 1200 to 1700, some tens of thousands of purported witches were burned.  Difficult to know for certain, but this is a range that historians agree on.

It's a grievous fault that in the history of Christianity and Western civilization, in 500 years, the death count from burning witches is about equal to Islamic terror for a...

...a year....

http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/12/02/how-many-people-were-killed-as-witches-in-europe-from-1200-to-the-present/

But rather than take this as an indictment of Islam, why shouldn't we ask how they could, with our help, do better?