I do not believe that any religion itself encourages violence in any form or manner as the first line of defense let alone preaches violence as a way of life. And this, I can tell only after reading the holy books and their explanations of all major religions, i.e. Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism etc.

Have we, the people, ever tried to read the book called Quran? Are we going to take one man’s interpretation as the ‘whole truth and nothing but the truth’? If we are not comfortable living our comfortable life without doing something about it, why not start by reading the actual ‘thing’? that takes a little more effort than just believing everything we see on TV, doesn’t it?

I am very saddened to see fellow bloggers from around the world mixing state rules and cultures of ‘men’ ( as seen in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Egypt and other Arab and African countries) and project their own ‘limited’ views of Islam as the ‘truth’. You must not forget that Malaysia, Indonesia, Bangladesh etc are also Muslim countries who have open and tolerant societies, countries where Islam and democratic values live peacefully. Is it not a democratic value to listen to the ‘other’? Is it not a democratic value to safeguard the voice and honor of the ‘other’? I salute Netherlands to practice these values and trying to solve tension in a lawful manner , tension that Geert brought in the peaceful culture of the Dutch.

Let us not forget how Christianity has been used to kill people in Europe(the witch hunt), killings no less horrible than those of Jihad fanatics. Let’s not forget the holocaust. Please do not forget we can read about countless kings and rulers who devoted to religion of peace yet killed mercilessly in the fields of war. Unfortunately the present history of mankind is not deprived of them but merely know them as “dictators”.

Dear Friends, please do not blame religion for the sins of men rather hold the people accountable for their unjust usage of holy scriptures. That should include both Geert wilders and Osama bin Laden in people’s court of justice.

No religion is evil. Only people are made evil. And how are the people made evil in this world? When the great difference becomes apparent between the few ‘have all’s’ and billions of ‘have not’s’ in this unjust economic situation. Poverty and oppression really do not need religion to carry out fanatic deeds but they do like to use the veil of religion none the less.

Ask yourself, when a murder is committed, do you hang the knife or the murderer?

If you really feel something is the enemy of your way of life, don’t just take the media’s word for it. Go directly to the real enemy ( the book of Islam or the state or the country etc) and find out yourself why the people do what they do. May be then you will understand and see that violence against women is common, and same in USA as is in any other ‘Muslim country’. May be then you will see poverty, inequality, oppression are the real enemies, not religion, not Islam.
http://www.now.org/issues/violence/stats.html
http://www.feminist.com/antiviolence/facts.html#global

As for immigration and integration, if we want to become a citizen of a certain country then we must love the culture and values of that society. Muslims in Germany, Norway or Netherlands must prove to their fellow country men that they are as much citizens as they are Muslims.

Perhaps you speak a little out of ignorance and comfort. You have freedom to express your interpretation of Islam because you are not under Islamic rule in the form of Government. I would like to see you move to perhaps a country such as Arabia, Afghanistan, Southern Pakistan, Iran and see if you would have the same liberties expressing yourself as an independent woman in view of the Quaran. You could be put to death for your liberal views. Your views are minority in origin. Please keep it real, true Islam is a movement of Political Ideology and control with absolutely NO VALUES! You surprise me being a woman and yet lingering in ignorance. Try walking 3 steps behind your master and having to wear a tent ( to hide your body) for awhile and then try to convince me of your passion for this so-called religion. On the other hand I certainly believe in freedom of speech, and you are certainly entitled to that. Please don’t let your passionate zeal dig a hole in which you cannot climb out of!

How can a man be pursued by the justice system as a criminal when a ransom was put on his head by muslim fanatics and cawordly muslim apologists? He has been living under death threat for saying and showing what is written, read, praised, chanted and screamed by muslims themselves. How can this be? He did not lie or made up stories about the words of Koran. I cannot beleive it, how can these judges who live in their bubbles of muticulturalim be so stupid…

It is the death sentence of freedom of speech. This would not have happened if the muslims in the Netherlands have kept to their religion behind their prison walls instead of trying to change everything around them that does not fit their creduleous self-righteous ideas and manners.

Americans do not understand the absence of freedom of expression in Europe. While we have much to improve, we love our First Amendment. I would recommend it to everyone. It makes for a rather messy society, but not a repressive one. I’ll take messy any day over repressive.