Talk:Equalists/@comment-98.244.184.207-20120602201056/@comment-176.42.103.40-20120603165852

I am also a minority living in a Muslim-majority country. I am not a Christian, so "Christians also have a violent past" is a nonsensical argument to me. The world doesn't exist as a Christian vs. Muslim divide. Also, Christians are generally apologetic of their past (Crusades, etc.) whereas Muslims are proud of it.

Islam is not a religion of peace: Mohammad himself ordered the genocide of Banu Qurayza. The males were beheaded and the women & children were sold to slavery. Also, the poets and poetesses who criticised Mohammad were assassinated, such as Asma bint Marwan. This violence escalated throughout the centuries. The early expansion of Islam was primarily militaristic. The armies of Islam destroyed and forcefully assimilated many indigenious religions and civilisations, such as Zoroastrian Iran.

Islam does not oppress women? Let us inspect this gem of wisdom from the Quran.

4:34 "Men are in charge of women, because Allah hath made the one of them to excel the other, and because they spend of their property (for the support of women). So good women are the obedient, guarding in secret that which Allah hath guarded. As for those from whom ye fear rebellion, admonish them and banish them to beds apart, and scourge them."

Good women are obedient? Beat them if they do not obey you? Yeah sure, Islam does not oppress women at all. *rolls eyes* Mind you, there are many lines from the Quran and the Hadith in this vein. The majority of Hell's population are women, the testimony of two women is equal to the testimony of a man, etc.

If we were to seek an analogy for Islam in the Avatar world, that would have to be the Fire Nation under Ozai.