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Im from Europe (German, protestant christian), and most muslims I know (Quite a lot, actually, there's loads of turks at my school) are actually pretty much the same as me: They are of course pissed at people saying that Islam is the root of all evil, but they are equally pissed at muslims that are radical and go rioting over any single little no-issue.

For me, it boils down to this: There's assholes in every bunch, and said assholes just seem to be more visible than all the moderate, normal people. Sadly, in a lot of mainly muslim societies, said assholes seem to have more power than they should have.

But Islam and violence? I don't really think any one of Islam, Christianity and Judaism is "more violent" than any other of these. They actually seem to have a lot in common, and are most probably closeley related to each other anyways (Thats obvious for Judaism and Christianity (lol old testament) and with Islam beeing the newest of the three, it most probably incoperated a lot of the ideas that the other two already had, but I don't really know about that).

In the end, I don't think it's the religion, more the cultural background, how you were raised, and that has more to do with traditions than with actual religion. Did you know the Koran doesn't even say anything about wearing a headscarf, just that women should dress properly (aka "don't let your boobs hang out.")?

tl;dr: Let's respect each others religion, and ignore the real-life trolls that don't.

PS:
If you have time and have never read it, read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_der_Weise (Preferrably, read the actual play instead of the wikipedia article), this play made me think a lot about religious tolerance.