should point out that there was a Muslims-protesting -against -the-muslim-extremists march in London last Saturday without major incident.

Rank-and-file Muslims (if you'll forgive me putting it like that) do highly resent Islam being hijacked by extremists. Unfortunately, peaceful demonstrations tend not to be publicised round the world.

Anmd I keep hearing on BBC radio that Islam is at bottom a peaceful and tolerant religion.

michaelr. You ask why religion preaches peace and spawns fury. Well. we've had a whole thread (Religion=good people doing bad things?" - hope I've got that right) and the answer to you're question was amazingly ambivalent and arguable.

Maybe the answer is to differentiate as sharply as possible between all religions and their adherents.

Good night.

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