The facts of history are never plain and simple, except when cherry picked.If you ask me, Are there moderate Muslims? I will answer yes of course there are. But that is not really the proper question to be asking. The real question to raise here is this: Is Islam moderate or peaceful? The answer to that question is a resounding no.
This political ideology for that is what it really is began with the sword, has been spread by the sword, and stays in power by the sword. Muhammad is of course the ideal example of the use of terror, violence, murder, beheadings and warfare.
His life is not only full of such jihadist terror, but this is all fully approved of in the Koran, the hadith, and the history of Islam. This is a religion of blood built on blood, sustained by blood, and propagated by blood. Those are the simple and plain facts of history.
When you cut n paste from somewhere you are supposed to attribute your source.There has been an alarming number of attacks against Christians in Africa in recent months. Several incidences highlight the growing levels of persecution faced by the church in the region, and shows once again why so many African nations have risen in their rankings on the World Watch List of persecuted nations in 2013. In northern Cameroon two Christian converts known as Abdoulaye and Abakachi were shot dead when a group of Islamists opened fire on them as they walked home after attending a three-day church seminar. They had previously been subjected to death threats.
Abdoulaye's father had declared him a "traitor" for leaving Islam. Abdoulaye leaves behind a wife and 13 children - Abakachi a wife and four children. Violence also erupted in Tanzania after a non-Muslim butcher prepared meat for a funeral. Protestors took out their anger on the Assemblies of God Church, killing Pastor Kachili. Two armed men on a motorcycle also shot dead Father Evaristus Mushi as he was on his way to lead a church service on the island of Zanzibar. Two days later, arsonists set fire to the Evangelical Church of Siloam. The incidents are the latest in a string of attacks against church leaders across the country.
... the World Watch List ...
Perhaps you can provide a link to this report, because this quote and similar ones appear all over the Internet, but there is no trace of the report they are supposedly from on the website of the organisation itself. This has already been pointed out.Four of every five acts of religious discrimination in the world today are directed against Christians, according to the Germany-based International Society for Human Rights.
It's not clear which pew forum report he is referencing. The 2014 report lists number of countries christians are harassed in as 110. The number for muslims at 109. Only one less - quite surprising giving there are a lot more christians im the world and they are more widely spread.The secular US think tank the Pew Forum says Christians face harassment or oppression in 139 nations, nearly three-quarters of all the countries on earth.
Are you interested in what the Christians were doing at the same time?
Richard the Lionheart amazed Saladin by massacring 3,000 prisoners on the hill called Ayyadieh. There was a lot of violence on both sides in the battle for Acre (Christians attacking Muslims), but Richard took it step further.
Or Christians against Christians as in the massacre of the Cathars.
Going back in time most of the Christians martyred in the years around 400 AD were killed by other Christians, and even more embarrassing mostly our side killing others we by then regarded as heretics - whether they were heretics or actually on a previous version of Christianity is an interesting question.
I was in Oxford where a Muslim group were proselytising and fifty feet North of them an Evangelical Anglican group was doing the same. Both were preaching the same message of declining morality but the Christians failed to notice that their message of love and peace which occasionally mentioned was a bit problematic because they were 200 feet from where their church had supported the burning of the (Christian) martyrs Cranmer, Ridley and Latimer, burnt alive of course.
I think to make any sense of this topic it would be necessary to take a more evenly balanced approach and to invest more time in research.