Hi, not Atheist

[Too Few Lions]

while there are undoubtedly many tolerant Muslims

.., they are not doing enough to stop those other assholes from blowing up stuff in the name of their god. As long as that is the case, "Islam is a religion of peace" is a load of crap.

...Not that Christians are any better at all, really

EDIT: Oh! Forgot the jews. How did THAT happen..? Throw them in with the rest for  good measure.

I agree 100%, I was just trying to be polite, and accept that there are some more tolerant Muslims out there (somewhere...) I've never bought any of that "Islam is a religion of peace" crap either, monotheistic religions are inherently intolerant to anyone who doesn't believe in their particular brand of god, and have been throughout history. At the present time Islam is definitely the most intolerant religion in the world, but go back 500, 1000 or 1500 years and Christianity wore that crown.

The truth is we'd be persecuted in pretty much every Muslim country if we lived there and openly confessed to being atheists. If we were actively atheistic we'd be jailed or executed. We couldn't even renounce Islam openly if we were born there as Muslims. Apostasy's still a serious 'crime' in Muslim countries, in some it still carries the death penalty 

[Asmodean]

The truth is we'd be persecuted in pretty much every Muslim country if we lived there and openly confessed to being atheists. If we were actively atheistic we'd be jailed or executed. We couldn't even renounce Islam openly if we were born there as Muslims. Apostasy's still a serious 'crime' in Muslim countries, in some it still carries the death penalty 

Good point right there.

Now, some of those tolerant muslims will probably say "Oh, but that's not what the Quran is all about anjd what Islam is all about" and so on and so forth. Oh no..?

Wake up call: It's not your book that defines your religion - it's the people reading it.

iSok, your quoting the Book(tm) to me, at least, is meaningless if you mean to demonstrate that Islam is a good religion. Meaningless because the quotes you pick say something about you as a muslim, ignoring the lines some explosive underpants wearing fundie or a totalitarian government would cling on to... Those with murder and death, for instance. As long as you say Islam is peaceful and just and whatever else it may be while lots of people and even governments use it as a tool of opression and destruction, we have a bit of a conflicting opinion going, no..?