Looked like a terrorist? I live pretty much next to an islamitic (cultural) gathering center and never has it caused any trouble nor blew up. Every day some walk by and I speak with them sometimes. They're friendly people and even though there are quite some when they've all gathered, nothing has ever gone wrong.

Yeah, this 'Looking like a terrorist' idea is a very dangerous concept, indeed. Do you still remember the young brasilian electrician ('Jean Charles de Menezes') who was shot dead in London, not a long time ago (22July2005)? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Jean_Charles_de_Menezes .

Well, I don't hate Muslims, but Islam has violent precepts at it's core. The reason why it's progressing so fast is because of that : Islam encourages the use of violence to spread itself. BTW if you look at terrorists then most of them are Islam fanatics.
Another thing is how they treat women. They consider that women are inferior to men and are here only for sex, reproduction and home tasks. While I don't consider women nor anybody else equal to me (we are all different and one of a kind), I believe that no hierarchy exists between human beings.
Another thing : the Hamas's slogan (one of many pro islamisation groups) is "We love death more than you love life". I think this is pretty much self explanatory.
One last thing : there are only a couple Nobel prices won by muslims. So the proportion of intelligent people adept of this religion is ridiculously low.

Now I hope that these arguments make you reconsider your opinion a bit and realize that Islam is not only good. There are good muslims but not all of them are and the Coran has two halves : the beginning of Mohammed's life which was good and the second part which was only war and blood.

I know others have already replied to your post, but I still would like to add some stuff. In your post you are generalizing many things and generalisation to me ruins good discussion. It doesn't mean when one certain group (mis) interpretes something in the Bible/Koran that the entire group following those books do so. You always have extremists, in any religion (and I count atheism to that group too).

Beside that, I find your point on intelligence of muslims utterly ridiculous. Again, you're generalizing and even on a ridiculous point. The nobel prize is something that has been extremely western for a long period of time, there was little interaction with the many asian countries until recently. And if you look in the history books, you can see those countries contributed very much to science.

There is a muslim girl that I  know and am very befriended with. She is also one of the only girls I know that is studying computer science. Very bright and intelligent, more so than many other students. Although I don't agree with some of her religious viewpoints (I'm Christian) I certainly do respect them. She to me is a great proof of how muslims can be (and are) just normal people. It is the propaganda of western governments that tries to change this view, to make them all terrorists. (well, some governments more than others)

As a final note, every group that has power will take advantage of it. Be it a government, the Catholic church or certain muslim leaders. But they don't define all the people that are part of (or affected by) the group.

Just to reply in general to some earlier posts I've read:
I am a Christian, and have a extremely strong basis for this. I also do not believe in evolution, and that's because I've done a ton of study on it.

Why would a God let us die? Well, I'm pretty sure we can all agree that the earth is not the most nice place to live in. To be stuck here forever would be a mild form of Hell for me, if I think about it like that.
If you believe in Heaven and Hell, death makes a lot of sense.

As much as people will deny it, evolution is basically a religion on it's own, with all the poor evidence it has.
To me, the world in the light of Christianity makes very much sense, and hardly does in the light of evolution and no God.

I believe in evolution, and am christian. There is quite a bit of evidence for it, and no evidence for a literally instantaneous creation.

I also believe that God is our father, and we all have the potential to become gods.

Can anyone guess what religion I am?

100% correct, although I don't mind if you use the term mormon if you prefer, or LDS.

As much as people will deny it, evolution is basically a religion on it's own, with all the poor evidence it has.

I would ask how this is that Evolution has such poor evidence? I can think of several very good examples within relatively recent timeframes.

The most popular example is Human breeding of dogs from wolves. However, Humans have also done the same with Horses. Horses as recent as the Roman eras were little more than ponies barely suitable for riding. That's why in early Bronze Age history, horses were used for chariots, they couldn't support the weight of Humans. True war horses weren't available until around the 18th century, iirc.

The there's the conceptual side of things. DNA is like source code. We know DNA mutates (at it's core, it's point mutations that drive all of evolution). The only thing that separates life forms from one another is DNA. Since we know DNA defines the organism, and that changes in DNA can be passed down, as you change the DNA, you change the organism. Eventually you get to a point a group with such different DNA that it cannot reproduce with others of the same species, and thus it becomes their own species. Where's the hole in that?

Scipi, schmibs, I like both examples!

@ElementCoder, DJ, SprioH: Here is what my muslim post was loosely based on: http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/23/justice/new-york-sikh-possible-hate-crime/index.html  but while looking for it, I found this: http://abcnews.go.com/US/judge-ordered-sikh-remove-rag-head-aclu/story?id=20400720  I hope that judge gets a beating!