A Religion of Peace?

After the recent shootings in Tunisia, a man with a modern gun mowing down unarmed people in yet another instance of wild cowardice, the British PM avowed yet again that Islam is a peaceful religion and murdering fanatics distort holy writ. There is no evidence for this in the present or past. It spread through armies, and, everywhere in the modern world, Islamic run states are intolerant and barbaric. (Well, so can the USA be, but unlike most advanced nations it too tends towards religious observance). No, Islam is violent. The only major religion that employs violence. Regularly, its narrow minded Imams call for the deaths of others.

Of course, the above does not mean that there aren't millions upon millions of generous, kindly, peaceful Moslems. There are! But this is a case of human nature overcoming the essentially nasty aspects of most religions, and evolving despite prophets, churches, imams and priests. Religion remains the darkness in the human soul.