Islam is not a religion of peace. If it was we would not be hearing of so many attacks by Muslims on non Muslims in so many different countries. The phrase ‘religion of peace’ when applied to Islam is a lie of gargantuan proportions.

If Islam was indeed as peaceful as its apologists say it is then we would not be seeing attacks of the sort that happened in Dagestan, Russia recently were a Muslim shouting ‘Allah hu Akbar’ gunned down churchgoers at a folk festival. We don’t see Jews behaving like this and neither do we see Christians or Sikhs killing people en masse merely because they follow a different spiritual path.

But we see this in Islam, a lot. We see far too many Islamic atrocities for them to be attributed entirely to ‘mental illness’ or ‘a tiny minority of extremists’.

We have to admit to ourselves, no matter how painful psychologically it may be, that although there are many individual Muslims who are indeed peaceful decent human beings, Islam the ideology is a foul beast of a belief system. As I have said so often before, Muslim individuals are decent not because of Islam but in spite of it. We must judge Islam according to the evidence of its impact on the world and the evidence that we have in front of us should cause us to judge Islam harshly. Islam is an aggressive and wholly fascistic ideology that corrupts the morals of those who imbibe it and take it seriously. It may be a path that has peaceful people operating within it, but Islam is plainly not a ‘religion of peace’.