EBS: Is Islam fundamentally wrong and barbaric, or is it the extremists that make it that way. (Please be civil :))

YES ISLAM IS FUNDAMENTALLY WRONG AND BARBARIC

Yes! Of course Islam is fundamentally wrong and barbaric, the Quran contains sexist, homophobic, and violent messages, there is teachings about how 72 virgins await those who die in combat in heaven, and Muhammed himself, the prophet of Allah, married a child.

NO ISLAM IS NOT FUNDAMENTALLY WRONG AND BARBARIC, ITS JUST EXTREMISTS

No! Of course Islam as a whole isn't wrong or barbaric, while the Quran and Islamic culture doesn't take kind to other forms of religion, no one condones the violence of others, and ya, maybe Islam is a bit conservative, but referring to and old book doesn't really speak to the modern practice of the religion, Im sure anyone could bring up Christianity and its justifications of slavery and its homophobia within the holy books. Anything said about Islam really could be said about Christianity, and really at that point you're just criticizing religion as a whole.

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