It s a western privilege to ve a critical conversation about religion. A privilege that needs to be protected at any cost and should be possible all over the world therefore shouldnt be a privilege at all. And I wouldnt even call this a critical conversation regarding the questions asked. A taste of how this looks like in egypt if at all can be found on youtube where an atheist is lured into a live discussion on egypt tv and verbally attacked from all sides for his "disbelief". He was lucky enough to escape egypt. I think Americans are a little bit naive about islam especially the younger generation. They think of it as a religion like any other else. 9/11 has been some time ago and people tend to forget and adapt easily even though there is a great number of people thinking 9/11 was a jewish inside job. Americans are also to USA centered and the usual american has a bad picture or no clue at all what s going on outside the borders of their country.<br><br>Numerous attacks on american soil probably have been prevented by the tremendous work of their agencies and inland securities; no one of course sees that silent work. Europe in that period wasnt that lucky. There have been several attacks in France, Madrid, London and Berlin. The islamic world remains silent as expected. Sometimes they even justify these actions as a reaction to insults of their religion and protecting it against the opposing and challenging freedom of speech. Several critics of islam as well as ex muslims live under police protection. A prominent example that has been attacked is Salman Rushdie. The islamic world remains silent once again.<br><br>There is this false perception that islam is disadvantaged and oppressed. Neither that s the case in islamic countries nor in the west where they enjoy religious freedom as everybody rightfully should. Mosques can be built almost everywhere and missionary activities of islam are allowed. Compare this with what secret christian missionarys have to endure in many islamic countries. It s simply forbidden by law. <br>Also in the west there is this tendency to support the weakest based on some feeling over the ones that do right. Additionally the perpetrator-victim debate regarding islam is quite interesting. It can be seen that a great number of islam only interfenes and calls out perpetrators of violent misbave if the perpetrator is non muslim and the victim is muslim. In any other case they dont care. Various islamic news can be seen as an example for this. And if atrocities are pointed out by the west they distract by other topics or cruelties that happened to them. There wont be progression by this.<br><br>There could ve been asked various critical questions regarding islam in its fundaments such as about:<br>the punishment of apostasy, treatment of women( in court as wittness counts half as man, in marriage if wife resists, in heir matters( gets less than man), violence such as: the jewish banu quraiza massacre, attacks on caravans, sex slaves and treatment of prisoners of war, killing of muhammads critics in mecca, persecution of atheists, many god believers and pagans, for the abrahamic relgions the options of special tax or escape; muhammad having 11 wives and 2 concubines and marriage of an underage girl; the perception of a punishing god<br><br>also of interest: the first caliphates and the almiost exclusive spread of islam by force, as well as the immidiate civil wars and deaths of 3 of the first 4 caliphates<br><br>a little bit about the past: the conquest of persia, seldjucs attacking christian pilgrims creating one of the motivations for the first crusade, discrimination of christians in islamic empires, forced conversions applied by the ottomans for example, stealing of christian children for the purpose of war slaves( mameluks and ottomans did that)<br><br>That finally leads me to the present situation:<br>Christians and other minorities being discriminated against in islamic countries by law or society such as:- no missionary activity allowed, a christian man cant marry a muslim woman unless he converts, attacks on coptic christians in egypt, converted christians face penalty, antisemitsm taught in schools, rape and forced marriage of christian and hindu women in pakistan, massacre of kurds and yezids by isis, cruelties of boko haram and al shabaab, modern slavery of non muslims on the arabic peninsula,...<br>but it doesnt only concern non muslims. Muslims themselves suffer alot as well , as can be seen in iraq, the war in yemen, the current situation in iran, the arabic spring, several dictatorships,<br><br>Last but not least im sorry for the recent loss. And i hope you can find happiness and i pray for you. I wish everybody a good and happy life.,(reply>), It's important to remember that not all Muslims are the same. Just like any other religion, there are different interpretations and practices. Muslim leaders are not perfect Muslims, but that doesn't mean the whole religion is flawed. Islam promotes compassion and peace, not violence. It's unfair to generalize all Muslims based on the actions of a few extremists. Also, discrimination and persecution of minorities, including Christians, is not unique to Islamic countries. It happens all over the world