&gt; To speak of the true nature of Islam is really to slur an entire religion and over a billion individuals.<p>No, it has nothing to do with the people who practice Islam and everything to do with the texts that they consider holy. We don&#x27;t claim that the founding fathers of the United States weren&#x27;t racist just because we&#x27;ve abolished slavery, removed the 3&#x2F;5 compromise and allowed all races the right to vote. We similarly can&#x27;t claim that Islam does not advocate violence just because the (vast) majority of the people who practice it are not violent. The text is preserved in it&#x27;s initial form and there&#x27;s no denying the violence that it advocates.<p>I just don&#x27;t see how people can be so blinded by political correctness to not realize that so much of the violence that we&#x27;re seeing comes from a strict adherence to those religious texts.<p>&gt; What would be the &#x27;true nature&#x27; of Christianity - I can&#x27;t even imagine.<p>It would include things like not eating pork. This is despite the fact that the vast majority of Christians eat pork. But that&#x27;s what&#x27;s written in the book that Christians pay blind allegiance to, so it&#x27;s part of Christianity&#x27;s true nature.