&gt; it has nothing to do with the people who practice Islam<p>Good to hear, and I&#x27;m sorry if I misunderstood, but please make that clear. There are a lot of people who would smear others based on their religion; it&#x27;s a serious issue and people will come to harm. Many want to Muslims&#x27; rights and even lives taken from them.<p>&gt; everything to do with the texts that they consider holy<p>If you aren&#x27;t talking about Muslims, than why is it relevant what the Islamic scriptures say?<p>&gt; <i>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 ...<p>The analogy with the Founding Fathers would be Mohammed. </i>We similarly can&#x27;t claim that <i>Mohammed</i> does not advocate violence*; it says nothing about a billion Muslims (Though we might: I don&#x27;t know in non-sectarian historical terms who wrote the Quran. Muslims believe it is the exact words dictated by Allah - it&#x27;s not Mohammed&#x27;s words but Allah&#x27;s. I know nothing about this question myself; I do know that historians believe the Jewish and Christian scriptures were written by many parties and not by the authors the believers claim.)<p>&gt; blinded by political correctness<p>Please don&#x27;t start name-calling or attributing beliefs to people you don&#x27;t know. It&#x27;s not productive and raises doubt about the good faith of everything else you say.<p>&gt; 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.<p>But Christians, like Muslims and everyone else, do not actually pay blind allegience to their scriptures. Some claim to and I would be surprised if more than a handful actually follows it in practice. Your definition of &quot;true nature&quot; is hard to support - what is &quot;true&quot;? What people do or what a book they mostly ignore says? And there are many, many widely differing interpretations about the truth of even that one book.