pardon?
Islam literally translate to 'peace', it is not about creationism or jihad it is about peace and open mindedness. People must realize suicide bombers are people who are not actual Muslims (praise to Allah), they are just poor and confused young men, who most likely had their family killed in a US/UK bombing.
Islam (praise to Allah) is compatible with the theory of evolution, and it was actually Muslim (praise to Allah) scholars who founded modern science and mathematics, so your assertion about creationism is way off.
Is this what you consider peaceful?
“Fight those who do not believe until they all surrender, paying the protective tax in submission” (Koran 9:29)
“Fight them until all opposition ends and all submit to Allah” (Koran 8:39)
“Fight the unbelievers around you, and let them find harshness in you” (Koran 8:65)
“Fight and kill the disbelievers wherever you find them, take them captive, beleaguer them, and lie in wait and ambush them using every stratagem of war”(Koran 9:5)
Sounds like a tolerant religion all right- tolerant of all but non Muslims. As devout Muslims, suicide bombers attempt to follow in the prophet Mohammed’s footsteps by fighting the Holy War against all non believers, just as the Koran preaches.
In fact, a Pentagon briefing states:
“ His [the suicide bombers’s] actions provide a win -win scenario for himself, his faith and his God…the bomber secures salvation and the pleasures of Paradise. …He defends his faith and takes his place in a long line of martyrs to be memorialized as a valorous fighter…And finally, because of the manner of his death, he is assured that he will find favour with Allah…the selfless sacrifice by the individual Muslim to destroy Islam’s enemies becomes a suitable, feasible and acceptable course of action.”
There are schools all over America teaching young Muslim children to die for Allah and find peace in Paradise, so that the whole of the Western world will eventually become Islamic and follow Sharia Law. Not to mention schools in Muslim countries such as Saudi Arabia teaching children from schoolbooks that instruct them to kill non believers in the name of Allah and despise Jews- a breeding ground for terrorists.
Have you not heard of accounts of Muslim girls wishing by convert and being murdered by their own families in order to preserve their honour? Of Muslims in mosques chanting “death to America!” ?
These are not people who are misinterpreting the Koran- in fact, they are being “good” Muslims by literally following it. The more they read the texts, the more “radicalized” they become. Sure, there are non practicing Muslims, but those who have really read and believe in the Koran do not believe in the ideas of democracy, equality before the law (eg,in countries that implement Sharia Law, a Muslim woman’s testimony is worth half of a mans), or tolerance of others.
Here are some stories from Muslims who finally realized what their religion was truly about.
Islam Watch - Leaving Islam: Muslim apostates, Murtads, apostasy in Islam, Stories-Testmonies-Confessions of renouncing-leaving Islam
It is not peaceful by any definition. Don’t believe me? Do some research