# Look, Islam is not the enemy

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [November 26, 2015, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-islam-is-not-the-enemy/738644 "2015-11-26T16:16:42Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 29, 2015, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-islam-is-not-the-enemy/738644/160 "2015-11-29T02:21:25Z")

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> [@Get yer rapin' and pillagin' here...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-yer-rapin-and-pillagin-here/97059/17):
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> And no, a crazed loon who shoots up a planned parenthood is not a good example. Perhaps you could find some organization that has 30,000 Christian followers and is dedicated to lopping off the heads of non-Christians? I will also accept a major branch of Christianity that condones killing wives and daughters who ‘dishonor’ the family, or perhaps a serious percentage of Christians who think that leaving the faith should be punishable by death?

Go to Central African Republic, where French troops are the only thing stopping the plan to drive out of slaughter what is left of the Muslim population.

In the West, the word we use for “honor killings” is “crimes of passion”. These have been legally protected in various ways until the last few decades. France actually reintroduced reintroduced adultery has a valid legal defense to murder, after having struck it down in the 1970s.

I’ll give you the apostasy thing.

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