Religion Didn't Do it. The Bad Men Holding the Guns Did it.

23.2% of the world that is associated with a religion consider themselves Islamic.



1.57 billion people are of the Islamic religion according to 2012 stats.



You know what this means? It’s time to stop attaching the fabled Islam religion to these terrorist attacks. It’s time to destroy the notion that it’s the religion’s fault that we had a dozen unnecessarily die at the hands of a wicked trio over in Paris. ISIS, 9/11, the Boston Bombings, etc. are caused by evil people, not people closely associated with the faith. No religion in the planet causes or forces people to be violent, this is guaranteed. In Islam’s moral commandments, killing is frowned upon. Hatred is frowned upon. Violence is frowned upon. What has happened to the editors and cartoonists is not an accepted practice—it is plain and simple an evil act.

Every religion has their bad eggs, their small population that misinterprets the words of excruciating old books and attempts to justify what is said in modern times. Hey Christians attacking the Muslim world for recent attacks, am I allowed to bring up the youth-killing monster Anders Breivik? Killed 70+ in a country notorious for NO crime while housing Christian fundamentalist ideals and dreams of eliminating Muslims from Norway. The Virginia Tech Shooter went to a Korean Presbyterian church. No mentions of his religion when discussing the killings. Oh yea…Hitler….Christian.

It is unfair to crucify and look sharply at the billions of good people that had nothing to do with what has been happening in the Middle East and has slowly crept its way into Europe. You are part of the problem if your mindset involves Islam being automatically associated with terrorism. To make it simpler: dining at McDonalds can lead to obesity but not all who dine in the fast food joint are obese. And all this started because of a small series of cartoons. What normal Muslim is going on a rampage over a few drawings? 

Bad people did very bad things. Nothing more, nothing less. Very sure that their God, their Muhammad, their Jesus, and their Moses wouldn’t approve of the behavior, regardless of how they interpret their religion. This is terrorism, no attachments to any religion or spiritual belief. The second they fired their guns their ties to God disappeared.