Typical right wing bigot rhetoric. The whole "religion of peace" thing was a buzzword invented by Republicans to create more rhetoric for their conservative followers to use, I don't think the term was used before 9/11 at all.no religion can claim to be the religion of peace (much less an abrahamic religion), and no one has ever claimed any specific religion is the religion of peace
That's nice. I don't see christians going out and shooting up people, I don't see the Jews doing it either.
Islam is one of the worst religions out there, to killing others for not being islamic, to taking basic human rights from others.
An Arabic word only has one root. The root word for Islam is “al-Silm,” which means “submission” or “surrender.” There is no disagreement about this among Islamic scholars. al-Silm (submission) does not mean the same thing as al-Salaam (peace), otherwise they would be the same word.
Submission and peace can be very different concepts, even if a form of peace is often brought about through forcing others into submission. As the modern-day Islamic scholar, Ibrahim Sulaiman, puts it, "Jihad is not inhumane, despite its necessary violence and bloodshed, its ultimate desire is peace which is protected and enhanced by the rule of law."
In truth, the Quran not only calls Muslims to submit to Allah, it also commands them to subdue people of other religions until they are in a full state of submission to Islamic rule. This has inspired the aggressive history of Islam and its success in conquering other cultures.