How about you visit the sources listed then? You know, actually look up the links instead of trying to dismiss it entirely because you're desperate for a retort.
You made a claim, I asked for your statistic, you showed a graph, without links to it, now I am calling you on the sources and you say "look for them". That's not how it goes mate. I looked in to it already. And I question the scientific rigor that should go in surveys of such complexity. You have to prove that it is accurate. Not me. I never claimed it's truth or validity. You did. The burden of proof is on you. Show me that it is accurate. Don't just say, seach for the sources on their website! We are not on Jeopardy. So let ME do some of YOUR work here ...
Here is their webpage:
http://www.pewforum.org/2013/04/30/the-worlds-muslims-religion-politics-society-overview/
I had to fucking type the stuff from that image you posted in my browser, you could not even be arsed to give the link? So much to show the validity of said paper. But here it is:
www.pewforum.org/files/2013/04/worlds-muslims-religion-politics-society-full-report.pdf
Alright! So, now here we are, a PDF of 200+ pages full of numbers, data and information. Hmm. Let me see what we can make out of it. First, what was the tonality of the survey? Who have been the people they asked? They also left some nations out, like Iran and Saudi-Arabia - so much to making a general statement about ALL Muslims are like that.
There is also no reference to draw from, how can those data be compared to other religions, like the catholic faith, or christian faith asa whole. I am not saying this survey isn't even interesting. I just question it's validity. Right now, it's pretty useless, since you can't compare it. They would have to do another survey, of the same scope, with the other big 5 religions if they really want to prove that Islam is somehow special among them. There is also the issue, how the questions were framed, which might explain some of the contradictions:
Pew's data shows the share of Muslims who support sharia and the share of these pro-sharia Muslims who back this policy. Some of the Pew data are charted at right. Leaving the faith is a particularly sensitive issue in Islam, which was initially founded in part as a sort of community. Abandoning Islam is traditionally considered not just apostasy, as it is in other religions, but a specific transgression called "ridda." In the first days of Islam, the religion was also a physical community under siege from outside forces and facing the possibility of fracturing within. To leave the faith was also to abandon the larger community, a crime considered akin to treason in the way we understand it in the West. Of course, times have changed significantly over the past 13 or 14 centuries, and a lone Muslim deciding to adopt a different faith or give it up altogether is no longer a practical threat to his or her community in the way that he or she might have been back then. But the religious pronouncements commanding punishment for ridda are still right there in the scripture, which may explain in part why this view persists. It's also important to note that majorities of Muslims in the countries surveyed, sometimes vast majorities, said they support religious freedom. That includes, for example, more than 75 percent of Egyptians and more than 95 percent of Pakistanis. It might seem like a glaring contradiction. And it is a contradiction, but it might make a little more sense that so many people could hold seemingly mutually exclusive views -- religious freedom is good, but anyone who leaves Islam should be executed -- if one understands the particular history of apostasy in Islam.
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In fact, according to the 2013 Pew Research Center report, 88 percent of Muslims in Egypt and 62 percent of Muslims in Pakistan favor the death penalty for people who leave the Muslim religion. This is also the majority view among Muslims in Malaysia, Jordan and the Palestinian territories. It's important to note, though, that this view is not widely held in all Muslim countries or even among Muslims in these regions. In Bangladesh, another majority Muslim South Asian state that has a shared heritage with Pakistan, it is about half as prevalent, with 36 percent saying they support it. Fewer than one in six Tunisian Muslims hold the view, as do fewer than one in seven Muslims in Lebanon, which has a strong Christian minority. The view is especially rare among Central Asian and European Muslims. Only 6 percent of Russian Muslims agree that converts from Islam should face death, as do 1 percent of Albanian Muslims and, at the bottom of the chart, 0.5 percent of Kazakhs.
I am still not convinced that the Islam is special to Christianity or Judaism, and no here denied the danger that can come from religious believs. All the survey shows, in my opinion, is that in regions with less education and higher poverty you see a higher number of religious beliefs. Which isn't surprising, as similar situations appear in the western world, where extreme views and racism can be higher in areas with lower education.
This is why it is important to actually compare religions and surveys to each other, and not just go, here we made this survey, and it shows muslims do this and that.
I don't think Islam as a religion its self promotes violence. How some of its so-called "followers" twist and interpret it is a whole other story.
It can, and does promote viollence in some instances. No one here ever dennied the issue of religious texts. While I don't agree with islamophobes and racists like Vergil or Illuminati here, I do not believe that you can simply exclude the fanatics from the religion as whole.
See, when you take a book like the Bible or the Quaran and take it literaly, which you can, you pretty much follow the religion. Christians and Muslims often say, the fanatics are not true and following the wrong interpretation. But the big question is, who's to say what the correct interpretation is? Not long ago, you had Popes giving their interpretation about what faith is, and people had to follow it, or well, burn. To say, those are not part of their religion, is closing your eyes from the truth. Even schoolars in the christian and muslim worlds knew about this when they discussed it from a theological and philosophical point. Are religious texts, like the Bible, man made interpretations of gods will? Or are they a direct message from god that should be taken literal? The consequences, historically speaking, can be very dramatic.
