I don't think Islam is a religion of peace.
One should compare Mohammed to Jesus Christ. Islam was founded by the prophet Mohammed. Here are some fun facts:
Mohammed, who never knew his father, was sexually violated (sodomized) as a youth.
* He held a grudge against everyone and took up the vocation as a slave trader.
* He made his money by buying and selling humans of all ages and race.
* Young strong slaves made good money for Mohammed. He sold young girls for sexual exploitation in Harems.
* Young male slaves were castrated and used for housework. Old and infirm were cheap and expendable.
* When they could no longer work they were killed off like old dogs.
* This was Mohammed’s business. This was how the false and heinous prophet-to-be made his money.
* This was the barbaric way of life that he was determined to preserve from the threat of Christianity.
* Although illiterate, he was a shrewd businessman who married his boss, an rich widow who was older than him by many years.
* He despised her with a vengeance. But when she died, he inherited all her wealth.
* He went on to have 13 wives and many concubines, whom he treated as personal property.
* Mohammed's youngest wife Ayesha, was only 6 years old when he engaged her and 9 years old when he married her and consummated their ‘marriage’!
* He bought her from her parents place because she was beautiful even as a child.
* He clearly had a voracious sexual appetite and was well known to be promiscuous.
* His life revolved around his harem, his slaves, battles and fooling people which his talk of god and satan.
* He always carried a knife or a sword. He killed many of his enemies by his own hand (a la Zarqawi who along with the accursed Mohammed is enjoying the Houris in Jan’aat - the Muslim heaven).
Mohammed personally abused, castrated, flogged and killed rebellious slaves.
* Through his brigandage, he became very rich and influential.
* His ideals of human rights extended only to his own faithful followers of Islamic brotherhood (Ummah).
* All infidels or non-Muslims were fair game for conquest or enslavement.
* He began to claim he was in direct personal contact with some god.
* There are good and bad persons in every society. Like Hitler, Mohammed courted those who were bad and evil like him.
* He commanded his faithful followers and associates to believe him without questioning his quthority.
* Mohammed put his evil band made up of Ali, Umar and the like in control of his society.
* He dictated his God's words, whom he called Allah, and ordered his followers to memorize these words.
* He borrowed some Jewish and Christian doctrines and combined them with his brand of depravity.
* It was a pick and mix of the good with the bad and he called it Islam.
* Islam means submission of Kafirs to the will of the Muslims of women to the will of their fathers, husbands sons and sons-in-law.
* It is clear today for all to see and experience that evil that Islam represents.
* All Islamic women, our mothers and sisters, live a life of extreme fear.
* He called it a new religion and proclaimed himself god's prophet.
* He nominated one deity, Allah, as his god, emphasizing Allah as the one true god(sic).
History of Jihad
Now Christ got mad and overturned some tables of the moneychangers outside the temple.
But otherwise, was peaceful.
Which religion is more peaceful?