Super-basic Strawman alert!!!
"are you suggesting ALL Muslims...."
A question guaranteed to have a 'no' answer.
This, the most common fallacious argument attempt on message boards.
If however, one uses the honest and informative 'Some', 'Many', or 'most', he's screwed.
Thus strawman "all."
Lets bring this discussion back into the fold of intelligence. Gardener has made his bias against Muslims very clear so i think i was right to seek clarification on this issue.
Mainstream Muslims either in Majority or Significant Minority are in favor of Sharia Law and such punishments as Amputation for thievery, DEATH for Apostasy, and Stoning for adultery. (polls worldwide available, but we've ben thru this). Not to mention penalties for 'insulting Islam.'
I know for a fact 60% of Muslims in the UK are against Shariah law but i havent seen European statistics on a whole.
Poll reveals 40pc of Muslims want sharia law in UK - Telegraph
Perhaps you could be kind enough to prove your assertions?
Muslims in Britain have zero tolerance towards homosexual acts
compared to their counterparts in France and Germany, according to a survey published today.
By comparison, 35% of French Muslims found homosexual acts to be acceptable. A question on pornography also elicited different reactions, with French and German Muslims more likely than British Muslims to believe that watching or reading pornography was morally acceptable.
On the issue of sexual relations between unmarried men and women, general populations surveyed express similar views, with the majority believing it was acceptable. But the Muslim populations polled again reflected greater diversity on the matter. French Muslims ranked highest again, with 48% believing it was acceptable, followed by 27% of German Muslims responding favourably. British Muslims came last, with only 3% of those questioned personally believing that sex between unmarried men and women was moral. There was a similar outcome when asked for their views on extra-marital affairs.
So your poll shows that British Muslims are particularly conservative yet European Muslims have much more liberal views on these topics. So again, you blowing everything out of proportion by posting the misleading accusation that Muslims have ZERO tolerance towards gays, rather than stating this was only the case in Britain
where only 1000 Muslims where interviewed.
There are also Orthodox Jews who have just as conservative views on these topics, should we throw them out too? Hell, i remember one Jewish MP in Israel blaming the 2008 earthquakes on Gays.
What i mean to say is, your argument is a fallacy.