I should stress once again that most religious people are not bad, in fact most use logic override things that religion fails on for example they don't support slavery, but do support the principle of equality between all men, all women and races. Also I believe that most Muslims are cultural muslims i.e.  they go along with it, cos it's part of their traditional family  culture, and practice in a traditional way that is not 100% by the book or the same as people practice it  in the middle East.

And don't be too hard on the religious, as in many societies "choosing your own religion" is an alien idea

3 key questions about islam 
I can't believe the UK media are so soft on Islam. Someone said the other day "what's wrong with it ?  it's just like another form of Christianity", well it's not "kill people every day" evil, but there are 3 questions you can ask that will nail the lid on the coffin..
1. Can you leave Islam ?
2. Do women have equal rights to men ?
3. Is it always bad for adults to have sex with children ?

The big difference between Islam and Christiamity is that it is inherently fundamentalalist. It's not like the Bible where you can follow what way you want . Every word of the Koran has to be adhered to. Not only that it's culturally accepted you have to follow the example of Mohommed.

1. You can't leave Islam if your father is a Muslim you must be one also. It's from the sayings of the prophet :he said "kill them who change religion", strangley this one isn't in the Koran so it should be open to interpretation, but in many Muslim countries the punishment is death. It is reinforced by saying that those who leave are letting their community down. Now it's not implimented on people who convert into Islam, but on the children who are born of Muslim fathers. So those who convert-in are enslaving their future family generations into Islam ... Incredible isn't it ?

Isn't it an obviously stupid law ? If peoples ancestors had had the same law then people would have never never people able to Convert into Islam

2. No under Sharia law there are quite a lot of legal unfairnesses. For example in many cases a womens evidence is worth half a man's ostensibly cos women are weaker & less reliable.

3. Again incredibly if  a 52 year old man  gets engaged to a 6 year old and consumates the marriage at 9 then Muslims are not able to says it's always wrong, because that's what the prophet did. 

So Islam is a religion which doesn't give people the freedom to leave, doesn't give women equal rights and allows paedophilia.

So it's not evil, evil, but how many minor injustices add up over the years and generations ?

Please don't be too hard on Muslims, as they are trapped in a culture they often cannot leave. (which of course means counting numbers of real believers is completely different from other faiths). And even where they can it's not an obvious choice, to give up all your friends and cultural practices, it's just much easier to go through the motions. And as the Koran says "each man's religion is his own business" 
( highway code principle conforming can be seen as good for society as then you drive with the traffic not against it ie so in a Muslim country be a muslim, in a voodoo society be a voodoo )
The problem is by not voicing their concerns normal people provide shelter for nutters and extremists. Since they rarely hear other people questioning then the nutters think their views are OK. Then not only do you end up with terrorists, but governments can end up bringing in strange laws to please the vocivorous nutters.
More on freedom to leave : The situation in Muslim societies is different from other communities today, but not top disimilar from medieval European Christian societies, where leaving the religion was seen as letting the community down. Well surely Muslims coming to live in non-Muslim communities give up Islam ? No of course they don't as freedom of religion is a human right. 
So this is a right that Muslims take , but fail to give

Not Eating Pork 
In Malaysia in practice what happens is that cos most people are born of Muslim parents they have no choice, but to be Muslims, but cos it's impossible to follow all the laws in the Koran, like : covering your body even when with members of the same sex, and not being alone with someone of the opposite sex etc  they ignore most of them, which sets a precedent for ignoring laws. The one law they can keep to with ease is  avoiding pork so they have become fanatical about this. The say yes I couldn't go to the mosque, I had to bribe the policeman, I stole that wallet that someone left on the table  and I couldn't resist the temptation to drink beer, but I have never ingested one molecule of pork ..so see I am a good Muslim. We have difficulty organising meetups in Malaysia cos incredibly most Muslims in Malaysia will not go into a Chinese restaurant , because there is the danger the spoon might not be 100% clean or pork fat might splash onto them, so that then they will have digested a few molecules of pork and then that means they will be unclean and will be refused entry at the gates to heaven. 

A Contradiction in religion and polygamy surely
A wife cannot lust after another man, cos that she has to reserve herself 100% for her husband.

But a man can take a second wife. Presumably he makes the choice, cos he lusts after her, but shouldn't he be reserving himself 100% for his existing wife ?

The supposedly Infallible Koran says the sun orbits the Earth 
- from a BBC science show "Muslim scientists were way ahead on the world in astronomy then they hit a problem and Islamic astronomy came to a halt and got left hundreds of years behind the rest of the world. The problem was the Koran clearly states that the Sun revolves around the Earth. This didn't fit in with their calculations and they knew the Koran could not be wrong as it's always stated that it's infallible- it's not written by man, but by God's so it's 100% correct."
- Now some modern day clerics try to argue that the words were just a metaphor and say something like "from the Earth it appears, the sun orbits it", but none of these super-smart astronomers were able to come up with a convenient solution like that, no their work just stopped progressing. 

- If the Koran is not correct in this thing then that means it's not infallible and therefore anything else it says is open to question. I have heard this is not the only error and that there are a number  of other things in which it's science can be proved to be correct.

Can't see the wood for the trees
People get bogged down in minor details like is a headscarf supposed to cover the whole hair, or can women lead prayers and arguing about the linuistic roots of words etc. They waste hours and hours arguing about these. Yet if they stepped back they can see that the Koran encourages major  injustices aswell as the above sexism, no freedom to leave and sex with children,   slavery is accepted as OK. It's irrational to calculate minor injustices when major injustices are allowed.

- July 2008 - A C4 TV prog on Koran made some major points
- 1.  it argued that Koran says there should be no priestly class
- 2. Most Korans are supposed to be the same, but Saudis send out 100m Korans each year which have many sidenotes which seem to extreme e.g. "those who strayed" ..like Jews and Christians. 
- 3. The 2 most prostlytising countries are politically opposite, but similarly have a large priestly class and also extreme views not the forgiving type most Muslims believe in.
- 4. Indeed scholars argued Sharia law is very soft : you can't prosecute for adultery as  it needs 4 witnesses and you can't cut off thieves hands cos every other option must be used first.

- German archaeologists found the oldest Koran from 70 years after Mo, which was not exactly the same as traditional Korans which were supposed to be 100% the same. So this is quite strange. 
- It made the point if Muslims feel threatened it is easy to find hate and violence in the Koran.