Atheists what is your take on the Muslim religion?

As far as religions go, it originated with some reasonable premise, but it has since been hijacked by a bunch of misogynistic thugs and idiots who would have us return to the Dark Ages if they had they choice.

I think the Muslims countries are the most harmonic places to live.

I also think, that women rights in Muslim countries with the great Sharia law system, are the best showcase as how to treat a women. They can date any man of their choice, preferably with blue eyes, a Christian or atheist. They are always welcomed into the family.

I think, that sense of style in clothing is reaching highest level world wide.

I think, they have the highest possible work productivity, because spending time talking to Allah five times a day gives one a five times the speed in working process and subsequent productivity.

You can see their achievements in every village in the great Middle east - paved roads, great shops, cars everywhere. Great amounts of females behind the wheel - they have the safest driver record - never in accident.

They avoid conflicts and you hardly every hear of shooting or any violence for that matter.

Church and state separation is exemplary - even Sweden, Denmark and Norway should take an example.

It's a barbaric ancient religion like Christianity and Judaism. If Christians actually followed what their Bible says they would have just as many nut job fundamentalists as Islam. Christianity is an older religion so they have had their centuries of bloodshed to learn from their violent past. Unfortunately Muslims will be a while learning the same lesson. Delusional people are slow to catch on. I just hope they don't take as long as Christians took to become somewhat civilized. Mind you they still have a ways to go with their intolerance.

What can you expect from religion when it fosters ignorance, divisiveness and intolerance. These are human weaknesses, so I'm not saying that religion creates them, but it certainly doesn't help to foster them the way religion does. Religion treats those things as if they are a gleaming badge of honor.

I think all religions are potentially damaging and sometimes dangerous. However, right at this point in time, I think Islam is one of the most dangerous, because of extremists and fundamentalism. I think any religion that pitts people against each other, promotes the idea of physical jihad and killing people who are not of the same faith, oppresses women by inculcating the idea that they're not equal to men, and promotes sharia law.

That's what I honestly think about it. That's because even in my country, Australia, we have many Islamic Imams who are preaching hate, don't want Australia as it is, but want an all Islamic state under Sharia law. They may be in the minority at this stage, but I don't see your everyday, non-extremist muslims speaking out about any of this.

There is a culture of fear about speaking out against this religion, which has led to authors being subject to fatwahs condemning them to death, cartoonists being targeted for death threats, books being burned, little girls being shot or having acid thrown at them for wanting to go to school, and women being whipped or stoned for being 'raped' and therefore being considered to have committed adultery. To say nothing of little girls being married off to people at very young ages, or in some cultures being mutilated and subject to genital mutilation.

That's what I honestly think. At the present time, while I concede that there are fundamentalist Christians etc, I don't see them running round killing or maiming people at this point in time. I guess that's because there was The Enlightenment.

Islam needs an Enlightenment of it's own.

And yes I have read the Koran. And the bible . etc etc. Every page.

Have its pros and cons like any other religion. Some of my questions are rejected the same way in Christianity or Hinduism.

I like that they don't consume pork. Meat products generate more waste than veggies at a mass-produced level.

But again, they consume other meats to the same consumption levels, so it doesn't help.

...at least it made me think not to go for wasteful ways ^ ^

Same nonsense as every other religion, but its followers haven't yet learned to ignore the bad parts like most Christians and Jews have.

Nothing special. It obviously borrowed from both judaism and christianity.

It has the same kind of violent eschatology also. There will be a worldwide catastrophe and then comes a theocracy for a new golden age. I see nothing very original in it.

Just like Christianity. It uses a religion nominally based on peace as justification to wage war.

Everyone thinks atheists are anti-christs (or just hate christians), but in reality, atheists just don't agree with any religion. personally, i think its all garbage created by men thousands of years ago who were afraid of what they did not understand (such as death).

I had a muslim man rudely butt in front of me in line at a cashier the other day just to buy coffee. I was holding an armful of water bottles and about to drop them.

So umm yeah Muslim religion is bad because of this one guy >:(