Let me correct your grammar. In both cases remove the word 'were' and replace with either 'are' or 'remain'.
There are about a billion muslims worldwide, I would not say it was 'crushed'. And you might want to replace 'progressive' with 'aggressive' (along with replacing 'was' with 'remains').
And you did not respond to my note that the koran specifically calls out to behead infidels. And to support the stance that islam is incompatible with anyone else, look at how islam battles every race/religion around the world: Christians, atheists, Buddhist, jews… there is not a single other religion that can peacefully co-exist with muslims/islam.
You're not wrong, but you are wrong to think that Islam wasn't a wonderful thing for its first seven hundred years. It was aggressive, but progressive. There's nothing wrong with stating that. Europe was an abscess on humanity, outside of Byzantium, until we began switching places around 1300. The crusaders, though the good guys, were savages. They even ate corpses at the battle of Maraat al-Numan. Despite this, now Islam is the abscess.
I'd like you to quote me the part of the Quran that says to behead people. It's there I've found it, but did you actually find it yourself? It also says to protect Christians and Jews, and also says to
not kill non-believers, because like any Abrahamic Holy book, it's loaded with bipolar inconsistencies. Even the passage you're referring to is referring to people like me; atheists.
It's irrelevant anyway. Religion is stupid, war is a constant, and every Abrahamic Holy book allows for having sex with kids, killing innocents, keeping slaves, beheading, torture, war, leveling cities, and on, and on. Hell, the God of the old Testament is cruel, and the Talmud goes as far as to tell Jews they can, to this day, sacrifice kids to a Canaanite good named Moloch (Sanhedrin 64b). The Christian's bible is even worse, because it tells them to suck their enemies feet, and forgive them for the cruelest of sins. I'd rather have the deception of Judaism, and the sword of Islam, than the submission of Christianity.
Each one of these religions has, and is, an affront to history, and are nothing more than outdated bronze age religions. Christians destroyed two of the most important libraries in history; the library at Tripoli, and the library at Constantinople. They burned ancient relics, and writings by Roman and Greek philosophers, that we'll never get back, they even destroyed the basis for western Rome's stability, destroying the world's most amazing empire. Jews still destroy Palestine in order to make it more like old Israel, chomping at the bit to demolish the al-Aqsa mosque, to fulfill some lame prophecy. They also change the names on maps, while stealing surrounding land, in order to fulfill a four thousand year old biblical redrawing of maps that spans a terrifyingly unstable amount of other people's lands. Christian NGOs keep alive tens of millions of third worlders with food, and handouts, who then flood our nations, and other Christian NGOs let them right in, and give them more.
The best way I heard it put was, "Judaism the general, Islam the sword They command." So I amended it to make it more accurate, " Judaism the general, Islam the sword they command, Christianity their Trojan Horse." A trifecta of destructive regression.
