Are there any peaceful muslim nations?

But perhaps the most telling numbers pertained to the breakdown of the respondents' politics: 40 percent of liberals claim they have no religion, compared to just 9 percent of conservatives.

Here's a good article from Huffington Post on why religion is waning.

Liberals cannot understand so much hate against us. So liberals sympathize. Liberals help find the answer. They join in. To justify the hate.

By hating ourselves.

I did, it looks OK to me.

Islam's Latest Contributions to Peace
"Mohammed is God's apostle. Those who follow him are harsh
to the unbelievers but merciful to one another" Quran 48:29

2014.10.29 (Hit, Iraq) - Forty-six Iraqis are bound and executed in cold blood by the Islamic State.
2014.10.28 (Karachi, Pakistan) - A 10-month-old girl bleeds to death after Sunnis lob a grenade into a Shia worship hall.
2014.10.27 (Idlib, Syria) - Seventy captives are beheaded by the Islamic State.
2014.10.27 (Mosul, Iraq) - A university professor and his son are executed by the Islamic State.
2014.10.27 (Kunduz, Afghanistan) - A suicide bomber and three Taliban gunmen storm a courthouse and murder ten others.
2014.10.27 (Jurf al-Sakhar, Iraq) - A Sunni suicide bomber targets a crowd of Shiites and snuffs out over two dozen lives.

* Sources for individual incidents can be provided upon request.

How shocking any of this would be if it didn't involve the Islamic religion. As it is, much of it barely registers in the media. The very fact that the bar of expectation is set so low for "the Religion of Peace" underscores just how different it really is.

No other religion has to attach "phobia" on the end of its name in order to bully others into silence - lest they be accused of harboring irrational fear for suggesting that Islam is different. Yet, all other religions combined do not account for even a fraction of terrorism in the name of their god that Islam produces each day. No religion is so demanding of respect while doing so little to earn it.

In fact, Islam is more than a religion. It is a rigid political and cultural system with a mandate to conquer and govern the lives of others via necessary force "until religion is only for Allah." Violence is sanctioned by the Quran, a book which not once tells Muslims to love those outside the faith.

Thus, the enemy of this orthodoxy is not just intellectual dissent and free speech, but human freedom. The divine charter of Islam is to impose itself and thus prevent the individual from discovering a different meaning for their own lives.

Islam breeds arrogance and self-absorption, which accounts for the collective petulance and perpetual grievance characterizing Muslim populations in general - along with the astonishing unwillingness to extend equal moral consideration to those outside the religion.

This disregard for others is rooted in the supremacist ideology of the Quran and Islamic law, which unashamedly draws the sharpest distinction between those within the group of believers and those without - towards whom arbitrary denigration is cast and hatred, harsh treatment and eternal punishment is prescribed.

Strange

People who truly care about human rights in all countries would not thumb down this picture. They would be sickened by the horror and cruelty of it all.

Your critics don't care, coldjoint! After all, these hanged men are Iranian gays, not American ones; so, they don't count. People who truly care about human rights in all countries would not thumb down this picture. They would be sickened by the horror and cruelty of it all. But, as usual, politics get in the way of genuine compassion. Ahhh, ain't politics grand?

Coldjoint has no compassion at all he's a bigot who's trying to justify his hate.