Are there any peaceful muslim nations?

Daniel Greenfield explains Islam 101:

"Every devout Muslim is an "Islamist". Islam is not a personal religion. It is a religion of the public space. A "moderate" Muslim would have to reject Islam as a religion of the public space, as theocracy, and that secularism would be a rejection of Islam.

Nothing in Islam exists apart from anything else. While liberals view culture and religion as a buffet that they can pick and choose from, it is a single integrated system. If you accept one part, you must accept the whole. Once you accept any aspect of Islam, you must accept its legal system and once you accept that, you must accept its governance and once you accept that, you lose your rights.''

Belgian anti-terror raid: two deaths, one arrest in the eastern town of Verviers

BELGIAN security forces have killed two terror suspects in a fierce shootout in the eastern city of Verviers and arrested another, foiling a major attack against police buildings, authorities said.

The suspects immediately opened fire on police with Kalashnikov assault rifles when they closed in on them near the city’s train station, Magistrate Eric Van der Sypt said in Brussels...

“This operational cell of about 10 people, some of whom had returned from Syria, was on the point of launching significant terrorist attacks in Belgium,” Thierry Werts of the Belgian federal prosecutor’s office said in Brussels...

Islamists around the world protest satirical depictions

Anger erupted in a string of majority Muslim countries after the satirical magazine responded to the massacre by running another caricature last week, showing the prophet under the headline “All is forgiven”.

The worst unrest has been in Niger, where at least five people were killed and some eight churches were torched on Saturday.

Sweden’s 38 000 mutilated girls

The Swedish welfare agency Socialstyrelsen estimates that some 38 000 girls have already been subjected to severe mutilation of their private parts, with another 19 000 being “in danger” of the procedure.

The procedure is the removal of parts of the female anatomy, so that no pleasure can be derived from sex as an adult. The procedure is usually done with a razorblade or simple knife without anasthesia. More info on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), also known as female genital cutting and female circumcision, can be found on WHO and Wikipedia.

This barbaric practice is common in Africa and has followed the tide of immigration to Sweden. FGM is of course illegal, but since Sweden has a knee-jerk response to drop anything questioning the religious customs of any immigrant, virtually no enforcement or tracking is in place to protect the girls. The report linked above is an estimate, since noone has the guts to actually address the issue. When local health workers try to sound the alarm about the rise in FGM, the decision-makers wring their hands and start mumbling about “personal integrity” to avoid the risk of being portrayed as “racist” in the media.

- but the practice predates Islam, and is not required by it
- It is generally accepted that there is no close link between the practice and religious belief.
- it is not required by Islam or practiced in most Muslim countries

Historical religious views

The historical religious view of Islam, on FGM, varies with the school of Islamic jurisprudence:[21]

The Shafi'i school of Islamic jurisprudence considers female circumcision to be wajib (obligatory).[22]

The Hanbali school of Islamic jurisprudence considers female circumcision to be makrumah (honorable) and strongly encouraged, to obligatory.[23]

The Maliki school of Islamic jurisprudence considers female circumcision to be sunnah (optional) and preferred.[23]

The Hanafi school of Islamic jurisprudence considers female circumcision to be sunnah (preferred).[23]

Sunni view
There are dichotomous differences of opinion among Sunni scholars in regards to female genital cutting.[24] These differences of opinion range from obligatory to acceptable. The Shafi'i and Hanbali schools of Islamic jurisprudence consider circumcision to be obligatory for both males and females, while the Hanafi and Maliki schools of Islamic jurisprudence consider circumcision to be Sunnah (preferred) for both males and females.[25] There is no consensus whether the hadiths support or forbid FGM.[26][27] Different schools of Islamic jurisprudence have expressed different views on FGM.[17][28][29]

The differences in jurist opinions focuses around several hadith from the Sunni collections:

ISIS execution frenzy: Gay men thrown from tower, 17 crucified, ’adulteress’ stoned to death

ISIS militants have gone on an execution frenzy in Iraq, murdering at least 20 people in a 48-hour period, including two men “found guilty” of being gay.

Photographs of the killings, shocking even by the group’s barbaric standards, have been circulating on social media since last Thursday.

They include images of two blindfolded men being hauled to the top of a seven or eight story tower before being thrown to their deaths, one at a time, as a large crowd watches from below.

One picture is captioned: “The Muslims come to watch the application of the law.”

According to Pope Benedict XVI, Christians are the most persecuted group in the contemporary world.[132] The Holy See has reported that over 100,000 Christians are violently killed annually because of some relation to their faith.[133] According to the World Evangelical Alliance, over 200 million Christians are denied fundamental human rights solely because of their faith.[134] Of the 100-200 million Christians under assault, the majority are persecuted in Muslim-dominated nations.[135]

Christians have faced increasing levels of persecution in the Muslim world. Muslim nations in which Christian populations have suffered acute discrimination, persecution and in some cases death include; Iraq, Iran, Syria, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Palestinian Territories, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Libya, Yemen, Sudan, Somalia, Qatar, Uzbekistan, Nigeria, Tunisia, Jordan, Oman, Algeria, Mali, Kuwait, Morocco, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Niger, Tanzania, Kazakhstan, Tadjikistan, Turkmenistan, Mauritania, Eritrea, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Brunei, Tanzania, Maldives, Kenya, Chad and United Arab Emirates.[139][140][141]

Christians persecuted throughout the world

The latest bombing in Nigeria shows how Christians are increasingly suffering for their faith – and how their plight is being ignored...

About 200 million church members (10 per cent of the global total) face discrimination or persecution...

there is scarcely a single country from Morocco to Pakistan in which Christians are fully free to worship without restriction...

they're a bunch of bigots who deliberately distort and lie about another faith. The millions of law abiding decent Moslems are ignored, whilst the actions of a tiny disproportionate group are blown up out of all proportion.

Coldjoint, Viktor and Gungasnake are no different from the Taliban they claim to despise.