Sectarian violence: is there a solution?

I'm not a muslim, but what I understand from the religon is that jihad, or holy war, isn't at all a bloody affair. It doesn't involve killing. Whenever someone kills and calls it jihad they are not fighting jihad.

Holy war is something else entirely, and it has a great deal in common with Jesus' teachings to "turn the other cheek", or Ghandi's method of non-cooperation. All in all it is originally a peaceful means of fighting a war, and the term war isn't used in it's conventional sense.

At least, that is what I've been told by some muslims I spoke to once.

But I will voice my agreement that I am wary of how Islam is practiced today by a seemingly growing number of muslims.

I will no doubt be thwacked for this....I'm normally a very liberal kinda guy.....

I think Islam is fundamentally violent, but modern, moderate especially "western" muslims are trying very hard to soften Islam through liberal interpretation, choosing to see the Quran in a more allegorical way.

When you look at the leadership of the religion in my region Sheik Taj El-Din El-Hilaly, Abu Bakar Ba'asyir, you see the truth behind the public political correctness.

Of course, Christians are not much better. Look at Ireland...for the last bazillion years.