The prophet mohammed killed and tortured hundreds of people personally , with the teaching of violent jihad you dont need to not understand it or twist it .
as far as I know both jesus and buddha were non-violent , jesus to the extent that he forgave the people who nailed him to a cross.
The old testiment is very nasty much like islamic scripture but you could put a good case that christian theology was twisted and that it was at its base non-violent .
This is not the case with islamic scripture
The crusades were a response to jihad , christians were in the holy land first because christianity was the older religion
when you convert to islam you are encouraged to take a muslim arabic name and to learn arabic , you are encouraged to dress in a certain way to seperate yourself from non muslims .
islamic law has discrimination against non muslims at its base .
For example you can’t be killed for killing a non Muslim in Islamic law; if the next of kin accepts you get fined what they call blood money for a death that blood money depends on who you kill.
Its less for a Jew or a Christian than a Muslim, and less for a atheist or Hindu ect ect than a Christian or a Jew .and less for a women than a man .
100,000 riyals if the victim is a Muslim man
50,000 riyals if a Muslim woman
50,000 riyals if a Christian man
25,000 riyals if a Christian woman
6,666 riyals if a Hindu man
3,333 riyals if a Hindu woman
This is a list of how much blood money you get in Saudi for the death of a relative, and you can see the difference on what sex and religion a person follows on how much the law thinks they are worth.
If you notice a Muslim man is worth 30 times what a Hindu (non person of the book) women is worth.
every branch of islam that Ive come across has discrimination against non-muslims.
in shia islam for example the main religous leaders teach as of today that you need to have a ritual bath if for example you sit on a seat a non muslim as sat on.
you can go on grand Ayatollah Sistani website if you like
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www.sistani.org]
he has a list of najis (unclean) things
1 Urine
2Faeces
3Semen
4Dead body
5Blood
6Dog
7Pig
8Kafir
9Alcoholic liquors
10The sweat of an animal who persistently eats najasat.
now shia make up something like 30% of the worlds muslims most of the other 70% are sunni there are four schools of sunni islam
Hanafi Maliki Shafi'i Hanbali
All these schools are considered to be "correct": each is based on the opinions of the scholars who founded it and expanded it, and so all are considered valid.
If you read through the law books of any one school, you will find far more similiarities than differences, so you will get muslims of one school for example sometimes favouring the ruling of another school.
these schools differ mostly in small points, such as whether to hold the hands clasped above the waist while reciting the Fatihah during prayer, or to have them hanging at one's side.
The bad stuff is there in all four schools, such as: condoning of slavery and sex slavery, cutting off of hands for stealing crucifixtion, stoning for adultery, flogging for illegal sexual intercourse, offensive jihad, the third-class status of non-Muslims under Muslim law (dhimmis), the poor status of women, and so on.
Hanafi law allows ALL unbelievers to live in an Islamic state, as long as they pay the jizya (tax on non-Muslims), while the other three schools say that this only extends to People of the Book, who are Jews, Christians and the mysterious Sabians (and sometimes Zoroastrians); all others (such as Hindus, Buddhists and atheist) are to be given the choice between conversion and death.
Sahih Bukhari:
Volume 8, Book 82, Number 796:
Narrated Anas:
A group of people from 'Ukl (tribe) came to the Prophet and they were living with the people of As-Suffa, but they became ill as the climate of Medina did not suit them, so they said, "O Allah's Apostle! Provide us with milk." The Prophet said, I see no other way for you than to use the camels of Allah's Apostle." So they went and drank the milk and urine of the camels, (as medicine) and became healthy and fat. Then they killed the shepherd and took the camels away. When a help-seeker came to Allah's Apostle, he sent some men in their pursuit, and they were captured and brought before mid day. The Prophet ordered for some iron pieces to be made red hot, and their eyes were branded with them and their hands and feet were cut off and were not cauterized. Then they were put at a place called Al-Harra, and when they asked for water to drink they were not given till they died. (Abu Qilaba said, "Those people committed theft and murder and fought against Allah and His Apostle.")