As a Muslim born in Canada, I do believe Islam is a religion that leads to peace, now why do the Against side are blaming Islam? To start of read the Quran for yourself, there are no harmful verses even translated. Now there are ways to "textualize"l texts for example in the Quran you must read the whole chapter for it to make sense. When Islam came, persecution began asap with the pagans. These pagans were evil, they did the most sinful things I can't even mention in this site. So when they were persecuted they ran away to Abyssinia or modern day Ethiopia and the they went back to Medina which became the city of the Prophet, when they went in these two expeditions they went unarmed, actually Medina was given to Muhammad as a gift from the people of Medina who were once corrupted too like the Pagan Meccans. Now the concept of Jihad was brought up during the time Muhammad was receiving the revelations of the Holy Quran (parts of the Quran). the concept of Jihad does NOT mean Holy War against Unbelievers, that is to simplified of a definition which doesn't make sense for the reason that Islam and Judaism and Christianity have much in common and the religions don't promote war without cause. Now there are many different types of Jihad but in general two Jihads, the Lesser Jihad and the Bigger Jihad. The Lesser Jihad is the Jihad against the Unbelievers for persecution in God's Cause. Now AL-Qaeda members believe they actually do it for God, but really some of them don't even no they do it serve their political ideologies of nationalism under the label Islam. You can't blame Muslims until you are one and you know the right teachings of Muhammad sent by God. Then the wrong teaches sent by Osama Bin Laden or to be honest I hate to blame but the Christian Missionaries who didn't want to fight the Caliphate but transform it to self-destruct by teaching more materialized and political ideas when the Muslims were at peace. Now Jihad is something really we should all do to be honest, but we should do the True Jihad, or the Bigger Jihad which is to fight the evil out of you first. God does not let retaliation happen until the you can change yourself, thats why it took long for till the Muslims could fight the Meccan Pagans because they had to fight their evils first by letting go of their anger and not continuing fights after a surrender. Now if you could look at many al Qaeda fights and compare it Muhammad's (peace be upon him) battle there are differences, actually a great example for respect was after the Battle of Badr with a Muslim victory, the Muslims gathered many prisoners but than cut the loose and shared their food and if they wanted they walked beside them, if they taught 10 Muslims to leave they would go free/ Why did those pagans from Mecca become Muslim? Because they read the Quran which makes sense if you open your heart. Islam is the simple submission to God, not some political ideology which needs constitutions to be changed every two seconds, Islam does recognized the Ten Commandments but with more explanation in the Quran to full understand the concept. Islam is a religion that leads to peace. In general we must have a Renaissance in Islam and you people who are against should not be talking against Islam when you are not even aware of the situation for most of you. Thank You.

As a Muslim born in Canada, I do believe Islam is a religion that leads to peace, now why do the Against side are blaming Islam? To start of read the Quran for yourself, there are no harmful verses even translated. Now there are ways to "textualize"l texts for example in the Quran you must read the whole chapter for it to make sense. When Islam came, persecution began asap with the pagans. These pagans were evil, they did the most sinful things I can't even mention in this site. So when they were persecuted they ran away to Abyssinia or modern day Ethiopia and the they went back to Medina which became the city of the Prophet, when they went in these two expeditions they went unarmed, actually Medina was given to Muhammad as a gift from the people of Medina who were once corrupted too like the Pagan Meccans. Now the concept of Jihad was brought up during the time Muhammad was receiving the revelations of the Holy Quran (parts of the Quran). the concept of Jihad does NOT mean Holy War against Unbelievers, that is to simplified of a definition which doesn't make sense for the reason that Islam and Judaism and Christianity have much in common and the religions don't promote war without cause. Now there are many different types of Jihad but in general two Jihads, the Lesser Jihad and the Bigger Jihad. The Lesser Jihad is the Jihad against the Unbelievers for persecution in God's Cause. Now AL-Qaeda members believe they actually do it for God, but really some of them don't even no they do it serve their political ideologies of nationalism under the label Islam. You can't blame Muslims until you are one and you know the right teachings of Muhammad sent by God. Then the wrong teaches sent by Osama Bin Laden or to be honest I hate to blame but the Christian Missionaries who didn't want to fight the Caliphate but transform it to self-destruct by teaching more materialized and political ideas when the Muslims were at peace. Now Jihad is something really we should all do to be honest, but we should do the True Jihad, or the Bigger Jihad which is to fight the evil out of you first. God does not let retaliation happen until the you can change yourself, thats why it took long for till the Muslims could fight the Meccan Pagans because they had to fight their evils first by letting go of their anger and not continuing fights after a surrender. Now if you could look at many al Qaeda fights and compare it Muhammad's (peace be upon him) battle there are differences, actually a great example for respect was after the Battle of Badr with a Muslim victory, the Muslims gathered many prisoners but than cut the loose and shared their food and if they wanted they walked beside them, if they taught 10 Muslims to leave they would go free/ Why did those pagans from Mecca become Muslim? Because they read the quran which makes sense if you open your heart. Islam is the simple submission to God, not some political ideology which needs constitutions to be changed every two seconds, Islam does recognized the Ten Commandments but with more explanation in the Quran to full understand the concept. Islam is a religion that leads to peace. Thank You.