Quote from ZZZzzzzzzz:
American Muslims are not engaged in suicide bombings here in America. Do you have any evidence to counter that position?
So, even though the American Muslims practice Islam, read from the same books, bow to Mecca the same number of times, dress like the Muslims in the middle east, etc., just as the members of Al Quaeda do, clearly they don't behave in the same way.
So it follows that a claim that the practice of Islam is the cause of violence is false.
Much like the claim that smoking dope leads to the use of harder drugs, the claim that Islam is a religion of violence is proved false.
The majority of people who smoke or smoked pot do not move to harder drugs, do not get arrested for violent crimes, etc. The majority of people who practice Islam do not engage in violence, and in America, violence by Muslims is nearly non existent.
Violent people and desperate people practice violence, and the cause of violence is not Islam itself, but a weakness of the mind or a lack of education that makes them susceptible to the hate speech of certain extremist Islamic leaders who preach violence to their followers.
I don't expect bigots to understand or agree, after all bigotry is irrational....