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No religion in the world has more blood on its hands than Islam, and you can take that to the bank.
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Then you're ignoring the numbers. I'm not great defender of Islam, neither am I a defender of any religion. They are all as insidious as one another and to say that Islam has more blood on its hands than any other is patently ridiculous. The facts do not support your claim.
Christian aggression may have morphed over the years, as it has with many religious aggression, but is still alive and well in many parts of the world including the US, Britain and yes even here is Australia.
If you think Northern Ireland's religious division has dissipated, you may want to look a little deeper into facts surrounding that conflict.
There are several million people murdered in an industrial manner during WWII who may disagree with your assertion that WWII had no nothing to do with religion. Were you aware of the Croation extermination camps, run by Catholic Ustasha under their dictator Ante Paveli, a practising Catholic and regular visitor to the then pope? In these camps - the most notorious was Jasenovac, headed by a Franciscan friar - orthodox-Christian serbians (and a substantial number of Jews) were murdered. Between 1942 and 1944 its estimated that between 300,000 and 500,000 were murdered in these camps. Many of the killers were Franciscan friars. The atrocities were appalling enough to induce bystanders of the Nazi "Sicherheitsdient der SS", watching, to complain about them to Hitler (who did not listen). The pope knew about these events and did nothing to prevent them.
Iraq and Afghanistan are both not much more than current day Crusades with "Christian" countries forcing their way into "Islamic" countries and determining how they will be governed.
As to your Turkish example, what is different between that and the KKK's activities? Strange fruit indeed.
In terms of tolerance, your words belie a distinct intolerance, particularly towards Islam, though you are not specific about which branch of Islam you are talking about, Sufi, Shia sunni or Kaffir. That may or may not be due to your first hand experience in Iraq and Saudi, but the lack of tolerance is distinct in what you've written.
I myself, am very intolerant of ignorance.
Back OT, regardless of the killer's religious background, they are simply murderer's who in the eyes of the law are guilty. The appeal should it go ahead will still fail for reasons already stated.