[Skybird]

The question remains why in that community there is obviously only small, often no resistence towards such barbaric acts, and why such a big community obviously is underrepresented in the list of Nobel Prizes.

The least thing that can be said is that in Christian/Western, Buddhist and other communities the pressure of that community towards criticising or brandmarking or isolating or prosecuting such extremist elements in it's middle is far higher, higher beyond comparison. even amongst Jews in general and Israelis in special there is more debate and pressure from the one opinion party to get the deadlock of violance solved, and questioning the Israelis government in it's reactions to the Palestinians terror.

And where Europe in the medieva,l and in times after that, tried to oppress any threats to the church and preventing any alternatives to the worldview of the church, but finally got beyond that (that'S why Jews and the West were able to establish a culture that produced so many Nobel Proze winners), Muslim community still sticks to the medieval supression of anything that is not it'S orthdoxy, and even tells the world it has a right to overcome anything that is not Islamic, if needed by violance. In that supression of any internal oppostion or alternative, Islam is far more extreme and successful than the church in the medieval ever was. We have come beyond the medieval. Islam not.

All in the name of religion, of course.