Reading through this thread, it seems to me that those who have actual, extensive experience of Muslims, tend to have the most realistic (which is to say negative) opinions of their culture. Those of you bending over backwards to say, oh, all the bad stuff, that's just made up or exaggerated ... mostly seem to be operating from biases rather than experience. You might want to think about who it is that's engaging in emotional thinking, suffering from cognitive biases, utilizing fact substitution, and ultimately falling victim to paramoralism.
Now. Is all of this part of a plan by the 'paths to destabilize our countries? Sure, of course it is.
Does it follow from this that Islam is a good or even a neutral thing? Not even slightly. The Quran is full of quite hideous and barbaric directives, mixed in with all the poetry. Mohammed himself was an awful human being: a lying, cheating, murdering, greedy, licentious, self-aggrandizing, pedophile. Read his life story, if you don't already know it, and tell me I'm wrong.
Most people on this forum accept the idea of 4D STO/STS forces, which guide/manipulate human behaviour either indirectly or, in rare cases, directly, via various forms of channelling. Looking at the fruit of Mohamed's tree, can any of you honestly say that this man was being guided by 4D STO? Seems to me rather that it is quite the opposite. His followers emulate him insofar as they can ... the results have been quite awful.
As to the 'contributions' of Islam to humanity, one might ask: how many of those 'Islamic' scientists in the 11th century, were actually Muslims? As in, deeply religious believers? Answer: not many. Then again, all those Christian scientists who transformed the world? Actual Christians, almost to a man. Also worth pointing out that Islam's so-called contributions happened during one very brief period in its history, whereas those of Christianity stretched on for hundreds of years. One anomalous fluke, vs. a systematic pattern. Sorry, not comparable.
There's a lot of moral equivalency with Christianity happening on this thread. First, you can leave the OT out of the comparison: the whole point of Jesus's life was a clean break with wrathful genocidal maniac god, so saying, oh there's barbaric stuff in the OT, is just intellectually dishonest. Are there Christians who did and do nasty things? Sure. But, neither the NT nor Jesus'/Caeser's example particularly condone such behaviour, so such 'Christians' are hypocrites, Christian in name only ... in rather stark contrast to the Quran, which actively encourages atrocity against the unbeliever. There is absolutely no equivalency to be drawn. Christians ended slavery (twice) ... the Quran practically demands it ... when Christians started keeping slaves again, they let them have children ... the Muslims took just as many if not more (sex) slaves from Africa (and Europe), whose babies were murdered (and what men they took gelded, as a matter of course). This being the reason there are African-descended people in the New World, but not a trace of their DNA in the Mideast. But yeah, leftists can always be counted upon to bring up slavery as why white people are the devil....
Maybe worth pointing out that Hitler (vegetarian, anti-smoker, and anti-Semite), also thought Islam was just great. He quite preferred it to Christianity in fact. Just sayin'.
So yeah. I'm in full agreement with Brewer and Ocean. Forum-members might want to take a much closer look at Islam, with the blinders off. It may give you the badfeelz (omg racism! islamophobia! no!), but, just because something makes you feel icky does not mean it is untrue. This forum is supposed to be all about the pursuit of truth no matter how much it conflicts with your beliefs. Is it possible that your strong beliefs regarding multiculturalism might, just might, be paramoralisms inculcated in you by the psychopathic elite? Where'd those beliefs come from, anyhow? Who, ultimately, do they serve?
And no, I don't particularly like the idea of bombing and invading their countries. Actually, funny isn't it, that our elites have been primarily going after the secular Arab dictatorships, while leaving the religious pathocracies alone? Almost like ... they're trying to build Islam up. Take down the moderate elements ... empower the fanatics ... stir them up with wars that don't work ... and let huge numbers of them into our countries. Invade and invite. Yeah, not suspicious at all. Be that as it may: not our fault; still our problem. And you don't solve problems with wishful thinking.