They were in response to Muslim aggression.
No, about 3-400 Million Not a few hundred thousand.Doesn't mean people have to follow everything in a book. There are something like 1.3 billion Muslims in the world. A couple of hundred thousand of those are extremist to the point of following violent ideology of the Quran.
Flat out wrong?This old and tired argument of "it's in their holy book!" is stupid, and anyone who uses it is narrow minded and frankly, since it's been shown how many times it's flat out wrong, idiotic.
Want me to start quoting?
It is in the book - The deny it is more fucking absurd than to deny the holocaust, global warming, the sky being blue.