This is true. Many people in this thread have a hard time understanding the difference between what religious texts say and how people actually practice their religions. There's no question that both texts depict and advocate things that no civilized nation would allow these days. When it really comes down to it, people pick and choose what they want to practice out of both the Bible and the Quran. That's actually a good thing. It's stupid to say either is a religion of violence if the majority of believers in those religions don't actually practice violence. People would like everything to be black or white/good or evil but many things in the world are simply grey.
On the original topic (which most aren't discussing), the Taliban are cowards and bastards. Who tries to assassinate a child for any reason, much less because they were being an advocate for education? This kind of insane behavior is unfortunately commonplace for the Taliban. It's a backwards, morally bankrupt regime that has stained Islam and darkened the world as a whole. I honestly wish the world would band together and decide to crush them for good.
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I think this is an important fact that shouldn't be lost in the shit storm.