1. Christianity laid the groundwork of the system of ethics by which every nation on earth is judging itself against. On the other hand, Islam’s early days were uniquely focused on conquest.

2. The word Sufi comes from Sophia, wisdom, in Greek. It is easy to blame Western governments for your own problems, but Shia and Sunni have been hating each other since Karbala.

3. This misses the point entirely. Punishment in Islamic texts creates a fear-based culture that emphasizes consequences over morals. See The Chrysanthemum and the Sword.

4. The non-Muslim spouse's beliefs are subordinate to Islam's, and they must convert in 99% of cases. Children are de facto considered Muslims.

5. From the Hadiths: "Whoever changes his religion, kill him" (Sahih Bukhari). But yeah, maybe kill didn’t really mean kill, right?

6. Please keep your shoes on next time you visit a mosque and tell me how it went.

7. Turks have a Byzantine heritage. Their national drink is Raki, an alcoholic beverage.

8. Islam associated menstruation and penetration with cleanliness, which explains the comment I made in the article and why female virginity is so important to them.

9. A medical procedure that doesn’t heal anything? I’ll leave you to interpret it as you wish, but from a Girardian perspective, it is most definitely a sacrifice.

10. Islam subordinates individuals to collective norms enforced by a social surveillance mechanism. It has got to such proportions that in Muslim countries, I couldn’t go to a girl's home because their neighbor would call their parents or the police if I did.

11. On the Principle of Revenge in the Muslim World: Saudi Arabia in Yemen, Turkey against the Kurds in Northern Syria, Pakistan against India and against the political drawings of Muhammad in the French and Danish newspapers, the entire foundational principle of the Taliban in Afghanistan (although they can be excused), every country around Israel against Israel, Gaza and Hamas, and then Algeria and Morocco’s war over Western Sahara. And many more I certainly do not know about.

Listen, as a general rule, the commenter is always wrong because where the writer did hours of research before writing, the commenter did not.