Quote Originally Posted by Peter View Post
The original point was whether Islam itself is to blame for this, whether the religion itself is the inevitable root cause of all these events. I don’t think it is.
Likewise the Crusades had nothing to do with Christianity, I presume. It is good to have your perspective aired, and comforting to think how infrequently a pop concert is blown up, but a global view might suggests that violence in the name of that religion is not so rare as you suggest. In the last week:

2017.07.11 (Nigeria) Eight villagers are forced to the ground and executed for defying Sharia.
2017.07.10 (India) Seven Hindu pilgrims, including five women, are massacred by heavily-armed Muslim terrorists.
2017.07.10 (Iraq) Seven children are executed and hung from lamp posts by the Islamic State.
2017.07.08 (Kenya) Nine villagers are beheaded 'like chickens' by Islamic extremists.
2017.07.07 (Egypt) Islamic militants stage a brutal assault on a checkpoint that beings with a suicide blast and leaves two dozen dead.
2017.07.06 (India) A 65-year-old Hindu is stabbed to death during a Muslim riot over an 'offensive' Facebook post.
https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/

Finally, apostasy. Remind yourself what the punishment for apostasy is in Islam. Then ask yourself if that really is the kind of thing we can pretend is compatible with western enlightenment values.