[quote]You do realize the jihad means "struggle in the way of God", right? It promotes defending your faith, the only people who interpret it as holy war are extremists.[/quote] No, Jihad promotes aggressively expanding and defending your faith from non-believers (also known as infidels). It is a term very open to individual interpretation and plays easily into the hands of those with an extremist mind set. A religion that has not moved past these kinds of agressive terms is not a "safe" religion. To be honest out of all the modern day world's most widely practiced religions Islam is the most medieval and regressive. Just look at Saudi Arabia, the most advanced Islamic nation in the world. Saudi Arabia not only allows but actively practices public beheadings, hangings, whippings, stoning to death, chopping hands off for stealing, encourages the opression of women within their country as well as encouraging racism, sexism, homophobia and all manner of discrimination against poor people and people of other faiths and nationalities. A religion that does not actively discourage such things, a religion that can be interpreted to promote and/or even condone these kinds of things has no place in a civilised world.