Islam is violent

This article presents good arguments supported by facts the religion of Islam—as it is experienced in the real world—is violent. Excerpt:

But when newspaper cartoons deemed offensive to Mohammed, or false rumors of Korans flushed down toilets in Guantánamo, or reports of an obscure pastor planning to burn a Koran become known, then we see tens of thousands of Muslim protesting violently. Right now Muslim terrorists are committing unspeakable atrocities in northern Iraq, Syria, Nigeria, and elsewhere, but there is no global “Not in Our Name” mass movement, no “Million Muslim March” springing up among the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims to protest this alleged distortion of Islam, and to reaffirm its true dogmas of peace and tolerant coexistence.

The silence from non-violent Muslims with regard to never comdemning violence from Muslim "extremists" is pretty loud. The list of reform-minded Muslim's is pretty short—that's why Jasser's name is always mentioned. Who would want to be on that list if you don't have a bodyguard? The author continues:

The point is not that all Muslims are anti-Semites and terrorists, or even are sympathetic to the jihadists. Rather, the scope and volume of jihadist violence, the financial and moral support given to jihadists by many millions of Muslims, and the relative silence of those who have no intention of practicing jihad themselves, all suggest that modern jihadism and its theological justifications have deep roots in Muslim theology, and ample models in Mohammed’s life and Islam’s history. This in turn means that Muslims who oppose jihadism or Muslim anti-Semitism do not have the authoritative, traditional, canonical arguments and precedents for that position, unlike the jihadists, who routinely and copiously quote chapter and verse of Islamic sacred texts in support of their violence.

It is possible that there is a peaceful version of Islam which exists isolated from the present actual world, such as in Plato's World of Forms for example, or in a certain place and time, such Mohammed's Meccan period between 613 and 622, before he moved to Medina and became a warlord. This is also no doubt the Islam which exists in Cloud Cuckoo Land where everything is awesome.