Islam and terrorism

[dawgbarf]

A lot of the arguments you're using to demonize Islam are not based on concrete evidence. Just because you read that the Qur'an was passed on by word of mouth and distorted, doesn't mean that this is what actually happened.
Much of the violence we see in North American media comes from the wars which we are fighting in Islamic countries; you are committing a fallacy by associating violence with Islam, when really you should be associating violence with war. Granted, terrorism isn't the most civil way to kill people in a war (how civil can this be?), but the cause of this is not the teachings of Islam, and it seems very naive to blame the method of retaliation of people from countries being attacked on the Qur'an (certainly, there is a much bigger problem with the world, killing is killing).
I agree that it seems that at the moment, many terrorist acts are being carried out by misguided Muslims, but shouldn't we attribute this to the current socioeconomic and political positions of certain Islamic countries, since we have been shown by history that any oppressed people resort to violence, whether "right" or "wrong", to bring about change? Blaming this on the Qur'an would be using a short-sighted logic.