Peter Pan wrote:The conflict between Muslims and the West is rooted in 'tribe'.
Tribal politics are the source of conflicts, so much we can agree; however, the messianic religions are just one way of continuing the conflict at a higher and bigger level, ie. the Christian against the Muslim tribes.
The conflicts are not necessarily rooted in religion, but religion is used as a vehicle to pursue conflicts on a large scale. Religion is the narrative that provides the pretext, as I have already exhaustively explained above. From Gilgamesh slaying Humbaba (because, as the guardian of the forest, the latter didn't worship the gods of the city of Ur, where Gilgamesh was king) to the invasion of Iraq allegedly because Saddam didn't worship the Western gods of democracy and the free market, 5,000 years have passed but nothing has changed. At Gilgamesh's time, people fought because of timber, today people fight because of oil, they are still using their religion (or values) as pretext.
It wouldn't do to say I want to kill you because I want to steal your money and fuck your wife. No, that doesn't sound good. That's where religion comes in. I have to kill you because you don't respect our values (Christian, Muslim, Western, etc.).
Thus, even if religion isn't the origin of conflict, religion is a powerful driver for conflict especially if it is politicized as in political Islam. It's not honest to say that religion has nothing to do with conflict when you advocate Islam, which is more about politics than about spirituality. Your aim is political, not spiritual. You don't understand the first thing about religion or you wouldn't politicize religion.
What you are really claiming is that Christianity is historically weak and impotent as compared with Islam.
I don't know what ideological corner you come from, but you are here taking a page out of Hitler's book. Hitler regretted that Germans hadn't been converted to Islam because he thought that they would have been better fighters. You singing from the same hymn sheet makes mockery of your claim that religion has nothing to do with war.
The Christians have conquered vast stretches of the earth, wiping out entire peoples and civilisations in some cases. Islam doesn't even come close.
Islam was a religion of war right from the time of its founder, while Christianity only started to be associated with politics 500 years after its creation. That Christian Europe was more effective at expansion has nothing to do with cruelty. Since the Renaissance, Europe has just been more innovative than the Muslim world. The Muslim conquest was every bit as cruel as anything we can imagine. The ISIS head-choppers prove that Muslims haven't changed either.
But why are you defending Christianity? I never attacked the Christian religion. I just think that the only people practising Christianity today are Muslims. By that I mean: the people most closely following the teachings of Jesus, and who adhere to a way of life that most closely resembles the Christian way, are the Muslims.
Religion is not static. Religion has to evolve to stay alive, otherwise it becomes an empty shell. Christianity lives on in Western traditions. Humanism, the Enlightenment, Socialism, human rights, the sciences, the arts, the rule of law, social and political liberation ... all of this is rooted in Christian Europe, while the Muslim world has been dead and stagnating for over 500 years. Muslims slept through all of these developments in a nightmare of oppression.
We once had an ISIS supporter on Pofo. His conspiracy theories were laughable. Are you advocating radical Islam?