You should really stop trying to make excuses for these things because they do happen.
Making excuses?
You bring up "I had a friend, and he was "practicallY" forced to become a MUslim at gunpoint.
My friends have been or lived in the middle east and have witnessed these things first hand, you have not.
But I have friends in the middle east too!
Ruh Roh.
And, one is not Muslim! Double ruh-roh. Now what?
He is christian, and lives (and was born) in Lebanon. And he has never once complained of discrimination to me.
And he still lives there. And I still talk to him.
Now what?
Should we start comparing facebook profiles to prove who has more friends in the middle east, so our own little anecdotes of rumors will carry more weight in our quest to finally determine whether Islam is a violent religion or not?
Let's have a facebook-off. I have more friends than you I bet!
Stop pretending that you have any authority of experience with these things in the middle east.
As if you do? You come in with a "practically held a gun to his head" which means no gun was held to his head, you just use the term "practically" to make it sound like it was so, to inflate your own cheap anecdote.
and, and, and then, the muslim took the baby up in a hot air balloon, with rainbow colors on it, and then, he, he threw the baby off the balloon, and the baby died.
the way that non-muslims are discriminated against in Muslim countries is far more severe than prejudice and discrimination here.
Yeah, I know huh? Like every time a muslim cop kills a non-muslim citizen, the investigating board finds the shooting justified. And I bet non-muslim ghettos in muslim countries are worse than South Central, especially if you look at the income disparity.
whatever dude.