The Abrahamic Religions

Well, it part of their beliefs. In fact, part of the Hajj (holy pilgrimage) has significance to Abraham (or Ibrahim), since the Ka'aba was said to be reconstructed by Abraham.

It is, you saying it is not doesn't make it not true. Jews, Christians and Muslims share a common route. All three religions are born out of the Semitic peoples of the region. The Romans co-opting Christianity and it spread by Europeans through empires of conquest doesn't make Jesus white and the religion different to the other myths started in the middle east.

Why would you assume I am a Muslim? I'm an atheist and I know you want to delegitimise Islam and go ahead, its just a bunch of myths, but you cannot deny the Abrahamic roots of the religion. In the same way that Jesus as a Jew had a new religion form around his legacy but those that wrote the myths around him based on Abrahamic traditions. This is history, not faith.

Well you see the thing about atheists they read more than one book and are not blinded by belief..... to say you would know what Abraham would say or do is patently absurd.

Newsflash, religious people, including Christians like myself, can read books from other religions too (in my case, I've read the Qu'ran, a few sutras from Buddhism, a bit about Dianetics - that's from Scientology and I've even read the pro-atheism anti-religion books "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens book with the trolling title)

I don't understand why Islam being an Abrahmic religion upsets you so much, do facts become inconvenient? They see him as the first prophet, as they see Jesus as a prophet. I don't agree with Islam and its tenets but I understand the history. It is literally in one of their most important festivals!

Eid al-Adha (the Festival of Sacrifice, the commemoration of Abraham's willingness to sacrifice Ishmail which takes place during the month of pilgrimage).

Abraham and God are both arseholes..... who would command someone to kill their first born son and who would actually want to go through with it, for God to say 'only joking!"

I don't know what you don't like about Abraham, but the claim that Jesus' death was a trick by God is from Islam, not Christianity.

No it was Isacc, got the wrong son....

You can say Islam is whatever you want, just doesn't mean you're right, just means you are writing it. Facts do bother me, like denying the holocaust for political ends. Let me guess you are a Trump support and everyone has their 'own facts'

Actually hang on a minute I didn't most Muslims believe it was Ishmail, not Isacc. Shows how much you can't believe in any of these bullshit religions, they can't even agree with each other or themselves.

You make a good point. I'll leave it that way for ease of classification this time but address this in the future.

Not true.

The percentage of violence in each is about the same, it has to do with human nature.

It shifts slightly because of

(1) the number of Muslim countries under occupation, leading to a rise in violence;
(2) Israel's seriously oppressive occupation of Palestine, and dishonest turning a blind eye to illegal settlements every day; and
(3) a bias in the media that favors violence as disproportionate. Same way they ratchet up coverage of "gun violence" in comic disproportion to the statistical threat to anyone.

Those who have lived over there know that there are millions of peaceful Muslims you never hear about every day that just try to get on with their lives same as you, and that the Israelis are just as crazy and violent as the Arabs, but the coverage is not balanced.

Since I meant globally, saying there are some peaceful Muslims does mean there are millions of peaceful Muslims across the world, which there thankfully are. The percentage of the Muslim population fits that criteria I cannot say, since I'm not God and cannot see into their hearts or minds.

The Israel/Palestine situation has blame on both sides, so I consider that point questionable.

Ultimately it comes down to the teachings of each of the religions. Islam has numerous deplorable teachings (a woman's word is worth half that of a man's in legal matters, inter-faith marriage for Muslim men but not Muslim women, beating a disobedient wife, Mutah contracts...) and Muhammad was a man with many problems and flaws and was also quite the repugnant person (funding Islam with military raids, his child bride Aisha, disowning his adopted son Zayd after said son divorced his wife so Muhammad could have her, claiming he had carte blanche from Allah to ignore the rules he said Allah gave for Muslims to live by...)

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Christianity benevolent? So you bought that lie I see. Read some history. The claim is so laughable, even those engaged in bringing about a caliphate look to Christianity for inspiration!

Your understanding of Christianity is what's laughable if you think that. While I was talking about the teachings of Christianity, I will humour you.

What evidence do you have that people looking to establish caliphates were based on Christianity? For starters, the Crusades happened for three main reasons; to reclaim the Holy Land which had been taken over by Muslims (who were making the lives of Christians hard there), the unprovovked attacks on the Christian Byzantine Empire by the Muslim Seljuq Empire (more on that here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine–Seljuq_wars ) and a Pope's desire to expand an empire (while this reason is selfish - apart from how records don't say WHY said Pope supported expansionism, the other two still stand).