Zombie Apocalypse

Is Islam a, or the, "religion of peace"? There can be no answer to that question that does not dissolve into semantics on the one hand or propaganda on the other. The question partakes of the essentialist or logocentrist fallacy: what is the "essence" of a thing as distinct from the thing itself? One suspects that when people offer their opinion on the "essence" of Islam, whether peaceful or not, what we are really hearing is merely their favorite part. The question seems ...