In recent decades, because of mounting tensions in the Islamic world and rising terrorist acts, unfortunately, Muslims have generally become associated with violent acts. This is unbelievably unfair considering that followers of Islam number more than 1.6 billion people and represent 23% of the global population - and only a tiny portion of them advocate religious extremism.

By the way, since we're on the subject of unjust assumptions, did you know that there are actually more mentions of violent acts in the Bible than in the Koran, the holy book of Muslims? According to Samuel Osborne of the Independent portal, an analysis revealed that death and destruction are much more frequent issues in Christian texts than in Islamic texts.

Comparation

According to Samuel, the analysis was conducted by Tom Anderson, a software engineer who processed the contents of the two holy books to find out which one contained the most violence. Anderson explained that he was inspired by the current debate about the possible connection between religious fundamentalism and terrorism, and whether this link reflects something inherently and specifically violent about Islam compared to the world's major religions.

Results of the analysis conducted through Odin Text, where the Quran is represented by the color red in the second and third graphs; the first shows a comparison between the Old (blue) and New (red) Testament

The engineer developed software specifically for the task - dubbed “Odin Text” - and the program processed both Old and New Testament content and a revised version of the Koran in the 1950s. And don't think the analysis took a while. eternity no!

It was just 2 minutes, during which time the software separated the words in the holy books into eight categories - joy, anticipation, anger, sadness, revulsion, surprise, fear / anxiety and confidence - and revealed that the Old Testament is more violent than it is. the New and twice as violent as the Quran.

Quran (Red) x Bible (Blue)

In addition, the software pointed out that the Bible brings far more mentions related to “anger” than the Quran, for example, and that the Muslim holy book scored much higher in the “trust” and “joy” categories than the Christian texts. It is noteworthy that Anderson made it clear that his intention was not to prove that Islam is more - or less - violent than other religions.

He further clarified that he is aware that the three books analyzed - Quran, Old and New Testament - are not the only texts of Christianity, Judaism and Islam and that they are far from constituting all the teachings and protocols of these religions. However, even though the analysis was just a cursory study (on an absurdly controversial subject!), The results are there, showing once again that the problem is in people.