(1) Why do so many Muslims renounce such violence? Is it that they can't stomach what appears to be this straight-forward interpretation of the Koran?

Quran 2:256 and Quran 18:29 can be interpreted as discouraging forced conversion.

Yes it's another one of these types of posts, but in all seriousness, why is this on slashdot.org? Most of the articles on Slashdot at least pertain to the "news for nerds" category in some way, but this?:

These 'water witches', draped in dubious pseudoscience or self-assembled mythologies—or both—typically use divining rods and some sort of practiced intuition to "find" water. The professional variety do so for a fee. And business is booming. They're just part of a storied tradition of pseudoscientific hucksters exploiting our thirst for water, with everything from cloudbusters to rainmachines to New Age rituals. [Source text above]

a) Sandboxed browsers/apps: Different browsers for mail access, general browsing and sensitive browsing (banking, using credit card, etc). All browsers revert to base state after closing, or allowing just a limited set of changes (bookmarks, cookies). The browsers are possibly stored in a USB stick with a physical write protection switch for part of the storage.

Persuading the general public to live without the convenience of their all-in-one extension-riddled browser can be pretty difficult, though.

And in business settings...?

Some will still continue to up-vote them for amusement value though.

What happens when two trolls meet each other?

Simply ignoring these posts ("Don't feed the Trolls") would help . That way, if it's really a "troll", they don't get the attention they want, and if it's simply an honest opinion, people who see those posts as "trolling" won't spark useless arguments. People who see those arguments rationally will continue posting rational responses anyways, and that will probably continue, and that's not a problem. There's always the "flag for review" option anyways.

Would you do it if they were reading comic books about war? Watching movies? Watching 50s movies with John Wayne about war? Reading novels about war? Playing war in the yard? If they started playing cops and robbers in the back yard with the neighbor kids, is it time to haul them off to a Scared Straight session at a prison, to impress upon them the harsh realities of a life of crime? This whole story is a tale of over-reaction that only seemed to have occurred, because "oh my god, video games!".

Well, people did use to get themselves into knots over controversial content in "required-reading" books from school...

Sorry to barge in, but don't several tech companies do things like this?

In a way, that is aiding and abetting.
Why do you think Google gets those complaints from the media-content industries even when they don;t actually do anything wrong?

And you, my dear sir, need to go back and review your debate 101.
*heavy sarcasm*Because obviously insulting someone for forgetting periods is a great way to make a point.

well, if there are a lot of people doing the same...

Do't conversations like these get them more attention?

That would be the argument the conservatives, use, but one must realize that the world isn't perfect, and even "hard workers" can fail. Also, often there are those who still live affluently, despite not actually helping or working hard, often because they were born privileged.

For the meantime though, we'll have to put up with "slidy-tiles" and "curvy-lines" on quite a few things today.