Is not quite the same thing. To be religious by definition you have to believe in a particular higher power without any concrete proof that he\she\it exists. Once you start accepting ideas because of "faith" and you are in the same dubious group of people who believe in a flat earth and homeopathy.
Also in Islam the punishment for apostasy (leaving the faith or questioning its fundamental beliefs) is defined in the Qur'an is death so you can't deny that is a violent religion.
I am not saying Islam is any worse than any other religion, just that they are all illogical and violent.
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