I think "How can I defend Islam as being a peaceful religion?" is not opinion based

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I think "How can I defend Islam as being a peaceful religion?" is not opinion based. It is just ordinary question as other questions on this site. But there are many answers started to come which are not very full and solid.

Answer 1

Close reasons:

The close reason primarily opinion-based was probably chosen as the closest available approximation to the actual close reason. The StackExchange software only provides a small, limited number of close reasons. I suspect the underlying close reason is closer to argumentative.

Weighing users' opinions:

i think {How can I defend Islam as being a peaceful religion?} is not opinion based

That's fine, but your opinion is one person's opinion, and other people can reasonably disagree (and, given the two votes to close, it seems others do disagree).

StackExchange has a voting system in place, where users can vote to reopen questions. During beta, 500 reputation enables a user to cast reopen votes.

One can present reasons for disagreeing with a close vote here at meta.Islam.SE, and users can decide if they want to vote to reopen. But you haven't given any reason other than "I think..." (Consider expanding on your reasons by editing your post.)

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Moreover, an answer asserting that Islam is inherently violent could encourage violence. (What if an otherwise peaceful Muslim actually believed such an answer?)

I'd say there's good reasons to err on the side of caution with this one.