ruty you asked a very important question, and someone misunderstood and answered wrongly.
You asked about the soldiers, and I understand it was about the picture MB so kindly posted a link to, of the two boys in soldier fatigues, with a toy gun. So your question is about "peace and guns, at that this young age, too?"
There is an answer that will satisfy the secular national bent of mind, and then there is the truth. I weighed it very carefully, because as MB has discovered I do a lot of self-censoring, and by the look of things, some MNers don't want posts that are restrained. They are for free speech.
OK then, I will take the plunge and tell you the truth about us Muslims; It will be free from self-censor, so perhaps dislike for me will lessen.
There is a big secret about us that is known to a few, but perhaps some of the truth has got out, hence this constant hammering of the violent minority although we on this board have condemned the slogans.
The research on Islam has been going on for a very long time, centuries. Some of this has resulted in good, and some of which has exposed such dark secrets about us that they have to kept under wraps.
The CIA thought it knew about us, but then something happened, and the CIA had to commission this research. It happened as the Shah of Iran fell, and Iran became an Islamic Republic, and gave up all the goodies that it had learnt from the West, and the women went back to wearing the oppressive veil and the like, and they voted in the dreaded backward Shariah (the Shia version).
The Director of CIA was grilled on German TV about not being able to foresee it even when CIA for Asia was centered in Tehran. He said in his defence something to the effect that "we thought we understood the Muslims, but obviously they (the Muslims) have some trait that is unpredictable."
The CIA then set about to remove the unpredictability by commissioning the research. That research yielded what I am going to tell you.
You see we Muslims are violent.
No big deal here, and any sensible MNer has seen on the relevant thread, because although all the Muslims here have condemned the slogans, they haven't condemned the protest over the questioning of "free speech" about the prophet (pbuh). Hence we Muslims must, by definition, be violent.
The CIA research goes further, and tells you why:
We Muslims have a "terrorism" gene, and a "terrorism "meme".
IF we are born Muslim, we are violent by nature of this gene, and if we are converts, then alas the meme thing comes into play, because just saying the shahada puts the meme in there.
There really is no hope for us, but as we multiply faster than rabbits and we are immigrating into other cultures, we will take over the world.
That is what saadia meant.
At one time Europe understood us better, and the truth about us is told in the frigehtening stories of yore. The Inquisitors understood us best.
We are the Borgs, and be warned, the world's inhabitants are being Borged, and that the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.