I read that a few years ago ten young girls were hanged in Iran for being Baha'is. But I also know that the Baha'is are law abiding.  What puzzles me most is that they respect Quran and Mohammed as Messenger of God like all other Messengers.  So why do Muslim clergey hate them so much?
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The Baha'is are prosecuted in Iran because the Muslim Clergy and the religious leaders claim that Bahá’u’lláh is a false prophet and the regilion He founded is also false. \n\nEach individual is responsible to decern truth for his or her self.  And to acertain the truth of the Baha'i Faith, one must read the revealation of Bahá’u’lláh written in His own hands and stamped with His own seal.  Once you've read the wiitings then one must ask him or her self does this make sense or not? Search your heart and your mind and make your decision or you may  want to study more and seek out other writings for or against the Faith.  You may also want to talk to others, Baha'is or other people from other religion.\n\nIts up to you to decide what you want to believe or not.  God's creations and plans move on independent of any of His creatures. The progresses made in creation are done inspite of opposition, believers and non believers.  The ever-advancing civilization marches on and on...  \n\nSeek and you will find...
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People hate Islam, because the media makes them hate Islam, 'whynotaskdon', you are racist, and the Holy Koran is the most pure, most untouched book in the Universe. \n\nTerrorists blowed up the twin towers, was it really terrorists, or an excuse by the U.S. Government to wage their wars against Muslims? \n\nThe U.S. Government is hitting two birds with one stone, they don't like Muslims so they are killing them, they wan't/ need oil, so they are taking that too. \n\nTHE MEDIA IS A POWERFUL WEAPON\n\nI am a Muslim and have to admit their are some extremists in Islam, like in most religions. But what are the percentage of the extremists? 0.000001 % ?\n\nPeople judge billions of people over a few people. You are not to blame, the Media is the ones to blame, they are supposed to give a biased view, but they are doing everything but that.\n\nI as, a Muslim have respect for the People of the Book* and their followers, even if i don't agree with all the things that is said. \n\nI have respect for people who follow their religion honestly.
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I do not mean to offend you or any one else, but I have read many parts of the Koran that are self-contradictory.Men have the right to beat wives who they do not find submissive (most of the men defining 'submissive' are the ones we want least defining it)and a woman's testimony is worth half a man's. Women inherit only half as much in societies where they may need it twice as much as their brothers, inasmuch some women are not allowed to work. Many of the misogynistic influences in the Middle East existed before Islam,but why are extremists hijacking this "Religion of Peace," and why are so few men standing up to proclaim, open Koran in hand, "I have found that women are equal to us, right here"? I know many brave souls are standing up to the fanatics, but...where are they?
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I know this doesn't exactly answer your question, but I really must address the reply above me, because it's ridiculous: Doctorkersey, your entire post was ethnocentric and judgemental to the core. You cannot make sweeping generalizations about an entire organization like that, it is foolish and absurd. Just because a few morons blow up some buildings and call themselves Islam does NOT mean they actually are. And Islam itself does NOT promote violence; any Muslim cleric worth half a damn will tell you as such. They're scholars, which means they know more about their own damn religion than any terrorist ever will. Take your hatred and bigotry somewhere else.\n\nWhich brings me to your question, dear poster: I actually have seen a few interviews with Muslim clerics on a few news-ish programs (don't remember where, though), and they were NOT happy. This was quite soon after 9/11, so I'm guessing some of them were getting a lot of flak for simply being Muslim. They said that what the terrorists had done that day was shameful and was not in any way a reflection of Islam. I was a freshman in high school when it happened, and the next week we had a guest speaker come in and tell us about Islam; he repeated these claims as well.\n\nSo, in short, I think the best answer is probably the first commenter's; it's not that Muslim clerics aren't speaking, it's just that a lot of people aren't listening.
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A few weeks ago, I replied to a similar question. I think I should again. I am a muslim. The first thing you should know that, just like christians or jews, we beleive in only one God too, which means that my God is not different than theirs. We beleive in all the prophets including Jesus..Islam is based on love, respect, peace, friendship, consideration, forgiveness etc., just like other religions.Islam is also a religion of science. You couldn't beleive your eyes if you read the book and saw that many discoveries made after 1900s were all explained in detail in Koran more than 1300 years ago. Whatever happening in the world so cruel and unreasonable that is told to be executed in the name of islam has in fact nothing to do with it. Can you imagine the God ordering to kill, torture and urge people to do things other than their will? No, this is ridiculous.\nIn my country there are really a lot of moderate muslims, while there are of course some of these ignorant and stupid people as in any other places. I beleive there are so many other moderate ones too around the world everywhere. As a matter of fact, the word "moderate" is not fitting in. Because islam itself is moderate. But the damage these radicals have given has raised to a point that, most people have started thinking that islam itself and its beleivers are cruel, bigot and uncultured.\nI respect any other religion and I wish the others did the same without prejudice and they understood this cruelty has nothing to do with my religion. It is the people who are cruel, not the religions. And no religion orders cruelty or violence.
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It's interesting that you bring that up at a time Islam is attacked by Christians to be a violent religion, where as the verses they cite were revealed at a time of war. Unlike Christianity though the Quran NEVER condones the killing of women and children in any time or circumstance. As a Muslim and a believer of the gospel I don't believe that part was by God and was possibly put forth by the scribes.
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Because while most Muslims are not terrorists, they keep silent about all the terror that goes on in the name of Islam (suicide bombings, honor killings, rape/torture, dictatorial governments).\n\nFor example, most Muslims would probably agree that Iran's President (the one who said Israel should be wiped off the map) is a wacko. And yet, he remains President of a country close to obtaining a nuclear bomb. Where's the Muslim outrage?
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I know that this is going to sound paradoxical, but I would say that the main reason why they did not tell you the truth about Islam is that they were …Christian...\nEvery criticism of Quran can be matched with equal criticism of the Bible. So Christians are afraid to criticize Quran, because their criticism will also be against their own religion.\n\nCertainly Quran is utterly idiotic; however the Bible is full of idiocy as well. It is really hard to decide which is more absurd: the Muhammad riding his donkey to Heaven where he meets his Allah, or Jesus being born from a virgin, raising from dead or walking on water. Both is retarded, and both keeps the believers in the state of mental retardation.\nWithout any doubt Quran is a fanatical terrorist bloody scripture, and the Bible, too, is a genocidal fanatical scripture. Quran says kill the infidel, the Bible says kill a man who collected some sticks to make a little fire on a Saturday! The “God” of the Bible tell the Jews to exterminate whole nations living in Canaan, men women, even their cattle. The New Testament is a fanatical scripture as well; it clearly states that unless you are saved by Jesus you are going to hell. Either you are with Jesus, or you are against. So there are many parallels between Islam on one hand and Christianity and Judaism on the other. \nJudaism has lost its lethal power because Jews became powerless after being kicked out from their country some 1800 years ago. However Christianity and Islam have committed so many crimes against humanity that it is hard to judge which of these two cults have been more deadly. Both are guilty of genocides, persecution of minorities, repression of women, anti-democratic, anti-human and anti-scientific attitudes. Both are responsible for murder of hundreds of millions of people. \nThe BID difference is that the Western countries are now living in POST-Christian era, while the Muslims are still in the middle of Islamic Dark Ages. \nSo the advantage of Christianity of Islam is only because Christianity is relatively weak and has been to a large degree been replaced with humanism. Still, unfortunately Christianity is a dominating moral force, and very few people have the courage relegate Christianity to a museum where it belongs. Until such time, there will not be political courage to fight Islamic dark ages. Until such time, you will not hear the truth that “Islam is Fascism” that “Muhammad was a pervert, a liar, and a rapist”. \nOF course this is a very condensed answer that does not cover all aspects; it just focuses on one important aspect. I still hope that you read this carefully and consider the merits of what I wrote.\nAnd to my Muslim brothers and sisters, I do not hate Muslims; I hate only the Darkness but not the people (Muslims) who suffer from it. (I too was a Muslim once)\n\n**********************************************8\nOne more thing: I have to do some justice to the Bible and admit, that while from the literary point of view Quran is complete trash, the Bible, on the other hand while also full of trash, also contains parts that are among the worlds most beautiful literature on the same level as Odyssey and Shakespeare.
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The truth is that Islam is not a religion of peace. It is a religion of hate, of terror and of war. A thorough study of the Quran and Hadith reveal an Islam that is not being presented honestly by the Muslim propagandists and is not known to the majority of the people of the world including Muslim themselves. Islam, as it is taught in the Quran (Koran) and lived by Muhammad, as is reported in the Hadith (Biography and sayings of the Prophet) is a religion of Injustice, Intolerance, Cruelty, Absurdities, discrimination, Contradictions, and blind faith. Islam advocates killing the non-Muslims and abuses the human rights of minorities and women. Islam expanded mostly by Jihad (holy war) and forced its way by killing the non-believers. In Islam apostasy is the biggest crime punishable by death. Muhammad was a terrorist himself therefore terrorism cannot be separated from the true Islam. Islam means submission and it demands from its followers to submit their wills and thoughts to Muhammad and his imaginary Allah. Allah is a deity that despises reason, democracy, freedom of thought and freedom of expression.\n\nI reject Islam a) because of Muhammad’s lack of moral and ethical fortitude and b) because of the absurdities in the Quran.\n\na) Muhammad lived a less than holy life. His lust for sex, his affairs with his maids and slave girls, his pedophilic relationship at age 54 with Aisha, a 9-year-old child, his killing sprees, his massacre and the genocide of the Jews, his slave making and trading, his assassination of his opponents, his raids and lootings of the merchant caravans and unarmed villagers, his burning of trees, his destroying the water wells, his cursing and invoking evil on his enemies, his revenge on his captured prisoners of war, his torturing of his captives to for greed and his hallucinations such as believing of having sex with his wives when he actually did not, disqualify him as a sane person let alone a messenger of God.\n\nb) An unbiased study of the Quran shows that far from being a “miracle”, that book is a hoax. The Quran is replete with scientific heresies, historic blunders, mathematical mistakes, logical absurdities, grammatical errors and ethical fallacies. Could possibly the author of this Universe be as ignorant as it appears to be in the Quran?
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Because Iran is a country full of nuts and loose cannon's. Any psycho nuts that can twist the beautiful writings of Allah  to mean lets murder everyone, who is not like us ,or does not share our beliefs, do not deserve the trust of responsibility of Nuclear power. In other words, they can not be trusted, to do the right thing.  For those in U.S. that do not get it, it would be as if all the Baptist wanted all the Catholics dead, who wanted the the, Lutherans dead, who wanted they Methodist dead,  etc etc etc....for no other reason than being different..so much killing that the people   do not remember the reasons, it is tit for tat,   it is as stupid a concept as your question.
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To answer your original question, it is because Islam will NOT hold their fellow Muslims accountable for their actions.\n\nWhen asked of a Muslim, why doesn’t the Islamic majority in the United Nation condemn the thousands of terrorist acts perpetrated by those of your faith? The answer comes back, “We cannot judge our Muslim brothers. Only Allah can judge them.” Yet when it comes to judging the infidel, there are no holds barred. Now, let us contrast this attitude with what the Bible teaches.\n\n1 Corinthians 5:11-13\nFor what have I to do with judging those also who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside? But those who are outside God judges.\n\nThis is the polar opposite to Islam. The Bible teaches that the Christian is to judge the actions of other Christians and call them on the carpet if they are doing ANYTHING unbiblical. However, those who are NOT believers, the Christian is to leave alone, that only GOD will judge them.\n\nSo there is the contrast. If Islam was really concerned about peace, and was a peaceful religion, they would do something to stop these violent people. But don't hold your breath.
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I am a Bahai and to start let me tell you that it is not similar to Islam it is similar to all religion in a way as all comes form God.\nWe believe that there is one God whose successive revelations of His will to humanity have been the chief civilizing force in history. The agents of this process have been the Divine Messengers whom people have seen chiefly as the founders of separate religious systems but whose common purpose has been to bring the human race to spiritual and moral maturity.\nHumanity is now coming of age. It is this that makes possible the unification of the human family and the building of a peaceful, global society. Among the principles which the Bahá'í Faith promotes as vital to the achievement of this goal are.\nhttp://www.bahai.org/
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The problem with Muslims is that you hold to the word of one prophet and ignore the rest. Great prophets in the Old Testament prophesied many times of the coming King and how He would suffer to heal His people. I judge a prophet by his message. That message has to be consistent with all the previous messages from God. Mohammad's message is out of sync. It doesn't teach that blood must be shed to gain forgiveness of sin as both the Old and the New Testaments do. You deny Christ's position. Out of His own mouth He claimed to be the I AM God that spoke to Moses from the burning bush. Adam and Eve Died the day they sinned. They lost the presence of God in their lives and physical death followed. Now God is restored in the Lives of the Christian Gos walk with us in our daily walk before Him. We are alive Spiritually again. We still carry with us the body of sin that is subject to physical death. When it is gone our spirits go to the Father who created them and so we are ever with the Lord. I don't know as you can understand the two deaths physical and spiritual because I don't know your teaching that well. All I need to know about Islam is that you deny that Jesus is God. That tells me that your religion is closer to a cult than it is to God...   Jim
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Hmmm. I don't know. Maybe they just think that Islam is evil because a crazy bunch of Muslims flew some airplanes into some buildings in the name of Allah. Maybe Islam gets a bad name because some of the lunatics that follow the religion are still fighting a holy war against the rest of the world that most of the world stopped fighting 400 years ago. Or maybe, Islam gets a bad name because they treat women like dirt. Hmmm. I don't know. Oh and by the way... I am an atheist. You can't say that I think this way because I am christian. I think all religions are idiotic, but as far as world religions go Islam gets my nomination for the award for being the most retarded. Hey Muslims... the year is 2006. Get over it!
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Yes it is said by our holy prophet you know why becuase they dont accept Allah the only one. Even jew people know God(Allah) more then there sons but they blame on God and they had killed sevral of prophets although 1400000 came on earth. They have to pay jizya because they denay God(Allah) and which they are living on its God's(Allah) property if they dont accept him as God then they dont have right to live freely on God's(Allah) land. They denay God so much that they had changed the bible. You can see Allah still love them thats why they are still living.
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Yes it is true about the middle east.  I have seen cartoons in Arabic showing suicide bombers blowing up Jews.  These cartoons are shown to little children.  Also there is a misunderstanding about the afterlife thing.  They are convinced to blow themselves up for Allah not because it is so good after death, but because the Koran teaches that dying in Jihad is the only GUARANTEED way to get to heaven, all other ways you are taking your chance on if you have done more good than evil in your life.  (Which way the scales tip when Allah judges you.)\nBy these standards no, we are not teaching children hate in the west.
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Osama IS NOT the leader of Islam he is a radical terrorist who uses and manipulates the teaching of the Quran to promote his own political agenda. Islam preaches peace and submission. I was raised Cristian and and Converted. I was very ignorant before I picked up a Quran myself and read it. Please do not fall into the trap of believing only what you hear and see from the Media. I have many reason to back everything up and if you want a personal discussion about this I would love to IM.