I saw many people see Islam as a bad religion! There are unfortunately wrong news at media about Islam. Why didn't they give the good news about it? Have you ever search about REAL Islam?
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Islam isn't all bad, its just some certain sects (or groups) within islam take their beleifs very, VERY seriously and try 2 follow them in very violen ways. They are only a small percentage or the religion, but they give all Muslims a bad name. \nIslam is a monotheistic religion, meaning they worship only one god (Allah). it is the same god that Christian, Catholics, and Jewish people worship.
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Something to consider about Islam is that they lack any central leadership, unlike Christianity.  When people are looking for a blanket Christian statement, they typically look to the Catholic church, as it is the most organized.  Islam is far more factionalized.\n\nI admit that the muslim mainstream hasn't responded quite in the way that I had hoped.  It seems that non-american, or at least non-western muslims are curiously silent when islamic terrorists strike against the west and it's interests abroad.  Some, like Pakistan in 2001, rejoiced at it.  \n\nIt's difficult to make any broad assertions regarding Islam, because you risk alienating the few who do have respect for the west, and christianity.  It is perhaps up to these few to provide the extinction of the terrorist mindset that for some reason inflames much of the middle east:  That Israel needs to be destroyed, and the West represents pure evil.\n\nRegarding democrats, I think the party has been misled by people like Michael Moore.  I get the idea that if he had been born in Saudi Arabia, it would've been he who piloted one of the jets on 911.\n\nActors, for some reason, become successful and therefore feel entitled to be political analysts.  Of course, we all have the right to protest, but they take it too far.  The media is the most powerful mover of minds of our time, and they weild it like a nuclear weapon.\n\nI believe firmly that whatever the Right's faults, they've got an innate advantage over the Left, in that they cater more to national security than civil liberties, and with good reason.  With terrorists eternally seeking our destruction, there need to be some sacrifices to our ultimate endurance.
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Not everyone believes Islam is evil.  I think there are those who have perverted the sayings of the Prophet and it is this misinterpretation of the Koran which is causing great evil and unrest in the world.
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if you were to check out Muslim History you would see that it started off as a religion of violence. Mohamed converted much of the areas of todays Islamic world through violence. I am  not saying that all Muslims are violent and radical, but i am saying that the majority are showing the true colors of their religion. I think it is right to stand up for what you believe but not with violence. "Actions speak louder than words." "Lately" you have just seen more of what this religion can be about (It condones 'Holy war' and suicide). For all of you moderate, nonviolent Muslims, I am sorry. I do not mean to include you in this.
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I am afraid you did not even discover this "wonderful" world of Islam by yourself. Muslims are severly misled by their scholars who try to twist historical facts. Please read Bukhary, Muslim and Quran by yourself without using interpretation from scholars and you will find many violent actions that should be denounced.
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I am not going to answer about the 9 year old wife of the prophet Mohamed because I know nothing about it. Instead I would like to direct my opinion to AIRASAE. \n\nAirasae, this is an open public discussion and anything can be expected out of it except lewd and foul contents. Nobody is trashing or crushing anybody. If one man's truth can not be your truth just give them logical answers instead of paranoia. If some disturbing questions would rise up against Islam, every muslim would say that Islam is being crushed. Have you ever noticed the countless time Christianity have been crushed with words, thoughts and bombs. But what comes into our minds would often seek the answers to a belief different from ours. \n\nThey say Islam is a religion of peace, but look around you. Bombs here, bombs there and bombs everywhere not even the third world was spared. If western cable companies report what transpires in the muslim world, you say that they do biased reporting. Do you think respectable, world class cable TV stations stay a long time if the world will know that they are trying to do false reporting? They will be out of business in no time. \n\nIf Islam is really a religion of peace truth will surely come out and no one can ever stop it. So, why so worried, be paranoid and overprotective when you can't do anything about it because people have eyes to see, ears to hear and brains to analyze and finally decide. \n\nIf I were a muslim, the first thing I would do is to really try to understand why innocent people including women and children are being targeted. This is not Jihad, this is a crime against humanity. Just imagine the whole muslim world went crazy over a cartoon made by one dumb christian and yet nobody gets crazy over what suicide bombers are doing. How Ironic can it be?   \n\nIf christians would bomb public places with no exactly logical target but innocent people, I would voice out a loud cry to go against those who perpetrates such crime because it simply is not acceptable. I will protest against my fellow christian suicide bombers until my people will get the message and join the protest because to me they are not freedom fighters but mere criminals. Do you see why we don't have such martyrs? It is because to us they will never be martyrs nor freedom fighters nor jihad fighters because to the Christian world, it will always be a heinous crime if they will kill muslims that way and every christian soul knows that.\n\n\nTO BEYOND EVENT\n\nShould I believe because you said so? Read between the lines. If ever it really happened because you said so, then you have first hand knowledge not me. If you are a muslim, educate me for being so naive. Collateral damage was coined in the 20th century and made popular by Mr. Schwartzenegger and it was a nice movie. I just wonder what they call it during Napoleon's time.
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Because Muslims are diferent form great volume of western media advertising. western media just show muslims as a vahhabis ; but Islam is so different. I think this world is very little in compare with immanent world. and we have to use all of our power to know truth before getting late.
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Islam is a very aggressive religion. Of all of the wars/conflicts in the world, something like 95% of the at least ONE if not BOTH sides are Muslim. If you read about what people are doing to innocent women and children in places like Algeria, Sudan, Indonesia in the name of Islam it's bad(cutting the throats of whole families if they don't observe Islam as devoutly as they should, burn torture to enslaved christian children if they refuse to learn Islam, etc....)
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All I can say is that the media has been very aggressive in their quest for negative images to feed to the masses and unfortunately the larger percentage of the masses believe whatever the news feeds them. Add that to the fact that so many here do not know much about islam other than what is shown, and have not taken the time to educate themselves any further than that, it is not so unheard of for them to become haters. People always dislike or fear the unknown. Ignorance is  the media's best friend.
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because some people (not all) want to spread hate about Islam. you know they have a goal in their heads.\ngood links:\n\nwww.askmuslim.com\n\nhttp://www.beconvinced.com/en/main.php
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I was raised a Catholic but personally I think Islam is a great faith, too bad some followers of  Muhammad ibn Abd al Wahhab have given your religion a black eye, but don't true Muslims view terrorists as Fasiq or Munafiq, I've read that the virgin Mary is mentioned more often in the Qur'ān than in the Bible, and having a Pope and Cardinals that live extravagantly in mansions after taking a vow of poverty certainly is hypocritical, let alone all the corrupt priests, and Evangelists that have been caught doing despicable things. We should all command what is good, forbid what is evil, and strive to seek God's approval.
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I am Muslim, a convert from christianity. I understand fully, I have had the same problem. My mom is a christian and very pro-Israel. She knows that I am Muslim but she forbids me to wear a Hijab or openly practice my religion. She had threatened to kick me out of the house other times for how I vote in elections so, I don't debate my religion with her. I agree with what the others said here that it is those radicals that give us a bad name. But I also think it is because of just pure ignorance of the truth mostly this ignorance is spread by the media.  It even extends to just being Arab or supporting the Arabs. I am originally American but I think of myself as an Arabist. I was in 10th grade english and the teacher announced to the whole class that I was with the Arabs. I didn't expect that but maybe it was because the teacher was Jewish but the whole class looked at me and I thought that I was going to be beaten up by how some of the kids were looking at me. This was shortly after 9/11 too. But above it all, I found happiness, I am happily married to an Egyptian Muslim, and will be making the Hajj in November, Inshallah. Those cartoons were overly offensive and shows why there is still the whole rift between East and West. Regardless of what those people say or do, keep your head up high and never allow them to get to you. Their fate like everything else is in Allah's hands.
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"the truth always remains as a minority view and grows only slowly" ... I totally agree with you .. because that's exactly what happened in Islam ..\n\nMuslims were very few .. one man (14 centuries ago).. and look around you .. how many millions Muslims are now (nearly one billion).. \n\nso if Islam was not a good religion it wouldn't have continued all these years .. at least its followers would have been getting less not increasing .. its followers would have left it .. but this didn't happen .. \n\nAnd about the growth of the Muslims due to High birth rates .. i think you may be right in case if you are talking about Muslim countries .. but i wonder if that is the case in European countries .. \n\nand please tell me if Islam is that desease you are talking about .. how come women, European women to be exact, are converting to Islam with big numbers .. is it because they want to be slaves .. or because they felt they will be more free within Islam ..\n\nI'm a Modern Muslim Girl and i assure you that there is no religion on earth treats woman better than Islam .. \n\nIslam equals man and woman in everything, duties, rewards and punishments .. Islam says that woman is free to use her money as she wishs .. that she keeps her family name and never be named after her huspand's family .. to work or not (as she wishs) .. to say her opinion when getting married (to accept or refuse) and if she refused , marriage is considered null or invalid .. and much much more ..\n\nif you want to know how Islam treats women follow these links:\n\nResources for and about Muslim Women:\nhttp://jannah.org/sisters/\n\nTHE STATUS OF WOMAN IN ISLAM\nBy Jamal A. Badawi\nhttp://www.iad.org/books/S-women.html\n\nAnd if you want to know why muslims believe so much that Islam is the true religion .. follow these links .. and tell me that these are lies:\nhttp://www.iad.org/books/S-women.html\nhttp://www.55a.net/firas/english/index.php\n\nI'm very religious .. but the last two websites when i navigated throw them and made sure that the information within them is true .. I had no doubt that i'm on the right way ..\n\nI hope i answered your question .. and i truely wish you find peace ..
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what do u mean by islam is true. other religion are false. all the religion are true withtheir way. Islam "is" "laming" people.
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It has a lot to do with the media. I know that here in America, the only muslims we see in the news are related to terrorism. That instills fear in people, and because we're never taught about Islam really, very few people challenge the media stereotypes. It's pretty sad. I have a muslim friend from Egypt who's studying to be a teacher, and when he went to help in a classroom all the kids were afraid of him. Even beyond the news, TV is really judeo-christian centered. Most of the sitcom families are Christian or Jewish; I don't know of a single show about a muslim family, and it all just contributes to the ignorance that propaganda manipulates.
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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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I feel like people are always judging me.  Most of the people don't understand Islam, or they hate it, because they don't know anything about it exept lies that they hear from friends and family, well some do understand Islam, and are not told lies, but that's a very few of them.  Most people can't even tell where i'm from, and they can't tell my religion until I tell them, and when I do they're just like "ohhhh, cool", but a few days later they act differently around me, and ask me many questions about Islam, which is great, but when I answer them, they always ask why?, what's allah, why don't you belive in God and instead believe in allah????  Most people just don't understand it,and just like to judge Islam, by what happend on 9-11, and I had one person even ask me if Bin Ladin was my cousin...which is pretty funny because it's such a dumb question.  I  just think that there are a few conflicts, but I didn't have that many problems with being Muslim in the US.\n\nWhat about you?