Islam doesnt teach violence it condems terrorism. Our Prophet always preached brotherhood and peace. Why al qaeda is taken as Islam whereas its just a group
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The simple answer is lack of education here in America.  People see that a group of of radical people attacked us and that they claimed to do it for the religion of Islam, and they go off and respond against everyone of that religion. It happens everytime in war.  Japan attacked the U.S. the U.S. responded by discriminating against all asians.  All Germans, Italians and Central/Eastern Europeans were also looked down on as the enemy to.  When countries go to war, the hatred always seems to follow.  It is truly an example that the Human Race has a long way to go.\n\nThe situation is further compounded when our media only gives half stories, such as they report that muslim governments fund terrorism by paying money to the families of suicide bombers and such.  They don't address the bigger problem such as, that most suicide bombers are recruited from young impressionable arab men and lately women, who have little or no money, and are lured into this job of a suicide bomber because they are told their families will be taken care of, which anyone who knows anything about Arab culture knows that family is valued very highly in it.\n\nThis all leads to the easier explanation that it's easier to hate the whole group instead of doing the work to find out who the real bad guys are and hating them.\n\nLet's take a look at Hamas, they were a terrorist organization, or a freedom fighter group depending on what side of the fence you're on.  They then decided to try things politically and managed to get elected.  That's democracy for you.  The IRA did the same thing in Ireland and the British and Americans hailed it as a victory, funny how the double standard comes into play...
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Its like saying all men are rapists.  All men want to dominate and hurt women.  All women are whores.  You just can't generalise like that.\n\nAnd actually not all terrorists are Islamic, there are more than enough terrorists destroying lives in Africa and South America and Ireland to mention a few places.  And these are predominantly christian lands.\n\nDon't be so prejudiced against people, because there are some nice Moslem people out there who are horrified by what the extremists are doing in the name of their faith.  It must be scary times for those who are peaceful to see themselves grouped together with the mass murderers and are subjected to force of ill-will from non-moslems who feel it is their right to punish moslems.\n\nIf a priest abuses a boy, we don't lynch mob all priests, we understand that he is a bad seed.  Similarly we aught not to categorise all moslems as the same.
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what kind of question is this? you could start a conflict with this, a war even. Islams are completely misunderstood. Do not judge based on your ignorance. And to answer the guy upstairs, Islam isn't the root of terrorism. Everyone is entitled to be a terrorist.
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Muslims are taught by their religion, Islam, to kill the infidel.  This is a hard fact that so many people don't want to believe.  In case you didn't know, anyone who is not Muslim is an infidel.  In the same way that Christians are taught to love their neighbors, Muslims are taught to hate and kill.  You figure it out from there.  I just read what the Muslim wrote while I was writing this.  In the same way he carefully quoted his book to make his point, I can do the same with our Bible.  When you take things out of context, they can be made to say anything.  I stand by what I wrote above.
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Muslims don't believe in that.You can not find this in Quran nor in Hadith. God says in Quran that if you kill one person, for me it's like you have killed everyone(it's something that he won't forgive)Muslims are only allowed to go to war if some one attacked them they aren't allowed to start a war.(Mohammad him self NEVER started a war) and the last thing is that there is no such thing as Holy war that CNN is making up for Muslims.
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I think it is because we have been taught that Islam is a religion that believes in violence against all non-islamics and does not give rights to women.\n\nCorrect me if I am wrong but that is what we have been taught.
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the world not going to hate specially any Muslim, the world , even u hate terrorism,which is present everywhere,we have a wrong mind set that every Muslim represent terrorism or a terrorist is representative of Islam .but unfortunately now we are habitual and always used to connect it only with Muslims.actually we know this fact very well that none community in favor of terrorism, even not any Muslim like to do all this non sense, but sure there sud be some reason behind this when we indicate to Muslims,coz every terrorist is production of our society,the question sud be like this ..that why a Muslim easily turn to terrorist action then other comunity ??\n\nit possible that Islam allow to go against and remove those elements or people,those are harmful for Islamic faith in idea of saving Islam values and Muslim followers, but some people who actually support and involve in terrorist affairs, they use those religious ,innocent and emotional people,who are mostly not well educated and follow blind faith.they support them for their own benefit and make them crazy and mad for the name of "zehad".they teach them that Islam allow to killing "kafir".in Islam "kafir means ..the guy ,who don support human values but some stupid people teach that kafir means..those r non Muslim or not follower of Islam.\n\nno need to hate any Muslim ,\neven not a terrorist coz we need to stop and change him ,\nbut yes!! terrorism is subject of hate.
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Violence begets violence. However, the only way to stop this madness is to do away with Islam and those who follow it. I am on your side on this one.
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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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Firstly,I heared alot about terrorism and its connection to Islam. so i think by false that Islam=terrorism. when i chat muslims i found them normal people but i think they know what they want and they trust their God completely.so I think that Terrorism have not any connection with Islam and muslims who kill, burn and explode are only bad people which fill all countries and all religions.
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We should be very careful when be blame Islam or christianty or judiasm or any religion for violence. for that matter any group of people for the ations of a few. \n\nIslam does not preach violence, as the Americans do not preach prisoner abuse (abu dhuraib). for a muslim to hate all americans for what happened in abu ghuraib, for east asian to hate americans for what the US did in vietnam, south americans to hate americans for what the US did in niguaragua... and so on would not make sence. some nice man in chicago didnt do that, neither did some lady in texas.\n\nand same goes for Muslims, 1.4 billion muslims did not destroy the WTC. and if you read up on Islam you will realize, those who did, arent following Islam.\n\nwhat we do need to look at is what makes people go to such exteremes, why are induviduals and governments willing to go to such inhuman extents, something is deffinatly not right.
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There is nothing in the Koran nor mainstream doctrines of Islam that supports or condones any terrorist acts.  Suicide bombers are merely weak-minded pawns of manipulative people who use an Islam-esque facade to mask their own twisted agendas.  To associate Islam with such acts would be similar to associating mainstream Christianity with nut-jobs like David Koresh or associating Americans with Ted Bundy.
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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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Why don't non-muslims realize that there are Muslims and then there are extremists. Extremists are the crazy people who want to kill everyone who's not a Muslim. Not the real Muslims.
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because islam is intollerant of other religions. I can ask the poster above, how is it that islam "respects" other religions and yet saudi arabia does not even allow churches or synagoges to exsist in the country??? islam respects NOTHING but islam.
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That is why I firmly state that Islam is not a tolerant religion and is the cause for conflicts throughout the world. It is a religion that doesn't consider human rights at all. I'm not saying I'm against the Muslims, just that they have to make their religion flexible to be able to be in peace with others.
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Terrorism that we are experiencing here and in Iraq are about religion.  Oil is an issue but that is not what causes these people to blow themselves up. Islam is a very good religion but some people interpret to there own liking.  Just as some Christians do. There will always be people that think and feel what they believe is what everyone should believe.  This is the main reason we have a democracy today in America.  Read your history.  It has been going on for hundreds of years.