Does Islam teach the hatred and murder we see coming from modern muslems?
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Quran advocates fighting for self defense. First verse in Quran that states fighting is \n"2:190. And fight in the way of Allah with those who fight with you, and do not exceed the limits, surely Allah does not love those who exceed the limits. "\n\nSimilary, if you search whole Quran you can find only fighting prescribed only for self defence. Some people quote verse from the middle to show that Quran prescribes killing all unbelivers. One most quoted verse is \n" 9: 5. So when the sacred months have passed away, then slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them captives and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush,"\n\nWithout quoting the context and the verses below and above a neutral reader will judge Quran is commanding to kill all idolaters. But it's context is only regarding a particular group of idolaters who made an agreement with Muslims and later conspired against them breaking the treaty. This is clear from the preceeding verse\n" 9: 4. Except those of the idolaters with whom you made an agreement, then they have not failed you in anything and have not backed up any one against you, so fulfill their agreement to the end of their term; surely Allah loves those who are careful (of their duty)."\n\nSee what Quran says how to deal with those who are not fighting with you\n"60: 8. Allah does not forbid you respecting those who have not made war against you on account of (your) religion, and have not driven you forth from your homes, that you show them kindness and deal with them justly; surely Allah loves the doers of justice."
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One American:  Islam was invented by Muhammed (who had very little, if any, knowledge of math, science, anatomy, physiology, astronomy, or history...especially religious history).  His writings are filled with violence, hatred and general ignorance.
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Terrorism is committed by many people of various religions and ideologies.  For the most part, the terrorists are motivated by greed, revenge or seeking power, and they are using religion as an excuse for their acts.  \n\nIslam itself does not teach or endorse terrorism.  Indeed, Islam forbids murdering women, children and unarmed men even in time of war.  It forbids the destruction of buildings.  It specifically forbids murdering fellow Muslims, yet the terrorists do this regularly.  The Qur'an says that terrorists will never see Paradise (or Heaven).  \n\nThe extremists in any religion who teach violence are taking bits and pieces of verses from their holy book, and twisting and perverting them in an attempt to justify the hatred they espouse.  \n\nOf all the major terrorist organizations in the world today, the majority of them are ones who claim to be Muslim.  President Bush has been very careful to distinguish that we are not at war with Islam, we are at war with terrorists who pervert the teachings of Islam.
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Original Islam is a religion of peace but today Islam is not.Because followers of Islam has changed translations of Quran which base of Islam that's why muslims are divided into many sects and groups.Most of muslims reject and hate other religions although those also sent by  God.Interesting thing is that anichrist will be from muslims,this is said by Prophet Muhammad in one of His scriptures.Mullah Umar of Taliban (Afghanistan) is antichrist and preaching hatred.
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They are taught to hate from a very early age.\nEverything western is decadent\nEverything except islam is to be destroyed \nAnd anyone who isnt sympathetic to their cause is their enemy.
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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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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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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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The killing of a leader here or there of Muslim terrorist won't solve the problem because the problem is in the nature of the Muslim religion itself.\n\nIslam is a profoundly fascist religion, founded in violence, spread almost exclusively by violence, and that denies, as a core principle, the possibility of a state which is not entirely controlled by Muslims.\n\nAs such it it incompatible with modern notions of liberal. tolerant, secular democracy which prevail in the civilized world.\n\nEither Islam must change or Islam must be destroyed. It is evil incarnate in its present form. The notion that there is a "moderate" Muslim majority is a fantasy. There is no such moderate majority and the handful of genuinely moderate Muslims on this planet wouldn't fill a decent sized football stadium.
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We Christians are not taught to "hate" anyone! However, we are taught the truth, which is, that Jesus is the Son of God. This guy they call mohammed never died on the cross for anyones sins! He is not of importance, but just another man who thinks he knows it all. If you are a real Chrisitan you will realize that when someone does not have Christ in their religion, they are called, you guessed it, an anti-Christ. We do not hate muslims, but we really don't like them trying to push this Islam off on us. I have seen on TBN where there are many muslims converting to Christianity. When you tell muslims this, they report you!
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I think that Muslims are regular people. First of all, in ANY religion extremist ruin it. The KKK were Christian. Hitler was Catholic. The media hype about Islam and terroism is totally whack! I mean Islam teaches peace, non-violence, and goodness.
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NO !!!!\n\ni think moslem should learn more about peace , love and tolerant from buddhism.\n\nu can see that in buddhism history, there is no even one single war.. but u see in islam's history... \n\nthere is never a single murder in the name of buddhism, but u can see many suicide bombing in the name of islam..\n\nbuddha never asked people to kill, but u can see in koran that mohamed himself killed people or asked his followers to kill people.
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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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Muslims pride themselves on the fact that their religion has not changed in its 1400 year history.  In other words, they think it's great to live in the Middle Ages.\n\nIslam needs a reform movements, similar to t hose that have occurred in Judaism and in Christianity.  It has made the mainstream of both of these religions much more tolerant and humane.  \n\nIt really is a pity.  At one time, Islamic countries were more tolerant than Christian ones.  But you have to go back seven hundred years ago to find that.  So it wasn't in the lifetime of anyone living today, that's for sure.\n\nI have nothing against individual Muslims, but they belong to a religion that has some very hateful teachings.  And I do get fed up with the hypocrasy, and the distortions, and the lie that Islam is a religion of peace.  Sorry, but there's way too much evidence to the contrary.
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Good for you for sharing that...\n\nThe Mufti of Marseille quoted the same verses...\nHe was angered by the muslim community for demonstrating against the Cartoons \n\nHe said that especially Western Muslims, have benefited greatly from Free Speehc and Free Press...\n\nHe said that those manifestations where the proof that Muslims were week in their faith because they got offended for just a few cartoons of bad tastes. He also says that Criticism helps make one strong and look at himself.\n\nHe also added: That the current problem with Islam in the West and Arab countries is that there are more and more Imam that dont have enough spiritual knowledge of Islam and they are too focused on the political aspect of Islam... Such as the Imam of Danemark that provoked the whole situation...\n\nSo you are right to ask that questions.... But very very very few Muftis and Imams voice the spiritual view of Islam...Mr. Benchek. the Mufti of Marseille is a rare gem (With Balls I might say...).
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i am muslim, and am shocked from this video as much as u r!!\nand am going to look into this myself!\nhow can they allow such a thing!!\n\nofcourse not. Children should not be taught to hate.\nthis is just bad!!! am really speechless!!
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No. I don't get your question completely but if you're asking whether you should look at a religion's followers and from them deteremine a conclusion on the religion, then NO. I'm a Muslim and if you saw me in the street one day, you shouldn't think that that's what Islam teaches, because I don't do a lot of things that I'm supposed to as a Muslim. I hope that answers your question.