What makes you think that Islam is a peaceful religion?
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Many Muslims are genuinely respectful and peaceful.\nThe religion, as such, has a very radical and violent dogma and many muslims will adhere to it. The life of Mohammed and the fondation of the Koran is based on many quotes that are extremely clear and radical to deal with issues of daily lives.\n\nMuslim who can live in resepct and peace with others, choose the verses in the Koran that suits the peaceful ways they adhere too. They will usually stick to the wholesome fondation of what the duty of a Muslim is rather than what the Koran actually DOES teach in terms of radical responses our behavior in the world.\n\nThis said, radicalism in Islam is not like the KKK. The issue that concerns many scholars and thinkers about Islam is that it can just not deny that a radical Islamist Muslim actually does follow the Koran. The proof is in the debates to try to adapt and modernize the understanding of Islam to actualize it's spiritual outlook to modernity. Yet, that movement is loosing grounds and is not supported by a majority of Muslims.
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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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In spite of all the bad publicity going on in the non-Muslim world, Islam is a truly wonderful religion. It has all the answers to the social problems that we currently suffer from. I’ve read a lot about other religions and they don’t come close the details and specificity that Islam has. It’s a complete social, economical, professional and political life guide system.
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Islam is a beautiful and highly misunderstood religion that has been tarnished by both the American media and the violent fundamentalists who both have tried to twist it into something it is most certainly not. Islam is a way of life based on peace and the search for God.\n\n  Below is a source I've used for most of my research on the Koran and the Islamic path.
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Islam itself is an aggressive religion. It feeds on anger and percieved injustice. The only thing it has any respect for is strength. That is why we need to support our President and show Islam that American has some real teeth and we will smoke you if you mess with us.
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Their religion is probably Muslim...however, from what I know about the tenants of the Muslim religion, what these people are doing have nothing to do with the generally peaceful Muslim religion.
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Because Islam isnt a religion of Peace.  It is a violent Terrorist religion.
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islam is a religion as it is a  way of life. the quran doesnt say "says that if you die well killing others you will go to a muslim heaven" WRONG!! if you die defending yourself you go to heaven. make sense right? islam rule the world?! WRONG again. islam preaches religious tolerance more than any other religion out there. in fact, in the quran it states that NO place of worship has the right to be destroyed if even ONE person goes there. Islam dates back to the time of adam and eve. there was no founder; there was only god. why do so many religions exsist? because with time comes change. (and to clear up the answer above, no man has the right to beat a women. a women is to be treated with respect and compassion!) Muslims pray five times a day, fast the month of ramadan, give charity, state there is no god but god, and make the pilgrimage to mecca. those are the basis of islam. then comes things like, respecting your parents, being kind to your neighbors, and preforming good deeds as often as possible because it isnt just a religion but a way of living.
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yes. i believe that islam is the only religion that is sutable for people of every age, race and culture. but nowadays media has turned islam into a terrorist religion. we should preach that islam is a peaceful religon, not a violent one.the media depicts islam as extremist. but only in lslam women"s rights are more acknowledged than any other religion. we just think that taking off clothes is considered "freedom". but in islam only knowledge is considered "independence" not nudity.
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read the truth and do the research. Islam is not now and never was a peaceful religion. it was founded by a liar and thief who used made up visions to promote his own agenda. The man was a pedophile and rapist. For your own sake, read your own texts, These official works include: the Sira, Ta'rikh, Hadith, and Qur'an. Ishaq's Sira, or biography, called Sirat Rasul Allah, provides the lone account of Muhammad's life and the formation of Islam written within 200 years of the prophet's death.\n\nThere were no miracles to prove Muhammad's claim of being a godly conduit. There were no healings, walking on water, parting seas, raising folks from the dead, or feeding multitudes. And there are no fulfilled prophecies, like the exacting and detailed predictions that Biblical prophets routinely made to demonstrate their divine authority. But the most troubling part about our absolute reliance on Muhammad's testimony that he and his Qur'an were divinely inspired is that the prophet's character was as deficient, and his life was as despicable, as anyone who has ever lived.\n\nFollowing his first Qur'anic revelation, Muhammad claimed to have been demon possessed. By his own admission, he tried to commit suicide. Those who knew him best, his family and neighbors, said that he had gone mad. “He is a demon-possessed sorcerer fabricating scripture,” they said, accusing him of plagiarism and of having purely selfish motives. They mocked his prophetic claims, ridiculed his Qur'an, and said that his preposterous notion of turning many pagan idols into the one God was insane. As a result of this verbal abuse, all chronicled in the Qur'an, Muhammad pledged to slaughter his kin.\n\nHaving destroyed the “religion” of Islam in Mecca, Muhammad created the political doctrine of “submission” in Medina. He became a pirate, dictator, and terrorist leader. He used Qur'anic scripture to justify some of the most horrific behavior imaginable: pedophilia, incest, rape, torture, assassinations, thievery, mass murder, and terror—all in an unbridled orgy of sex, power, and money. Again, this summation simply reflects the portrayal documented in the Islamic Sunnah and confirmed in the Qur'an.\n\nWhen he was fifty, Muhammad married a six-year-old child. Then he stole his son's wife. After forcing young girls to watch his men execute their fathers, Muhammad raped them. He tortured his victims to make sure no booty escaped his grasp. He committed mass murder, slaughtering Jews in genocidal rage. In ten years, he ordered a score of assassinations and conducted seventy-five terrorist raids. He used the sword to force Arabs into submission and used the slave trade to finance Islam. He was more interested in collecting girls and taxes than anything else. He ruled through fear. And his god condoned it all.\n\nAlas, Islam was not all murder, plunder, and lust. There was war. Tabari VII:105 “In this year there was the expedition of the Messenger to Uhud. In year three of the Islamic Era (March, 625) the Quraysh were provoked against the Messenger because he had killed their nobles and chiefs at Badr.”\n\nThe Meccans had witnessed the prophet's demented behavior at the pit. “Muhammad has bereaved us and killed our best men. So help us defend ourselves against him and perhaps we will obtain vengeance for those he has slain.” They wanted to prevent the onslaught from continuing. Yet today, Muslims raise shrill voices protesting that Uhud was proof that the Meccans were the aggressors and that Muhammad was forced into defending his flock. But their own scriptures say otherwise, putting Islam in a difficult position. If these Hadiths are accurate, their prophet was a warmongering terrorist and a ruthless pirate. But if these Traditions are not true, they have no prophet and thus no religion—for nothing else is known about him or of Islam's beginnings.\n\nIslam is a caustic blend of regurgi
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be sure that Islam is a religion like all like cristaince and juiste,all of them ask for peaces.but some bad people give this impression about this religion if we look around we found different bad thing made by people of other religion too.
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of course...islam means "peace"...it guides us to love, tolerate..help..support..respect....help...be compassionate...and negotiate through peaceful means. the extremist version as potrayed by sum isnt islam. yet ppl from other religions n beliefs shud learn how to respect other faiths.
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To tell you the truth, I think that it is full of violence. \n\nThe way Islams, Muslims react to a controversy is through violence. While Buddhists and Christians are peaceful.\n\nTake the Da Vinci Code Controversy for an instance. Did the Christians start to bomb cars and blow buildings? No.
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YOu have to look at what Islam teaches you.\nFor jut a moment, disregard what others tell you about the violence people are accusing islam of.\n\nIslam teaches to respect life. IT is forbidden to harm anything, human, plant, insect, animals for no reason\n\nIT is forbidden to lie, backbite.\nIts a duty of every muslim, to help the needy, the poor, orphans, visit the sick.\n-Be good to ones neighbour.\n-Vist others and have food with them, regardless of faith.\n-Respect others faith, muslim or not.\n-Have patience, and enjoin the good, forbid the evil\n-Believe in one and only one God.\n-It is forbidden to commit any sort of crime, robbery.\n-Do not hurt another person, physically or emotionally.\n-Respect ones parents to the utmost- do not talk back to them, do not talk loud infront of them, walk behind them as a sign of respect.\n-Acquire knowlege, \n-Use this life in the most beneficial way possible.\n-Society and house manners should be maintained.\n-Be humble and have humility, do not be arrogant.\n\nSo you see, Islam is a beutiful religion, and it teaches one to be good and humble.\n\nAs for the violence, its a shame that some muslims do not understand the rules of Islam and tend to interprete it themselves the wrong way.\nYou cannot really blame the religion for how its followers are not following it correctly.
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Whats that got to do with computing???\n\nIf islam is such a peaceful religion answer this, look at this video clip\n\nwww.dumpalink.com/media/114370854/Iranian_Boy_Has_His_Arm_Run_Over_For_Stealing
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Islam:\n\n-it is the only religion with proofs to justify it like scientifical proofs (if you want some just contact me).\n\n-i am a women and Islam treats women very very very nicely.\n\n-it is a religion that does not contradict with human nature.
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Yes Islam is a Comprehensive Religion. The proof is stated in the Fact that The Prophet Mohammed(Peace Be Upon Him) was ranked #1 In Michael Harts Book \nThe 100:Most Influential People in History because\n"...he was the only man in history who was supremely successful on both the religious and secular level." Since the Prophet's wife Aisha when asked about him said that he was the walking Quran.\nThis is one of the many evidences which shows the comprehensiveness of Islam. For more evidence go to Whyislam.org