Realization about Islam and a few questions.?
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The Islamic clerics that are against the violence are afraid of the repercussions of their "radical stance". \n\nIt's kind of like Yasser Arafat turning down the Israeli's offer of giving him %99 of the demands that he had put out. Even if he had accepted the offer and tried to make peace with Israel, someone in Hamas or Mujahedin would have assasinated him.
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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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You need proper guidance. And a better teacher to teach you islam and its background. I dont know why non-muslims always have wrong conceptions about islam.
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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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thats is the main problem there ...\n\nthey dont try to know about Islam ...just thye have thats idea ...and dont try to know if thats right or wrong ...\n\nim sure many of here whom hate Islam ..they hate it for nothing more than dont know anything about islam .\n\nso if u wnat say ISLAM is bad religion (even thats not true bcs im muslim and i know my relogion well )...so befor saying thats read and know what is the islam ..then say ur opinion ..waht ever we agree with it or not ...but dont say ur opinion and u dont know anything about ISLAM .\n\nGOD/ALLAH bless you all
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Ok i read many answers there so i cant add anything .... but i can say somthing here thats what the meaning of the word ISLAM ....?? i will explain it from the side of the meaning .\n\nIts means PEACE ...so how can thats word have evil side ...\n\nI want say 2 ...thats if u came to my country u will see  in many places that the CHURCH & MOUSQUE side by side ..\n\nSo ISLAM is not just word means peace ... its ACTION 2 of peace \n\nU can know thats IF u read well about the Islam ...so try and read more if u really want to know ...not just want to show ur evil side of hate of Islam by ur question ..\n\nAnd Islam is relgion from God as the anthers relgions we know ...so do u think thats GOD can send evil thing to us as Human... no i dont think so .... \n\nSo i think u must know GOD first ..then know ur relgion well.. and if u want know about anthers relgions, AGAIN READ WELL...b4 asking
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Read about the religion first! Convert if you want to. Meaning you agree to everything islam is about. Dont convert if you feel pressured. Do what you feel is right in your heart.
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I am Muslim here ....trying  not to be angered by so many ignorant comments  here....
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I converted to Islam, I like the fact that there are real answers to my questions, not just having to accept things on faith, I also like that I can find things in the Koran that are now known by science to be true, but that these things were not known at the time the Koran was revealed to the Prophet Muhammed(pbuh). This tells me that there was a higher power giving this message. I was raised Baptist, converted to a Mormon and still didn't find the peace and answers that I was seeking, that came only with Islam.
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Some Basic Islamic Beliefs \nThe religion of Islam is the acceptance of and obedience to the teachings of God which He revealed to His last prophet, Muhammad .\n1) Belief in God:\nMuslims believe in one, unique, incomparable God, Who has no son nor partner, and that none has the right to be worshipped but Him alone.  He is the true God, and every other deity is false.  He has the most magnificent names and sublime perfect attributes.  No one shares His divinity, nor His attributes.  In the Quran, God describes Himself:\n\n Say, “He is God, the One.  God, to Whom the creatures turn for their needs.  He begets not, nor was He begotten, and there is none like Him.”  (Quran, 112:1-4)\nNo one has the right to be invoked, supplicated, prayed to, or shown any act of worship, but God alone.\nGod alone is the Almighty, the Creator, the Sovereign, and the Sustainer of everything in the whole universe.  He manages all affairs.  He stands in need of none of His creatures, and all His creatures depend on Him for all that they need.  He is the All-Hearing, the All-Seeing, and the All-Knowing.  In a perfect manner, His knowledge encompasses all things, the open and the secret, and the public and the private.  He knows what has happened, what will happen, and how it will happen.  No affair occurs in the whole world except by His will.  Whatever He wills is, and whatever He does not will is not and will never be.  His will is above the will of all the creatures.  He has power over all things, and He is able to do everything.  He is the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful, and the Most Beneficent.  In one of the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad , we are told that God is more merciful to His creatures than a mother to her child. God is far removed from injustice and tyranny.  He is All-Wise in all of His actions and decrees.  If someone wants something from God, he or she can ask God directly without asking anyone else to intercede with God for him or her.\nGod is not Jesus, and Jesus is not God. Even Jesus himself rejected this.  God has said in the Quran:\n Indeed, they have disbelieved who have said, “God is the Messiah (Jesus), son of Mary.”  The Messiah said, “Children of Israel, worship God, my Lord and your Lord.  Whoever associates partners in worship with God, then God has forbidden Paradise for him, and his home is the Fire (Hell).  For the wrongdoers, there will be no helpers.”  (Quran, 5:72)\n\nGod is not a trinity.  God has said in the Quran:\n Indeed, they disbelieve who say, “God is the third of three (in a trinity),” when there is no god but one God.  If they desist not from what they say, truly, a painful punishment will befall the disbelievers among them. Would they not rather repent to God and ask His forgiveness?  For God is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.  The Messiah (Jesus), son of Mary, was no more than a messenger...  (Quran, 5:73-75)\nIslam rejects that God rested on the seventh day of the creation, that He wrestled with one of His angels, that He is an envious plotter against mankind, or that He is incarnate in any human being.  Islam also rejects the attribution of any human form to God. All of these are considered blasphemous.  God is the Exalted.  He is far removed from every imperfection.  He never becomes weary.  He does not become drowsy nor does he sleep.\nThe Arabic word Allah means God (the one and only true God who created the whole universe).  This word Allah is a name for God, which is used by Arabic speakers, both Arab Muslims and Arab Christians.  This word cannot be used to designate anything other than the one true God.  The Arabic word  Allah occurs in the Quran about 2700 times.  In Aramaic, a language related closely to Arabic and the language that Jesus habitually spoke, God is also referred to as Allah.\n2) Belief in the Angels:\nMuslims believe in the existence of the angels and that they are honored creatures.  The angels worship God alone, obey Him, and act only by His command.  Among
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Well Jhon , are you a muslim ? .. i guess not , that's why i'm gonna tell you this :\n\nI'm a Muslim and i was raised since i was a baby as a muslim and i know my religion very well , i read the Quran many times , and i know what does the quran means when it does talk about Killing and if you read the quran you would know exactly what i'm talking about , \n\nI'm A Muslim and i don't beleive in Killing , neither any other muslim ,Because that what we were taught , becuase that what our quran says ! ! \n\n but ofcourse in each religion there are some stricts who only think about their selves , just like alqaeda and others who made killing is some thing like a vertue , which is ABSOLUTLY WRONG , ISLAM DOESN"T BELEIVE IN KILLING ! ! ! YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT !\n\nNeo
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Because Islam was dreamed up more than six centuries after the time of Christ, Islam denies the divinity of Christ, and as the first respondent pointed out you are arguing languages. and you have no valid basis for it. and blondecow131 you are wrong about Islam accepting either Judaism or Christianity.
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Dear. ISlam is the fastest growing religion in the world today. Its a true religion. more then 70% of quran has been proven scientifically correct and the rest is not proven yet. but not 1% is proven wrong.The best way is to study Islam. and if u need any resources please contact me on my email below. i'll try my best to find the topics u need. may God guide u to the right path.\nU must visit : \nhttp://www.irf.net/irf/comparativereligion/index.htm\nmy email is lion_mughal@yahoo.com
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[insert 'you don't understand Islam' argument here]
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Islam is only a newer version or corrected version of Judaism, Which means, Islam is religion purified. So I think the basic concepts of two religion are originally the same, where as Islam is more recent and also the Holy book of Islam, The Quran is protected from any change by God himself.\n\nTo feel the presence of God, it is required that we admire and glorify him always. \n"Therefore remember Me, I will remember you, and be thankful to Me, and do not be ungrateful to Me. " Quran   2:152.
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I'm a muslim , and I'm here for you if you want to know anything about Islam.\nwhether you are a muslim or not you are welcome to ask at any time and I'll do my best to give you the correct answer
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Can I just point out that in here the only ones that say homosexuality is a sin are those that are Chrisitan, what if you are not Christian it is not a sin. And anyway where are the Muslims that also say its a sin - nowhere, they know when to accept other peoples choice in lifestyle and belief and dont critise it. I have never heard of a Muslim damming a homosexual that does not follow their religion, they know when to quit!