Do religions support political assasinations?
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Considering everything we do know that religions have supported, nothing would surprise me.  I would be more curious to know what has not been perpetrated in the name of religion.
644846
1. Fundy islam in Iran versus a secular government in Iraq.\n\n2. The US supported Saddam as a proxy-revenge for the islamic revolution overthrowing their puppet dictator, the Shah.
560071
adherance to fake gods & politics.
198107
Good job! You've mixed religion and politics in the same question. Bold move :-)
251908
Everything. Religions train you to accept things without proof, and then politicians make you do the same thing. But what may be acceptable in religions is absolutely wrong in politics.
607727
Of course not. But politicians know that if you can get the Jesus bloc you've snared a nice group of voters who will pretty much believe anything. If they'll go for talking donkeys and water being changed in to wine, swallowing your claims for tax reform and smaller government is easy.\n\nTheists love politicians because having their viewpoints backed up by guns is very appealing to them.\n\n"In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot." - Thomas Jefferson
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Well there are many that could be listed because there are so many kinds of religons and so many different religous views that may say an activity is required of their faith but against the laws of mankind. \n\nHere are a few examples:\n\n1. Suicide Bombing is a crime, but it is a religious act carried out according to the faith of some religions.\n\n2. Satanic rituals carried out on human sacrifices or animal sacrifices would be against the laws of man, but supported by a satanic kind of faith.\n\n3. There are religions that allow for poligamy, when there are laws against it.\n\n4. There may be governments that specifically make laws against certain religions and their activities so that they will be committing crimes, it happens all of the time.\n\nCheck out this website below, it's got some answers for you.
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No sane Muslim would support the killing of innocent. Muslims are the biggest group of people who are victims of terrorism whether it's done by their governments, occupying forces (U.S.A.,Isreal..etc) , Alqaeda,...\n\nThe West only recognizes their victims! The only time they mention our victims is to occupy our countries in the name of liberating them from their aggressors. \nYet, they want us to mourn their victims, protest,... when it's them who sponsor state terrorism against us and cheerlead their country to wars (Afghanistan, Iraq, ..Next Iran, Syria...). \n\nIt's terrorism from both sides, even if you try to fool us and try to give it a rosy picture and call our victims "collateral damage". Prisons scandals, Massacres,etc and you still insist that you’re  the civil ones that are "fighting terrorism" ," liberating" ,...etc. \n\nIf non-Muslims think we support terrorism it's because they don't trust us and are ignorant of our victims of terrorism which outnumber theirs. The biggest terrorists live in the white house not Afghanistan. So, stop glossing your deeds because in the ME they can see right through you and are sick of it. They lost more loved ones than you can ever imagine thanks to your war on terror which multiplied the number of terrorists and shook the stability of the country even though you’d like to think otherwise (so you can continue to occupy other countries one after the other. ).
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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.
1102454
It's politically motivated as propaganda against Christianity. You'd be surprised how many things which they claim, are in reality not true.
862048
Yes, and that statement applies to religions as well as governments.
99318
Holy wars are generally fueled by people who don't understand religion.  While they may genuinely believe that they are doing God's will or whatever, that believe does not come from the religion itself, but rather from political leaders who are either extremely confused or (more likely) are co-opting religion for their own agenda.\n\n______\nI disagree with kunwarrarra's statement that "killing in war is never murder."  Taking a life is never justified, no matter who tells you to do it.  Incidently, I have heard scholars of Islam argue that the religion does not allow killing, and that Jihad refers to an internal struggle rather than an external war.
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PLEASE! stop dancing around the question! more people have been killed murdered slaughtered mutilated IN THE NAME OF GOD in whichever language you please than every epidemic and pandemic combined. the tyrants have nothing on organized religion!!!
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YOU tell me.  The answer is yes. \n\n\nHas Islam been betrayed by its fundamentalist leaders? \n\n\nTake a look at these headlines along that line. First of all, from The Toronto Globe & Mail "The Two Faces of Islam: Islam Betrayed". Then these following two from BBC News "Iranians Protest against Muslim Clerics and Islamic Regime", and "Grand Sheik of Sunni Islam Condemns Suicide Attacks as Enemy of Islam". Then this from The London Daily Telegraph "Suicide Bombings are against Islam, says leading Iranian Cleric". Then from The Associated Press "Saudi Clerics Condemn Violence by Militants". And finally from ABC/Reuters Indonesia's President Denounces Muslim Militant Dogma". \n\nFriends, murder in any religion is wrong. Jesus said we are to follow Him. Pray for those who offend you and for those who hurt you and love your enemies. Well, now these clerics are speaking up against Osama Bin Laden and the militants and saying, we shouldn't be killing. they're speaking up finally. \n\nI received a book from a Doctor friend of mine written by a man they call the greatest theologian, the greatest scholar in Islam today — Sheik Muhammed Hisham Kabbani. He is the Chairman of the Islamic Supreme Council of America. He has many titles. He has spoken for many organizations. \n\nWe have six pages of things this man has done speaking in the Muslim nations, speaking about love, speaking against the terrorists and their movement, and he wrote a book "The Approach of Armageddon?" and it is powerful and I read from it two weeks ago, but just one statement. Today I'm going to read a few more. Listen to this: \n\nOn page 113, 1400 years ago, the prophet described these ignorant leaders who would be asked about something that would give a wrong verdict. They are misguided and they misguide others and when the door of misguidance is opened, Satan comes in and what ensues is a disaster for the entire Muslim movement. \n\nOh, that is something. \n\nPage 115 he says: when they get into their mosques and they start this kind of talk, have nothing to do with them. \n\nPage 225: do you know that they believe in the virgin birth of \n\nJesus Christ and honor Mary? That they believe Jesus is one of their prophets who was raised from the dead and ascended into heaven and that they believe He's coming again to destroy the antichrist during the tribulation hour? And that he will set up a kingdom of peace on the earth? Listen to this, the antichrist is a man. The prophet was informing us that in the last days, there would be someone who would deceive all of humanity. \n\nPage 228: Allah, I seek refuge in you from the tribulation of the antichrist. \n\nThen over to page 231: This is exciting: Jews are waiting for the Messiah. Christians are waiting for Jesus, and Muslims are waiting for both the Makdi and Jesus, all religions have described them as men coming to save the world. \n\nPage 237: the return of Jesus Christ to earth from heaven is mentioned in many writings of the prophet Mohammed. \n\nIn conclusion, page 240, oh, man this is exciting -- Jesus will rule for 40 years and the earth will be full of peace and happiness. \n\nYou know, that's more than some Protestant denominations believe. They say there will be no Millennium. Here are Muslims saying that Christ will rule on earth. \n\nThere will be peace and happiness, but they only extend it for forty years where in Revelation it's for 1,000 years. Thank you, doctor, for sending me this book as a gift. It has ministered to my heart. \n\nNow, hear me. We're to love one another. By this shall all men know you're my disciples because you have love one for another, John 13:35. From the lips of Jesus. And then 1 Corinthians 13:13, says now abideth faith, hope and love, but the greatest of these is love. If you hate in any religion, 1 John 3:15, says, whosoever hates his brother is a murderer and no murderer
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Terrorism is not spacific to religion.  All people are capable of terrorism.
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It's a difficult question. Nobody realistically thinks you can ignore the winds of change and remain relevant, but at the same time too much change sheds a suspicious light on your religion. I remember I was quite young when the pope notified his flock that Christianity is changing its official stance on jewish people. "From now on we don't believe that killing is a good thing." I think if I was Christian then I would have ceased to be. How can a teaching that has been so essential to the history of a religion be retracted? Balance is necessary. Honest religious people are constantly digging deep and asking themselves which areas are in the "unassailable truths" category and which are subject to the times.
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In some ways, I suppose, but I'm also a firm believer that you can pull enough things out of religious texts to easily support two opposing positions.\n\nHowever, my religion and my politics are compatible - I'm a reform Jew and a Democrat.  I mostly follow party line - I'm pro-choice, pro-seperation of church and state, anti-war, pro-gun control, anti-illegal wiretapping and so on, and (as I learned during a lobbying trip to D.C.) all of these ideas can be defended Judaically, but that's not the primary reason why I support them.  The one issue I can think of where my religious beliefs directly lead to my feelings on a policy issue is in my support of Israel (I'm not a hardliner - I just would like to see it be able to exist peacefully).