Are we afraid to face the truth about violence inherent especially in Islam?
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ALL religion causes violence and intolerance of others. Do away with all organized religion, not just Islam.
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well, im a muslim.. n yep, i am afraid of god.. its not really afraid actually,its more like a sense of devotion n respect..cuz no matter wat religion u believe in, the whole point is to have faith =) n faith lights you in the darkest moment.. peace!
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I doubt it as Islam is such a peaceful religion as British Muslims tell us all the time.\n\nThe politicians tell us all how we have this amazing multicultural society whilst all the while minorities and majority whites seal themselves into communities exclusively filled with the same kind of people as they are. Thinking insular thoughts and suspecting the other communities until it all erupts in violence sooner or later.
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Speaking out against them is one thing, promoting hatred and actual assault is another.  Words are all we have sometimes to convey ideas, and most religions are a quest for truth, which is an idea hard to present in another way.  Sometimes the only way to define the truth is to point out the lies.\n\nIf the words do not promote/encourage hatred of people or criminal activities (riots, assaults, suicide bombings, etc) then let them speak.  Truth will always prove itself out in the end.
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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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The truth is that Islam is not a religion of peace. It is a religion of hate, of terror and of war. A thorough study of the Quran and Hadith reveal an Islam that is not being presented honestly by the Muslim propagandists and is not known to the majority of the people of the world including Muslim themselves. Islam, as it is taught in the Quran (Koran) and lived by Muhammad, as is reported in the Hadith (Biography and sayings of the Prophet) is a religion of Injustice, Intolerance, Cruelty, Absurdities, discrimination, Contradictions, and blind faith. Islam advocates killing the non-Muslims and abuses the human rights of minorities and women. Islam expanded mostly by Jihad (holy war) and forced its way by killing the non-believers. In Islam apostasy is the biggest crime punishable by death. Muhammad was a terrorist himself therefore terrorism cannot be separated from the true Islam. Islam means submission and it demands from its followers to submit their wills and thoughts to Muhammad and his imaginary Allah. Allah is a deity that despises reason, democracy, freedom of thought and freedom of expression.\n\nI reject Islam a) because of Muhammad’s lack of moral and ethical fortitude and b) because of the absurdities in the Quran.\n\na) Muhammad lived a less than holy life. His lust for sex, his affairs with his maids and slave girls, his pedophilic relationship at age 54 with Aisha, a 9-year-old child, his killing sprees, his massacre and the genocide of the Jews, his slave making and trading, his assassination of his opponents, his raids and lootings of the merchant caravans and unarmed villagers, his burning of trees, his destroying the water wells, his cursing and invoking evil on his enemies, his revenge on his captured prisoners of war, his torturing of his captives to for greed and his hallucinations such as believing of having sex with his wives when he actually did not, disqualify him as a sane person let alone a messenger of God.\n\nb) An unbiased study of the Quran shows that far from being a “miracle”, that book is a hoax. The Quran is replete with scientific heresies, historic blunders, mathematical mistakes, logical absurdities, grammatical errors and ethical fallacies. Could possibly the author of this Universe be as ignorant as it appears to be in the Quran?
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As I understand it islam states that the 'infidel' shall meet their fate at the hands of allah after death. The encouragement of violence towards them is a relatively recent thing created by extremist elements who have broken away from true islam. If islam is correct, then it is these extremists who will be judged most harshly by their god for choosing not to disbelieve, but to change the teachings of the koran to suit their own twisted desires.
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It may be possible that some religious people don't research Islam because they're afraid they'll see the violence within their own religion.  Judaism and Christianity are two common religions that are filled with violence.  While Christianity softens it with Jesus, the Holy Bible is still a violent religious text.\n\nIt's easier to pretend your religion is about peace when you can call someone else's barbaric.\n\nEdit:  As pointed out, it is easier to remember the evil than the good.  Islam is a great example of this, as people rarely talk about the peaceful adherents.  Likewise, it's easier to remember the Christian who beats up a homosexual or bombs an abortion clinic than the Christian who is peaceful.
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THE ISLAMIC EXTREMEST, AND IT IS DONE UNDER THE ISLAMIC JIHAD BUT ISLAM BELIEFS DO NOT INCLUDE VIOLENCE. THESE ARE ALL EXTREMEST THAT TAKE THERE RELIGION AND TWIST IT TO MEET THERE DESIRES.
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Yes Islamic conflicts are on the rise but if you see word history, conflicts have always been there only the reason keeps changing. Its more to do with human mind that seek conquering others rather than co haboting with it. If you drop your hatred and think, you too are no different than islamic violence! If u hate an 'apple' with equal intensity as a person who loves an 'apple' your relation is as strong
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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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Here, we see a truthful person of Islam. No pretensions, undoubtly real and is a true human being. \n\nMy friend there is nothing wrong with you. You know what makes you suffer is the f***ing tradition and a derailed belief. We cannot solve the problem for you but we do understand you. If you understand what spirituality can do, why not explore on this aspect since it is a solid factor in terms of controlling such human weakness but if it is really difficult for you then follow your heart just as long as you don't go beyong the line. You know what I mean?
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yes, I totally agree 100%.. I am muslim and it seems the west just doesnt even care one twit about teaching the facts about it.. We are all blood thirsty terrorists to them.. They never realize that its not the religion to blame, its twisted fanatics who interpret the faith wrong to blame, which there are fanatics everywhere in all faiths.. 99.999% of muslims fear terrorism like the rest of the world.
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the abuse is  being from the following aspects :\n\n1- muslims never had the drawing of thier prophet mohmmad peace be upon him approved or accepted  by all mean , since we were in kindergarten they taught us about him , about how did he struggled to awake  the mankind by teaching them the REAL islam , the religion of peace and love ,which nobody knows about it today , you only know the damaged version , the tortured-image version , so they never told us this is his picture , we didn't wish to see his face as much as we wished to be capable of applying all things he ordered us to do and follow , that's why we feel insulted when they draw him , and what a draw ! oh please ! did you see those cartoon , please? now if you don't like the way our faith  and religion is , please don't bother yourself with it , buddhist or hindus can worship a cow , we don't like somebody to draw our prophet , any problem?\n\n2- again , if it was just a nice picture for a sweet man who looks gentle , maybe some muslims around the world  would appreciate that ! they may say now we can imagine a good picture for our prophet and we may feel we are closer to him , but what happened is all far from this , they depicted him in the worst picture a muslim can posess : \n\n      a - some muslims knows nothing about islam , they don't really follow the right islam , they bomb others and kills innocent without being in a legal war , now , when those danish draw our prophet wearing a bomb on his head , and moreover written on it the sentence that 1.300.000.000 muslims say each day in each pray in 5 prayers ( la elaha ella allah ( no true god but allah ) mohammad rasolo allah ( mohammad is the messenger of allah) ,  for god sake what reaction are you waiting for ? he was blaming his fellows if they kill an insect or an animal without a purpose ! this is the real islam how dare they put a bomb above his head , peace be upon him .\n\n      \n     b- " We ran out of virgins " , what a cartoon!!!! you won't even allow me to depict your father doing that  , or even your bf , then how can i keep silent when the one i believe he is the best man of humanity is being depicted like that ? our prophet had 12 wives , yes , but please did the one who drew the cartoon read islam histroy before doing that? did he know where did each wife of them came from? did he know that we call them  -his wives- :" mothers of believers " , and all muslim women try to follow them in the fabulous way  they lived , can't I say : objection please , this is very offensive !! \n\n    c- a man with a beard and a knife in his hand ,,,  and 2  women behind him with the dress more than 30.000.000 million women in the islamic world usually wear it ( included iran and saudi arabia ) ( i.e : vail and long black dress and only eyes appear) , please  , what kind of freedom was that ? what kind of human those who are going to accept it? \n\nthat was a description of 3 out of 12 cartoon , how was that? convinsing?\n\nnow , continueing my points : \n\n3- the world care so much about the human rights , right ? human rights knows no time or specific place to be applied at , let's ask those who don't believe in our prophet mohammad peace be upon him and they made cartoon about him : doesn't he has human rights like all others? if some people who claim to follow him did bad things to you , what's his fault ? a simple example : if a man killed your father , what is his son guilty for? \n\nand  imagine , after all what i have just said  , good muslims around the world  have condemned burning embassies and killing or destroying anything because it's anti-islamic behaviour , they  called only for boycott , the simplest right,\n\n so now who owe the other one an apology and who's the real guilty?
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That is two questions? Some politicans have in fact got away with murder and other high crimes because they had the money to hire an excellent defense team.  This is a big flaw in our system - that is still not a bad system.  Like the other person said, not all Muslims are violent.  Islam is their religion and like from the Bible certain fanatics can misconstrue meanings to incite violence.  Like some pro-lifers.   How can you justify bombing buildings and killing medical and admin staff if you are pro-life?  It is really easy to brainwash large groups of people when they are uneducated or mentaly handicapped.
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I do not think so.....God or Allah does NOT want us to kill one another, he wants us to find a way to live in peace along side each other........and for the life of me I cannot figure out why humans make that so hard. every day in the US we do it!!!!!!!!! I hate no one, and if I did....it would be becuase of how that person treated me, it would NOT be because of that persons skin color or his religion!!!!!!!!!!!
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"It is a certain fact that not all Muslims are terrorists, but it is equally certain, and exceptionally painful, that almost all terrorists are Muslims." Abdelrahman al-Rashid, columnist for al-Sharq al-Awsat, Saudi Arabia.\n\nI don't think we in the west consider all of the Islamic Ummah to be a threat. For instance, the Muslims of Bosnia tend to be even somewhat fond of us, since it was western countries that liberated the Kosovars and others, and kept the peace. And the west has had good relations with Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Jordan.\n\nBut there certainly is a strong militant movement within Islam, and I think we are correct to see in this a threat. Even if there are only a few hundred thousand muslims in the world who think that flying planes into buildings is a noble act, or that the guys who blew up subways with backpacks were heroes, that's still a few hundred thousand people who are willing to use violence to harm us.\n\nWe would be foolish to ignore that threat, sadly.