Isn't Islam a victim of media misinterpretation?
409680
islam is perfect muslims aren't \n\nand yes it is a victim but because of (some) muslims who don't know real islam
105446
Unfortunately, western media is not against muslims.  They condone the muslim terrorists after they destroy things, burn people alive, and murder babies.  No, western governments cannot do legally do anything to the media, but the middle-eastern governments can do something about it.  They can crack down on the terrorists.  All the good muslims need to stop allowing these terrorists to do their acts of evil, and then there won't be any reason for us to dislike them.
342013
I suspect not ... ask Salman Rushdie !\n\nRight or wrong the fall-out from even a small slight on Islam would be massive ... it appears that the Islamic religion is unable to accept any level of parody.  I am not making a racist point here just reminding folks over the furor over a few cartoons.\n\nPeace Out.
705106
I know a lot about Islam , but still miss a lot.\nOne thing I know for sure is that what we see everyday in the media could be anything other than "true" Islam, people who went to Muslim and Arab countries know that very well. \n\nI sometimes wonder what the media makers think we are? Some idiots!\nNow the end results is a complete mess of misunderstanding between tow ends (Islam and the west) with a daily hatered increasing between both sides...\n\nMy advice to you is that if you want to speak English , you cannot possibly learn it from Spanish!!\n\nIf you want to learn about Islam -to at least be able to judge things by your own mind -  you better go and ask moderate Muslims about it , or do search from Islamic reliable resources , believe me you will be astonished how media can fool!!!
283864
Dear Readers,\n\nTo start off with it is definetly incorrect and inhumane to judge any individual in accordance to a particular religion regardless of his identity i.e. his name may indicate he is a muslim or he himself may be stating that he is a muslim. Its just like, you have to assess the two or more entities before you reach a conclusion. \n\nTherefore, people! before judging what Islam is and the way it is being portrayed in this world throughout via these so called "jihadists or extremists" is ofcourse not the actual image that Islam shows and hence, whoever blames Islam for the actions should first investigate what Islam actually is rather then jumping off to ridiculous conclusions!!!\n\nIslam on the other hand, is a religion of peace and stability that focuses on a total submission to God and his messengers whose guidings would lead us to the straight path should we follow them and not only that, It encourages respect and dignity to other people who believe in different religions, Islam also encourages keeping good relations with family, friends and other beings around one muslim therefore how can someone claim to be a jihadist while he bombs innocent civilians and kill them. I would encourage readers to read more about islam, the holy book of quran and about messengers.\n\nComing in regards to Osama Bin Laden, I personally believe its a make up by the US Government by which they themselves fund em and start em off whereafter when they the US see that the group have been self established and are creating much known violence and supposing to "threat" the US - they then start attacking them and doing things we have seen in Afganistan and Iraq. Basically all this is a fuss created by US and the zionists and nothing else! - To sum up, Bin Laden does NOT represent Islam in any possible way instead he is a mentally retard who doesnt know what he is upto [if he ever existed that is!]\n\nAlthough i have to say the american people and the israel civilians are just as human as anybody who believe in peace and security. Its just the high level govermental personnel who are creating problems due to their power hunger and world domination.\n\nGod Save Us All!\n\nPeace!
507908
Osama IS NOT the leader of Islam he is a radical terrorist who uses and manipulates the teaching of the Quran to promote his own political agenda. Islam preaches peace and submission. I was raised Cristian and and Converted. I was very ignorant before I picked up a Quran myself and read it. Please do not fall into the trap of believing only what you hear and see from the Media. I have many reason to back everything up and if you want a personal discussion about this I would love to IM.
126156
The word 'cartoon' is irrelevant in this whole story - it is not the way Mohammed was depicted, but the very fact that he was depicted at all which causes offence to Muslims. There is no easy secular or Christian analogy.\n\nMy own opinion is that any newspaper aimed at a mass or general market should attempt to be sensitive to as many views as possible. Let those who wish to exercise press freedom as an end in itself, simply because they can, be happy with pamphleteering until they can appreciate that with freedom comes responsibility.
666750
Well, there is a lot to be blamed on the stupid terroists and the media. The terroists have potrayed the Islam in such a bad  light and with the less intelligence of the Westerners, it has always picked up the wrong ideas. So, they think that whatever is done by these terroists was advised by the Prophet Himself. Which is actually far from the truth! The prophet was a divine soul, not his followers. Similarly, Jesus was a divine soul not necessarily His followers are. They are ignorant and refuse to accept the power of faith and belief. The least you can do is forgive them for their arrogance and ignorance. Remember Prophet won wars without spilling a single drop of blood. Thats the ideal you have to follow. The hate would go as it has come. Dun worry about it. You cannot do anything about it. But take care to refrain from any comments demeaning others and other religions ! Slowly people would understand you and your faith.
867801
While you make a good point about the Muslim leaders not denouncing the beheadings and terrorist attacks, the events that took place at Abu-Grab were an absoulte disgrace and are inexcusable. Defending the people who took place in those incidents is also inexcusible. I do argee with you though that the Muslim leaders are cowards for not standing up to the barbarians in their religion.
125930
The only way that they could find him guilty of it is that they have a law against it.  They could not possibly found him guilty and fined him if it were not against the law.  They side with the newspapers for the sake of freedom of speech, which is also a law throughout most of the Western World.  The fact that Europe has laws in many countries against speaking out and denying the Holocost is because they had concentration camps in their countries and many of their citizens were either killed or worked there.  These laws are on the books in these countries out of respect for what has happened in History.  This is not a difference of Muslim and Jew, these are two completely different things.  The Muslim belief that the Holocost is a myth is unfounded, however that is the way you feel.  It just happens to be against the law to talk that way about it publicly in some countries.  The cartoons that has enraged the Muslim world were not meant to be religious cartoons but political statements, it happens that they were in bad taste because Muslims are not wanting to look beyond the insult of their Prophet's Image being used.  That is a problem when you are dealing across different cultures.  In hindsight I am sure all involved with these cartoon's wish they had never happened and most will not allow that to happen again, however in our culture we allow for these kind of things when dealing with freedom of the press and speech.
755435
I think you are correct, although Its not PC to say so, since they are a minority almost everywhere in the world, and its not PC to say anything bad about minorities ( unless it happens to be a white Judao/christian minority) \nEDIT: If Islam is not a religion of violence, why is every single conflict today about Muslims trying to make others live by their rules, or about Muslims trying to force Islam on others.
652402
The Islamic civilization is under suspicion and being accused, because a very few members of the Islamic religion is trying to obliterate countries that do not agree with them, which is most of the world.  I know that this is a very few members of Islam, not all of them.
102351
No, Islam is not ruling the world.  (If it were, there would be a lot less unrest, mosque bombings, corpse burnings, etc).  That is something that the paranoid among the "dumbed-down" US citizenry fear, just because Muslims are out-spoken and are willing to live and die for what they believe, regardless of american threats, sanctions, etc.\n\nThey say it's a "free country".  Plenty of people criticize Islam, without fear.  Just because some fool in another country decides to print an ugly comic negatively depicting Prophet Muhammad does not mean that people can not intelligently (and that is the key word here) criticize the faith.\n\nJust would be nice if, when it is done, the person criticizing would study up on it before spouting emotional half-truths.\n\nLM
779180
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.
695814
[insert 'you don't understand Islam' argument here]
251955
At first when I read your question, I thought, "Wow, this person is dissing Islam openly."  Now that I read it again, I'm thinking "Oh! This person wants to make a point! Islam isn't violent!"  I had planned to tell you off about Islam not being violent and everyone that believes that is mistaken, but now, I think you know that Islam isn't violent.  So I'm not gonna tell you off, I'm just going to say, "Everyone that thinks Islam is violent, is wrong.  If you look deep enough, you know that."  You're just trying to prove that if Islam was so bad, people wouldn't be converting to it. Bravo to you.
857789
Of course. This has always been the case.\n\nReligions are very good at manipulating the masses. As long as you cater to the people's beliefs, you can make them do just about anything you want. Hence, things Islamic terrorism and the Christian crusades.\n\nA lot of the people in the US who think they are religious are mostly just fooling themselves. Why? Because they're okay with the idea of killing thousands of Iraqi's while at the same time opposing abortion. Because they're okay with torture and extrordinary rendition.\n\nThe New Testament does not contain a passage that says, "Thou shalt not kill, unless thine enemy is believed to possesth Weapons Of Mass Destruction". Nor is there a passage that says, "If thine enemey be a terrorist, thou shalt torture thine enemy. If thy countrymen opposeth thy torture, then thou shalt move thine terrorist to a foriegn country and tortureth mightily".\n\nThe new testament teaches about forgiveness and turning the other cheek. It teaches about loving thy enemy and tolerance. In other words, it teaches exactly opposite of what most religious people seem to believe.\n\nReligion has always been a tool of th powerful.\n\nI say that all these people should just stop pretending and modify their religion to support these double standards, instead of trying to justify their actions by forcing special interpretations of a 2000 year old book about invisible sky wizards. The new religion should be called something like "The American Testament: My God Will Kick Your A$$". Book I could be the Book of Bush which details the story of the Prophet Rumsfeld and the trials and tribulations of an oil farmer named Cheney.\n\n~X~