why they think that islam is cruel religion?
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I like how the islamic people who answered the question keep saying, "don't listen to people who say bad things about us."\n\nI don't believe islam is, in and of itself, a bad religion. I just think the fringe in this religion is more tenacious than the fringes of other religions. There are christian psychos but they're not blowing themselves up in Saudi Arabia or the UAE. There are jewish fanatics but they're not blowing up christian churches.\n\nI think the stigma towards islam is, and muslims cannot deny this, if you look at almost every major violent conflict in the world, islam is somehow involved: india v. pakistan, israel v. palestine, russia v. chechnya, bosnia v. serbia, east timor, philipines, etc. etc.\n\nSometimes the muslims are the victims but often they are the aggressors. From an outsiders perspective, though muslims are peaceful, they do not seem too tolerant of others views.
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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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because people are ignorant and believe everything they see in the news. ISLAM is not responsible for the terrorists. Islam represents Peace. There are people who call themselves Christian, but still do horrible things like murder people, etc. Every religion has its bad apples, and it should not just be limited to Islam.
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Each one's religion is beautiful to him...\n\nGod has delivered Truth to people as per their mental evolution\n\nAnyone who thinks, only his religion has the ultimate Truth is ignorant.\n\nTell others about Good things of Islam and try to learn/understand others Truth too.
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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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Those people are utter scum. Islam is full of it. Notice how every time someone says that Islam is the religion of violence, they protest with violence and shout for beheadings - for been called violent. Now we'll be both labeled as ignorant because we don't bend over for Islam.\n\nThe fact that people can thumbs down you is disturbing. I'd give you thumbs up if I weren't a mere Level 1 user.\n\nNow the Extremely Annoyed Kitty
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I completely agree with Nick and Mark.  When they say Islam is a wicked and vicious faith they are 100% right.  Islam is a violent medievil faith that needs to be kicked out of the West for good!\n\nGood luck Nick and Mark!\n\nVote BNP! www.bnp.org.uk
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Its like saying all men are rapists.  All men want to dominate and hurt women.  All women are whores.  You just can't generalise like that.\n\nAnd actually not all terrorists are Islamic, there are more than enough terrorists destroying lives in Africa and South America and Ireland to mention a few places.  And these are predominantly christian lands.\n\nDon't be so prejudiced against people, because there are some nice Moslem people out there who are horrified by what the extremists are doing in the name of their faith.  It must be scary times for those who are peaceful to see themselves grouped together with the mass murderers and are subjected to force of ill-will from non-moslems who feel it is their right to punish moslems.\n\nIf a priest abuses a boy, we don't lynch mob all priests, we understand that he is a bad seed.  Similarly we aught not to categorise all moslems as the same.
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it is rather disgusting and I believe that it goes to show that Islam is a religon of evil and should be outlawed.\nAnything that spews hatred should be outlawed. Its not communism in any way. As murder and segregation is outlawed because its obviously acts of hatred; so should Islam.
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I feel your pain.  Islam is a religion of peace and they make you out to look like terrorists. Its sick and wrong.  I have many Muslim friends.  \n\nChristians do this to everyone who is not Christian.  For example, Wiccans and other Pagan groups are just now starting to get their rights in the US.  But it is a long hard road ahead because so many people think we are Satanists will corrupt their youth.  \n\nWhenever I see people posting falsehoods about any religion, I correct them.  I don't claim to be an expert on Islam, but I do know that it is a religion that promotes peaceful lifestyle and devotion to Allah.  \n\nGood Luck!
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They want what any type of extermist would want.  i.e. they are extreme in their beliefs.  When a person becomes extreme their judgment is clouded.  And when a persons judgement is clouded they start having delusions such as "everyone should convert" etc.\n\nBut remember extremists of any nature are dangerous, including extremist chirstians, extremist jews etc.  The press just don't give them as much coverage because it's "fashionable" to analyse muslims at the moment.\n\nI'm a muslim & proud of it.  But I would never try to force my beliefs on anyone because one of the basic principles of Islam is "their is no compulsion in religion" and this is stated clearly in the Quran.
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Anonymous is so right!!! Islam is a great religion and a way of life. People always think Muslims will bomb something or want to rage a jihad against someone. It's not like that. People like that are extremists!!!!!! Everyday Muslims like me are just like any other people. The only thing that separates me from other teens is my religion. Not every Muslim wants to kill and blow up buildings. I am a Muslim who wants to be happy. I want peace, I want to go to college and become a doctor! I want to leave the US and move to England. I want to be happy among Muslims and non Muslims. So don't judge Muslims, not all of us are cold blooded extremists. And why do people pick on Muslims when people of the Christian religion and the Jewish religion and other religions do dirty things too. People just look for some group of people to pick on. It's not fair.
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I think your the insecure one. \nYour so worried that other people may become muslims after hearing about the religion that you have took it upon your self to spread lies and insite hatred.  If you think Islam is that bad then why you worried surely anyone who looks into it, reads the quran and learns about the life and teachings of the prophet muhammed peace and blessings of God be upon him will run miles from it, but clearly this is not happening.  \n\nIslam the fasting growing religion on the planet!\n\nGod bless you and guide you onto the straight path. amen!
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Islam, as recent events over a simple comic strip have shown, is a violent, hateful religion that should be wiped-off the face of the earth. It should only be found in museums showing future generations how backwards and ignorant some humans used to be.
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coz people do not know the difference between Islam and Muslims ... islam is for sure a good religion, and if there is a bad muslim this dosn't mean that Islam is bad or all muslims are bad
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I think that the Islam that states that Christians are Brothers to the Muslims is a beautiful and wonderous thing, I think too that those who think that all Muslims are evil because certain radical fanaticists kill people should look back through history to the time of the crusades where Christianity perpetrated FAR worse crimes against humanity. Including but not limited to the torture and slaughter of thousands of innocent women and children.
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The cartoons were not unfair, just silly, in poor taste, and wrong. What was unfair was implying that all Muslim’s are violent extremists and that their religion is based/founded on violence.\n\nIt is also unfair to imply that all Westerner's are anti-Muslim by attacking and destroying their property.\n\nIt is extremely unfair for a child to die using poor taste, silly cartoons as an excuse.