islam is agnst terrorism,n whoever opposes it are not muslims,then why do people call it,islamic terrorism?
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that is not a true statement.\nMost of the Muslim clerics are total terrorists.\nthey come out and say any non Muslim should be killed.\nlook at the news.\nhttp://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/03/23/afghan.christian.ap/\nthe Muslim guy who switched to Christianity.  and the clerics want him dead.\n\nthe cartoon that was run.  the clerics called for him to be killed.\n\nwe really should just nuke the area. They are all evil.  and saten truly lives in their hearts.\nI truly believe bin laden is saten on earth.  here to bring the end of the earth.\n\nthank god for the U.S.  We really are the only ones that can save us.  Once we kill bin laden, saten will be released.  hopfully into someone without bin laden's power.\n\n---------------\nHAHAHA\nzun-noon - you crack me up...\nyou obviously know nothing about islam.\nWhen the big tsunami hit.  the muslim goverments could not give money.  because it could help out non-muslim.  yes that is true "respect humanity and life".\nalso, women have no rights  in their world.  good to see their "respect humanity and life" their.\ntheir religion also says a man can beat his wife.  oh yea their "respect humanity and life" there.\n\nYOU ARE AN IDIOT!\nand know othing about islam.
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I dont think any religion widely accepted by rational people is or can be.  By definition terrorism is to instill terror in ones enemies.  Most religions I know of want us to accept our neighbors not terrorize them
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Tell ya what, you tell your "brothers" to stop the suicide bombings, then we can talk.  Are you REALLY that ignorant!?  Not all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims.
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why do u think that the muslims are the only people who are creating terrorism... destroying something is too easy than making it.... and destroying countries and societies is called terrorism... which is too easy for anybody!... on the other hand creating peace is difficult but somebody has to step forward to stop terrorism... so usa is the first to come up front for this gr8 effort!...if we keep it up, i think all the islamic countries will help keeping the world safe & clean from terrorism too!
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Did you really just say that terrorism doesn't exist? I don't know how to respond to that except to say you are deluding yourself. It most certainly does exist. WAKE UP! Not all Muslims are terrorists, but most terrorists are Muslims. This is why we are suspicious of any Muslims or even just Arab-looking people.
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Pretty hard to seperate being muslim from terrorism. It is a common denominator.
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Finally someone who gets my point of view. \n\nWhen Muslim terrorist attack, the rest of the Muslim world can't just say quietly "Islam means peace." \n\nKillers and Murders are dragging the meaning of their faith through the mud and they do nothing about it, to me that makes them just as guilty.\n\nMuslims blame the media for making it seem like all Muslims are terrorist, it's not the media's fault since Muslims aren't doing anything to show that is not true. Since Muslims don't do enough to stop these actions.
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islam is not only against the west, but against the east, north, south and middle, anyone who is not-islamic is subject to war by islam, 9/11 is simply one of thousands of muslim terror attacks that occur on a world wide basis.\nWhen islam began is when this war began 1400 years ago, long before the usa ever exsisted. \nas for your hint, islam did 9/11 and islam is attacking all the non-islamic people. \nAnd as for all those "peacefull" muslims.. well they simply do NOTHING to stop what is going on.
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Islam is a religion, like Christianity and Judaism.  All the followers of Islam are called muslims.  Islam has several sects, just like Christianity which has Catholics, Baptists, Methodists, etc.  Sunnis and Shi'ites are two of the sects of Islam.  Sunnis are the great majority of all muslims.  Shi'ites are in a minority everywhere except Iran.\n\nAfghans are people who are citizens of Afghanistan, a country.  Just like Americans are citizens of the United States of America.\n\nInsurgents are terrorists/rebels who are trying to overthrow the popularly elected government in Iraq.
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Terrorism is both an ideology and a tactic.  Their goals are wanting change.  It depends on what terrorist organization you are talking about.  Most in South America their goals were to overthrow the current government.  And terrorism was their tactic, guerilla warfare.  In the Middle East it is more of an ideology, they are claiming their religion wants them to do this, hence they call it a Jihad.  But it is also a tactic because they use terrorism to try and achieve their goals, which is to get rid of all infidels, which are us, non-Muslims.
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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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"Islamic terrorism is inspired by Islamic teachings. We can never get rid of Islamic terrorism unless we defeat the ideology behind it and that is Islam itself. Islam induces hate backed by lies. Muhammad was a terrorist by his own admission. All Muslims, to the extent that they follow him, are terrorists. Those Muslims who are not terrorists are ignorant of Islam. Fortunately they are the majority. We need to rescue them. If you are a good human being, you are not a Muslim. Read this site http://www.faithfreedom.org and if you can't prove me wrong, leave this deceitful cult of hate and terror and join mankind. Don't be part of the Umma. Umma is fascism. It is divisive. It induces the hatred of others. Be part of humanity instead. Your ignorance is not an excuse. Pull your head out of the sand and face the truth, like we did. \n\nFaith Freedom International is a grassroots worldwide movement of ex-Muslims and all those who are concerned about the rise of the Islamic threat. We want to bring humanity together, not by introducing yet another doctrine, which always ends up dividing mankind more, but by eliminating the doctrines that divide us. We want to abolish this evil 'Muslim vs. Kafir" dichotomy. Mankind is one family. Don't let narcissist men like Hitler and Muhammad sunder us with their big lies. Don't become the victim of the "divide and rule" policy of a psychopath. \n\nFaith Freedom stands for freedom of faith. We are against Hate, not Faith. We revere human rights not human beliefs. We endeavor to be factually correct, not politically correct. \n\nDo your part! Let this message out. Let us eradicate Islam and bring mankind together - the way God intended. Islam is the cancer of humanity. We can get rid of it. There is nothing we humans can't do. Mountains move aside to make way for those who are determined." - Ali Sina
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I agree that it "Islamic Terrorism" is a misnomer since the terrorists are motivated on the basis of political considerations rather than purely religious ones. Also, you are right to point out that when Christians commit hate crimes, they are not labeled "Christian Terrorists" but instead are looked upon as a single freak outlaw or as political activists. I also agree that Americans are largely ignorant of the beliefs and practices of the average Muslim and are therefore very easily convinced that Islam is a violent religion when the truth is that all the monotheistic religions are capable of inciting violence in their believers. However, I think you are wrong to blame this on the so-called brain-washing of "Jews who have tremendous hold over the mdeia - electronic and print - in the U.S." This comment shows that you are just as prone to believe in stereotypes, thereby misinterpreting and overstating the influence of Jews, as Americans, or for that matter, the people of any other nation are.\n\nA closed-minded xenophobe is a closed-minded xenophobe, and politically-motivated paranoia is politically-motivated paranoia. Your efforts to shift the blame wrongly placed on the Muslims to the Jews is transparent and unfair. No nation, no religion, no people has a monopoly on innocence and goodness, nor on evil and self-serving hypocrisy, for that matter.
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You probably mean Islam, which is NOT the root of all terrorism. Haven't you ever heard of radical Christians blowing up abortion clinics in the name of jesus? Or the bloody fighting in Ireland?  \n\nThere are terrorists of every religion. No religion has any exclusive lock on being a terrorist, and the root of terrorism is ignorance and fanaticism\n\nToo many people know too little about Islam, and form their beliefs about it and its followers based solely on what the evening news wants you to think.
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If Islam wants to be understood as the religion it purports itself to be, then it must make every effort to distance itself from terrorists like Bin Laden.  They have to start proving themselves with actions, instead of saying publically that they abhor violence, then privately not only approving of it, but, in many cases, funding it.
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Terrorism is a wide concept that has been used throughout the ages, by the powerful to oppress the weak. It has absolutely nothing to do with Islam. In fact, I believe most of the writings in the Qu'ran are similar in one way or another to Christianity and Judaism, and I'm a Catholic myself. Here's the definition of terrorism from Encyclopedia Britannica:\n\n" The systematic use of violence to create a general climate of fear in a population and thereby to bring about a particular political objective. Terrorism has been practiced by political organizations with both rightist and leftist objectives, by nationalistic and religious groups, by revolutionaries, and even by state institutions such as armies, intelligence services, and police."\n\nA good example of an authority or state using terror to achieve "victory" (just like that fake Muhammad quote you posted) is France after the revolution in 1789, Robespierre executed hundreds of possible political enemies and innocent people, thus inflicting  fear in the population. Another good example of a state promoting terrorism is the United States of America. Want examples? The A-bombs in Japan, the use of Agent Orange in Vietnam, the funding of anti-soviet guerrilla groups in Afghanistan (Osama Bin Laden was in one of those groups), the funding of the Contra guerrilla in Nicaragua, the sales of weapons to IRAN during the 80's which eventually led to the Iran-Contra Scandal, the funding of anti-goverment and terrorist groups inside Saddam's Iraq during the 90's.
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Muslims are offended when they perform terrorist acts and then are branded as terrorists, as you note.  The reason they are offended is that they underrate the average person's intelligence.\n\nThey will not disapprove of terrorism, because they regard it as their most effective e&#92;weapon in Islamizing the entire world.