If radical Islam preaches to kill all infidels, why didnt they try to destroy us 100 years ago?
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Because Islam does not preach the killing of infidels. You can see many ancient communities still living in Muslim societies like the Jews and Zoroastrians of Iran, the Coptics of Egypt, and the aboriginals of Malaysia.\n\nThe "sudden" hate towards US is not specifically by the Muslims, in fact Americans don't know that most of the world aren't fond of America. This is because of it's forcefulness towards other nations by implimenting forced democracy and its very bad foreign policy. It's media are also to be blamed as they say that America is the best country in the world and that made Americans think that they are the only important thing in this world.\n\nAfricans are getting thinner and dying, while Americans are getting fat and partying. Distribute and share your wealth! You're like the millionaire in a very very very poor village. Do you think the village will respect you?
964359
No, we don't desecrate out holy buildings in such a fashion and leave them open to infidel attack. We instead build fake mosques to store the weapons, this is a legitimate military technique known as camouflage.
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All extremists???? Definitely no. JIHAD is a "Holy War" they had launched. It won't stop. It's too inappropriate to say, but it is the same thing as "Hatred". It may even go on for generation. . . The only means to stop this is for the whole Islamic Community all over the world of moderate ideas to unite and SEND A STRONG MESSAGE and convince their extremists brothers that US has genuine intentions for the good of people in Iraq. They will listen to them because they have high regards to their elders. They will never listen to the others and to the bullets, rockets, missiles, etc.. (you name it). These extremists are very much willing to die for their belief.
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Radical Islam is today the biggest threat to world peace.  First they intend to deal with the Saturday people, and then with the Sunday people.\n\nThe criticisms of the Jews in the Qur’an resulted in the persecution of  Jews in Muslim lands--often slavery, deportation, land expropriation,  and massacres, resulting from the permanent, uniquely Islamic institutions of jihad and dhimmitude.  They had to wear on their clothes the image of an ape. Specifically, the 9th century Tunisian Qadi, Ahmed b. Talib compelled the dhimmi Jews to wear upon their shoulder a patch of white cloth (riqa') that bore the image of an ape, [the Christians were required to wear the image of a pig], and to nail onto their doors a board bearing the sign of a monkey. Apes are mentioned in Judaic texts, but zoomorphic signs were never imposed in the Jewish kingdoms, as was done for Jews and Christians in Islamic lands. Hence the actual implementation of such discriminatory zoomorphic badges is particular to Islam, and the reasons for this must be examined independently, and honestly, without any reference to Judaism.  \n\nJihadists today invoke the Qur’an to justify the worst terrorist crimes. Throat slitting of infidels is mentioned in the Qur’an. Al-Mawardi (d. 1058), the prominent 11th century jurist quoted this verse, specifically,  « When you encounter those who deny (the Truth) then strike (their) necks. » (Qur’an 47 :4), in his learned discussion of jihad. This ritual execution is also mentioned in other Muslim legal texts and in narratives of Christian and prominent Muslim historians. Today it is performed against infidels and recorded on videotape for the edification of Muslim audiences. \n\nWhen the average pious Muslim reads a verse like 2:132 (“And this was the legacy that Abraham left to his sons, and so did Jacob; ‘Oh my sons! Allah hath chosen the Faith for you; then die not except in the Faith of Islam’”) or 3:67 (“Abraham was not a Jew nor yet a Christian; but he was true in Faith, and bowed his will to Allah’ (which is Islam), and he joined not gods with Allah”), he understands what so many imams tell him: that the true Jews and Christians of today are the Muslims, and the people who go by those names are renegades and rebels against God. \n\nThis is of course nonsense.\n\nThis argument does not rest on any idea that Abraham or Moses observed specifically Islamic rituals, but on the idea that they were prophets of the True Faith which was restored by Mohammed after it was corrupted by Jews and Christians.\n\nThis is of course nonsense.
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Theres a little book out there thats a biography of al-Zawahiri, Osamas right hand man, written by an ex-militant islamist (who now prefers peaceful methods) Montasser Al-Zayyat who was imprisoned with Dr Zawahiri. In it he talks about the formation of Al Queda and other Islamist movements and talks about how generally, militant islamists aim to take over Muslim governments who they percieve as having a different view of islam, such as the Egyptian government or the Turkish, also of course to destroy Israel as a seconday goal. However al Qaeda is different, its the only one to openly attack America, and no-one seems completely sure why the change from the 'near enemy' to the 'far enemy' as Osama refers to us. So I cant give you a real answer as to their aims, but it might give you something to think about...
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And don't forget that we allow women to drive cars, hold jobs, and even advise the President of the United States. Clearly we are the Great Satan and should all be killed. Oh, and our worst sin, we don't kill Jews on sight.\n\nThat's why Muslims danced in the streets on 9/11.\n\nMuslims everywhere, including on this website, repeatedly call for our destruction and say they are at war with us. \n\nGood, let's take them at their word and fight an all out war with the entire Muslim world using every weapon at our disposal, starting with our nuclear arsenal. Last I heard we have enough weapons to kill everyone on Earth five times over. The Muslims shouldn't be difficult to take care of.
707662
from what i see on the news, Islam, because they want to kill all the jews and convert everyone to islam, and if they don't convert they die, pretty violent huh?
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Because after 9/11, we needed someone to blame. We had to have a scapegoat, and the government and media gave us one: Islam. We did the exact same thing with Japan during WWII. Hitler did this as well with the Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, etc. (note: I am NOT comparing America to Nazi Germany, I am merely pointing this out as an isolated fact). It's just human nature; we believe that everything has a cause, whether it be good or bad. And to us, the cause of 9/11 is Islam. Of course, discriminating against anything with a turban and a Qu'ran is a very unfortunate effect of this, but it's something we do as a species.
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It is good to know that Mohammed had slaves. The american muslims think only jews or whites were slavemasters.\nIt is better to look in Christianity for your faith. Islam is a violent religion. The run by what psychologists call the\n"pack mentality". The attack kill, rape, and convert to their religion by force. It is not the 7th century as when they founded their religion. But they continue doing war to everyone not thinking like them to this day.\n\nWell said Rickanne5!!
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no it was christians who had crusades who killed indiscrimitaly and took their land who really started with terroism. the cathlic church burning and torturing people to convert have killed more people than any muslim nation. I am cathlic so I know our history.
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Don't forget by the time this statement was told, there was a war between muslims and jews and that statement was probably needed to encourage muslism to fight. Now with new trend of Islam (promoted by aplogists), no more war and therefore no need for such a statement.
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these extremist are the mainstream muslims,ghastly murder is the duty of all muslims.all infidells will be killed or converted.all jews will be exterminated.only then can there be peace on earth...all men will bow towards meccia 5 times per day and chant a prayer that will brainwash this person in time...all women will be property,life liberty,and happieness are at the descresion of their husbands...or we could bring the fight for freedom to the extremist,nuke damaskis,beirut,theran...kill 50 million muslims,we will no longer hear of islamic world domination
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the tradition of muslims killing muslims is as old as islam itself
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In their fight to create the nation of Israel zionists participated in actions against Great Britain that were they to happen today would have been considered terrorism.  The same could be said of the American Revolutionary War, the French Revolution and the Civil War.  \n\nI realize that doesn't strictly answer your question.    Here is a reference that should be useful:\nHonor and Martyrdom: Suicide Bombing Isn't as New or Alien as Westerners Imagine\n"The rate of suicide bombings - the seemingly endless supply of people prepared to blow themselves up - leaves a western audience utterly bewildered. What kind of psychology motivates people to such violent extremes? The incomprehension prompts revulsion that this form of warfare is historically unprecedented and reveals a peculiar, aberrant irrationality - a kind of inhuman madness. All too quickly, Islam is blamed for deluding its believers into martyrdom with promises of 72 virgins; the old prejudices about Islam as a faith uniquely associated with violence and unquestioning belief are fanned into life again.\n\nBut such prejudices won't get us very far in trying to unpick which elements of this violent phenomenon are in fact unprecedented and which are not - or to understand why the strategy has been adopted."
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No Islam isn't a religion that preaches AND teaches terrorism, it teaches and preaches peace and respect towards others. No religion would say to it's followers if you are being killed in your homes bow your heads and hand a weapon to the killer...\n\nIn the time of the Prophet Mohammad (Peace be Upon Him) prisoners of war were NOT to be killed... they were to be realesed under one condition... guess what that was? teach 10 muslims to read then they were set free...\n\nI could go on and on from my standpoint on this... what i suggest is you read SCHOLARLY articles or websites that are well known as religious sources about Islam from BOTH perspectives... \n\nA good site to learn about islam is www.Islamicity.com\n\nMuslims are NOT supposed to kill ANYONE at all... the only case that it is allowed is in the time of war to defend one's self... and even in that case there are restrictions... do not harm a tree, a home, a child, an elderly person if they do not harm you... fight only those that fight you directly...\n\nA lot of those that strap themselves with bombs to kill are seen as wrong in the view of many many muslims... especially when those killed are civilians...
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They've been killing each other way longer than we've been involved.  It's like two denominations of islam, much like the horrible things done between the protestants and the catholics in the dark ages.
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Muslims don't believe in that.You can not find this in Quran nor in Hadith. God says in Quran that if you kill one person, for me it's like you have killed everyone(it's something that he won't forgive)Muslims are only allowed to go to war if some one attacked them they aren't allowed to start a war.(Mohammad him self NEVER started a war) and the last thing is that there is no such thing as Holy war that CNN is making up for Muslims.