There was a big parade on Sunday in midtown. The theme was mercy for all.
However, according to Muslim accounts of history, Muhammad is believed to have decapitated hundreds and hundreds of people. And, he encouraged others to likewise.
Respectfully, what does the Islam faith really teach? Looking for some real insight and not Fake Faux Newz.
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It heavily depends on where it is and how you are following it. People interpret different religious books very differently and there is such a wide range of Muslims in the world that it’s hard to give an exact answer that applies to all. This is like many religious where you have extremists that jut think differently from others.
As a side point, most Muslims I know don’t pray five times a day, read the Quran, or even fast for Ramadan. It is more of a “cultural” labeling for them to be considered Muslim.
Doing a bad thing poorly doesn't make it a good thing.
The bible also has some passages that include violent actions. I would think most people would say that Christianity and Judaism are peaceful religions.
It teaches Sharia Law and Sharia Law is incompatible with civilized society.
Is this that law that prohibits usury or interest in banking?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharia
But you do realise that true laws prevent religious laws from being implemented and becoming lawful right? Same way that there are Christian religious that most people don't know about because no one uses them except for small orthodox communities
We all know how nobody does illegal things, right?
Yes, people do illegal things but it's generally a small minority and those actively practicing sharia to the fullest extent are also a minority. So if they are a minority, by grammatical definition you cannot say that Islam is a religion of violence. You can say that certain interpretations of Islam have violence in them just like Christianity does such as:
Neo-Nazis act in the name is white Christian supremacy
The KKK acted (and still does) in the name of white Christian supremacy
The Army of God acts in the name of Christianity (they kill PP staff, abortion doctors and others involved in abortion)
The CSA
The Order
Yet I bet money most people think of Christianity as a peaceful religion. If you get beamed images of Islamic terrorism etc etc all the time then people who don't have the brain to take things into perspective and look at the bigger picture would think Islam = violence. I could buy a small TV network, blast images of the groups mentioned above and convince however many viewers watched it that Christians were monsters.
So no, the short answer is Islam is overall peaceful with specks of violence like all religions.
Muhammed was gayer than an episode of RuPauls Drag Race
people get killed for saying shit like this religion of peace, y'all
200 foot pole on this one
What's the penalty for Apostasy?
Well, considering how we are all scholars of the Islamic religion, I think you came to the most appropriate place possible to ask that!
God does exist but we shouldn't need him to end apartheid for one. And slow down the nuclear arms race, stop terrorism and world hunger. We have to provide food and shelter for the homeless, and oppose racial discrimination and promote civil rights, while also promoting equal rights for women. We have to encourage a return to traditional moral values. Most importantly, we have to promote general social concern, and less materialism in young people.
The intentions of the OP may or may not have been bigoted but I expected to see some Islamophobic responses.
What's the point of this thread? Could apply natural language processing and see which religious text has the highest negative sentiment or encourages the most violence towards people. So what? People are products of their environment. The only thing this thread does is encourage additional violence and discrimination against the vast majority of muslims who are peaceful and despise terrorism. Assume Islam is a violent religion by some objective measure. Congratulations you weren't born in a country where a violent religion is the predominant religion! You must feel very morally superior! This thread is just an excuse to justify people's own feelings of hatred and violence toward another group of human beings.
I wonder if the people trashing the Islamic religion and the Muslim people would make the same statements at the office or in school?
The answer to your question depends on the extent to which a particular group of people is viewed as being “oppressed”. While I think the vast majority or Muslims have no propensity for violence, they have gotten a “pass” as the left somehow views them as victims of oppression.
This is why there is almost no criticism of the Muslim Slave trade, and the effects it had on Africa, despite being significantly longer and more brutal than the European slave trade (also note that this Slave trade has never actually ended: Mauritania https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Mauritania).
This oppression-oriented view also explains while you’ll never hear about “historical” treatment of non-Muslims by Muslims in the same way you hear about historical treatment of non-whites by whites. For instance, a leftist in the West may be quick (and also correct) to point out the consequences of racist redlining and segregation, but this same person has no interest in discussing or even learning about the routine robbery, rape, and murder that mainly eastern Christians and Jews have experienced at the hands of Muslims. Some examples that come to mind are the Armenian genocide, Pontic Greek genocide, Jiyza taxes, Devshirme practices, as well as all of the invasions and terrorist attacks against the state of Israel.
If a “non-oppressed” group of people did what Muslims have done to non-Muslims in the eastern Mediterranean, all of whom predate Muslim existence in the region, leftists would be talking about racism, facism, nazism, etc until they were blue in the face.
The issue with Islam is that when it is in the extreme minority, as it is in the U.S., it can be relatively peaceful--even straight-up normal--but when Islam reaches critical mass (not just nationally, but also regionally), Islam almost always leads to political and cultural domination.
Liberals scoff at the idea of "Sharia law", but let's just use the Left's preferred term--theocracy. Islam is inherently theocratic in a way that Christianity, Buddhism, and secular atheism are not. The Qu'ran and the countless extra-Qu'ranical doctrines are fundamentally about how to order society. You almost cannot be a good Muslim and not seek to order society--by force--under Islamic teachings. This is why nearly every Muslim majority country on planet has a gov't that is explicitly or implicitly dominated by Islamic doctrine.
Even wikipedia's attempt at providing a list of "secular" Muslim nations falls laughably short when any critical thought is given to the list:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_and_secularism
Albania[38] Azerbaijan[39] Bosnia-Herzegovina[40] Burkina Faso[41] Chad42 Côte d'Ivoire[43] Guinea[44] Guinea-Bissau45 Indonesia[46]47 Kazakhstan[48] Kosovo[49]50 Kyrgyzstan[51] Lebanon Mali[52] Niger[53] Northern Cyprus[54] Senegal55 Sierra Leone56 Tajikistan57 Turkey[58] Turkmenistan[59] Uzbekistan[60] West Bank[61]
As if we're supposed to accept at face value that Turkey, the West Bank, and Lebanon, for example, are not utterly dominated by Islamic theocrats.
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Not going to comment on whether or not Islam is a "religion of peace" but it's clearly a religion of lies.
Islam is not an Abrahamic religion. There is no connection between the Koran and the Torah and/or the Gospels. Allah is a moon god (hence the symbol of Islam, the crescent moon) that was worshiped by the pagans of the Arab peninsula prior to the advent of Islam.
The idol of Allah was already in the Kaaba. Muhammad destroyed all idols except the idol of the moon god, Allah (the highest pagan god). Contrary to what Muslims claim, Allah is not the universal Arabic word for god - Illah is. Allah is a proper noun.
On the contradictions between Islam and Judaism/Christianity:
All of these items, and many more, make Islam wholly incompatible with either Judaism and/or Christianity. It is a religion of lies, and that's if we ignore the questionable moral character of its prophet.
Interesting.
All religions are BS. Crusades translates to jihads.
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