why is Islam such a violent religion?

Answer 1

because its founder was a violent man

Answer 2

Islam is not a violent religion. Most muslims r peaceful & very courteous ppl. As with some religions, eg The Catholic Church re the crusades, the inquisition era, islam has been hijacked by very violent, evil minded perverted men. To the point where they'll callously slaughter their own ppl 2 push their own evil twisted ideology. For Evil Men to triumph all it takes is for good men to stand back & do NOTHING!! God bless America

Answer 3

First of all Muhammad, totally not violent, so try to be stupider than you can help if your answering a question. To answer the question, the same thing could be said of Christianity, look at the crusades and look at what the KKK do in the name of God. I happen to be Christian, but I also happen to be a religious studies major in college and though Islam has jihad written into it, it doesn't mean holy war, it means struggle. Fundamentalists belong to every religion. In America Islam is portrayed as violent for a reason, its what makes us feel superior and justify what we do.

Answer 4

What do you think of a religion that God sent as a mercy for humans? When you review yahoo questions and answers you realize the degree of hostility and distortion that Islam is facing today. Islam is a religion of peace, tolerance, and patient, but when aggression against its followers reached this level of invading countries and killing innocent kids and women, Muslims should have the right of self defense. Now go back to history and see who started the hostilities and its scale: the crusaders, the inquisition, direct colonization, creation of Israel on Muslim land, indirect colonization and invading countries, etc…

Answer 5

Why is Christianity such a violent religion? Over 300,000 Iraqi citizens have been killed since the Christian American occupation. Over 2,500 of our soldiers have been killed since the Christian American occupation. I thought Christianity was suppose to turn the other cheak!

Answer 6

It isn't. Obviously you know very little about it, or you wouldn't say things like that. Where do all you "Islam-haters" get your crazy ideas. This is just another way to keep people apart---keep people from discovering that we have more in common than we have differences. And it gives us a-meer-a-kins someone to be the scapegoat for all of the things that are going wrong in our country right now.

Also, this wrong-thinking helps us to dehumanize people that our sons and brothers are killing right now, in a "war" that has no reason for being!

Answer 7

it isn't,true Islam followers don't believe in violence as we see on television,the same as true Christians don't believe in such thing as the kkk and white power and such.it is only the fanatics the you see on television,but that is what makes good ratings isn't it

Answer 8

how the brainwashing has harmed you so much that you are in peril of your salvation. Seek a way out of your blasphemy and save your poor soul, and we will see who is violent. Have you forgotten your history?

Answer 9

Christianity, Judaism and Hinduism have had their violent times as well. Don't believe me? Read the bible and the Vedas.

Answer 10

All religions seem to have some kind of clause or proviso that allows for the elimination of those deemed as "infidels".

Answer 11

It's not the religion. It's the people and their idealogies that make it violent.