Islamists oppress, terrorize, and slaughter people all over the world, routinely. Apparently the Quran gives them permission and/or commands them to exterminate all non-Muslims and impose a rigid religious tyranny. Any variation from the official religion is punishable by death.
Now, Iran wants the U.N. to make people everywhere stop saying bad things about Islam.
Why do you think Islamic governments are afraid to trust their own citizens with freedom of speech, freedom of religion, women's rights, etc.?
And why are they trying to deny these freeedoms to everyone else in the world?
2006-06-22 07:26:54 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Well,that is profuse..You cannot generalize that way.Nevertheless,I agree with some of your opinions..
2006-06-22 07:31:33 · answer #1 · answered by sunflower 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Your question presupposes your politics so I know I'm not going to get a "Best Answer" from you... But I'm going to try and tell you the truth.
Everything you say about Islam has been just as true about Christianity at various points in history. For 1000 years it was Christians imposing religious tyrany and exterminating those who would not convert. Ironically when Christianity was at its worst Islamic countries were the home of religious tolerance. Nothing going on in the islamic world today is as bad as what Christians had going in Europe, and at the time everyone agreed that the bible mandated it.
And don't think for a second that there aren't sectors of the religious right in America what wouldn't love to institute some religious tyrany. You've got people like Pat Robertson saying we should have special religious courts for people who commit murder because they were acting under the will of God, and that non-christians shouldn't be allowed to hold public office.
Your question shouldn't be directed at "Islam" so much as at "Religious fanatics" in general. If your "Holy Book" has all the answers then the supression of alternative viewpoints by any means necessary becomes justified. Thats as true for Al Queida, as for the Spanish Inquisition, as for the Salem Witch Trials.
So don't blame Islam just because the current wave of religious fanatics happen to be Muslims. Islam is a fine faith with strong values. A peaceful religion when it isn't being insanely twisted to justify evil.
You want to defame "Fanaticism" in all its forms? Go right ahead!
2006-06-22 14:51:52 · answer #2 · answered by adamdiran 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
With control in over 50 of the world's countries, and over 1 billion adherents, Islam is obviously going be a big factor in the world.
Read or listen to: http://www.prophetofdoom.net
2006-06-26 04:38:34 · answer #3 · answered by mo mosh 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
anyone agry or not agry but the reality is zat islam is the religion of pease. if anyone say usama is a terorist zat doesnt mean every muslim is a terorist coz of usama. u dont sink zer are peaple who are terorism in anozer religion? 4 ex if a man come from a religion ozer than islam,supose he come from the religion 'B', n he is a terorist so will u point finger to accuse all the peaple who come from the religion 'B' as terorist.
no ozer coments anyone can give his own answer!
2006-06-22 15:09:45 · answer #4 · answered by nasweer 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
At the time of Christ-the Jewish people had the same problems-so many false Messias,to many schisms,-CHrist was crucified,because his religious leaders needed him gone.The word of GOD was twisted and used .We are fighting a religious war but not really a holy war-The Hebrew nations of old and the Arab nations of today cannot and did not unite because they each hold on to A truth
2006-06-22 14:47:16 · answer #5 · answered by ? 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Very simple. Islamics are people with very narrow minds. Just consider, to blow themselves with a bomb only with the purpose of killing a bunch of their own countrymen, usually innocent women and children, you must be incapable of seeing beyond your nose. Besides, they are still living in times of mohama, believing that they will receive a flock of virgins if they die fighting for islam ( I wonder what islamic women will receive ) . Men can marry four wives, if you say anything against mohama they will try to kill you ( remember Salman Rushdie ), if you try to leave islam they will try to kill you. For many things they will try to kill you. Do you have enough ?
2006-06-22 14:41:27 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Islamic governments are theocracies. History shows theocracies rule over the most horrific periods of human history. Why should it be different for Islam?
2006-06-22 14:30:18 · answer #7 · answered by lenny 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its not a matter of being afraid, its what they believe. They believe in Islam and in Allah, whether its insane or not. People who believe that Islam is a religion of peace also believe that Osama Bin Laden is a preacher!
2006-06-22 14:33:33 · answer #8 · answered by carolinagrl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
freedom stirs up individual thought different than those of the collective. quran gives them permission to slaughter the same as the bible does. it's interpretation, extremists using religion to further their own "political" motives.
2006-06-22 14:31:52 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is FUNDAMENTALISM and Fundamentalist views. I'm sure there are plently of moderate and liberal Muslims that have issues with the same problems and governments. Why are they doing it? Fundamentalism and theocracies can be very very evil and about power, control, and suppresion of all other views.
2006-06-22 14:44:27 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
`Islam is the same as communism or nazism and they are still in the 7th Century and have never caught up with the rest of the world.
2006-06-22 14:59:49 · answer #11 · answered by Vagabond5879 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋