what do you really think about Islam as a religion?

Question

i'm a muslim and i'm proud of it

Answer 1

I think Islam is a wonderful peaceful religion and I fully respect anyone who practices.

There are a few people who tried to use it in vein and caused a lot of pain for everyone else.

I think it is terrible that there is a lot of predjudice and racism due to actions of only a few people.

Answer 2

Go to college and take the course Philosophy and Religion. They will teach you the similarities between Islam, Christianity, and Judaism. (same regional origination, common prophet Jesus, monotheistic, life after death, similar Bible-types, same time-frame origination.) Then they will teach you the differences. (Belief in the "specific" God.. Allah, Jehovah, Jesus, etc.) There are very few differences. Just take the class. It doesn't hurt to know the truth. It makes you think..... I wonder if people just started coming up with all this stuff thousands of years ago to answer their questions due to a lack of scientific explanation for existence. It's only natural for you to underestimate yourself. You think your the product of something greater, because you don't want to accept that your species was powerful enough to evolve from a single celled organism (which explains why mitochondria resemble single celled organisms very much).
I would also like to say that religion is great for society. It has a latent function. Terrorists have defamed their own religion by corrupting it, and as a result, have caused the world to stigmatize this beneficial worldwide religion.

Answer 3

Islam is a monotheistic religion based upon the Qur'an, which adherents believe was sent by God through Muhammad, as well as teachings of Muhammad recorded in the Hadith. Followers of Islam, known as Muslims (Arabic: مسلم), believe Muhammad to have been God's (Arabic: Allāh) final prophet.

Like Judaism and Christianity, Islam is considered an Abrahamic religion. With a total of approximately 1.4 billion adherents, Islam is the second-largest religion in the world.

Secular historians place Islam's beginnings during the 7th century in Arabia. Under the leadership of Muhammad and his successors, Islam rapidly spread by religious conversion and military conquest. Today followers of Islam may be found throughout the world, particularly in the Middle East, North Africa, South Asia and Southeast Asia.

Answer 4

I just think it needs to grow up a bit.

500 years ago Christians were talking about holy war and crusades the same as the Islamic extrememists are now. You used to be stoned to death for taking the Lords name in vein. But Christianity has evolved and matured into a set of values it seems to be Islam is still a bit in the dark ages. For example the responce to the Danish cartoons, they shouldn't have responded with violence, it just showed how immature the religion is.

It has to confront it's image and embrace more modern day values about womens rights, freedom of speech, homosexuality as the Christian Church is doing (although there are certain sects in the US that seem a bit backward in this respect) and to say that killing in the name of religion or Jihad is simply wrong.

Answer 5

I give no credence to Islam. Revelations 22, 18-29 warns against anyone adding words or taking anything away from the Bible. Since the Quran came 500 years after the Bible, I disregard it much as I do the Book of Mormon. These books add to the Bible and in fact, the Quran denies that Jesus was actually crucified, so I pay little attention to them..

Answer 6

I have no problem with Islam or any other religion per se. BUT, as a woman, I reject any religion that does not put women on equal footing with men. I believe that no human being is superior to another, certainly not in virtue of their gender.

Answer 7

Just like others..

Fatsausage..all religions treats women as second class. You can also read that in the Bible..its just most Christians are not practicing it..Thats the reason why nuns can't officiate mass, weddings, confession, communion..i hope youre not an atheist..as a Christian. you should know that..

Answer 8

Islam has good teachings and beliefs..
Same applies to all religions.
We shld respect one another religion and allow rooms for them.

Answer 9

In all honesty, when held side by side to Christianity and Catholicism, they're all effectively the same thing. I mean no disrespect, mind you, but they have pretty much the same values and teachings.

Answer 10

i always thought of islam and muslim as the same thing until i learned about them in seventh grade in social stuides class but i don't pay attention so iono...