Is there no reasoning in Islam?

Question

I have tried to be a neutral person. Despite the fact that all terrorism seems to be linked with Islam, I wanted to believe that Islam was a perveyor of peace. The problem is, I can see no evidence to that effect. I am not Jewish, however I still consider myself neutral minded concerning Israel. I have seen Israel give back land it won by the blood of its children in wars they never started. How does the peace loving muslims react? Suicide bombs and terrorism. I am very quickly coming to the opinion it may be time to light up the nights with a few mushrooms and be done with the ignorant warmongers. Yes, I am very rapidly becoming very anti-muslim. Can't any of you turn this ship around? I don't want to be this way.

Answer 1

All terrorism (okay, 99.9% of it) is carried out by Muslims, in the name of religion. Muslims, judging by their actions, attempt to resolve all issues through violence.

Since they execute terrorist acts in the name of religion, they cannot be reasoned with. There is no logic in a religious dispute.

It's a touchy subject, but let me say this about the Koran (at the very least). It contains many, many sections that can be easily interpreted as telling Muslims to kill all non-Muslims.

Answer 2

why they hate us:

No More Tears: Benny Morris and the Road Back from Liberal Zionism

Joel Beinin

(Joel Beinin, an editor of this magazine, teaches Middle East history at Stanford University.)

Books Reviewed

Benny Morris, 1948 and After: Israel and the Palestinians (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990, second edition, 1994).

Benny Morris, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947-1949 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988).

Benny Morris, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).



Haganah militiamen expel Palestinian Arabs from Haifa, April 1948. (Agence France Presse)

On July 11, 1948, Aharon Cohen, director of the Arab Affairs Department of the socialist-Zionist Mapam party in Israel, received a carbon copy of a military intelligence report. Israel, a state less than two months old, was embroiled in a war with neighboring Arab states that would last until 1949. The document in Cohen’s hands analyzed the reasons for the flight of 240,000 Palestinian Arabs from areas which had been allocated to the Jewish state by the November 1947 UN partition plan and another 150,000 from the Jerusalem region and areas allocated to the Arab state. Cohen was upset to read the report’s conclusion that 70 percent of these Arabs had fled due to “direct, hostile Jewish operations against Arab settlements” by Zionist militias, or the “effect of our hostile operations on nearby (Arab) settlements.”[1] One month before Cohen received this report, Mapam’s political committee had issued a resolution opposing “the tendency to expel the Arabs from the Jewish state,” in response to Cohen’s warnings that such operations were taking place.

Over the course of Arab-Jewish fighting between 1947 and 1949, well over 700,000 Palestinians were made refugees, the majority of them by direct expulsion or the fear of expulsion or massacre. The largest single expulsion occurred after Israeli conquest of the towns of Lydda and Ramla in the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv corridor during July 9-18, 1948. Some 50,000 Palestinians were driven out of their homes in these towns by Israeli forces whose deputy commander was Yitzhak Rabin, prime minister of Israel from 1974-1977 and 1992-1995. Some two dozen massacres of Palestinians were perpetrated by pre-state Zionist militias and Israeli forces, the most infamous of them on April 9-10, 1948, at the village of Deir Yassin.

Answer 3

Scott, your quote is irrelevant. Using your logic, Israel should attack Germany for killing 6 million Jews in WWII.

Answer 4

They are doomed to fight forever.

Answer 5

Not me.