Who thinks that Islam is a peaceful religion?

Question

Please....I implore you to check this out.....

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-521503032546496626&q=WWIII

Just so u know....i dint make this clip.

However, I think it was well done

hey, julian r!

maybe i am shameless....but at least im not ignorant of wats going on in the world

sry worriedaboutyou

that idea is..........well.........really just plain insane

just bc the world is fast becoming muslim doesnt mean muslims are peaceful...

wat it does mean is that we should now be worried about a vast takeover of the world by the muslim nation.....this scares me bc who knows wat terrorism attacks are just around the corner in my hometown??

k, bigrob

when u say s/t like that, it requires a source

we all need to know where u got such na arbitrary number

thank you

Answer 1

I want to support your point of view by bringing an article from Rachel Marsden on the topic.

Islam is a religion of peace. Right—and Paris Hilton is a virgin. But “moderate” Muslims—an oxymoron if ever there was one—would have us trying to reconcile the completely irreconcilable.

After last week’s civilian bombings by Islamists in London, England, I was walking through Toronto’s Dundas Square when a man handed me a booklet entitled “Islam: Does it Make Sense?” Complete with subheadings like “the religion of balance and moderation”, “the religion of human equality”, “the most tolerant and inclusive religion”, and “the liberating religion”, it makes for a nice spun-out version of Islam for kids, lefties, or anyone with an uncontrollable drooling problem.

But the real kicker is on page 49, in bold type: “Al-Islam – the religion of Islam – means a religion that brings peace to individuals and human society through people’s obedience, servitude and submission to Allah.”

If you’re a self-proclaimed “moderate” or “good” Muslim who doesn’t accept the fact that your religion was founded on—and openly advocates—violence for the sake of conquest, then get out, because after fourteen centuries, you’re not going to change it.

Here’s the crucial difference between Islam and Christianity: If a Christian comes to your door and tries to sell you on God, you can slam it in his face and he’ll still pray for you, as per the Bible’s teachings. Do the same thing to an Islamist, and the Quran instructs him that “when ye meet in battle those who disbelieve” then “smiting of the necks” shall occur. Neck smiting! Oh great, all the more reason to hide behind the furniture and pretend you’re not home when that doorbell rings!

The soft peddling of Islam conveniently leaves out the story of its architect, Muhammad. This supposed man of peace didn’t use Jesus’ approach of winning people over with fish, bread, water-walking and other such magic tricks.

Evidence suggests that Muhammad was like the Courtney Love of prophets: Lacking Jesus’ crowd-pleasing talents, he resorted to the seventh century religious equivalent of microphone tossing to make a name for himself—picking up his sword and wreaking havoc on everything he could in the name of Allah.

Even after Muhammad’s death, his “peaceful” followers spent the next hundred years murdering their way to a geopolitical empire.

The booklet conveniently omits some of the Quran’s greatest hits, translated here courtesy of the Skeptic’s Annotated Quran:

• If the unbelievers don’t surrender, “then take them and kill them wherever ye find them.”

• “For disbelievers We prepare a shameful doom.”

• Those who resist “Allah and his messenger will be killed or crucified, or have their hands and feet on alternate sides cut off, or will be expelled out of the land. That is how they will be treated in this world, and in the next they will have an awful doom.”

• “Whoso is wont to think that Allah will not give Muhammad victory in the world and the Hereafter, let him stretch a rope up to the roof, and let him hang himself.”

Feeling the peace and tolerance vibe yet?

The Quran also instructs: “never be a helper to the disbelievers”. That might explain why the few token condemnations of the London bombings by Muslim clerics ring about as true as O.J. Simpson’s vow to search for the "real killer" on golf courses across America.

You want us to buy into your denunciation? Then how about staging a huge rally in front of the Washington Monument? Get Cat Stevens, Yusuf Islam, Stephen Georgiou—or whatever his name is now—up there belting out some tunes. Vow that there will be no more killing of Jews, or Americans, Westerners, or "infidels" of any sort. Heck, I'm sure the lefties will even help you inflate the attendance numbers like they do with gay pride parades.

But it’s all about as likely to happen as a remake of the movie Ishtar. Mainly because, according to the Koran, Allah “hath prepared a dreadful doom” for those “who take for friends a folk with whom Allah is wroth”.

Western democracies have to wise up to the fact that “tolerance” of Islam is as much about "freedom of religion" as allowing your kids to trash your house while you're away on vacation.

Maybe Canada can start with deporting all the card carrying Islamic terrorists, rather than giving them asylum here.

LOOK ON THE PICTURES OF THE PIECEFUL DEMONSTRATION IN LONDON! SOURCE 3!!!

Answer 2

Yes i think that Islam is a peaceful religion, and I am not a Muslim. On the other hand i have seen yur video and you are not completely wrong. I think that it's the people ( am talkin of those who follow the Islamic religion but i am not generalizing) who are not understanding wat their religion has told them. Either they want to achieve a goal by the bloodiest ways or either they are mad!! And on top of that they dare to put it all on their God's back saying as if it's Him who told them to do so. I would never believe anyone from any religion saying that their God or beliefs are telling them to kill people and slice their own children's head into two!!!! Plus these terrorist also calls wat they are doing Jihad meaning holly war. How on earth can a war be holy????? I wish they could answer that question.
To conclude i would say that i only partly agree with you. People can be foolish in many ways( they are proving it by wat we have seen through yur video-if that is true that is) and even cruel with their own kin but a RELIGION IS ALWAYS FOR THE BEST AND NEVER REQUIRE BLOODSHED!

Answer 3

Based on the huge number of people in the world that are Muslim,I would have to conclude that Islam is a religion of peace - since all of those people are not at war. Make sense?

Answer 4

The video is well done.

Muslims believe that Islam is the epitome of peace. Sayyid Qutb, an Islamic scholar, decribes the utopia when all the world is under Islam.

Muslims want to rid the world of fitnah. Qutb, an Islamic scholar, writes that the world would be a utopia under Islamic theocracy. Islam is a political as well as a religious system.

Qur'an [Surah Al-Anfãl (8):39] {Eng, Ar, transliteration}:
So fight them (unbelievers) until there is no more fitnah (disbelief or worship of any god but Allah) and all submit to the religion of Allah alone (in the whole world)" ... "And fight with them until there is no more fitnah (persecution) and religion should be only for Allah

وَقَتِلُوهُمْ حَتَّى لَا تَكُونَ فِتْنَةٌ وَيَكُونَ الدِّينُ كُلُّهُ لِلَّهِ فَإِنْ انتَهَوْا فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ بِمَا يَعْمَلُونَ بَصِيرٌ

Waqatiloohum hatta la takoona fitnatun wayakoona alddeenu kulluhu lillahi fa-ini intahaw fa-inna Allaha bima yaAAmaloona baseerun

Allah commands deeds of terror by the believers against the unbelievers as the means of creating the emotion of terror in their hearts. The only reason needed for action is that "they resisted Allah and His Messenger". Such an approach to "conflict management" is nothing to be ashamed about according to Islamic understanding, but it is a basis for pride. According to Islam, it is one reason for the superiority of Muhammad over all other prophets.

Qur'an [Surah Ãli-´Imrãn (3):151]
We will throw terror into the hearts of those who disbelieved, since they set up besides GOD powerless idols. Their destiny is Hell; what a miserable abode for the transgressors! (Khalifa trans.)

سَنُلْقِي فِي قُلُوبِ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا الرُّعْبَ بِمَا اشْرَكُوا بِاللَّهِ مَا لَمْ يُنَزِّلْ بِهِ سُلْطَنًا وَمَاوَهُمْ النَّارُ وَبِئْسَ مَثْوَى الظَّلِمِينَ

Sanulqee fee quloobi allatheena kafaroo alrruAAba bima ashrakoo biAllahi ma lam yunazzil bihi sultanan wama/wahumu alnnaru wabi/sa mathwa alththalimeena

Qur'an [Surah Al-Anfãl (8):12-13]
Recall that your Lord inspired the angels: "I am with you; so support those who believed. I will throw terror into the hearts of those who disbelieved. You may strike them above the necks, and you may strike even every finger. This is what they have justly incurred by fighting GOD and His messenger. For those who fight against GOD and His messenger, GOD's retribution is severe.(Khalifa trans.)

إِذْ يُوحِي رَبُّكَ إِلَى الْمَلَئِكَةِ أَنِّي مَعَكُمْ فَثَبِّتُوا الَّذِينَ ءامَنُوا سَأُلْقِي فِي قُلُوبِ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا الرُّعْبَ فَاضْرِبُوا فَوْقَ الْأَعْنَاقِ وَاضْرِبُوا مِنْهُمْ كُلَّ بَنَانٍ
ذَلِكَ بِأَنَّهُمْ شَاقُّوا اللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُ وَمَنْ يُشَاقِقْ اللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُ فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ شَدِيدُ الْعِقَابِ

Ith yoohee rabbuka ila almala-ikati annee maAAakum fathabbitoo allatheena amanoo saolqee fee quloobi allatheena kafaroo alrruAAba faidriboo fawqa al-aAAnaqi waidriboo minhum kulla bananin. Thalika bi-annahum shaqqoo Allaha warasoolahu waman yushaqiqi Allaha warasoolahu fa-inna Allaha shadeedu alAAiqabi


Qur'an [Surah Al-Anfãl (8): 59-60]
Let not the unbelievers think that they can get the better (of the godly): they will never frustrate (them). Against them make ready your strength to the utmost of your power, including steeds of war, to strike terror into (the hearts of) the enemies, of God and your enemies, and others besides, whom ye may not know, but whom God doth know. Whatever ye shall spend in the cause of God, shall be repaid unto you, and ye shall not be treated unjustly. (Yusuf Ali trans.)

وَلَا يَحْسَبَنَّ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا سَبَقُوا إِنَّهُمْ لَا يُعْجِزُونَ
وَأَعِدُّوا لَهُمْ مَا اسْتَطَعْتُمْ مِنْ قُوَّةٍ وَمِنْ رِبَاطِ الْخَيْلِ تُرْهِبُونَ بِهِ عَدُوَّ اللَّهِ وَعَدُوَّكُمْ وَءاخَرِينَ مِنْ دُونِهِمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَهُمْ اللَّهُ يَعْلَمُهُمْ وَمَا تُنفِقُوا مِنْ شَيْءٍ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ يُوَفَّ إِلَيْكُمْ وَأَنْتُمْ لَا تُظْلَمُونَ

Wala yahsabanna allatheena kafaroo sabaqoo innahum la yuAAjizoona. WaaAAiddoo lahum ma istataAAtum min quwwatin wamin ribati alkhayli turhiboona bihi AAaduwwa Allahi waAAaduwwakum waakhareena min doonihim la taAAlamoonahumu Allahu yaAAlamuhum wama tunfiqoo min shay-in fee sabeeli Allahi yuwaffa ilaykum waantum la tuthlamoona

Dr. Ayman Zawahri (za WAH ri), is a leader of Al-Qaida, (Sunni Muslims). He has declared, as may other Muslim militant leaders, that the conflict between Hezbollah and Israel meets the conditions for jihad fee sybil Allah and that it is incumbent for all Muslims to join the fight. Otherwise, there are many sectarian differences between the Sunni Al-Qaida Muslims and the Shiite Hezbollah Muslims. However, for the cause in Lebanon they may join forces to fight against Israel.

Qur'an [Sura Al-Qasas (28):39] {Eng, Ar, transliteration}:
Permission (to fight) is given to those upon whom war is made because they are oppressed, and most surely Allah is well able to assist them; (Shakir trans.)

Permission to take up arms is given to those against whom war is made, because they have been wronged and ALLAH, indeed, has power to help them (Sher Ali trans.).

- أُذِنَ لِلَّذِينَ يُقَتَلُونَ بِأَنَّهُمْ ظُلِمُوا وَإِنَّ اللَّهَ عَلَى نَصْرِهِمْ لَقَدِيرٌ

Othina lillatheena yuqataloona bi-annahum thulimoo wa-inna Allaha AAala nasrihim laqadeerun

Qur'an [Surah al-Hujurat (49):15]
Mumim (true Muslims) believe in Allah and His Messenger (Muhammad), and without doubt they strive in the cause of Allah( jihad fee Sybil Allah) with their wealth and their lives. Those! They are the sincere.

إِنَّمَا الْمُؤْمِنُونَ الَّذِينَ ءامَنُوا بِاللَّهِ وَرَسُولِهِ ثُمَّ لَمْ يَرْتَابُوا وَجَهَدُوا بِأَمْوَلِهِمْ وَأَنفُسِهِمْ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ أُوْلَئِكَ هُمْ الصَّدِقُونَ

Innama almu/minoona allatheena amanoo biAllahi warasoolihi thumma lam yartaboo wajahadoo bi-amwalihim waanfusihim fee sabeeli Allahi ola-ika humu alssadiqoona

Answer 5

Islam Is Come from the root word "SALAM" which mean peace and mercy and the same word is used in Islamic greeting while muslims meet to another thay say "Assalam O Alaikum" which means may peace and mercy of Almighty God be on u.
The relegion which completely based on peace and huminity .............. How would u say a terrorist relegion?
U beleive ......... its missconception all around west ........ they are barin washed by their political drivers.If u want to understand or to view Islam ......... lets see the life of Muhammad (peace be upon him).......... the great practicetioner of Islam then see his fellows and compare the muslims ...... if any muslim maintaining the standard of peace and huminity which they left ........ he is the real Muslim ..........
Remeber that every society has the blacksheeps ...... similarly in Muslim societies there also the blacksheeps ......that trying to low the relegion.........
Also see the todays situation ......... compare the ration of dying in Lebonan and in Israil ...... and sort out who is terrorist ........ who start bombardment ......... who claim the bad war....... who is responsible for the dying of little lebonan flowers(childrens).............. Answer me who? who responsible in Afghanistan ........? Who responsible n Vetnam?....... and who reponsible in Iraq .......? who ???????????????????
have answer ........... if have then u could mail me ..... i have joined my email address........ Open the eyes ...... Lets See the truth ......

Answer 6

i think it is someonewhat but look at what it has conducted, people get way out of line coming out of islam

OK man i just watched your video, and most of that is b.s. These are people just like you and me, their are alot of islamic people. And this is a bad way to show their religion but very funny video indeed. But alot of is islam is peaceful but alot are not. Islams proved themselves to be fake because they are so hating towards america.

You have a very very low chance of getting attacked, and U.S will always be on top no matter what.

Answer 7

The only people who think Islam is a peaceful religion don't think at all.

Plain and simple.
You can't reason religion into someone and can't reason it out of them.

Answer 8

There are currently 128 shooting wars on the planet--all but two involve Islamo-terrorists. DO THE MATH!!!

Answer 9

by the way the Arab way listed in the holy quran says Islam means surrender to GOD!

and you wold not know lol DUr.. I'm Arabic Muslim :P

Answer 10

Islam is not a religion of peace, nor does it mean peace.

Islam means submit....and that means submit to destruction!!!!

Answer 11

If by peaceful you mean bombing and killing infidels (i.e. everyone but Muslims of your own sect) then yes, I believe it is.