I'm not RACIST, unlike the person named 'muslim-hater', but is Islam the most oppressive religion ever?

Question

I mean, no over religion kills people just because they change religion. I think it is an infringement on human rights

Answer 1

Yes.

Answer 2

It's not just Muslim. Christian and Buddhist did the same thing in the past. People killed each other to justify their religion or whatever. But I believe that the most important thing is that HUMAN BEINGS created the situation and killed people not religion. Those people are oppressive not religion.

I'm sure that someone like Jesus propagated Christianity for the sake of others' happiness not for the war. same as Muslim and Buddhism creater... Regardless of what religion you believe in, if each person cares about others, we should have peaceful world. It's a matter of each person's attitude toward others not which religion they believe.

Answer 3

there's not really any such thing as 'the most oppressive religion', there's simply, as many people have already commented, 'an oppressive interpretation'.

like a lot of religions, you have fundamentalists who choose to interpret the guidelines/laws of their religions precisely, ie: an eye for an eye or cut off the hand of the thief - things which still happen in some countries where the state and religion are still intertwined. then you have other followers of the same religions who choose to be a little more lenient in their interpretation of the laws of said religion.

religion aside, you also have changes in socially acceptable behaviour. for example in the UK, homosexual acts between consenting adults was illegal until the middle of last century. the english king Edward VIII abdicated his throne in 1936 so he could be with his girlfriend who was divorced - can you imagine that happening now?? When you have prince harry 'getting in trouble' for using drugs? and did you know that in jamaica, homosexuality is still illegal? and abortion is still illegal in ireland?

what i'm getting at is that western society is, in many ways, a lot more tolerant now than it was even 30 years ago. if you don't believe me, go ask any woman or african-american who was trying to get ahead in the 1970s. While some muslim practices may not be to your liking, it doesn't mean they're wrong and we're right, it just means they interpret the laws of their religion in a stricter manner. I don't agree with many extremist muslim practices, but Jesus preached tolerance and acceptance of everyone so it's our job to be as tolerant of muslims as we are of everyone else.

as for infringing on human rights by killing people for changing religion, we live in a world where people are killed over a pair of shoes, $20 in their wallet or the colour of bandana on their head. do you want to make a judgement on who's the better person??

Answer 4

I've read about Islam? What have you read? People saying Islam is a sick, pathetic, loser religion...what are you basing your argument on? If you have a quote from the Quran that you find wrong, offensive or a lie...BRING IT ON and show the world. Where have you read in the Quran that Muslim are commanded by God to kill people??
If your going to post a question,especially on a religion which is the fastest growing in the world, I think you need to have some knowledge about what your talking about. Tolerance is a good thing people...you should try it.

Answer 5

I agree that they seem very oppressive. I think that like Christianity they have different sects that vary in their oppressiveness. As a female I am horrified when I hear about women being killed because the husband feels she dishonored him. The whole not going out without being swarthed in black from head to toe and not being fit to sit in the mosque with the men is pretty horrible in my eyes too. I saw a show though recently that said women weren't always so oppressed, that there was a big fundamentalist movement that moved in the direction of taking a more hardline stance on some issues in the Quran. This also makes me nervous about the fundamentalist movement here in the US (the Bible has some pretty restrictive rules for women too if you choose to interpret that way) but I don't think it is the nature of our society to become so extreme as they are.

Answer 6

It most definitely is the most oppressive religion and also the most hypocritical. As far as I am aware it is the only islamic countries who stone women to death for infidelity. They also regard rape as infidelity on the womens part - What the F...???
The women have to cover up because they would be seen as tempting men if they didnt - therefore they are oppressed because men cannot be trusted to control themselves! Yet when muslim men leave their own country and come to a western country their religious beliefs suddenly go out of the window - e.g drinking, hiring of prostitutes. These people cannot be regarded as human as they have no humanity towards women.

Answer 7

Reluctantly I kinda agree, but a lot of the things that Muslim do-such as killing for adultery-females showing flesh-lack of virginity-theft and homosexuality-and other oppressions are not taught to them by their relegion-in fact when Saudi Aurabia cuts a thief's right hand off, and kills people by Law it is against the Qu'ran but unlike Budhism they dont seem to care much and keep doing it, they are Really oppresive towards women but that is mostly culture and the such-study the relegion and not the people! Then make up your own mind or come again-

Answer 8

Religion is just a wanother word, you have to ask Christ in your life because then everyone would realise that false religions keep cropping up, I can't answer the question about Islam, except it's just another false religion, cult or sect, whatever you want to call it.

You see, the moment we become Christians, we become the special objects of Satan's attention. He often uses the tool of ridicule to discourage us from doing the work of God. It is his purpose to ruin and destroy the work of the Gospel.Do you believe that the Son of God came from heaven and lived and died on the Cross and rose again, that He ascended into Heaven and sent the Holy Spirit in order to leave us in a state of confusion......Of course not that is ridiculous. Put your faith in Jesus Christ and I promise if you are sincere, He will remove all doubts you may have about the world and the meaning of life and He will reveal Himself to you personally.

As an ex-soldier, I can assure you that this step is not for cowards, also if you are ever in a life or death situation, who do you call on for help? God of course, I think your friend Needs this message as well, Muslim-Hater, that is....!

Answer 9

Islam is not the problem, it's the way it has been interpreted by a fundamentalist minority.
Christianity can be pretty oppressive, too. The last place in Britain to become Christian was allegedly the Isle of White, converted to Christianity by murdering everyone there who refused to accept the new religion. And Fundamentalist Christians can be as scary in their own way as fundamentalist Muslims.

Answer 10

I notice that "Muslim-hater" has now been removed from the Yahoo database.
All religions in their most orthodox form are oppresive. Back in the 13th century Christians used to go around killing Muslims and Arabs.
Then in England in the 16th Century if you were the wrong sort of religion you'd get killed.
It's just that wheras these views have been watered down over the years, their is still a large proportion of Muslims who take the hard line approach to their religion.
There are many of the Islam faith who are more liberal than these hard line extremists, they just don't make the news.

Answer 11

It's the way they treat their women that upsets me most. There are many things I find difficult to comprehend about their faith and practices, but becoming like our friend 'muslim-hater' isn't the way to encourage change, or even co-existence. I just find things very, very sad sometimes. I don't have the answer, and I think looking back historically both opression and religion have played major roles. I'm afraid that change will only occur very, very slowly. What we learn from history is that history teaches us nothing.