Why do you think all Muslims think alike??

Question

That's about as ignorant as stating that Warren Jeffs and the current Pope of the Roman Catholic church think alike!!

So, why can't people understand that the Muslim faith is very diverse as well?

Answer 1

The army gets accused of misbehavior
when a group of soldiers misbehave.
We are just programmed by the school system to feel like a flock of sheep, Americans do this, catholics that and football fans tow the line of the club. It is easier than having to look and think for ourselves !

Answer 2

I don't. But most are. Warren Jeff has more in common with a Muslim than the Pope. Its not ignorant. Killing is ignorant, commenting is not. comments are comments. I was so pleased to read all the feedback on my question. I understand Muslim faith is diverse. But for the most part, I am sure you know lots of Bin Laddin followers, don't you? Maybe related to some. I am not a racist. Muslims are from many races, duh. I was simply making a point. Hello.... 9-11-01 ?? what religion were the hijackers? I don't hate you. Just simply expressing a question.

Answer 3

Because Islam teaches brotherhood and unity, and the unity in the worship of one true God, the Creator. Islam is the only true religion of God that follows God's commandments ever since the beginning of the world.

When God created the first man Adam, He ordered the Angels and Jinns to bow down to Adam. Only the Angels followed God's command, and the Jinns disobeyed God. When God asked the Jinns why they disobeyed Him, the Jinns said they are better than Adam because they were created from fire while Adam was ceated from clay.

The above example is only to give you an idea that there are people who disobeyed God. God said worship Him alone because there is no God beside Him, other people did not listen to Him. They created their own god and worhsip others aside from God.

When God revealed His last and final book, the Holy Qur'an through Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), many people believed and many also disbelieved. Those who believed are called Muslims, and their religion is Islam. Islam means the complete submission to the will of God. It also means peace. Hence, the greetings of Muslims is "peace be with you", and the answer is "peace be also with you".

Because Muslims believes in all the teachings of the prophet and the holy Qur'an, it is obvious that they also think alike.

Answer 4

It's also the same as saying all christians are alike. The vast majority of people who group muslim terrorists with good God fearing muslims are really afraid that their pork bacon is gonna be taken off their plate. Think how many Christians there are in jail in prisons all over the world for committing horrible crimes!
Werent Nazi's Christians?

Answer 5

well, i think that Islam is a religion of peace and i red so many books about it , the quran to top them off. Islam is not diverse ... it is one . ppl have interpretations to it though.

we should not pass judgments over Muslims. because whoever it is that fundamentalist or poses a political power is only hiding behind a so called cause. in any case , i would not think of hassen nasruala as a fundamentalist i think of him as the leader of a Resistance group ... you know what i mean .

ISLAMIC ideology is the same all over , and i think that's what makes it an interesting religion. i wonder why Arab nations are not united , when they have every single reason to be . Land , weather,language and religion. it is one of the greatest mysteries of the world ??!!!

Answer 6

all muslims are not alike - my friend ahamed dont eat chicken but he loves pork , and he drink whisky too. And he have 4 wifes , plus some 30 to 40 girl friends , he have lot of business , including a pub. he never go to mosque , but sometimes he pray. And he always were the costume.
He is having a lot of similar friends like him too.

Answer 7

because if you are not muslim your life has no value.. so they will just blow up some free thinking excepting people who dont have a problem with sitting on the same bus or getting on the same plane with muslims, poofs,jews,christians etc but just happen to get blown to pink mist. and you wonder why muslims get a bad wrap. GET BENT

Answer 8

I don't think all muslims are alike. We've got good and bad people every where. Muslims are passing through what christians started to pass through before Islam and that is FALSE PROPHESY. You have to know to whom to listen.

Answer 9

What makes the human organism so successful is that it recognizes patterns and learns from them, and then attempts to quickly fit any new information into previously learned patterns. It's often a very efficient and mentally effortless way to process data. It just doesn't work well with complex , nuanced and difficult to categorize (i.e. stereotype) information. What is more difficult to categorize than individual and often shifting views of intangibles like metaphysics and theism? These are things for which there is no definitive category or description. Even those who would identify themselves as adhering to one of the broad classes of theistic traditions cannot agree conclusively on all that theism's teaching and requirements.

Consider the vast cultural and ethnic differences that arise with just a mile's distance in Iraq. Now make that distance 10,000 miles and six thousands years of divergent culture. Islam is so complex and varied that Moslems cannot come to terms with its varierty and heterodoxies and kill each other daily over what seem ridiculously minute arguments to outsiders. The warring between Sunni and Shia is like the warring between Protestant and Catholic. It's incomprehesible. If a person simply watches television it appears that theism in all its forms is a kind of mental illness that causes people to commit mass murder for reasons they can't articulate.

Of course, most Sunni, Shia, Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Sikh, Hindus, Buddhists, Taoists, Santerians, Bahai, and other religious folk simply are conditioned to the dominant faith of their family and social group and actually know very little about it and take their lead from whatever authorities dominate their group. They are taught to be suspicious of anyone who is not a member, that is if they are not explicitly taught that unbelievers are evil servants of demonic beings and must be converted or killed. Some Mullahs teach that infidels are enemies of Allah and the Christian gospels are frauds. Some ministers teach that Islam is a deception from Satan and/or the ravings of a demon possessed madman. The Orthodox Jews of his day said of Yeshua, "He has a devil!".

People who simply accept the views of their authorities far outnumber those who do not since non-conformity is punished. So if your authority mis-casts Islam and Moslems you are likely to accept and repeat it and not verify the truth of it. After all, how many people went into the cave with Mohammed and met the angel Gabriel? Yet hundreds of millions believe it without proof. Is the resurrected Yeshua available for inteviews with CNN? Gee, no. He ascended into heaven, but he's coming right back any day now. Has Hare Krishna shown up at any parties you've been to? And yet people believe tales that contradict all human experience and are completely beyond verification.

So what do we think when we have evidence? I can turn on the TV and watch Moslems terrorize, murder and abuse every day. I don't have to take that on faith at all, so It's easy to accept the pronoucements of authorities about Islamofascism and the generalization of that evil to all Islam. But if I'm a good Christian American I'm supposed to think the 130,000 US troops occupying Iraq and killing people every day are on a mission of benevolent mercy and it has nothing at all to do with Iraq sitting atop 30% of the world's oil reserves, even though we allowed the most important museum on the planet to be looted while we secured the Iraqi Oil Ministry's HQ. Hmmmmm.

My first contact with Islam was with the writings of Sufi masters, so my initial impression was that Islam was full of wisdom and practicality. I later learned that most Moslems consider Sufi heretics at best, and in studying the Sunnah and Hadith I became aware of the inherent violent authoritarianism of Islam from it's founding and founder, all of which has much in common with the Old Testament crusading traditions of the Jews. Such authoritarianism only became part of Christianity centuries after its founding when it had become subordinated to the political structure of the Roman Empire, and has no basis in Yeshua's teachings. So to someone like myself who was raised on "Blessed are the peacemakers" and "The meek shall inherit the earth", when I read "Strike off the head of the one who changes his deen!" it is very alien and very threatening, and anyone who believes that bears close watching and should never be allowed nuclear weapons. Conversely I read the Apocalypse of St. John and see all the Christian televangelists babbling about the end times and I say to myself that it's madness to let someone that believes those rantings are future prophecy to control the nuclear arsenal of the United States. And yet such a person does. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

That's a long answer, but I think it's the right one. For myself, as an atheist, I think all theists are brainwashed and dangerous and should be sent for deprogramming. How's that for nuanced thinking?

Answer 10

Because they are controlled by the same demonic spirit. There is no diversity about God, Except the ones that people made up.