Why... !!?
2006-09-14 10:29:55 · 11 answers · asked by I was here... 1 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
I don't. It's because I know a lot of people. I think what I would really like to say is that if a religion is a personal set of moral beliefs, it will not ususally lead people to any violent behavior. When people begin to impose their moral beliefs on others, a line has been crossed. When religious beliefs start to become political beliefs, things get dangerous.
No person who kills is a person of God. There are no holy wars. Suicide bombers don't blow themselves up because God told them to. It's because a political leader told them to. Religion is just the excuse and the way to make gullible people think that an act of savage hatred will get them into heaven. It doesn't.
I know many Muslims from various places in West Africa who are very nice people. I know Iranian Muslims who are also kind, non-violent people. I also know of some people who live and work in my neighborhood who won't associate with me because they think I'm a Christian. A thousand years ago, you might have been asking whether people automatically assumed that all Christians were terrorists- or insane, bigoted murderers- whatever the medeval equivalent of terrorist was.
If you take business and politics out of the equation, Muslims, Christians and Jews aren't much different from each other- that is as long as they are people who actually practice the faith that they claim.
We could say a lot of things about terrorists to make ourselves feel better about eliminating them, but the fact that they might be Muslim is not one of those things.
In closing, I would like to remind any Muslims who are reading this of something that they should already know. Money is not God, oil is not God, land is not God. There is no God except God.
2006-09-14 11:07:22 · answer #1 · answered by anyone 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
There's as many extremist Muslim terrorists as there are extremist IRA, Jew, Protestant etc etc terrorists.
It's just that the media and America are making the Muslim terrorists front page news. In the years since 9/11 there has been more media coverage on that the there was on the terror and war in Ireland.
2006-09-14 18:11:30 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
No. but mullahs have a vicious hold on that community and life and death of a person depends on mullahs fatwa and not on natural justice. Secondly(though it is denied) yet the concept that
any jihad goes to heaven has encouraged many Muslim youth to join the ranks of terrorist. Thirdly the ordinary people of Muslim world are poor but Like to be rich terrorism gives easy income.
2006-09-14 20:24:47 · answer #3 · answered by Brahmanda 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No! Although some terrorist profess to be Muslims, most Muslims are NOT terrorists. That is like saying that because some people professing Christianity bomb abortion clinics, that all Christians are bombists, when by far th most of us think that is an act of willful murder and the bombest should be treated as criminals, not martyrs.
No one should pull their religion into acts that are against the teachings of that religion, and true Muslim faith does not condone murder.
2006-09-14 18:07:11 · answer #4 · answered by mamasheilag 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No. While I acknowledge that the recent high profile terrorist attacks have been carried out by Muslims, he VAST majority aren't like that. Unfortunately, as always, the quiet majority are being ignored and the loud minority, who pretend to speak for all Muslim but in reality only speak for a few nutters, are getting all the coverage.
2006-09-14 18:10:53 · answer #5 · answered by AndyB 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
we cannot come to such blunt and blind conclusions. They are one among us.I have seen too many of them filled with humanity, compassion and love. Only a group of people were brainwashed and motivated against the mankind.These people, due to their poverty, ignorance and affected by an ethinic violence, are being turned into terrorist by some malignant agencies.All the muslims and other people belonging to various religions are our brothers and sisters.
2006-09-14 23:03:27 · answer #6 · answered by nlpartha 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Of course. Every 9/11, I "see Muslims" flying airplanes into American buildings.
Don't you? Are you blind?
The hard part is trying to see that not every Muslim is a terrorist. And it's hard, but I'm working it.
2006-09-14 20:19:14 · answer #7 · answered by Monk 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no dont see all of them as terrorists but some are being used by vested interests.....
2006-09-14 18:31:24 · answer #8 · answered by mr g 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yes i do,they are always saying that there faith will rule the world,for starters,as far as I'm concerned there is know such thing,just a lot of brain washed people who are looking for some form of hope,i don't suppose they all are but they still make me nervous
2006-09-14 17:59:25 · answer #9 · answered by amber_xx66 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yes I do. The whole bloody lot of them. Waste of space.
2006-09-14 18:53:19 · answer #10 · answered by Tracker 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋