Why are Muslims so violent and mean spirited?

Question

The pope's quote is 100% accurate to this day. Can any Muslims prove otherwise?

Answer 1

They will probably report you as bashing them and try to get your question removed..
The few that want to be peaceful are just plainly overwhelmed by the majority that take the koran literally and kill the rest. Remember that in Iraq it is mostly muslims killing muslims and this doesn't even make sense. The idea that they would want to expel the foreigners is one thing, but they just go for anyone's blood. They kill people that are trying to help them feeding and clothing the muslim people. The whole idea doesn't make sense to western people.
They say one thing, but when you see them and how they live then it is another. They say peace peace, but what the koran says and what they live is another thing..
The peaceful ones need to get out of Islam and start their own peaceful branch.

Answer 2

Is that the same as saying all Christians are calm and peaceable?

If so, why was there a raging war, full of terrorist acts in Ireland mainly divided on the lines or Protestant and Catholic?

Don't generalize a whole religion, because it's very inaccurate. There is a faction within the Muslim religion that is violent, but by no means is it the entire religion, or the basis of most followers beliefs.

btw, I'm not Muslim.

The belief that others can be "converted" by force has been tried in numerous religions and political belief systems throughout history, and has almost always ended with the war turning against that religion or political belief.

Do I think the pope's quote is accurate, YES. But your question and assertion is not accurate.

Answer 3

Well, as an ophthalmologist, I would hope you could "see" that they are not all violent. Currently, the countries with the largest populations are some of the most poverty ridden. The poor will always resent the rich.

The UN report on the Arab states, published in 2002, but which studied 1999, revealed that the 22 Arab states COMBINED, had a GNP less than that of Spain, which is something like seventh in the world.

There is an intersection of horrific/gut wrenching poverty and the ability to see, via the Internet how the other half lives. In the past, they had little or no knowledge of such things, now it is readily available. Regardless of religion, the less wealthy are going to resent the more privileged, as they watch their children die to starvation and disease, or suffer poverty related blindness that modern medicine can take care of so easily.

Religion, in my opinion, is truly the opiate of the masses, but the Internet threw some naloxone into the mix.

Answer 4

I have enough of seeing this kindda question over here. Can u please like read thru the other questions before u post another one. All is the same kind of question.

But i beg to differ about the all terrorist are muslim statement.

Its the media i tell u. They only do coverage on the violence that we Muslim do. The left out the good deeds that we Muslim have done. Dun trust the media too much. God give u brain so please use it wisely.

Answer 5

Why are so many Christians ignorant of the true teachings of Islam?

Why do ignorant Westerners choose to act like they are experts on Islam, and choose to voice their ignorance in a public way, thus making themselves look like total morons?

What the pope said was rude and insensitive. The fact that so many people can't understand why Muslims are offended amazes me.

Please study the religion before you judge it. I imagine you would ask others to do the same about your faith.

Answer 6

If you go and read a single book on the biography of prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) you will know that your pope is not correct.

Innocent until proven guilty. The responsibility of proof lies on you not on us - Muslims.

Answer 7

Why are the majority of Christians are so ignorant? Christians post all these hate questions about Islam and Muslim which mostly are due to their lack of knowledge.

The Christians are more fanatics when any of their Chruches get burned look at the way they are behaving with couple of Churches burn by some ignorant Muslims. US and UK occupation troops had destoryed hundreds of Mosques in Afghanistan and Iraq which they believe is good.

Answer 8

i dont want to prove anything to others. its upto others to accept or reject.
Thomas Carlyle in 'Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History,' 1840
"The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad(saaw) are disgraceful to ourselves only." "A silent great soul, one of those who cannot but be earnest. He was to kindle the world, the world’s Maker had ordered so."

Mahatma Gandhi, a statement published in 'Young India,'1924.
"I wanted to know the best of the life of one who holds today an undisputed sway over the hearts of millions of mankind.... I became more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days in the scheme of life. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of the Prophet(saaw), the scrupulous regard for pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers, his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission. These and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every obstacle. When I closed the second volume (of the Prophet's biography), I was sorry there was not more for me to read of that great life."

Dr. William Draper in 'History of Intellectual Development of Europe'
"Four years after the death of Justinian, A.D. 569, was born in Mecca, in Arabia, the man who, of all men, has exercised the greatest influence upon the human race... To be the religious head of many empires, to guide the daily life of one-third of the human race, may perhaps justify the title of a Messenger of God."

Jules Masserman in 'Who Were Histories Great Leaders?' in TIME Magazine, July 15, 1974
"Perhaps the greatest leader of all times was Muhammad(saaw), who combined all the three functions. To a lesser degree Moses(as) did the same."

W. Montgomery Watt in 'Muhammad(saaw) at Mecca,' Oxford, 1953.
"His readiness to undergo persecution for his beliefs, the high moral character of the men who believed in him and looked up to him as a leader, and the greatness of his ultimate achievement - all argue his fundamental integrity. To suppose Muhammad(saaw) an impostor raises more problems than it solves. Moreover, none of the great figures of history is so poorly appreciated in the West as Muhammad(saaw) is.. Thus, not merely must we credit Muhammad(saaw) with essential honesty and integrity of purpose, if we are to understand him at all, if we are to correct the errors we have inherited from the past, we must not forget that conclusive proof is a much stricter requirement than a show of plausibility, and in a matter such as this only to be attained with difficulty."

Answer 9

You are an MD?????????????? Are you kidding me? You are extremely ignorant. Please educate yourself before you bash the largest growing religion in the world. The Pope is way out of line. Look at his followers... you can't tell me there are no corrupt people in the Catholic Church!

Answer 10

All I can say is this, your perception of some of the Muslim population cannot and does not apply to all. Generalizations are not absolute truths.