What's a hardball question to ask about Islam?

Question

I am going to hear a talk about "The Religon of Peace" tonight, and I want to cast doubt on the speakers claims that Islam does not support violence. Any suggestions for a loaded question I can ask?

Answer 1

If Islam is truly a religion of peace, why do they hurt people when someone calls them violent?

Use the Pope's comment as an example.

Answer 2

Ooh, boy. I wish I was going! =)

There are a few passages in the Koran that speak of peace, but there are a plethora that teach murder. There is an ambiguous sentence that could be interpreted to mean "Don't commit suicide". It says "Don't destroy yourself". This could also mean many other things. Martyrdom is glorified all throughout the Muslim holy books, however.

In Sam Harris' book "The End of Faith" he has about 6 pages full of quotes that prove Islam is not a religion of peace. Here are a few from the hadith (holy book about Mohammed) and Koran:

1.) "A day and night fighting on the frontier is better than a month of fasting and prayer."

2.) "Those that deny our revelations will be punished for their misdeeds."

3.) "Fighting is obligatory for you, much as you dislike it. But you may hate a thing although it is good for you, and love a thing although it is bad for you.

The people at your talk will probably say that the terrorists misinterpret the Koran and that it means spiritual fighting, not physical fighting (or some such bs). The fact is, if the passages are so ambiguous that most of the Muslim world "misinterprets" them, the religion is a religion of war.

Answer 3

Oh boy! Do I. Ask them about Quran 47:4 - Surah 101:6-9 -Yusifali 4:74 - Hadith Vol. 9 Book 93 #555
Surahs 9-6 2-191 2-193 thru 33:60-62. Ask them to explain why all the killings of Christians and other nonbelievers. Why does all these books teach violence against people not of Islam.

Another point...Ask them why they would hold a Prophet in such high esteem as Muhammad Who advocates lying, lied to his own people about God saying to worship pagans in order to encourage them to join Islam. And why would they even care about a man of 54 years old having sex with a 9 year old child. He married Aisha when she was six.

I could go on and on. Perhaps this will help.

Answer 4

So you are against Islam and haven't even thought about why you are against Islam enough to have formulated your own questions? So you're simply an agitator.

Why not simply go and listen to what the speaker says. If you disagree with him, ask a question that you actually think of yourself.

Going in with a closed mind and parroting someone else's question will only make you look like a schmuck. Especially if the speaker has an answer for the question that you didn't understand enough to think of yourself.

Answer 5

Yeah, ask them to explain how that "sword against all infidels" thing is non-violent. I'd ask about that 72 virgins thing too, the why of how murdering innocent people in the process of committing suicide would possibly get anyone into heaven. Isn't murder against the commandments, or did they make new commandments to get around it?

You might also want to ask why they use violence to show how non-violent they are, such as burning the chruches and kill the nun and two other people over what the pope said.

Answer 6

Here's one . .

In 1953, the US sponsored Operation Ajax, a CIA coup led by Kermit Roosevelt Jr, against the duly elected Prime Minister of Iran, Mohammed Mossadegh, that resulted in his imprisonment and the installation of Mohammed Reza Pahlavi as Shah. The Shah was a brutal dictator who used the Savak to crush his people.

When the Iranian people finally overthrew the Shah in the late 1970s, the US supplied arms and support to Iraq, in its war against Iran. Saddam Hussein gassed tens of thousands of Kurds in Northern Iraq, and later invaded Kuwait.

In the recent decade, the US fabricated stories of WMDs in Iraq to justify a full scale invasion and conquest of the nation.

In view of the historic violence by the US against Islamic nations, don't you feel that the Islamic people are justified in setting aside a peaceful path and taking up arms?

Answer 7

Here's a good one:

Ask them if there are any archaeological references to Mohammad being labeled as a "prophet of god" within 40 years of his death? Also, does any other major religion accept Mohammad as a "prophet of God" the way Jesus is accepted among the Muslims, Buddhists and Jews?

Silence will fall upon the room. Bring earplugs, for it will be deafening.

Answer 8

If Islam is such a violent religion then why do u have such a hard time finding proof to support this?Why don't u ask yourself that?

All I ask of u is when u go,go with an open mind not with that brain washed mentality of yours okay.And remember that it is a Muslim view of Islam and not what it may be portray as.

Answer 9

Why has there been no public condemnation of the violence done in the name of Islam?

Answer 10

Why ask a loaded question at all?

People use all religions to justify their bad actions such as war and terror. Ever hear of the Crusades? Christians invading the heathen lands because they were "non-believers". (oops, is that what we are doing?)