is islam really that bad as you see on tv?

Question

don't forget that u can't just blame everyone for just one person for example osama.
i mean not every muslim should be treated for just one person.
and lets not forget the fact that they are just Protecting theire houses and things like that that's why they are doing all that crazy things like car bombs and things like that.
i want your opinon

Answer 1

Islam is a good religion just like Christianity because there is a choice of doing what is good and bad.

Answer 2

There is little difference between Muslim fundamentalists and Christian fundamentalists. Thank the Creator they are a small minority in both religions.

Think of what the lunatic fringe clergy in either religion says, the main difference is in whether or not they are being supplied with weapons, money and air-time.


For everyday, run of the mill, mainstream people of either faith, they mainly want peace in which to try to make their loved-ones prosper.

We should think on why the money pipelines have not been cut, and why our government has supplied the presses, paper, ink and engraving technology to our good friends the Saudis, which are exactly what is needed to print counterfeit U.S. currency.

Answer 3

No. It's much like Christianity. I've dealt with Muslims for many, many years in business and found that they were generally very honest and straightforward. I know that they have done terrible things in the name of God, but I think that Christians have too. I think that one big problem we have is information. We only hear one side of the story. What would make you hate someone so much that you would kill yourself and hundreds, or thousands of innocent people just to make a point. This is something we should all think about. I have been many, many places in this world and the one thing I've found everywhere is that people are pretty much the same and want the same things: a better life for their children, a little medical care, not to be taxed to death. They love their children and country just like we do. Though not done maliciously, I think our country is responsible for much of what's going on in the world. It's just the way we do business. If you study history you will see that we have supported terrible and repressive regimes in Iraq, Iran and Saudi Arabia. It was good business for us and made oil very cheap, which gave us a better life, but at the same time it was very short sighted and bad for many of the people there. At this point in history I think we should recognize that these people mostly just need to be left alone. They are afraid of us, not for what we do openly, but for what we do secretly to make sure we keep control and keep the oil flowing. This fear creates anger and hate. That's a simple analysis, and there are many other things. These are very old cultures with deep rooted beliefs. They don't want their children watching MTV, or movies with sex, drugs and murder in them. They think that its important that a woman be a virgin when she marries. These are by and large good things, but conflict deeply with our free society. It would probably be best if we immediately went to work here in our own country on alternative energy sources, and just stayed out of theirs. We have to do this anyway and soon because of global warming which is caused by the burning of fossil carbon. (oil and coal) Remember, not even one the people that high-jacked the airplanes on 9/11 came from Iraq, not even one. Also remember this. Iraq sits on what is probably the biggest untapped oil pool on earth, maybe even bigger than Saudi Arabia where all the hijackers came from. Think about this too. If you were a country over there and could make a nuclear bomb, would you if you knew it would give the the United States second thoughts before invading. I think we've scared everyone enough to make them do desperate things. Same with North Korea, whose leader is dangerously paranoid and quite insane. As to Islam. It could be that when you take everything from a man, threaten his way of life, his family, make him a slave under an oppressive government that is kept in power by US weapons and dollars, he uses what he has left, which in this case is his religion.

Answer 4

No it is not. People have once again done the illogical by equating a group of fundamentalists, who form a small part of the Islamic faith with the rest of the Arab world.

They subscribe to the idea that because a terrorist is Muslim all Muslims are terrorists in much the same way that early 20th century criminal positivism claimed that because crime was committed by members of certain "race" groups with certain characteristics all members belonging to that "race" group were criminals.

The term terrorist is also incorrectly used to describe only actions perpetrated by muslim extremists when the term translated in it's strictest sense can be used to describe the actions of many countries.

ter‧ror‧ism
1.the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, esp. for political purposes.
2.the state of fear and submission produced by terrorism or terrorization.
3.a terroristic method of governing or of resisting a government.

ter‧ror‧ist
1.a person, usually a member of a group, who uses or advocates terrorism.
2.a person who terrorizes or frightens others.
3.(formerly) a member of a political group in Russia aiming at the demoralization of the government by terror.
4.an agent or partisan of the revolutionary tribunal during the Reign of Terror in France.
–adjective
5.of, pertaining to, or characteristic of terrorism or terrorists: terrorist tactics.

Answer 5

Is that the best excuse you have to justify Muslims suicide bombing their own kind in the Middle East: "...just Protecting theire houses and things like that..."

Lets not forget that because Islam is around, these destructive events happened: 9/11, the cartoon-chaos, the daily suicide bombings in Iraq, the London bombings, the brief Israel-Lebanon war, Beslan school hostage crisis*...... must I go on?

*yes, Al-Quaeda was involved here too. Go to link if you don't believe me.

Answer 6

it's not and the only people who think it is have never met/gotten to know an acutal muslim. i know some and they're all really cool

Answer 7

Islam isn't, Islami "fundamentalists" are.

Answer 8

Well it doesn't look like they're doing much to try and prove otherwise.

Answer 9

of courseti isn't. you can't believe all you see on television.