Why blame Islam?

Question

Curiousity begs me to ask (although I'm sure I'll get some offensive replies), WHY is Islam blamed for the acts of terrorism commited in its name? Do people blame catholicism for terrorist acts carried out by the IRA? Or is Chrisitianity blamed for racist attacks by white supremacist or the KKK?
Doesn't it make more sense to blame a person rather than blaming an entire religion? Especially when you look at Muslim communities around the world.....they have the lowest crime rates, the lowest rates of alcoholics, the lowest number of rapes, the lowest number of drug users......Muslim communities (based on statistical evidence) are extremely law-abiding & peaceful. Tell me again why the whole religion is blamed?

SLEESTACK 16 - Not only muslims commit terrorist acts. Do some research before you make sweeping statements
williamzo - I would love to see where you got those statistics from.

Answer 1

I totally agree with you,
I don't blame Islam, blame those Muslims who don't act like what Islam told to to do,
I don't blame Christianity but I also blame Christians who don't act like what Christianity told them to do,
I don't blame Judaisms bit I blame Jews who don't act like what Judaism told them to do.
In these three religions God had never told us to be biased against any one!!! So blame people not the religions of these people.

Answer 2

I blame Islam just as much as I blame Christianity or any other religion for the evils in the world. It's not the religion's fault, it's the people that believe in the religion - or that interpret it in a specific way. But that's the whole problem - it opens itself up to these types of interpretations, which gives people the justification. So, if there was no religion, there'd be no justification. Then maybe people could actually talk about the world's troubles based on people, rational thought and logic rather than believing the world is driven by gods and demons.

Answer 3

Jihadists today invoke the Qur’an to justify the worst terrorist crimes. Throat slitting of infidels is mentioned in the Qur’an. Al-Mawardi (d. 1058), the prominent 11th century jurist quoted this verse, specifically, « When you encounter those who deny (the Truth) then strike (their) necks. » (Qur’an 47 :4), in his learned discussion of jihad. This ritual execution is also mentioned in other Muslim legal texts and in narratives of Christian and prominent Muslim historians. Today it is performed against infidels and recorded on videotape for the edification of Muslim audiences.

At present, radical Islam is a threat to the entire world. And this is while Iran still does not have nuclear weapons. It is in the interests of the West to defeat this terrorist threat.

"First and foremost, we must bring down the terror regimes, beginning with the Big Three: Iran, Iraq, and Syria. And then we have to come to grips with Saudi Arabia. … Once the tyrants in Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Saudi Arabia have been brought down, we will remain engaged. …We have to ensure the fulfillment of the democratic revolution. … Stability is an unworthy American mission, and a misleading concept to boot. We do not want stability in Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and even Saudi Arabia; we want things to change. The real issue is not whether, but how to destabilize."

There can be no resolution of this conflict until Israel wins a decisive victory over those terror groups, with or without the aid of the United States.

Answer 4

Because that is human nature. The 9/11 attackers were Muslim terrorist soooo, all Muslims are terrorists.Not all Christians were KKK.I think the Muslims are getting a bad rap cuz their radicals are ruthless.They don't care who gets in the way.It is the same thing with any culture, a few bad apples ruin it for the whole bunch.

Answer 5

I think a lot of it is that these views come from the Western world where Islam is less familiar to people- they assume that Islam teaches people to kill.
Also Muslim terrorists are seen as using their religion as a reason to kill, but Protestants and Catholics are seen as doing stuff like this for separate reasons, and they just happen to be part of that religion.

Answer 6

Perhaps your question would carry more weight IF 99% of all Terrorist acts were NOT committed by Muslims.

Answer 7

I know, if people would just look at Surah 109 maybe they'd understand, or maybe remember what muhammad said about the ink of the scholar and the blood of the martyr.

Oh and by the way, it's not true that only muslims commit acts of terror, Jews (Baruch goldstein, arguably the israeli government), Christians (Joseph Kony, Eric Robert Rudolph, others), and many many others have all commited acts of terror

Answer 8

The tenets of Islam advocate and even encourage violence in it's defense. It encourages the execution of apostates, homosexuals, blasphemers and even violation of archaic dress codes. It's no wonder muslim societies are so peaceful. They are also the most socially backward and restrictive.

Here in the West we value freedom and personal choice more than we do obedience of arbitrary rules. We value it so much we refuse to let our slack-jawed religious nut-bars dictate behavior for everyone else.

Theocracies should be barred from membersip in the UN.

Answer 9

By association. You may not know it, but many have turned aetheists because of so called "Christians" who have shed so much blood in their Inquisition, or crusades.

Answer 10

i blame religion, theres always a way to justify anything through faith