We here and see news that Muslim faith tells that anyone who does not believe as they do needs to die. Are there any free thinkers in the Muslim world that challenge this notion? Or do they truely believe everyone is just going to fall in line? I dont get it. What's the story?
2006-11-20 14:44:03 · 23 answers · asked by lightlytread 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
another islamophobia case...ha haa
2006-11-20 14:51:10 · answer #1 · answered by ¥op 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Saying "Muslims" and thinking that all of Islam shares the idiotic revenge / suicide bomber mentality that we see and hear about on the news daily is just wrong. It's like saying that all Christians are alike. The Catholics are like the Unitarians are like the Holy Rollers are like the Christian Scientists?
Thus, it takes a sincere interest and a lot of study to understand that Islam comes from the same roots as Christianity and shares a connection to Judism. If you want a totally different take on Islam, take a look at the poetry of Rumi or Hafiz .. How they treat love and respect and The Friend is a wonderful exploration of devotion to a Holy Spirit.
What if all Christians were judged by the Jim Jones tragedy or the David Koresh situation? When any faith become fanatical, it draws big time press. The truth lies somewhere in the midst of all of this and weeding out the fanatics, like the Christians who killed doctors who performed abortions or bombed their clinics in the name of their god is not representative of most true Believers in Christ. Is it? Would you bomb a clinic?
It's hard work to understand and we won't fix it in this forum. But, if you understand that in other cultures that their devotion is taken seriously in ways that pass our understanding, then, you are on the pathway to some understanding for yourself.
A simple question with many complex answers.
Finally, I would refer you to the Christian Crusades and the attempt to convert the world of Islam to Christianity? What did Suliman the Great do about that? Was it a noble cause? Would you have gone on a crusade? The Children's Crusade?
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2006-11-20 23:12:10 · answer #2 · answered by vertically challenged 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Look buddy, I did time in the Middle East with the army. I have see the locale in Iraq. For the most part they just want to live thier lives in peace.
The extreamist are Muslims who have been tought from birth to go kill etc... There is a big movement in the middle east to change all of that. Many influncial Muslims are shouting at the top of thier lungs to change the way the extreamest think.
2006-11-20 23:25:45 · answer #3 · answered by last_red_dragon 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Far from it! You need to separate propaganda from facts. Factually there is no command for Muslims religiously to take over the world nor is conversion by force legal Islamically. I think it's us Muslims who should be more on the worrying side whilst at the present moments their are plans to turn the ME to a "new one" by the Bush administration and seeing Iran and and perhaps Syria are next on the Muslim countries to invade.
The Quran states:
[Allah does not forbid you that you show kindness and deal justly with those who did not fight you in your religion and did not drive you out from your homes…] (Al-Mumtahinah 60: 8)
Reach out to your local Mosque, we're people like everyone else. Some extremist are trying to make it an "us" against "them" situation for entirely political gains. While the fact is we wish to live like everyone else to live free and in peace with our neighbors.
Here's some Muslim sites you can visit to get a more accurate view of the average Muslim concerns compared to the picture fox news presents :
www.islamicity.com
www.cair.com
www.islamonline.net
2006-11-20 23:59:28 · answer #4 · answered by gsumayya 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you truly believe everything you hear?No,just like any other religion we all have a few idiots who are crazy .Its just like the stupid rumor saying all Christians don't have a mind of their own.I'm part Muslim and I don't plain to take over the world.I wish I could get rid of the idiots ruining it.As a Christian I do have a mind of my own so I don't appreciate either of the stereotypes against Muslims or Christians.Basically you have to guess what is going on because nobody really knows.There are too many assumptions and false accusations going on today.
2006-11-21 00:02:55 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've heard and read much the same and have a question for these people; just what the hell do you think the other 5+ billion of us are going to be doing while you try this one on for size? Just remember while your faith has suffered at the hands of others, your own faith doesn't have clean hands either.
2006-11-20 22:58:07 · answer #6 · answered by ron k 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Believers of all religons wish that all people accept religions to enjoy the divine education of the One True God.
But the methods of teaching and the choice of believing or not believing depend on each individual. Freedom of choice is considered as sovereign right throughout the world now.
2006-11-20 22:58:31 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most muslim countries are closed to any new thought and if a daughter converts a father in England killed his own daughter. The faith of Islam in the hands of the fundementalists thinkers wants to do away with western society. That means kill us. Twin towers you know, no exaggeration here.
2006-11-20 23:11:01 · answer #8 · answered by rapturefuture 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
What you said make me thinks ot the Orai ( not sure about the spelling ) in Stargate SG1 : you follow us or you die.
I don't think it is true and that it would be possible. I have never heard such things. Maybe what you here in your country is different from the news I have. In France, we know that Islam preaches peace and not war. Only extremists want to destabilised the western world.
No the one that will take over the world are the Chinese. And they have already started (^_^)
2006-11-20 22:54:07 · answer #9 · answered by kl55000 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Every religous group has extreamists and the islamic religion is no different. Just becuae one group does some stupid random act does not mean that they represent the whole religion. Besides the media is not into telling the truth or seting things straight, they are only interested in viewing polls.
2006-11-20 22:59:17 · answer #10 · answered by quileter 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What's not to get?
*Every* religion believes (in one way or another) that they're going to "take over the world." They all believe that they have some special "truth" that everyone simply MUST believe if they're to be true to god...many of them believe that their particular brand of supernatural fairy-tale will eventually rule THIS world. Others believe their fairy-tales will take over after we all die (only christians go to heaven, everybody else goes to hell, therefore everybody in heaven is a christian!). Still others have prophecies that they will take over governments in a crisis (the mormons believe this about the US government) and they can institute their spiritual rule in the US.
They *all* believe that their special "truth" will reveal itself as the one and only special truth, resulting in some kind of "takeover" by their religion. It's one reason religion starts so many wars -- many believers see conflict with non-believers as inevitable and even speeding up the time when their fairy-tales will be the only ones told :(
2006-11-20 22:54:14 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋