Is what Christians did 500-1000 years ago a good excuse for what barbaric savage Muslims do all over the world

Question

Now? How can we help them catch up to the 21st century as we have?

Answer 1

There is no good excuse for any atrocity committed against one race, nationality, religion or people against another. There was no good excuse for Hitler, or Genghis Khan, Napoleon, Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, or Attilla the Hun. Atrocity on any scale is unacceptable. What the Muslims are doing in the name of "religion" will surely condemn them to everlasting damnation and a fate far worse than they could ever inflict on their victims.

Answer 2

It is a small percentage of EXTREMISTS that are causing the problem.

For example, in Sudan it is more a combination of religious belief and power. This has always been a dangerous combination.

Please stop confusing Muslims with extremists. They are not the same thing. Really. This would be similar to saying all Christians are savages based on the actions of anti-abortionists (death threats, murders, etc.) or the KKK.

It is the PEOPLE that are the problem, and how they are either told or believe in their religion. It is the PEOPLE that commit the atrocities because their beliefs make them right.

Anyone who has ever read the old testemant can tell you there is some pretty terrible stuff in there. However, most people today don't follow those tenets. The same with Islam and the Koran. It too, contains some nasty stuff as well, but most people don't necessarily follow them.

We here more about muslim extremism because that is the catch of the day. It's the excuse for the problems in Iraq. It's the excuse used in the Sudan.

However, religious violence is anything but new. It's been happening for centuries. The big difference now is that in modern countries we have learned to grow beyond our religious text (we don't beat women when they displease us for example). The Muslim world has made strides in this direction, but there are still areas in the world (mainly the third world) where religion is used to keep power and maintain power over others. This works on masses that are uneducated, and hold their beliefs to be absolutes of logic. This is similar to how the Catholic church mainted its enormous power and influence over the masses during the dark and middle ages.

We can not force them into the 21st century. This has to be revolution from within. Forcing people to change leads us into situations like Iraq. The people of these third world nations need to somehow unite and overthrow their dictator-religious leaders and try to put more sanity into the system.

Perhaps the best way to do move this along is to bring in the modern muslim nations to help. They would be far more influential, since most muslim nations now are wary of our interference.

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Answer 3

It is not a question of what Christians did 500 years ago, it's a question of what Christians do today. How is a Christian terrorist attack against an abortion clinic any different from a Muslim terrorist attack against a synagogue? In both cases it's murder to promote a political agenda. Christians have in no way caught up with the 21st century, the ban against same sex marriage was made by the Pope in the 10th century, until then it was accepted throughout Europe. When are you going to catch up with the 21st century? Nazi Germany was founded as a Christian Nation, the Holocaust was based on the Christian teaching of the time, when you accept the idea that "God said it, I believe it, that settles it", it's easy to herd women and children into ovens, God said it, and you are only following His orders. The last U.S. Witch trial was in the '50s, as recently as the '90s a Wiccan family had their children taken by Christians and were ordered to change their religion to one of the Christian denominations as a condition to getting them back. They won that one in court, but it still stands a hallmark of Christian bigotry. When the Christians are ready to accept other religions as valid paths, then, and only then, have they got any right to ask the Islamics to do the same.

Answer 4

I am proud of a person like you who have taken the courage to ask this question on the net. I am a muslim and I can tell you rest assured that IT DOES NOT give muslims (and I do not know how they call themselves that) the right to do the things they do and how they have been representing Islam until today. I have been born in this religion in an Asian country and I have never seen Islam been practised there behind the Hijab and the Borkha and the long beards and cloaks. These are the enemies of Islam and 90% or more of them reside in the Western countries, not in the poorer Islamic countries like ours.

So, what you have said is correct, but please do not compare us with those muslims who has made Islam a religion of the Borkha and the guns!

Answer 5

White men did help them catch up in the 20th century. Muslims used to have a fairly peace attitude toward most religions (except Judism, because Mohammed was betrayed by some Jews).
France had a large controlling interest in the Middle East in the 1930s and 1940s. When France ceded their country over to Hitler, they also ceded over their control of some Middle Eastern countries.
Tell me what you would be like, if a white man and his officers came to your country full of dark skinned people and dark eyed people, and told you that your race was inferior, and set about torturing you?
You know that this white man has superior weaponry, so you can't fight him on his turf, you have to find another way...what way would that be?
Even after that man was long gone, how would you feel about the white "Christian" man?

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Can we please not lump all Muslim's into one big group: there are some individuals who are doing this, however many Muslim's would not even credit them with the name 'Muslim's'. There are also many individuals from other religions doing these things, There are also many many other and far more complicated reasons for what is happening now. a little bit more sensitivity and understanding from all parties would go a long way.

Answer 8

Islam MUST be reformed, just like christianity had. there is such a movement, known as the republican brotherhood (founded by Muhammad Taha) in the Sudan. However, their leaders keep getting killed by the Muslims who rule Sudan and the muslims who live in Sudan. The movement is very small, but comprises many of the educated (doctors, teachers, engineers) of the sudanese community are for it, or a part of it. This is why They cease to exist in the presence of real muslims, unencumbered by the presence of western values and tolerance.

This is Islams last chance for modernization. If they do not, they will face a war of mutual extermination, one side possessing Nuclear weapons, but not the Will to use them. One Side Possessing the WIll to use Nuclear weapons, but lacking the Means to use them. One day, this paradigm will shift. And many will die.

Answer 9

These wacky Muslims will seize on any excuse they can find. They don't even follow their own Qurran when it comes to practices against the West. They have been acting like this for thousands of years. Unlike the reast of the world, they have not evolved.

Answer 10

Good question ! The murder committed nowdays, is barbaric. Heads being cut off. You are so accurate. They need to catch up. My Gosh, they are still living back in the pagan days. How can we help them catch up and be civilized ?