2007-01-03 11:07:51 · 24 answers · asked by I still believe. 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Only after the bomb goes off.
2007-01-03 11:09:34 · answer #1 · answered by Fish <>< 7 · 7⤊ 6⤋
Of course Islam is a religion of peace. Don't let stuff you see on TV fool you, the majority of the 1.6 Billion Muslims in the world don't support terrorism, and feel that terrorists are misrepresenting Islam. Muslims feel disgusted with terrorists as you and I feel about Jack the Ripper.
It's wrong to judge a religion by what some small number of its followers do. Judge it by its scriptures and what the majority believe.
2007-01-03 11:58:31 · answer #2 · answered by Sulayman 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
If the person interpreting it is using it with a mind filled with peace, YES, as opposed to someone abusing it for self-serving agendas.
2007-01-03 11:14:03 · answer #3 · answered by vinslave 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
yes yes yes it is. those terrorists do not represent the billion of muslims in the world. yes their actions speak louder than any of our words but what do you wish us as muslims to do? some muslim countries such as pakistan have even tried to help the US with trying to find and fight the terrorists. they condemn and wish to stop the actions of those people who kill in the name of islam. do you think a muslim could respect them for what they do? how could someone be so cold-hearted as to celebrate deaths of innocents? dont you think i hate them as much as you do even more because they are making islam appear to be so wrong and evil unlike what it really means. in my eyes my religion is so beautiful and then this other image comes up that everyone sees. it conflicts with everything i know and feel about being a muslim. and i dont know how to make everyone see.
p.s. jihad doesn't mean war...the definition is "striving in the name of God." a mother going through the 9 months of pregnancy for her child is also a jihad. yes it can be used to describe "holy war" but holy war is an act of defense not aggression.
2007-01-03 11:27:33 · answer #4 · answered by E.T.01 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Some people say it is. But, as the old saying goes, The Proof Is In the Pudding. So far, I'd say it is a very violent religion .. more accuractly .. the people who follow the religion tend to be of a violent nature. And their gospel seems to preach it. Good Luck ! :)
2007-01-03 11:12:03 · answer #5 · answered by tysavage2001 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
read this book: Discourses Of Peace, it will answer u.
hope I helped
2007-01-03 11:16:37 · answer #6 · answered by suma 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Objective facts say it all ---
Worldwide Islamic conflicts: Chechnya, Uzbekistan, Thailand, Somolia, Sudan and Dafur genocide, Chad, Phillipines, Indonesia, Lebanon, Palastine, Iraq, Algeria, Southern India, Kashmir, etc..
2007-01-03 11:09:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 4⤋
Yes it is a religon of peace the muslims that bomed places had prombles i would neva eva do that i am muslim and proud of it and i wouldn't killl anyone !!
2007-01-03 11:12:15 · answer #8 · answered by Meenah;* 1 · 3⤊ 1⤋
with peaceful people, yes. with aggressors, child murderers no, it's a religion of war against evil.
2007-01-03 11:27:26 · answer #9 · answered by Yousef GH 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No way !! you just have you look at the history of islam to see that Muhammad spread islam by the sword & true islam does this to day by suicide bombings ! There are over 100 verses in the koran commanding jihad. This is just a few comments by islam's leaders, which the "political correct" west wants to hide & bury their heads in the sand from !!
*Yasser Arafrat April 2002 " I call for millions of martyrs to march to Jerusalem, this is our destiny"
"Moderate Muslims are traditors"
By OMAR SINAN, Associated Press
CAIRO, Egypt - The deputy leader of al-Qaida accused moderate Arab leaders of being traitors for cooperating with the United States in a message posted on the Internet Saturday to mark the most important Islamic holiday. Ayman al-Zawahri's wished the Palestinian people a happy Eid al-Adha, but lashed out at moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and his Fatah movement."Those who had sold Palestine, the secular traitors, cannot be your brothers. Do not recognize their legitimacy. ... And don't sit with them," al-Zawahri said in a 15-minute audiotape message posted on a Web site commonly used by Islamic insurgents.Al-Zawahri did not mention Saddam Hussein's execution, suggesting the tape was made before the ousted leader's hanging on Saturday.The tape could not immediately be verified, but a banner posted on the Web site said it came from al-Qaida's media production house, al-Sahab.Abbas met with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert earlier this month in an effort to restart U.S.-backed peace talks between the Jewish state and the Palestinians. Abbas is jockeying with the radical Islamic Hamas group for popular support in the increasingly turbulent West Bank and Gaza. In the audiotape, al-Zawahri also denounced U.S. ally Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in an apparent reference to recent arrests and detentions of several members of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood. "I greet my brothers inside the prisons of Mubarak, the traitor," he said.Al-Zawahri extended his Eid greeting to Iraq, praising the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, and urged Muslims in Somalia, Chechnya, Indonesia, the Philippines and Algeria to keep on fighting the "infidels and crusaders."
muslims are taught at a very young age to hate & murder !
*Hatred in Palestine text books Our Arabic language for 5th grade text book #542 pg 67 "We must fight the Jews & chase them from our country, there will be a jihad & our country will be liberated; In your left hand, the Koran & in your right hand the Arab sword, without blood not a centeimeter will be liberated; Remember the final, an inevitable result will be the victory of the Muslims over the Jews."
2007-01-03 11:22:32 · answer #10 · answered by ? 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Aparently not, you have bombers blowing themselves up all in the name of their religion. I wouldn't call that peaceful at all.
2007-01-03 11:18:07 · answer #11 · answered by Voice 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋