I'm a Muslim, what do you think about me?

Question

I don't support terrorists.

I don't support terrorism.

I don't believe in killing anyone who's not a Muslim.

I highly dislike the fact that people judge all Muslims by what idiotic radical lunatics have done in the name of Islam - Whom I also hate.

I try to do my best to stand up against terrorism.

I don't believe in drawing my information from the Media considering that that's where most people get their false information about Muslims from.

I don't enjoy harming people and/or animals -- Nor do I actually harm any.

Have any of you considered actually reading the Quaran instead of believing every racist thing you see on websites? Or every negative thing the Media posts about us?

What do you think of me?

Answer 1

I do not know you therefore I have no opinion what-so-ever about you. I think what you are really asking is what do we think about the fact that you do not fit into the model of Muslims that the media has painted.

Regarding that all I can say is... well that's great. Look, there are wacko's in EVERY religion... There are wacko's that don't have faith in anything other than themselves. Likewise there are some really good, solid, upstanding people in all of those groupes as well.

Bottom line... you are free to follow whatever faith you choose, regardless of the opinions of others. Muslim, Christian, whatever... just don't be a wacko that thinks it's ok to kill people because they don't believe the same as you...

Ain't freedom great???

Answer 2

I don't really know you except for your self-description, but it sounds like you are trying to be a good person.

Most people in the west have no problem with someone who is a muslim. There are millions of muslims who live in America and practice their religion freely and without persecution. The same could not be said of most christians in many muslim countries. Why is that?

Part of the problem is that you don't hear the muslim community rising up against the muslim extremists. Sure every now and then someone like yourself will state that they oppose terrorism and I don't doubt that you do. But, I sledom hear of all of the Imams in the US getting together and making public statements against terro. Or irradicating their mosques of those who support terror.

Usually, you hear of another terro plot that was thwarted and the suspects were linked to some mosque.

I remember seeing muslims dancing in the streets on 911 in some countries.

If Islam is truly a religion of peace then the moderate muslims of the world need to deal with the extremists and take back the religion that has been hijacked.

I have read parts of the Koran and have read what should be done with infidels and unbelievers. Those portions of the texts are being used by the extremists to wage jihad.

I hope that one day there can be peace, but the muslim extremists will not rest until they are victorious or dead. Unfortunately that puts you in the middle. Rather than criticize non-muslims maybe you should look at your people first and lay your criticism there.

Answer 3

I I don’t have an opinion on you, but I do on Islam.

I am born into Islam, but rarely practice it. I consider myself open and have taken many principals from other religions to fill my needs and lifestyle. (Everyone does this, not just me)

Conservative Moslems would like us all to believe that it is a peaceful religion, and a tolerant one, but to pragmatists, if you are tolerant of other religions, then it means you are not following the religion completely. The quran has guides on how to conduct your self with other religions...

Islam is more of a revolutionary ideology, whereas Christianity relies on the principals of "love" Islam relies on the principal of "justice".

It’s the same ideology of most freedom fighters, and to turn the other cheek in the face of injustice is an unmoslem character. that’s why it is somewhat consistent with Islam teachings to take the fight to the oppressors, perhaps even to kill the infidel to protect your fellow Moslems.. If you do not believe this then you are a modern Moslem, or a Moslem who does not practice the religion completely.

Most negative views on Islam were Islam made. Do you recall the comic on Mohammed by a Danish artist? The one that drew a ton of negative views on Islam as one comic, made thousands if not millions of Moslems protest and chant "kill the Danish" or "kill bla bla bla". Those people protesting were generally regular people but when attacked they became fierce, a portion of the behavior is so common amongst Moslems that you cant help to attribute it to the religion rather than the people.

in any case I think there are a lot of good people in the world and many of them are Moslems, I know my parents wouldn’t hurt a fly. However I do think the problem is Moslems who instead of turning to common decency when Islam is attacked, they group together with the people who spearhead intolerance and hate.

When those Danish comics came out I recall my father saying "I hope Moslems don’t get sucked into this" and the next day there was violence and demonstrations. The demonstrations were global, and not localized, which made you think this is “Moslem” thing rather than an extremist thing.

Conservatives don’t do as much to repair the religion’s image as the extremists who ruin it.. To a moderate, your enemy shouldn’t be western culture or America, its the extremists that make it hard for you to travel all over the world or be accepted.

I agree there are a lot of attacks on Islam but most of it are addressed to the extremists, so why would a conservative get willed up by this? Could it be the religion or are all Moslems siding on extremism rather than decency?

in anycase this is a dumb question, no one thinks anything of you, no one knows who you are?

Answer 4

I don't base my opinions of people on which religion they adhere to. From the few things you listed in your question I'd guess you are a decent person that I would probably enjoy talking to. I have not read the Quaran, maybe I should some day but its not at the top of my list. I still have a few volumes of Philip K. Dick to get through before I decide on what's next.

Answer 5

I think that you are misguided in your belief that those who are not muslims judge you by what other muslims do. Because islam seems to be a religion for nutters doesnt make you a nut...does it? The Koran which extreme nutters seem to follow to the tee proclaim themselves as "good muslims" for doing so. Thats why these "extreme nutters" seem to have no qualms with ending the life of an infidel because the good book equates the promise of paradise and virgins etc a very attractive prospect indeed.

Answer 6

There is perfection in the religion of Islam but never deny that there are some extreamists whom had taken the law into their own hands, you shouldn't relate some muslims to the religion itself, originally Islam is the religion of peace. Nevertheless you should know the reason why just recently muslims had been called as terrorists, but actually they are not and they are not cowards either. They are protecting the religion and fighting for the those innocent lives that were killed mainly from Islamic countries.

Answer 7

I admire you for countering the negative images we see almost every week on television.

As a grandfather, I'd be curious to know your views on Muhammad's taking a prepubescent girl as a wife and the practice, apparently sanctioned by some Muslim clerics, of men "thighing" with underage children. Are these practices moral or immoral, in your opinion?

Answer 8

I don't really know you, so I can't really say I know enough to characterize you in any way. I do know that God has given all people dignity and worth, and you as a child of God have as much dignity and worth as I do.

As for the media, I can think for myself, and I have read the Qu'ran. I know that Islam is not as terrible a religion as some in the media want it to appear to be. But I also know that I am irritated by Islamic triumphalism that makes Islam out to be a perfection of its predecessor religions; who likes to be told that their religion has been replaced by a newer, better one?

But I certainly know better than to just believe everything I am told.

Answer 9

Nearly every reasonable-sounding Muslim who contacts us to defend Islam against the mounting evidence that it is a violent religion manages to say something similar to this. In other circumstances, of course, these same apologists bristle at the suggestion that their religion is just as imperfect as others, insisting that Islam is Allah’s perfect religion for mankind.

But, if history and current events tell us anything, it is that “Allah’s perfect religion” is far more susceptible to “misinterpretation” than others - and that’s putting it kindly. Qur'anic passages like "surely Allah loves those who fight in his way" and "be not weary and faint-hearted, crying for peace" raise legitimate suspicion over just whom is really misinterpreting the religion.
Meanwhile, the most passionate Muslims rack up huge body counts in the name of Islam, while enjoying the outright support or stark indifference from most of the rest. The more vocal Muslims in today's world are far more interested in making excuses or engaging their critics in theological one-upmanship than they are in resolving the violence… and thus it continues.

Answer 10

I think you sound like a level-headed person. Before I clicked on your question, my answer to you would have been "I don't know what I think of you, because I've never met you."

And, yes, I've read the Koran/Quaran. I see nothing offensive in it, save for all of the patriarchal bullcrap, but that is not exclusive to Islam, rather we can find that also in Christianity & Judaism & perhaps elsewhere.

Bless.