why do everyone assume that all muslims are violent & 99,9% of muslims are terrorists ?

Question

i'm a muslim & i'm not violent neither a terrorist , isint it generalizing ???

Answer 1

People generalize because they are ignorant and stupid. ONly a small portion of the muslim population are terrorists. People are in a hysteria because they are so paranoid.

Answer 2

The Quran doesn't teach violence against Christians or Jews. This is mere propaganda, mistranslation, and twisting the words of the Quran by missionaries.

The evidence is that more white Americans converted to Islam after 9/11 than before. The reason was that they wanted to understand the religion and actually read the Quran for themselves. What they discovered was the opposite of what the missionaries were propagating.

This is what we Muslims have to do:

Say: "O People of the Book (Christians and Jews)! Come to common terms as between us and you: That we worship none but God; that we associate no partners with him; that we erect not, from among ourselves, lords and patrons other than God." If then they turn back, say to them: "Bear witness that we (at least) are submitters (bowing to God's will)”. (3:64)

And let's also not make generalizations about all Christians. Many church groups were the foremost in Supporting Muslims in America who became victims of violence and discrimination after 9/11. As the Quran says:

"Not all of them are alike: Of the People of the Book (Christians and Jews) are a portion that stand (for the right): They rehearse the signs of God all night long, and they prostrate themselves in adoration (of Him). They believe in God and the Last Day; they enjoin what is right, and forbid what is wrong; and they hasten (in emulation) in (all) good works: They are in the ranks of the righteous. Of the good that they do, nothing will be rejected of them; for God knows well those that do right." (3:113-115)

Answer 3

Unfortunately... it does appear that the Muslim faith is a violent one. For most people, Perception is Reality.

Here's a couple of things that give this perception:

1. Islamic extremist have caused 90% of all terrorism in the last 5 years.
2. Islamic governments have been known to retain such barbaric laws such as stoning a woman to death because she has sex with someone who is not married whether she's married or not.
3. Islamic sects tend to 'blow up' any group that doesn't believe in their way of thinking. Shites kill Sunnies, Muslim killing Hindus, etc.
4. Muslim mullah tend to 'rationalize' the terror activities of other sects instead of condemning them.


Until the Muslim 'nation' takes a stand and all Mullah are teaching peace and acceptance... the Muslim nation will always be viewed as violent.

Just my view of things!

Answer 4

Well, let's see. Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Lebanon, 9-11 attack in NYC, 7-11 attack in London, Madrid train bombings, etc., etc., etc. without strong public condemnation from peaceful muslims. I think Islam needs much better PR if it's going to be perceived differently in the West. Right now, I have ill feelings toward most muslims even though I understand that that's not a particularly rational reaction.

Answer 5

Yeah, I know what you mean. I'm a Muslim and am COMPLETELY against terrorism and such, too. This nasty generalization is due to the negative image that some foolish, uneducated, unfaithful Muslims have given us because they like to follow their PERSONAL desire and then accuse Islam for allowing them to do so! I mean, think about the "72 virgin" thing!! Seriously, it's NOWHERE to be found in the Quran, and the Quran strictly says that there'll be ONE pair (one male and one female) in heaven.... Where these idiots got 72 virgins from, I've no clue. This obviously shows that they kill to gain personal pleasure! I don't know how that's pleasurable, but anyway.... As for those "suicide bombers", suicide is strictly fobidden in Islam; no matter what happens, you can't kill yourself. But some undeducated Muslims still do it. Does it make it Islamic? NO! It's all misconceptions about Islam.
Because of these evil people, the media gives a negative imagine of Muslims to the public. People think that just because a few Muslims (who don't follow Islam properly) enjoy killing others, all Muslims must be like that and that their religion must allow them to do so. They fail to read the Quran (IN CONTEXT, PEOPLE!). Shame on them for judging the religion based on how its unfaithful followers practice it! Why not judge it by its GOOD followers, if you MUST judge it? Most Muslims are good, peace-loving, kind people.
As for killing others in the name of God (NOT allowed in Islam!), Christians have done the same thing all throughout history, and I wouldn't be surprised if they still do it. Muslims are accused a lot for bombing places, too, but then they later find out that it was NON-MUSLIMS who had done the attack... Ahhh... (Remember what happened in Oklahoma a few months ago or so, people?)
Our negative image is also due to the misinterpretation of some Quranic verses. The anti-Islamic readers read and spread those verses but fail to understand their contexts or to read the neighboring verses or the history of the verses.... I find that purely pathetic.
Plus, many non-Muslims DO realize that Islam is a peaceful and True religion of God, but because they are so indulged in the joy of this world, they refuse to accept Islam as the Truth (because Islam constantly reminds you that you won't be living forever but will be dying anytime soon, so it tells you to make sure that you're ready to be judged by God).
Anyway, peace and blessings be upon you all, and may God be our Helper!

Answer 6

stereo types help people justify hate

I am a married Muslim woman with two sons we are not terrorist and do not know any. Not All Muslims Are Terrorist

Answer 7

Its called depersonalising your 'enemy' so that its ok to hate them. Standard practise of war. Both sides do it. The terrorists also say 99.9% of westerners are infidels, they are as bad as each other each claiming the moral high ground as if there are no innocent people

Answer 8

In our religion, we must respect all the other religions because they are all from GOD. And by the way we MUSLIMS must believe in all the PROPHITS like (Jesus) peace be upon him, (Moses) peace be upon him, (Ishaq) peace be upon him, (Jacob) peace be upon him, (Noah) peace be upon him.. because they are all Messengers from GOD

You will never find any MUSLIM disrespect any of the PROPHITS. Because we are taught in the Quran to believe in all the PROPHITS including (Jesus) piece be upon him.

Read about ISLAM from the right channels, get the knowledge of it instead of talking about things you are not aware of.

Do not judge ISLAM from some Muslim people, not all MUSLIMS give good example of what ISLAM is really about. We cannot judge Christianity from CHRISTIAN people because they are hardly any one practices the real CHRISTIANITY these days.

Yes Islam does believe in Jihad. But the Christians believed in the Crusades
If you want to compare the amount of people killed do to Jihad and the amount of people killed do to indoctrinating people with Catholicism

Answer 9

The percentage you give of 99.9% is grossly exaggerated - where I'm from there is a very small percentage of uneducated that would think along those lines.

Answer 10

It's called sweeping generalisation, religious bigotry and islamophobia my brother.

"The use of false evidence to attack Islam was all but universal..." (Norman Daniel: Islam and the West)

"The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only."
(Thomas Carlyle in 'Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History,' 1840)

"History makes it clear, however, that the legend of fanatical Muslims sweeping through the world and forcing Islam at the point of sword upon conquered races is one of the most fantastically absurd myths that historians have ever repeated."
(De Lacy O'Leary in 'Islam at the Crossroads,' London, 1923.)

"We have never heard about any attempt to compel Non-Muslim parties to adopt Islam or about any organized persecution aiming at exterminating Christianity. If the Caliphs had chosen one of these plans, they would have wiped out Christianity as easily as what happened to Islam during the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella in Spain; by the same method which Louis XIV followed to make Protestantism a creed whose followers were to be sentenced to death; or with the same ease of keeping the Jews away from Britain for a period of three hundred fifty years."
(Thomas Arnold in 'The Call to Islam.')

"Despite the growth of antagonism, Moslem (Muslim) rulers seldom made their Christian subjects suffer for the Crusades. When the Saracens finally resumed the full control of Palestine the Christians were given their former status as dhimmis. The Coptic Church, too had little cause for complaint under Saladin's (Salahuddin) strong government, and during the time of the earlier Mameluke sultans who succeeded him the Copts experienced more enlightened justice than they had hitherto known. The only effect of the Crusaders upon Egyptian Christians was to keep them for a while from pilgrimage to Jerusalem, for as long as the Frank were in charge heretics were forbidden access to the shrines. Not until the Moslem victories could they enjoy their rights as Christians."
(James Addison in 'The Christian Approach to the Moslem,' p. 35.)

"In the eyes of history, religious toleration is the highest evidence of culture in a people....It was not until the Western nations broke away from their religious law that they became more tolerant, and it was only when the Muslims fell away from their religious law that they declined in tolerance and other evidences of the highest culture. Before the coming of Islam it (tolerance) had never been preached as an essential part of religion...Innumerable monasteries, with a wealth of treasure of which the worth has been calculated at not less than a hundred millions sterling, enjoyed the benefit of the Holy Prophet's (Muhammad’s) Charter to the monks of Sinai and were religiously respected by the Muslims. The various sects of Christians were represented in the Council of the Empire by their patriarchs, on the provincial and district council by their bishops, in the village council by their priests, whose word was always taken without question on things which were the sole concern of their community...The tolerance within the body of Islam was, and is, something without parallel in history; class and race and color ceasing altogether to be barriers."
(Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall in his 1927 Lecture on 'Tolerance in Islam,' Madras, India.)

On the West's ignorance of Islam, the Swiss journalist and author, Roger Du Pasquier writes:

The West, whether Christian or dechristianised, has never really known Islam. Ever since they watched it appear on the world stage, Christians never ceased to insult and slander it in order to find justification for waging war on it. It has been subjected to grotesque distortions the traces of which still endure in the European mind. One symptom of this ignorance is the fact that in the imagination of most Europeans, Allah refers to the divinity of the Muslims, not the God of the Christians and Jews; they are all surprised to hear, when one takes the trouble to explain things to them, that 'Allah' means 'God', and that even Arab Christians know him by no other name.

(Unveiling Islam by Roger Du Pasquier)

God knows best

Peace and Love.