Sorry, but I really do not know much about that religion. A lot of people on here seem to think it is a very violent religion....but, I just think that like everything else it has it's extremists...people who go too far. So, if you could inform me on it's basic principles I would be much obliged. Thanks!
2007-01-13 13:41:18 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Just like every other religion, Islam isn't violent, and just like evry other religion, they have plenty of fundamentalists preaching hatred and intolerance.
2007-01-13 13:45:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I wonder why so many people become so offensive and violent against Islam when they have not even read the Quran.
Also, they think they are really good, pious and religious people but when the issue is about Islam, they curse and use all those bad words that I can't even think about.
One of the reasons that I think is that the media is doing a real good job in describing Islam as a violent religion but the people who really learns about Islam then the change totaly like Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens).
2007-01-13 14:02:41 · answer #2 · answered by kais 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
islam isnt violent people just tend to believe everything they hear Cat stevens is peaceful and great as me as a muslim person i have never shown disrespect or unkindness to a person i have always been a happy person and all my friends say that i am the happiest and sweetest person they know and practically none of them are muslim
2007-01-13 14:01:41 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Koran does not teach wife beating, Islam is a peacful religion, i met so many muslims, they are very nice people, every religion has bad and good people many men in the west beat/kill their gf and wives and sometimes their kids, doesn't mean all are bad.
2007-01-13 13:55:23 · answer #4 · answered by cutiepieaww 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
When the English author of a controversial book on Islam was put on a hit list by Muslims to be killed for his writings, Cat Stevens said that was cool. To kill him. Immediately after that most radio stations stopped playing his music and have boycotted him since then.
2007-01-13 13:54:47 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Unfortunately all religions have their zealots....Christians have their Jim Bakers, Catholics have priests that molested children, I could go on and on. Islam have those that love peace and those who believe at "conversion of the sword". Catholic and Protestants tore up England in history.
Just like because someone says they are a (XXXXXX) doesn't mean they are a good or bad person.
President Bush calls himself a Christian, and so did Clinton and Kennedy was Catholic. Look at their records
Bush sent troops to avenge a personal vendetta
Clinton screwed ugly women
and Kennedy screwed hot women.
2007-01-13 13:48:35 · answer #6 · answered by christina k 2 · 4⤊ 1⤋
The word “Islam” is an Arabic word which means “complete submission to the will of Almighty God”
This word comes from the same root as the Arabic word “salam”, which means “peace”. As such, the religion of Islam teaches that in order to achieve true peace of mind and surety of heart, one must submit to God and live according to His Divinely revealed Law.
The pure essence of the beliefs and teachings that were revealed by God to the Prophet Muhammad are the same as God taught to Abraham, who was one of the earliest and greatest prophets. So actually, Muhammad is the final prophet of Islam — not the first.
Additionally, Islam is the true “religion of Abraham”, because Abraham completely submitted himself to the revealed will of Almighty God. Islam is truly unique among the religions of the world because it is addressed to all of mankind. The scripture of Islam, called the Qur’an, repeatedly addresses all human beings by saying: “O mankind!” Additionally, in the Qur’an, Almighty God is never addressed as the God of a particular people or nation.
In other religions, even the ones which claim belief in “One God”, people often approach God through an intermediary, such as a saint, an angel, the Virgin Mary or Jesus. However, it is only in Islam that a person is required only to pray to God.
According to the teachings of Islam, praying to or worshipping anything or anyone besides Almighty God is the greatest sin a person can commit.
Muslims are required to be tolerant of other revealed religions since the Qur’an clearly says:
“Let there be no compulsion in religion” (Qur’an 2:256).
Islam teaches that God has a unique nature and that He is free from gender, human weaknesses and beyond anything which human beings can imagine.
The Qur’an teaches that the signs and proofs of God’s wisdom, power and existence are evident in the world around us
The Arabic world “Al-Qur’an” literally means “the recitation”. When used in regards to Islam, the word Qur’an means God’s final message to mankind that was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad. The Qu’ran, sometimes spelled Koran, is the literal the word of God - God’s final revelation to mankind, the Qur’an, was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad over a period of 23 years.
the Islamic way of life is pure and wholesome. It builds self-discipline and self-control thought regular prayer and fasting, and frees human-beings from superstition and all sorts of racial, ethnic and national prejudices. By accepting to live a God-conscious life, and realizing that the only thing that distinguishes people in the sight of God is their consciousness of Him, a person’s true human dignity is realized.
You might want to check out Yusuf Islam's (Cat Stevens) website
http://www.backtoislam.com/
2007-01-15 22:02:33 · answer #7 · answered by nadonora 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Cat is a peace lover. There are extremists in all religions. Check out Christianity. GW started a war to get revenge for embarassment done to his father. He even went as far as to push prosecution and hanging of a person who was once an ally, because of family.
I am a Christian BTW.
2007-01-13 13:52:04 · answer #8 · answered by sparbles 5 · 2⤊ 3⤋
I see your point but in all fairness you cant really draw a conclusion about islam as a whole based on one of its followers.
2016-05-23 22:42:36 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cat Stevens was a forerunner of the movement to unite all religions into one.
2007-01-13 13:57:59 · answer #10 · answered by hisgloryisgreat 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋