i'll answer your question :)
the problem is not Islam or moderate Muslims...
its Muslim fundamentalists.
once they have what they call as "evidence" of how Islam is, they recruit their members.
Who are they? sadly, its mostly the middle-eastern people, who are in fact Muslims. They are not just uneducated, they are a group of people who have been ravaged by wars in their everyday lives...
How? by targeting the uneducated, and playing with their emotions... because they uneducated, they take the teachings of this fundamentalists as real. once they have the upperhand, they just toy with their emotions, adding fuel to the fire...
innocent people, who were victims themselves, turned terrorists. all due to these group of people called Muslim fundamentalists. that is the basis of how they work. that is why, your parents tell you to study, it is REALLY IMPORTANT. education is the key to a better future, believe me.
but once again, i emphasise. it is not Islam or moderate Muslims that are at fault. its the Muslim fundamentalists. there is a difference.
2007-01-23 22:34:44
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answered by urbanvigilante 3
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Do you ever read the history after Muhammad. Fate of Hassan and Husain.How can we call it a peaceful religion.I respect Islam,but we can not forget that who lives with sword dies with sword.We need a reformer to polish the image of Islam.
2007-01-25 21:38:16
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answered by Anonymous
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you are connecting kings with Islam.. this is wrong logic.. if you see history.. then even Christians empires/states used their state power to nab their opponents..best example is holocaust...
prophet-hood is another thing and being a king of political territory is another issue..kings (whether Muslims or Christians or Jews) always see their interests i.e how to prolong their rule, how to make their territory vast.. and how to victimize the opponents.. so its not valid to link the kings to Islam..i.e they did wrong deeds in name of Islam...if you coin it with islam...then you will have to COIN IT TO CHRISTIANITY AND JUDAISM..
so after death of holy prophet... some Muslims started thinking to occupy the political powers to gain..so they broke into wars with each other..and here you cant blame religion..as we see more wars to occupy the territory on non-religious grounds...like Alexander the great...the roman catholic kings...slaughtered millions to people to vasten their empires...so would you also like to call it TERROR???
your last part of question is why we are suffering.........
simple........
Muslims are suffering all over the world.....because of their own sins and due to their own inability to rule good... and non-existence of JUSTICE in their countries.. so i feel its punishment for Muslims from god... as they have deviated from their original track.. and sorry to say..all the acts of 1% fundamentalist Muslims has given very bad name to Islam..
2007-01-24 08:10:08
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answered by Shak 3
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please dont ask such question because it has ruined my mood.it happens in all religions. why dont you have a look upon the glorious period of muslims. every religion has dark and golden period. this is dark period of muslims due to domination of englishmen
2007-01-28 05:39:05
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answered by Anonymous
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If you choose to see the bad but not the good then surely you're misled and not to mention, misleading. This is because there're more righteous God-fearing Muslim rulers than unislamic ones throughout the history.
"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')
"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..."
(Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall in 'Tolerance in Islam')
“Khalif (Caliph) Al-Ma'mun's period of rule (813 - 833 C.E.) may be considered the 'golden age' of science and learning. He had always been devoted to books and to learned pursuits. His brilliant mind was interested in every form of intellectual activity. Not only poetry but also philosophy, theology, astronomy, medicine and law all occupied his time...By Mamun's time medical schools were extremely active in Baghdad. The first free public hospital was opened in Baghdad during the Caliphate of Haroon-ar-Rashid. As the system developed, physicians and surgeons were appointed who gave lectures to medical students and issued diplomas to those who were considered qualified to practice. The first hospital in Egypt was opened in 872 AD and thereafter public hospitals sprang up all over the empire from Spain and the Maghrib to Persia.”
(Sir John Bagot Glubb )
"During the period of the Caliphs the learned men of the Christians and the Jews were not only held in great esteem but were appointed to posts of great responsibility, and were promoted to the high ranking job in the government....He (Caliph Haroon Rasheed) never considered to which country a learned person belonged nor his faith and belief, but only his excellence in the field of learning."
(Dr. William Draper in 'History of Intellectual Development of Europe')
"During all the first part of the Middle Ages, no other people made as important a contribution to human progress as did the Arabs, if we take this term to mean all those whose mother-tongue was Arabic, and not merely those living in the Arabian peninsula. For centuries, Arabic was the language of learning, culture and intellectual progress for the whole of the civilized world with the exception of the Far East. From the IXth to the XIIth century there were more philosophical, medical, historical, religiuos, astronomical and geographical works written in Arabic than in any other human tongue."
(Phillip Hitti in 'Short History of the Arabs.')
"Many proofs of high cultural level of the Ottoman Empire during the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent are to be found in the development of science and law; in the flowering of literary works in Arabic, Persian and Turkish; in the contemporary monuments in Istanbul, Bursa, and Edirne; in the boom in luxury industries; in the sumptuous life of the court and high dignitaries, and last but not least in its religious tolerance. All the various influences - notably Turkish, Byzantine and Italian mingle together and help to make this the most brilliant epoch of the Ottomans."
(Marcel Clerget in 'La Turquie, Passe et Present')
Peace and Love
2007-01-24 06:43:35
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answered by mil's 4
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The fundaMENTALists again!
2007-01-24 06:37:16
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answered by Screamin' Banshee 6
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Is there anybody who has not noticed this?If Islam were founded today it would be banned.
2007-01-24 06:41:16
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answered by Anonymous
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