Does Islam really teach tolerance and equality?

Question

I have always thought that Islam teaches tolerance and equality until I watched a TV show on a very well-known Arabic-Islamic channel:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL0C2QvqIlo&mode=related&search=

I was shocked when I watched that show. Now I am confused and I do not know if Islam really teaches tolerance and equality?

Answer 1

Ive been educated by the standard board of education in Saudi Arabia.

This includes religious teaching of all sorts: history, reading of and understanding the meaning of the quran, the prophets life and his history, religious doctrine. etc.

One thing I will tell you, they start teaching when youre in Grade 1. and they repeat three things over and over: God is one, the prophet was sent as a messenger and a reminder of this fact, human rights are so important you have to watch out what your hand, tounge and 'waist' and not hurt anyone with it.

The life of the Prophet is emphasized as an example of a person who lived according to Gods wishes and he was emphasized to live a simple, devoted and patient lifestyle.

No body taught us how to kill people, no body taught us that warring was right and no body taught us to be uneducated gits.

'There is no compulsion in religion'

Answer 2

I am a Muslim and this video is SAD

you don't teach a 3.5 years old this hate stuff.

Did you do a search to find out about the organization that did this video I did and I found this article about them titled "Selective MEMRI" and here is the link

http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,773258,00.html

here is a quote from that article "
Evidence from Memri's website also casts doubt on its non-partisan status. Besides supporting liberal democracy, civil society, and the free market, the institute also emphasises "the continuing relevance of Zionism to the Jewish people and to the state of Israel".

That is what its website used to say, but the words about Zionism have now been deleted. The original page, however, can still be found in internet archives.

The reason for Memri's air of secrecy becomes clearer when we look at the people behind it. The co-founder and president of Memri, and the registered owner of its website, is an Israeli called Yigal Carmon.

Mr - or rather, Colonel - Carmon spent 22 years in Israeli military intelligence and later served as counter-terrorism adviser to two Israeli prime ministers, Yitzhak Shamir and Yitzhak Rabin."

so in a sense you can see for yourself that this organization is a Zionist organization and the translation it does is only for Arabic articles in never translated Hebrew articles.

you might also look at what the real JEWS are saying about what is happening in the middle east at this link for one of their respected organization.

http://www.nkusa.org/activities/Statements/2006July18.cfm

Answer 3

Can I give you a quick example.
I am watching NBC and the newscaster says all muslims are no good, and tells the viewers that they should do negative things to them. Should I say all chrisitians are intolerant? Is that newscaster the spokes person for judeo christian beliefs? Of course not! You must take the book itself, not its followers as the true teachings of islam. Thats like saying is all catholics child predators, and I know the answer is of course not.

Answer 4

If you think destroying the infidels is "tolerance and equality," then Islam does indeed excel in those. See what the Quran has to say:

Sura 2:191: And slay them [the non-Muslim infidels] wherever ye find them, and drive them out of the places whence they drove you out, for persecution is worse than slaughter. And fight not with them at the Inviolable Place of Worship until they first attack you there, but if they attack you (there) then slay them. Such is the reward of disbelievers."

Answer 5

yes and no.

They preach peace and tolerance and equality for all muslims. For all those brought under islam and converted to islam by force.

So for all of islam it is ok, for the rest of you its off to the genocide pit.

Hitler should have been a muslim, he had the mentality correct. Did the whole suicide thing too.

Answer 6

Your biases are turning out to be in the way of any fairness which you ought to to coach in this subject. It *is* actual that the Koran calls upon Muslims to handle others with know, and that the popular public of Muslims are no longer non secular militants. you ought to do some examining on "cognitive dissonance". it might make you a greater honest-minded choose of people who fluctuate from you. good now their is quite some hatred and hostility on your words.

Answer 7

Judge for yourself. The holy Quran has the following to say:

Men are in charge of women, because Allah hath made the one of them to excel the other, and because they spend of their property (for the support of women). So good women are the obedient, guarding in secret that which Allah hath guarded. As for those from whom ye fear rebellion, admonish them and banish them to beds apart, and scourge them (4:34).

Women's testimony is equal to half that of a man:
Get two witnesses, out of your own men, and if there are not two men, then a man and two women, such as ye choose, for witnesses, so that if one of them errs, the other can remind her (2:282).

Polygyny, and sex with slave and captive women:
"If ye fear that ye shall not be able to deal justly with the orphans, marry women of your choice, two or three or four; but if ye fear that ye shall not be able to deal justly (with them), then only one, or (a captive) that your right hands possess, that will be more suitable, (4:3).

Answer 8

Is it Islam or people ,who thinks they know and understood the message.
I am a Muslim but never been told to hate someone.
Is that why God tells us that ,also Christians and Jews have right to enter Heaven?Is this reasonable?
It is the people.

Answer 9

In some areas, yes, they do teach it. But when it comes to Christians, Jews or any one other than Muslims, it is not taught for dealing with them. It's taught that if you aren't Muslim, you are an infidel and you must be eliminated.

Answer 10

Islam, Judaism and Christianity all speak of tolerance and intolerance in about equal doses.