Is Islam the most peaceful religion? if it is then why muslims fighting with EVERY other religion?

Question

muslims fighting with christian all over the world
muslims fighting with jews in middle east
muslims fighting with hindus in india
muslims fighting with budist in india
muslims fighting with russians (whatever their religion is)
muslims fighting with muslims shites and sunnis
muslims fighting with sikhs in pakistan
and i am sure there is more but these are all the major religions.
here is what i want you to answer
If islam is peaceful then why they are fighting with everyone on the planet?
and
if its peaceful then how come we don't hear islamic leaders on tv, newspaper, and other media...denouncing the terrorist? i have yet to hear a prominent islamic leader to denounce the terrorists.

Answer 1

It is peaceful.
Oh my bad, it is pieceful, meaning, if an extremist has a chance they will blow you to pieces.

But to be fair, there really are not a great many groups that do not have bloodshed on their hands, either recently, or in their past.
Whether, religious or political, it does not take long to see that much of the violence has it's roots in the actions of people in the past. just because the Muslims are taking the lead these days does not prove that they are the biggest concern mankind faces today. Typically, when people are willing to offer up their lives so freely in a struggle with others, it is a situation of hopelessness.
How so? In the majority of places where this Muslim violence prevails, they are people who really have nothing to lose. They tend to live in the places where ancient civilizations stripped the earth of trees and plants, and through this deforestation created vast deserts. Yet those that live there embrace their homelands even though it is their own ancestors who are mostly to blame for their horrid living conditions.
One would do better to acknowledge that people are frustrated earth wide, and to seek a solution for all mankind rather than a solution that seeks to put blame on others.

Answer 2

Islam is a peaceful religion. If you want to know more you can study Islam. Just only to know further about Islam not to convert to it. Then your question will be answered.

Answer 3

I certainly doubt that Islam is the most peaceful religion in the world. I have never heard such a claim. However, the nature of the religion is not one of aggression. This does not mean that Muslims do not commit acts of aggression, just as the fact that Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, etc. teaching peace does not eliminate aggressive acts from their adherants.

As for Muslims fighting with other religions, I think that there is blame on both sides in many of these cases.

Muslims fighting Christians may occur in places such as Lebanon, Uganda, Nigeria, and Indonesia, but if you take a look at those, Muslims are not solely to blame. There were attacks by Christian militias against unarmed Muslims in refugee camps in Sabra and Shatila in Lebanon, as well as in Nigeria and Uganda. There have also been numerous attacks by Christians on Muslim populations in Sulawesi, Indonesia. There has been ongoing violence between the two religions, for many years, in many places, around the world. Both sides are responsible.

Having been to the middle east, this is also a two way street. Israel has committed a number of atrocities over the years.

In India, every religion seems to be fighting with each other. Take a look at the NLFT for examples of non-stop Christian violence in India. There are plenty of examples of Hindus attacking Muslims as well. There is violence between Buddhists and Hindus even.

As for Muslim on Muslim violence, there is also violence among sects of Christianity. Northern Ireland is one example. East Timor is another, where the Protestant minority feels that the Catholics (~85% of the population) are going to outlaw proselytising, so they attack. In retaliation, Catholic gangs were formed and attacked back. Then of course there is the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda. Not only do they kill Muslims and people with indigenous beliefs, but they have killed Catholic clergy.

I note that although Muslims may be engaged in a fair amount of violence in the world, they do make up a sizeable proportion of the population. They also have been the target of genocide and other forms of violence, with over 40 million Muslims killed in the past century, in western China, Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Armenia (the Soviets killed the Muslim minority in Armenia to get the population down to justify annexing Armenia and Georgia), Lebanon, Zimbabwe, etc. Many of the conflicts that are currently occurring are the results of these events.

As for why you don't hear Muslim leaders in the media denouncing terrorism, I suggest that you take that up with the media, because many Muslim leaders have denounced terrorism. In fact, George W. Bush gave a speech with at least 6 Muslim leaders, all of whom denounced terrorism.

Here is a list of some of the condemnations that you may have missed:

In a Joint Statement by American Muslim Alliance, American Muslim Council, Association of Muslim Scientists and Engineers, Association of Muslim Social Scientists, Council on American-Islamic Relations, Islamic Medical Association of North America, Islamic Circle of North America, Islamic Society of North America, Ministry of Imam W. Deen Mohammed, Muslim American Society, Muslim Public Affairs Council, stated:
"American Muslims utterly condemn the vicious and cowardly acts of terrorism against innocent civilians. We join with all Americans in calling for the swift apprehension and punishment of the perpetrators. No political cause could ever be assisted by such immoral acts."

Muslims Against Terrorism (MAT):
“As Muslims, we condemn terrorism in all its forms and manifestations. Ours is a religion of peace. We are sick and tired of extremists dictating the public face of Islam.”

Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt:
“We strongly condemn such activities that are against all humanist and Islamic morals. We condemn and oppose all aggression on human life, freedom and dignity anywhere in the world.” (Al-Ahram Weekly Online, 13 - 19 September 2001)
Shaykh Muhammed Sayyid al-Tantawi, imam of al-Azhar mosque in Cairo, Egypt: “Attacking innocent people is not courageous; it is stupid and will be punished on the Day of Judgment.... It is not courageous to attack innocent children, women and civilians. It is courageous to protect freedom; it is courageous to defend oneself and not to attack.” (Agence France Presse, September 14, 2001)

Mehmet Nuri Yilmaz, Head of the Directorate of Religious Affairs of Turkey:
“Any human being, regardless of his ethnic and religious origin, will never think of carrying out such a violent, evil attack. Whatever its purpose is, this action cannot be justified and tolerated.” (September 21, 2001)

Ayatollah Ali Khamene'i, Supreme jurist-ruler of Iran:
“Killing of people, in any place and with any kind of weapons…. carried out by any organization, country or individual is condemned. ... It makes no difference whether such massacres happen in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Qana, Sabra, Shatila, Deir Yassin, Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq or in New York and Washington. (Islamic Republic News Agency, September 16, 2001.

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar), Turkey:
“Islam does not encourage any kind of terrorism; in fact, it denounces it. Those who use terrorism in the name of Islam, in fact, have no other faculty except ignorance and hatred.”

Shaikh Muhammad Yusuf Islahi, U.S:
The sudden barbaric attack on innocent citizens living in peace is extremely distressing and deplorable. Every gentle human heart goes out to the victims of this attack and as humans we are ashamed at the barbarism perpetrated by a few people. Islam, which is a religion of peace and tolerance, condemns this act and sees this is as a wounding scar on the face of humanity. I appeal to Muslims to strongly condemn this act, express unity with the victims' relatives, donate blood, money and do whatever it takes to help the affected people.

Abdal-Hakim Murad, Britain:
Targeting civilians is a negation of every possible school of Sunni Islam. Suicide bombing is so foreign to the Qur'anic ethos that the Prophet Samson is entirely absent from our scriptures. ("The Hijackers Were Not Muslims After All: Recapturing Islam From the Terrorists,"

Hamza Yusuf, U.S:
Religious zealots of any creed are defeated people who lash out in desperation, and they often do horrific things. And if these people [who committed murder on September 11] indeed are Arabs or Muslims, they're obviously very sick people and I can't even look at it in religious terms. It's politics, tragic politics. There's no Islamic justification for any of it. ... You can't kill innocent people. There's no Islamic declaration of war against the United States. I think every Muslim country except Afghanistan has an embassy in this country. And in Islam, a country where you have embassies is not considered a belligerent country. In Islam, the only wars that are permitted are between armies and they should engage on battlefields and engage nobly. The Prophet Muhammad said, "Do not kill women or children or non-combatants and do not kill old people or religious people,'' and he mentioned priests, nuns and rabbis. And he said, "Do not cut down fruit-bearing trees and do not poison the wells of your enemies.'' The Hadith, the sayings of the Prophet, say that no one can punish with fire except the lord of fire. It's prohibited to burn anyone in Islam as a punishment. No one can grant these attackers any legitimacy. It was evil. (San Jose Mercury News, September 15, 2001. )

Mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai, Pakistan:
It is wrong to kill innocent people. It is also wrong to praise those who kill innocent people. (Cited in the New York Times, September 28, 2001.)

King Abdullah II, Jordan:
What these people stand for is completely against all the principles that Arab Muslims believe in. (cited in the Middle East Times, September 28, 2001.)

Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani, U.S.:ISCA
We categorically condemn yesterday's hijackings and attacks against the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and all other targets. From coast to coast, we join our neighbors, co-workers and friends across ethnic, cultural and religious lines in mourning the devastating loss of precious life, which Islam holds as sacred. We pray for the thousands of innocent victims, for their families, for law enforcement and emergency workers, for stranded travelers, and for all whose confidence and security have been shaken. We pray that God's Infinite Mercy reaches us all. We join the US Congress in declaring today a day of mourning and also call on the entire faith community of America to spend the day in prayer for the victims and their families who so tragically died. All of our centers across the world will observe three minutes of silence tonight at our sunset prayer. We stand with the administration and law enforcement agencies in support of discovering the persons responsible and bringing them to justice. We encourage whoever is able to donate generously both blood and money to local chapters of the Red Cross...ISCA has many times warned the nation to guard against the possibility of such actions and reiterates its condemnation of all terrorism, whether ideological, geographical, cultural or religious."

In July, the American Muslim Political Coordination Council (AMPCC), made up of the nation's four most prominent Muslim political advocacy groups - American Muslim Alliance (AMA), American Muslim Council (AMC), Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), and Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) - called on all faith communities to participate in a national "Day of Unity" by opening houses of worship on September 11, 2002, for interfaith visits, prayers, congregational exchanges, and other activities intended to foster national unity and religious tolerance.

“This is our country, (as) American Muslims, we care for the betterment of this country and for every human being,”
-Muhammad Noor Abdulluh, President of the Islamic Society of North America, in a speech before a leading a prayer for the victims of Sep. 11th at a vigil in Washington D.C. attended by 30,000 American Muslims.



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Imam Muzammil H. Siddiqi of the Islamic Society of North America
Dr. Hassan Hathout of the Islamic Center of Southern California
Prayer leader Abdul Hamid Youness of the Islamic Center of Southern California
The Imam of Quba Mosque in Alameda, California
Prayer leader Shahid Athar of the Islamic Society of North America in Plainfield, Indiana
Leaders of the Islamic Institute of Knowledge in Dearborn, Michigan
Leaders of the Islamic Society of Nevada in Las Vegas
Muslim Community of Greater Pittsburgh in Monroeville, Pennsylvania
Masjid Al-Abidin in the Queens borough of New York
Imam Dr. Hasan Ahmad of Masjid Al-Islam Mosque in North Smithfield, Rhode Island

Council of American Islamic Relations
Islamic Circle of North America
Islamic Society of North America


Albania
Tirana Mosque in Tirana

Bahrain
Dr. Alaa Al-Yousuf, economist & political activist

Bangladesh
Muti Rahman Nizami, Ameer, Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh

Bosnia
Bey's mosque in Sarajevo

Brazil
A mosque in Sao Paolo

Bulgaria
The mosque in Sofia, Bulgaria

Canada
A mosque in Halifax, Nova Scotia
Jami mosque in Toronto, Ontario
Syed Mumtaz Ali, President of the Canadian Society of Muslims
Canadian Muslim Civil Liberties Association
Canadian office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations

Egypt
Muslim Brotherhood
Mustafa Mashhur, General Guide, Muslim Brotherhood
Abdel-Mo'tei Bayyoumi, al-Azhar Islamic Research Academy
Shaykh Muhammed Sayyid al-Tantawi, imam of al-Azhar mosque, Cairo
Judge Tariq al-Bishri, First Deputy President of the Council d'etat
Dr. Muhammad s. al-Awa, Professor of Islamic Law and Shari'a
Imam Fahmi Huwaydi

Germany
The Islamic Federation of Bremen

India
Shah-e-Alam mosque in Ahmadabad, India
Syed Shahabuddin, Author

Iran
President Muhammad Khatami in his address to the United Nations General Assembly, November 9, 2001
Ayaltollah Ali Khamene’I, supreme jurist-ruler

Jordan
King Abdullah II
Zuhair Qudah, a preacher at al-Lawzieen mosque, Amman


Lebanon
Shaykh Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah, spiritual guide of Shi‘I Muslim radicals

Malaysia
Anwar Ibrahim, Former Deputy Prime Minister
Fazil Nour, President, PAS - Parti Islam SeMalaysia

Pakistan
Mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai, head mufti at Jamiat-ul-Uloom-ul-Islamia seminary, Binori Town, and a leader of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI) party
Qazi Hussain Ahmed, Ameer, Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan

Palestine
Islamic Movement of Um El-Fahem
Shaykh Ahmad Yassin, Founder, Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)

Qatar
Shaykh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, chairman of the Sunna and Sira Council

Saudi Arabia
Salih bin Muhammad Lahidan, chairman of the Supreme Judicial Council
Shaykh Salih al-Suhaymi, religious scholar
Council of Saudi ‘Ulama'
Shaykh Muhammad bin ‘Abdallah al-Sabil, member of the Council of Senior Religious Scholars
Shaikh Saleh Al-Luheidan, Chairman of the Supreme Judicial Council
‘Abdulaziz bin ‘Abdallah Al-Ashaykh, chief mufti

Spain
Islamic Commission of Spain

Sweden
Dr. S. Parvez Manzoor, Author, Scholar

Syria
Haytham al-Khayyat, Islamic scholar

Tunisia
Rashid Ghannoushi, President, Nahda Renaissance Movement

Turkey
Mehmet Nuri Yilmaz, Head of the Directorate of Religious Affairs
Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar), Turkish Author/Writer Laureate


U.K.
Dr. M. A. Zaki Badawi, principal of the Muslim College, London, England
Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens), singer, songwriter
Shaykh Omar Bakri, leader of al-Muhajirun
Dr. Sayed G. Safavi, Iranian religious scholar and director of the Institute of Islamic Studies, London
Iqbal Siddiqui, editor of Crescent International, London
Abdal-Hakim Murad, British author

Other
League of Arab States
“The General-Secretariat of the League of Arab States shares with the people and government of the United States of America the feelings of revulsion, horror and shock over the terrorist attacks that ripped through the World Trade Centre and Pentagon, inflicting heavy damage and killing and wounding thousands of many nationalities. These terrorist crimes have been viewed by the League as inadmissible and deserving all condemnation. Divergence of views between the Arabs and the United States over the latter’s foreign policy on the Middle East crisis does in no way adversely affect the common Arab attitude of compassion with the people and government of the United States at such moments of facing the menace and ruthlessness of international terrorism. In more than one statement released since the horrendous attacks, the League has also expressed deep sympathy with the families of the victims. In remarks to newsmen immediately following the tragic events, Arab League Secretary-General Amre Moussa described the feelings of the Arab world as demonstrably sympathetic with the American people, particularly with families and individuals who lost their loved ones. “It is indeed tormenting that any country or people or city anywhere in the world be the scene of such disastrous attacks,” he added. While convinced that it is both inconceivable and lamentable that such a large-scale, organised terrorist campaign take place anywhere, anytime, the League believes that the dreadful attacks against WTC and the Pentagon unveil, time and again, that the cancer of terrorism can be extensively damaging if left unchecked. It follows that there is a pressing and urgent need to combat world terrorism. In this context, an earlier call by [Egyptian] President Hosni Mubarak for convening an international conference to draw up universal accord on ways and means to eradicate this phenomenon and demonstrate international solidarity is worthy of active consideration. The Arabs have walked a large distancein the fight against cross-border terrorism by concluding in April 1998 the Arab Agreement on Combating Terrorism.”
September 17, 2001, http://www.leagueofarabstates.org/E_Perspectives_17_09_01.asp

Dr. Abdelouahed Belkeziz, Secretary-General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference
“Following the bloody attacks against major buildings and installations in the United States yesterday, Tuesday, September 11, 2001, Dr. Abdelouahed Belkeziz, secretary-general of the 57-nation Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), stated that he was shocked and deeply saddened when he heard of those attacks which led to the death and injury of a very large number of innocent American citizens. Dr. Belkeziz said he was denouncing and condemning those criminal and brutal acts that ran counter to all covenants, humanitarian values and divine religions foremost among which was Islam.”
Press Release, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, September 12, 2001, http://www.oic-oci.org/press/english/september%202001/america%20on%20attack.htm

Organization of the Islamic Conference of Foreign Ministers
“The Conference strongly condemned the brutal terror acts that befell the United States, caused huge losses in human lives from various nationalities and wreaked tremendous destruction and damage in New York and Washington. It further reaffirmed that these terror acts ran counter to the teachings of the divine religions as well as ethical and human values, stressed the necessity of tracking down the perpetrators of these acts in the light of the results of investigations and bringing them to justice to inflict on them the penalty they deserve, and underscored its support of this effort. In this respect, the Conference expressed its condolences to and sympathy with the people and government of the United States and the families of the victims in these mournful and tragic circumstances.”
Final Communique of the Ninth Extraordinary Session of the Islamic Conference of Foreign Ministers, October 10, 2001, http://www.oic-oci.org/english/fm/All%20Download/frmex9.htm


Additionally, a number of American Muslim scholars signed a condemnation of terrorism statement which ran in a number of newspapers. Those who signed this were:

Professor Asma Afsaruddin, of Notre Dame University
Professor Vivienne Sm. Angeles, La Salle University
Professor Ghazala Anwar of the University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Professor Jonathan Brockopp, Director of the Religion Program at Bard College
Professor Patrice C. Brodeur of Connecticut College
Professor Arthur Buehler of Louisiana State University
Professor Amila Buturovic of York University
Professor Juan E. Campo of the University of California, Santa Barbara
Professor Vincent J. Cornell of University of Arkansas
Professor Frederick M. Denny Chair of Islamic Studies and the History of Religions, University of Colorado
Professor Abdullahi Gallab of Hiram College
Professor Behrooz Ghamari of Georgia State University
Professor Alan Godlas of University of Georgia
Professor Hugh Talat Halman, of University of Arkansas
Professor Pieternella (Nelly) Harder Vandoorn,, of Valparaiso University
Professor Marcia Hermansen of Loyola University, Chicago
Professor Valerie J. Hoffman, of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Professor Qamar ul-Huda, of Boston College
Professor Aaron Hughes of the University of Calgary
Professor Amir Hussain of California State University, Northridge
Professor John Iskander of Georgia State Univeristy
Professor Ahmet Karamustafa of Washington University in St. Louis
Professor Tazim Kassam of Syracuse University
Professor Zayn Kassam of Pomona College
Professor Ruqayya Khan of University of California at Santa Barbara
Professor Kathryn Kueny, of Lawrence College
Professor Jane Dammen McAuliffe, Dean of the College, Georgetown University
Professor Richard C. Martin, Emory University
Professor J.W. Morris, Chair of Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter
Professor Gordon D. Newby, Executive Director, Institute for Comparative and International Studies at Emory University
Professor James Pavlin of Rutgers University
Professor Jack Renard of St. Louis University
Professor Omid Safi of Colgate University
Professor Walid Saleh of Middlebury College
Professor Zeki Saritoprak of Berry College
Professor Michael Sells, Haverford College
Professor Laury Silvers-Alario of Holy Cross University
Professor Alfons Teipen of Furman University