what do you think of Islam as a religion?

Question

please be honset and say you atitude about Islam

Answer 1

I think it's a mercy and blessing from Allah (SWT). It's a very easy religion to understand, BUT it's hard to adhere to. Case in point, the Salat. How easy do you think it is to get up at 4AM (sometimes; the times change) to pray? It's hard, but it's worth it. It's not made up (Islam), as some would suggest, because the Qur'an describes many things that 7th century science couldn't verify.

Answer 2

To me the most vital thing Islam needs is some centralized authority speaking out against the acts of the radicals. Unfortunately, Islam is very non-hierarchical, so there is no central group of perceived leaders of the Islamic faith that speak with one voice and condemn the actions of the heretical.

Where is the public outcry from Islam's theologians over the acts of these radicals? It is missing in the media and the silence among the leadership is deafening to the observers on the sidelines.

If Christian radicals were performing the acts that we see Islamic fundamentalists doing, there would be a world outcry among the leaders of Christian organizations condemning these persons as heretics. It would be in all the newspapers, television, etc.

Muslims are quick to point to the violence recorded in the Christian bible and claim that Christianity’s early history was violent, too. But unlike the Bible where some very awful HISTORY is recorded, the violence described in the Qur’an is part of Islamic THEOLOGY. This is a very significant distinction between the two belief systems.

The famous Muslim scholar and “father of modern history” Ibn Khaldun states the dichotomy between jihad and defensive warfare thus:

In the Muslim community, the holy war [i.e. jihad] is a religious duty, because of the universalism of the Muslim mission and the obligation to convert everybody to Islam either by persuasion or by force... The other religious groups did not have a universal mission, and the holy war was not a religious duty for them, save only for purposes of defense... They are merely required to establish their religion among their own people. That is why the Israeilites after Moses and Joshua remained unconcerned with royal authority [e.g. a “caliphate”]. Their only concern was to establish their religion [not spread it to the nations]… But Islam is under obligation to gain power over other nations (The Muqudimmah, vol. 1 pg. 473).

I believe Islam is going through what the Christian faith went through during the Reformation. During the Reformation religious leaders were forced to carefully define their doctrines, that is, what do Christians really believe? This established a baseline of orthodoxy that then could be used as a litmus test for the practices of self-professed Christians.

Islamic leaders must do the same thing. They must codify their acceptable theologies, especially the violence now part of the Sharia, Muhammad’s Sunna (4:24, 4:92, 8:69, 24:33, 33:21, 33:50), and the “sword-verses” of the Qur’an (e.g., 9:5, 9:29). Then Muslim leaders should defend these theologies against heretics loudly and publicly.


I have found the non-Christian religions, such as Islam, to be philosophically indefensible, being internally incoherent or undermining human reason and experience. To better understand Islam, I suggest you review the following sites:

http://www.carm.org/islam.htm
http://www.americanthinker.com/2006/04/islam_apologists_tell_a_partia.html

Answer 3

As religions go, no worse than most -- and no better. It has taken a black eye from those who use jihad to justify killing innocent people; of the 20 most obnoxious terrorist attacks in recent years (ignoring Iraq, of course), 19 have been by Muslims. (The exception: the Oklahoma City bombing.) Most Muslims are reasonable people whom one would not mind having as neighbors, although one could wish that the Muslim community would be more vocal in condemning the terrorists than it has been. As for the Qur'an, its structure (primarily do this, don't do that) is not conducive to identifying errors in it, although there are some; one such is quite serious and has been the bane of every modern Islamic society.

Answer 4

I have studied the Quran in a 400 level college class before along with research ever since. I found Islam to be a very dogmatic, ungodly, oppressive, violent, chauvinistic, arab, dishonest, anti-Christ, anti-social, facist, rigid, unhealthy, unbeneficial religion.

Quran Surah IX:29 Fight against such of those who have been given the scripture (Christians and Jews) as believe not in Allah nor the last day, and forbid not that which Allah hath forbidden by his messenger, and follow not the religion of truth until they pay the tribute readily being brought low.

In the Qur'an 47:4, it says, "When you encounter the infidels, strike off their heads till you've made a great smote among them." And again,

2:193, "Fight therefore against them until the only worship be that of Allah."

That is really the defining characteristic of the Quran and Muhammads life itself; IT INCITES VIOLENCE and oppression. It teaches that violence and oppression against people that dont believe as you is a good and holy thing. That is why, sad to say, that most Muslims turn a blind eye to violence or secretly root for people like Osama Bin Ladin because they are committing the acts of violence their religion calls for but they themselves are not willing to do, especially after tasting of the prosperity of western civilization.

Answer 5

Islam literally means submission to God.

We are not followers of Christ, Judea or Buddha. We make no relations with God; we are purely monotheistic.

We believe in all of the Prophets of the past (From Adam to Jesus) and yet we are seen so backwards.

You don't have to agree with Islam or even like it, but to pretend it didn't advance the world is just stupid.
The recent terrorist attacks are not representative of Islam.

Heck, the sears tower was designed by a Muslim.

People will continue to hate what they don't understand. The question is how many will hate and how many will love :P

Answer 6

It troubles me. I am doing more reading and study on Islam but despite claims made by some good people that Islam is not a bad religion I am not fully convinced. Too much fighting going on and too few really effective governments and economies.

Answer 7

I just finished a project on the Islam religion (and I will be attending a worship service at an Islam church tomorrow) and I honestly dont think I could deal with their traditions.

Answer 8

I think it's no different than any other religion, it has good people and bad people.. Their are extremist in every religion. But right now they are the ones in the spot light and taking their beliefs beyond an acceptable level.

Answer 9

Well I do not believe in Jihad or any violent things to do with religion. It has many peaceful people, but it is the select number of ticked off people that annoy me.

Answer 10

to be honest i don't really understand how one group of them can be completely nice and peaceful, and a whole other group that is terrorists. there isn't any difference between the groups fighting in iraq except one makes their women cover up. it's just they think "my god's better than your god" and they have to fight over it because one group thinks you get into heaven by killing yourself.
that's my view. from watching the news everyday and watching americans getting killed everyday. all the people who disagree can tell me, but i don't think my opinion is going to change.
also i agree with ws348.