2007-03-20 06:47:17 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You make some valid observations.
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 and over 1B peaceable Muslims 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 reclaim the Islam that has been hijacked by radicals who have plunged Islamic countries into the Dark Ages. New leaders 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 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
2007-03-20 06:54:34 · answer #1 · answered by Ask Mr. Religion 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Why does someone alleging the goodness and peacefulness of any given religion sicken you? I'm no fan of Bush myself, but why are you so willing to assume that other religions are bad, absent evidence? Why not seek to understand those religions and to learn about them, rather than to assume they're violent and you can never understand them?
2007-03-20 06:51:07 · answer #2 · answered by Kate S 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Bush said that? Wow he has a hard time showing it. And no I'm not tired of hearing Islam is a religion of peace, I am a muslim and I know it is.
2007-03-20 06:52:01 · answer #3 · answered by Chelle's Belle 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Islam is the most peaceful religion , I'm a muslimah and i know my religion very well ...
did bush say that , ummm maybe he start to be a g-o-o-d man ... but i don't think so , he is so mean .
2007-03-20 06:59:42 · answer #4 · answered by Alone 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That's because you don't actually know any Muslims personally, so all your information on the religion is based on stereotypes, misinformation, and hatred.
Dude, you're dressed in a devil suit. Are you really anybody to be speaking about being disgusted by false claims of peace anyway?
2007-03-20 06:51:53 · answer #5 · answered by magistra_linguae 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Ummm... it IS a religion of Peace, at least to the degree that any religion is. Various practitioners may interpret in such a way as to utilize it for violent purposes, but the same can be said for any religion, especially Christianity.
2007-03-20 06:51:53 · answer #6 · answered by Blackacre 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
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2016-10-02 11:06:58 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i not really sick of what of bush said, but i sick of his action upon that statement. he said islam is religion of peace,but his soldiers still keep abusing muslims.
2007-03-20 06:56:02 · answer #8 · answered by ? 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
He's got to say it, as the leader of the country.
You know in private he's plotting ways to waste them all.
2007-03-20 06:50:56 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
he is telling you,if you do understand,that these muslims are peacefull and can be defeated
2007-03-20 07:00:41 · answer #10 · answered by egyorgan 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋