Islam means the "voluntary submission to the Will of Allah" and it is a word derived from salam which means peace.
The test on this earth is whether we will recognize the oneness of God and then submit ourselves voluntarily to his commands.
In Islam.... if anyone is forced to submit - then their test is NULL and VOID.
They did not chose VOLUNTARILY so their conversion is VOIDED.
However, if anyone claims to be a Muslim then they have made a covenant to follow the rules and regulations. Just like when we enter into a country we follow all the laws, not just the ones we like. Anything less would lead to chaos and anarchy.
If a Muslim forces ANYONE to convert to Islam then they are sinning and their effort is NULL and VOID in any Shariah court on earth.
To force anyone to convert would in fact render that Muslim to punishment in this life and the next.
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2007-04-22 22:12:45 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
That is not what history books say. Islam grew by conquest. That is a fact. Your Quran says, "war is ordained for you" does it not?
Endless Jihad
The Truth about Islam and Violence
Jihad. It was once a word unfamiliar to American ears. But in recent years it has become all too familiar. The actions of Muslim militants and terrorists have seared the word into American consciousness.
Yet even with thousands of innocent civilians killed on American soil by Islamic terrorists, the full significance of the Muslim concept of jihad has not been grasped by the American public.
In the days after September 11, 2001, American leaders rushed to portray Islam as a peaceful religion that had been "hijacked" by a fanatical band of terrorists. One hopes that these assurances were merely tactical—that nobody was meant to believe them and that they were meant to assure the Muslim world that the inevitable American reprisals were not directed at their religion as a whole.
If the world Muslim community perceived America as attacking Islam in general then the duty of every Muslim to fight for his religion—the duty of jihad—would have been invoked on a broad scale. The war against terrorism, instead of simmering with occasional flare-ups, like the Cold War, would have boiled over into a global conflagration, with the Muslim countries of the world—1.2 billion strong—mobilizing against America and the West.
Muslim apologists also rushed forward to assure the public that Islam was a peaceful religion. They disingenuously declared that the word Islam means "peace." And they tried to portray the terrorists as a fringe group outside the mainstream of Islam.
These were lies.
The usual meaning of Islam in Arabic is not "peace" but "submission." And if the terrorists were so far outside the mainstream, why did Muslims all over the world burst into joyful, spontaneous celebrations when the hijacked jetliners slammed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon? Why are Islamic governments afraid to show "too much" public support for the war against terrorism? Further, why are all the governments that covertly support terrorism centered in the Muslim world?
The truth is that Islam is not a religion of peace. This is not to say that every Muslim is violent at heart. Many are not. Muslims have the same aspirations for living peaceful lives that people have the world over. But they also have the same potential for violence as others, and Islam as a religion and an ideology seeks to exploit that potential.
Though there are millions of Muslims who want peaceful relations with the West, millions who aspire to live in free societies like America, there nevertheless remains a deep and powerful strain of violence within Islam, and it is important that Americans understand it.
They will have to face it in the future.
For the rest of the presentation go to this link.
http://www.catholic.com/library/endless_jihad.asp
May the Lord's peace be with you!
2007-04-22 22:33:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If that is the case then why dont Islamic states in these days practice religious equality?
What is the point of the Dihmi status?
Why do non-Muslims have to pay taxes just because they are not Muslim.
Why are non-Muslims often restricted in job employment?
They are also restricted from converting Muslims to their religion, but they must tolerate Muslims converting them and are forbidden to do anything about it.
Its kind of hard to call it voluntary when you tie the hands of the other person.
2007-04-22 22:19:58 · answer #2 · answered by Gamla Joe 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Frankly, in case you seem at issues traditionally, Islam has been the main tolerant of the Monotheistic religions. different than for extremists (and there are extremists in any faith). Christianity has the worst, varifiable, checklist for forcing it extremely is faith on others. North usa, because it replaced into conquered, being the finest... yet no longer the only, occasion. Christian missionaries are in charge for most of the worst abuses ever leveled via one human against yet another, interior the call of God. "in the event that they do no longer convert; kill them" Conversly, Muslim States which conquered others did no longer insist human beings convert to their faith. And, while human beings chosen to no longer, (Christians, as an occasion) they weren't even taxed via the State. They have been allowed to stay autonimously in the border of the State, without concern of religious persecution. -- Spain's an elementary occasion of this.
2016-10-28 18:09:18 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is up to the individual to convert to Islam or not, but to force someone is a sin. A person who converts must be willing to accept Allah and his religion totally from the heart, not because he is forced to do so. Anyone who forces another person to change their religion is a sinner.
2007-04-22 22:19:41 · answer #4 · answered by ¸.•*´`*•.¸ ℓανєη∂єr ¸.•*´`*•.¸ 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Then why do your have a history of killing Christians wherever you go in the Middle East? I personally know Christians that had to flea for their lives.
2007-04-22 22:29:28 · answer #5 · answered by tonks_op 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
In Islam words are different from actions.
muslims say islam is peace, and add peace after every sentense. Is this all peace you got.
i am looking for peace in action. but i only see terrorism from muslims. neither ordinary people condemn it.
I am not a moron to believe you when you say islam is peace.
grow up, world around you is more intelligent than you.
2007-04-22 22:17:06 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
Do you know anything at all about the history of Islam?
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That is not what we are talking about here Azrael, the fact of the matter is, outside of a few areas in the Far East, Islam was spread by conquest and forced conversions. Just as Christianity was.
2007-04-22 22:15:05 · answer #7 · answered by fourmorebeers 6 · 5⤊ 5⤋
been to Pakistan lately, they have Blaspheme laws, convert or else just ask Danial Scot, or any of thousands of others who have had to leave
2007-04-22 22:26:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You dont think that muslims who are trying to force a muslim "state" isn't spreading Isalm by force.
2007-04-22 22:18:23 · answer #9 · answered by bcooper_au 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
It's impossible to force an American to buy anything anyone is pushing.
2007-04-22 22:16:35 · answer #10 · answered by clbinmo 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋