Why do some believe all they hear?

Question

Allah is not a moon God, and for you to feel some spontaneous need to keep attacking a faith you do not understand, you don't seem to want to learn. Here is a link to help explain all you might want to know about this moon god myth. Please have an open mind, and please do not put insulting or disrespecting remarks on my question as I am not going to your pages and posting it. I consider insult to be posting a question just to call names or put down. Disagreeing is not an insult, I am not so narrow-minded.

http://islamtomorrow.com/allah/moon_god.asp

Answer 1

The most important thing here is that the media makes us look like "barbarians". Islam is a peaceful religion. I have to say, I converted from Christianity because I took the time to read up on Islam. After 9-11 I wanted to know the WHOLE truth about Islam, not what CNN tells me. So I did, and here I am, a very happy Muslim.

BTW

flameslivewire, YOU THE MAN!!!!

Answer 2

People are gullible. Most people never learn. They believe everything that they hear.

Ten years ago, all we heard about was Y2K. When the year 2000 comes, all the computers are going to crash. It will be the end of the world!

I didn't believe it, and I told everybody that it was nonsense. Then we heard about the "hole in the ozone layer". Another lie. Ozone is produced and destroyed every day by natural phenomena like solar radiation. Since the poles don't get much solar radiation during the winter, there is a sparsity of ozone.

Now, its Global Warming, another lie. Its just another way to control people.

Muslims are being demonized by some of our politicians and by mainstream media. Our politicians need an enemy so that we will look to them to protect us.

Incidentally, our politicians and the media don't care too much for Christians, either. They have been attacking and ridiculing us for years. Now, they have a new "enemy".

I realize that the majority of Muslims are not terrorists, because I have many Muslim friends. I get my information first hand, not from what I read or see on TV.

Answer 3

If there are references found within Arabic literature that pre date Islam, using the name of Allah as one of the "gods", especially the so called "Moon God", then you cannot convince learned people that Allah was not a "moon god" before Allah was used as "the only god". It would be very difficult for learned people to accept that Allah was not a moon god unless you can refute the reports that he was most certainly a part of a pantheon that represented 359 other gods in the pagan religious practices preceeding Islam.

So your job to dissuade the scholastic world would have to include the refutation of these facts.

I give you a reference, since you gave me one. It would not be in order to just say 'no he wasn't' since the evidence points to the idea that he most certainly was.

So you have a bigger job ahead of you than just giving us the belief stated without providing the evidence.

Answer 4

This is for barry...

You are probably brain-washed about the verse that calls for the Muslims to kill the Infidels. Right? Anyways, The Quran itself makes everything clear:

Anyone can be misleaded by just quoting a part of the entire sentence...
"They killed him" draws sympathy for the killed person.

But the entire sentence proves us wrong
" They killed him because he had murdered thousands"

Now that justifies the part...
Similarly read the entire part. And if you do, you will find that the verse refers to the battlefield. In a war, if you find the 'infidels' who had tortured you and who want to kill you, kill them.

Who were this 'infidels'.
If you read the entire context, you get to know that, these are those pagan barbaric people who had tortured muslims, looted their property, didnt even leave the old and handicapped tortured them too. And it was during this time, that ALLAH had commanded to be steadfast. These years passed with full persecution and not even a single muslim replied back with a Slap!

So, when they migrated to Madinah, it was revealed to them "fight for your rights" "If these pagans come to kill you, you can kill them too"
As plain as that... Is this inhuman??? Any war general will say this.

But Almighty GOD, ALLAH wants more than this. What is it?

The verse continues, "But if the infidels want peace and want to surrender, ESCORT them to a place of safety"

The maximum a very merciful general will do is to say "Let them GO"

But here Islam says, "ESCORT them to a place of safety"

Now do the justice, and read the entire part

Answer 5

Deviated sects will put a Faith in thier minds first and then search to prove it...
in the net anybody can type anything....if we do not expect lies that means we live in a world of Angles....
Our Prophet (PBUH) said about one of the people who will be punished that:
“is the man who goes out of his house in the morning and tells a lie that is so serious that it spreads all over the world”. Narrated by al-Bukhaari (7074).
and it is something like today's medias.

Answer 6

Are you a Muslim with an open mind? Allah is not a moon god? How would you describe him? There are many myths that are posted in this forum about Christianity. Do you cut and paste links in response to them? Then you are not as open-minded as you would have us believe. And Islam is a grossly violent religion, perhaps followed by some very nice people. But ultimately, it's your foundational beliefs that tell what you really are. Your Quran states that it is forbidden to read it unless it is in the original language. Why, then are so many Muslims committing the forbidden act? The Quran also states that the only guaranteed way to paradise is to die in the performance of a jihad against an infidel. Tell me, how peaceful can Islam be, if you are to kill those who won't convert?

Answer 7

here, i think it is more important to emphasize on the fact that THE INTERNET is full of "stuff". the net has nonsense all over it. while it is useful, informative, interactive etc., it has lies all over it too. People who try and read the quran get a wrong idea cuz they are shallow and cant get into depth, and several several sites on the net which are NONSENSE. People who want lies will get them; people who want truth will get them. Its like the sea, learn to swim or drown to death.

Answer 8

Because Muslims are considered to be "the enemy" today, like the russians in the 60's and Germans before them. Peope will believe anything negative about those who they fear, even if it isn't true.

Answer 9

Because people don't bother to read about and study a religion before forming an opinion.

Answer 10

Because they haven't grown up yet even if they're 60 years old. You'd think the world would have taught them not to believe everything they're told. These people must believe in mermaids and unicorns too.