This question is OPEN ONLY to THOSE who despise Islam -- why do you DESPISE ISLAM?

Question

Hi there,

This question is open only to those who despise Islam.
Only serious and truthful responses please. This is not a brutal interrogation on my part, but a sincere query.

a) How did you come to know about Islam?
In other words, what are your sources of information on Islam?
[for examples: media, mouth of people, Muslim friends etc.]

b) What are your reasons for being resentful towards Islam?

c) Did September the 11th, 2001, make any impact on your impressions towards Islam?
In other words, what was your understanding of AND curiosity towards Islam *before* and *after* the September 11th, 2001?
Did it change a great deal? In what ways?

d) Did you ever read a Quran? Which translation and edition?


Your candid response is greatly appreciated! Thanking you in advance.

Answer 1

It is not Islam or The Prophet that I dispise - it is political extremists and death-dealing terrorists OF ANY RELIGION OR POLITICAL TYPE!

Muslims are good people, as are Christians and Jews, Hindu and Buddhist - even athiests! It's just that there are some individuals who latch on to a good religion, which, for reasons of their own, they decide needs them to go around telling everyone else that they are wrong - and killing them if they don't agree!

There is nothing even faintly despicable about Islam - but there are some despicable people doing despicable things in its name.

Good question, tho! And I did read the Quran in the 1970's no idea who translated or which edition it was. Great book, like the Bible in so many ways, I was amazed!

Answer 2

Despise is a bit strong, I see it for what it is. Sept. 11th, yes, and the response of pretty much silence on the part of american muslims has shown me something also...I think they ALL have the capability to attack.
Sources are my own reading of their book, and several interviews from former muslim terrorists I have seen and read.
The knowledge that there is a plan for world dominance has been found out, it's no secret. They're just not organized enough yet.
Hopefully they never will be.

Answer 3

Why do I despise Islam....I will try and honestly answer your questions: a. All I know about Islamd I learned from 9-11 ! any religion that advocates the killing of 4,000 innocent people by hi-jacking a plane and flying into the World Trade Center are nothing but, a bunch of crazed fanatics. b. My reasons are as cited above and due to the fact that no musliums are condeming, all their crazy extremists from all the car bombings, road side bombings and whole sale killing of not only our troops but, their own citizens. I would think that the citizens or iraq would have enough of this insanity and take out the extremists themselves. c. You darn right it did ! this was a happy nation before 9-11 now we can barely afford to live, thanks to the gasoline prices, and everyday food items, energy, medical treatments, travel. everything is screwed up thanks to these crazed idiots. yes it changed me, seeing our troops killed daily by cowardly bombers, not enough guts to stand and fight like a man, got to hide in their mosques and set off road side bombs, snipers and car bombs, Damn Cowards all of them ! They should be nuked until they glow ! all they understand is killing, blood and terrior. d. No I've never read the Quran and have no desire to read it either! Any religion that advocates the whole sale killing and terrior of innocents gets no respect from this writer. The true Muslims and leaders of Islam should be shouting to the heaven, with outrage that their religion is being used as an instrument of terrior and mass murder.. but, we don't see that do we? Their silence is deafening, which equates to silent support of the murdering cowardly terriosts. It's just that simple!

Answer 4

Before and after Sept. 11, I did not hate Islam. I studied about the Sufi in college classes and had respect for them. Yes, I have tried to read the Quran, but it is hard as it doesn't flow well in English. I worked with a man who was a Muslim and I had respect for him, because he was modern (he had his daughters get a good education so as not to be dependant on an man, he said) and he had respect for me. When I was younger I works with some Arab men (I don't know their religion), but they treated me like crap and I have never forgotten that. I know a man who left Turkey as a child with his whole family because Christian were being killed. Most of his family were Muslim and they warned them and helped them get out.

Most of what I know about Islam I learned here on YA/ R&S. I have found out the hard way that it is offensive to them to have their relgion questioned in any way. One might ask why they come on this forum if they can not tollerate this. I had an open mind when I began talking to them. Now I do not have an open mind. My mind is made up. I have been insulted, and threated, both on line and off. I will not tell you how bad, but if Yahoo knew about it the man's account would be suspended now. I now see people who are Muslim as evil, cruel, backward and barbaric. I now have pure rage in my heart for them all. I think that we need to fear them everywhere that they are. There may be good ones. But when you can tell someone that killing is OK if you do it in the name of God, people will do any god allful thing and think themselves Saints for doing it. Be careful, be very careful. They have even attacked my computer. And the things that I have asked and said are no where near what others have said.

Bottom line. Islam came after the time of Jesus. It says that Jesus is not the son of God and anyone that says that he is should die. Islam says that Jesus assended into heaven before the cruxifiction and someone else hung on the cross. That alone should tell any Christian who the God of the Muslims really is. Think about it.

Answer 5

Echoing one of your answerers, you have to put "militant" in front of that...What's happening in Iraq? The perpetrators may lbe Islam, but the vast majority of the poor victims--and the people who are alive and whole, but still afraid to leave their homes are victims as well--are Muslims! The Sudanese atrocities are, to make a long story short, a fight between Muslims and indiginous faiths...And check out the history of Northern Ireland; not a Muslim in the lot! I was HORRIFIED when Pat Robertson ran for president, thinking of the super-strange changes the country woould go through even with his being checked by calmer senators and congressmen----Did you know that, after Jimmie Baker was convicted of super-fleecing his "flock", mindless followers still sent him tithes and offerings in prison!!!! Don't talk about Jim Jones (Jonesville, Guiana, remember?); talk about the dummies who followed him there, then drank his Kool-aid because he said so...Sorry; I don't qualify as someone who resents the MODERATE Islamist; the point of my rant is, Dear Lord, protect us all from the True Believer!

Answer 6

Because Islam is eminently detestable?

The xenophobia, the arrogance, the scriptural literalism, the misogyny, the mixing of political and religious power, the rabid, irrational hatred of Jews and Christians...the list goes on and on.

Answer 7

Nice hate question. I think the word militant is the one you want in front of the word Islam to make your question more answerable. If you're gonna pick something as a whole to hate make it something worthwhile like France.

Answer 8

Islam Smith? That jerk stole the ham out of the 24th floor refrigerator last Easter. I hope they fired him.

Answer 9

Always nice to see an open-minded, objective question on here.

Answer 10

Hello triple K, How are you today?
Got nothing nice to say?