Islam is a religion or a political movement?

Answer 1

A religious movement spread through coersion and oppression. Mohammed originally used his new status as a cult leader to acquire and expand his political power in the region.

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Answer 2

Islam is a religion. Salafism, or the desire to return to the times of the "ancient ones" (those around the Prophet) is a political movement. Salafist Jihadism, as put forth by Seyyid Qutb and others, is a terrorist movement designed to destroy the Jahili world of decadence and corruption and replace it with Dar-Al-Islam (the world of Islam) under Sharia (Islamic Law). The book I've cited below is to the Salafist Jihadists what "Mein Kampf" was to the Nazis.
Essentially, the Salafist Jihadists like Usama Bin Laden are to Islam what the Ku Klux Klan was to Protestantism.

Answer 3

Politics and Religion go hand and hand. People vote based on their beliefs. The ten commandments used to be engraved into the buildings of court rooms, our money in God we Trust, etc. Islam is a religion, their goal is to take over the world. Read up on the Jihad and what it stands for. Radical Islam believes convert or die, they will kill even their own.

Answer 4

Islam is a religious political movement. Persons who seek a better life than that in which they are subjected to at this time. This can build hatred with propagandists. Can words heal? Lets find some common grounds to assist another culture in progress and in peace and use some common decency in this progress.Iraq is a strategic counter balance to hatred if handled correctly and can assist in being a financial center to assist that part of the world. America wants to help and only needs to educate the minds and hearts with positive actions.

Answer 5

Once a religion. Now it's an excuse for bad politics of a ruined, now 3rd World Islamic Middle Eastern Arab Country.

Answer 6

Both at the same time. Many people practice Islam as a religion. There are those that practice it only as an excuse to kill and attain power as in the cleric rule in Iran.

Answer 7

I think all religions try to influence and rule those with political power. Look at the Catholic church, they are a great example.

Remember, just because a person is "religious" does not mean that they do the right thing, it just means they can justify what they do to themselves so they can sleep at night.

Answer 8

Yes, both.

Within years of it's founding, Mohammed was kicked out of his hometown, politically converted a new town and then forcibly retook his hometown. He and the caliphs that replaced him proceeded to convert the Middle East, parts of Africa, Asia and Europe by the sword and rule them under the Caliphates. Only Medina and Turkey were peaceably converted.
See my articles entitled "The Caliphate."

Islamists (as opposed to muslims) use the religion in their bid to attain political and financial power by means of violence. They do little in the way of following the tenets of the religion itself. (See my more recent article "Militant Islam comes to America.")

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Answer 9

It is a religion and a political straight jacket.

Answer 10

Religion. And also FYI it is not a race either. With it's 3 BILLION members worldwide, there are whites, blacks, beige, yellow, red, Democrat, Republicans, liberals, conservatives, and the list goes on.. As in all religions they certainly have their share of *****les also.