Is it just me? How many beheadings and stonings can you watch before you start to dislike Islam?

Question

Before you answer, watch at least one beheading and one stoning. They aren't hard to find on the internet.

I guess I have to repeat, please watch a beheading and a stoning before forming an opinion, otherwise you're chosing to be ignorant.

I don't hate all muslims, its the religion that teaches these things that I dislike.

Cashel, yes, I guess I am judgemental. I think people that behead innocent people and stone people to death are evil. I think it's wrong to never be judgemental. By the way, have you watched a beheading or a stoning? I didn't think so.

Answer 1

And the videos are current. I have watched one hanging where they used a crane. Four people were slowly raised up and hung simultaneously.(Apparently they move the crane from town to town for this purpose) It involved the citizens of the area. And I watched one stoning. The victim is wrapped in a sack, buried up to the waist with head exposed and the citizens can only use rocks of a certain size to throw and bash their victims heads in with. Not too small and not too big. Must be just a little smaller than a baseball. This is so they won't kill or knock the victim unconscious on the first or second hit. They gather in a big circle, looked like about a hundred citizens, and they all participate in slowly bashing the person's head in. "Uncivilized" is much to nice a word for those people. Everyone in America should watch at least one hanging and one stoning. Just one.

Answer 2

One. But then unfortunately I read about others in the news and in human rights reports, and about women jailed for infidelity (where did the man go?) awaiting their sentence, as well...

I get really tired of the arguments, "What about the Crusades and the Inquisition and the Holocaust?"

Maybe some governments LONG AGO did do evil in the name of Christianity. Christians today agree that was wrong -- but that certainly does NOT excuse the continuation of evil done by SOME Muslims today (please note the word "some"--I am railing against evil done in the name of islam, not all Muslims, here).

This is the 21st century, and I haven't heard of a group of Christians calling for a stoning ... and if there are any "Christian" governments in power right now, I don't see them even visualizing, much less enforcing, a death penalty against those who want to leave the faith...

And maybe all Muslims don't believe in beheadings and stonings, but are they actively and aggressively working to influence the Muslims that DO? Maybe that does occur and we just don't see it, I don't know.

These things are worrisome to me as a woman, a mother of a daughter, and a person concerned with the basic human rights of all people. I've been told that Islam offers equal rights to women, but in Saudi Arabia and some other Arab countries, women can't travel by themselves and men can. That is inequality of rights on a very basic level, isn't it?

If it was JUST sources from my government putting out this information, I would agree, it would be propaganda. But we do have a free press here in the US, as is the BBC; and human rights watch groups are usually objective reporters, as well. So I'm not buying into the propaganda argument.

It just doesn't appear to me that Islam is a religion of peace, as its followers want to reassure us it is.

I guess I have a completely different definition of *peace.*

Answer 3

Actually, its more the culture than the religion in this case.

You don't see American Muslims beheading and stoning people, why? America has different laws, we have a different legal system and culture than they do over there in some of those Middle eastern nations.

Stoning and beheading people IS backward, I concur. But lest you forget...any religion can and has been used to support such atrocities, some people use religion to suit their own agenda. Christianity being a very good example of this. Does that mean I ought to hate Christianity as well?

Answer 4

That's not the religion, that's the interpretation. There are lots of good reasons to stone and behead people in the bible, we just decide that the crazy christians shouldn't be allowed to kill each other. When religion and government get involved with each other you always end up with the full tilt crazies killing some sinners/ infidels off because that's what "GOD" wants.

Answer 5

Why do you hate a religion for something backwards people do? Chrisian proselytizers in India raped and mutilated a 14 year old girl because her family would not convert to Christianity. Should I hate Christianity or the sick people who did this?
WARNING: NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART!
http://www.christianaggression.org/tactics_sexual_abuse.php

In Uganda, the Lord's Resistance Army is comitting genocide, raping and torturing children in the name of the "Holy Spirit," so should Christianity be hated for this?
http://hrw.org/english/docs/1997/09/18/uganda1528.htm

And we can't forget the Crusades, the Inquisition, the takeover of America, and the Holocaust; all comitted by Christians.

There has to come a point when you can reason enough to recognize the difference between a religion and what the followers do. Pity to those who aren't yet able.


Katrina: actually, the Arabs make up less that 13% of the world's Muslim population.

Answer 6

No. It's not just you. Any one with a sense of decency feels that things like this are abhorrent. And there are those who say that Islam itself is not to blame.

Maybe they're right, but we are not to be blamed if things like this give Islam a bad name.

And though this is a bit off-topic, I really do believe that fighting this sort of thing would be a good use of whatever resources we may have. Our current leaders chose to fight it the wrong way, but we should still fight it somehow or other.

Answer 7

Islam is not the problem. It's a minority of hardcore muslims.

Read your christian bible and you will find all sorts of instructions of when and how to stone people to death (yes, even disobedient children and rape victims who don't cry out loud enough).

The difference is, for the most part - christians in the west have chosen to ignore those nasty parts of the bible which, I guess, is a good thing for the rest of us.

Answer 8

I don't need to watch any.

And I am not so naive to think that we haven't done and continue to do some atrocious, heinous acts on our own people and people of other countries. We just call it something different, like justice. Or war, for democracy. We also keep it covert, like in prison, beyond our scope of sight.

Peace.

Answer 9

I don't beleive in any religion, but your message seems to be more like one trying to spread hate for something,, not very helpful, I beleive every relegion is really sick, I don't think you were neutral enough to search for how many similar/sometimes worse things are done by christian communaties in asia/africa ,, why target religion of your choice only ??, so it will be better if you mention the wrong things in christianity/hinduism/others as well, not discriminate against one religion only,,,

And one more thing, people like you make me a stronger atheist, you ensure me I hate others less than you do.

Answer 10

Why would you search the Internet to find something as yucky as a beheading? That's kind of gross...

But what baffles me, is that people will judge Islam by the actions of Arabs, that only make up 25% of islam as a whole!! So unless you're seeing incidents of islamic bruality amoungst the canadian muslims, black muslims, japanese muslims, mexican muslims, the list goes on...

your question sounds pretty ignorant, because it seems you've decided to hate 1.5 BILLION people, based on the actions of some arabs... sad...