is there proof that mainstream Islam is a peaceful religion?

Question

how about this
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or do your own search type in
Austin texas Muslim peace march

or if you like to just look at the terrorist see kkk or ira and tell me christanity is a bout peace

Answer 1

Mohammad Ali said so to avoid going to Nam so it must be true.......

Answer 2

I attended school with plenty of muslims, and have never had near as much problems with them, as i have had with American hoodlums.
There was even a masque a block from the school, and nothing has blown up yet.
Radical right-wingers will be radical right wingers no matter what religion they are, and they all seem to resort to violence to get their point across.

With so many People of the Islamic faith in the world, if they were all terrorists or violent, we would have far more problems than we do.

Answer 3

I live in China as an ex pat from the USA and the city I live has quite a few Muslims. I buy my beef from them.

Other then Buddhist temples, there are a few Mosques here, one right down the street from me. They all seem like a pretty friendly bunch. If it wasn't for the fact that they sell me beef, I wouldn't know they are Muslims. Just pretty normal Chinese, friendly, helpful and kind. Couldn't ask for better neighbors.

Peace

Jim

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Answer 4

it particularly is how Islam has unfold interior the previous. in the event that they have an benefit , they loot and plunder jointly as screaming verses from the Quran justifying their movements. as quickly because of the fact the chips are down and that they start getting whacked, the peace finished Muslims who're silent until eventually then, pop out of the timber works claiming ,the non Muslims have twisted the actual Islam and in basic terms an extremely microscopic baddies are giving Islam a foul call. they proceed to be silent while they are wining with a view to income from the loot. they have performed this double interest concept out historic previous and in basic terms of late their technique has been uncovered interior the west as a results of plenty extra suited and swifter communications.

Answer 5

khalojamal - many of us have:

Muhammad organized 65 military campaigns in the last ten years of his life and personally led 27 of them. The more power that he attained, the smaller the excuse needed to go to battle, until finally he began attacking tribes merely because they were not part of his growing empire.

After Muhammad’s death, his most faithful followers and even his own family turned on each other almost immediately. There were four Caliphs (leaders) in the first twenty-five years. Three of the four were murdered. The third Caliph was murdered by the son of the first. The fourth Caliph was murdered by the fifth, who left a 100-year dynasty that was ended in a gruesome, widespread bloodbath by descendents of Muhammad’s uncle.

Muhammad’s own daughter, Fatima, and his son-in-law, Ali, who both survived the pagan hardship during the Meccan years safe and sound, did not survive Islam after the death of Muhammad. Fatima died of stress from persecution within three months, and Ali was later assassinated. Their son (Muhammad’s grandson) was killed in battle with the faction that became today’s Sunnis. His people became Shias. The relatives and personal friends of Muhammad were mixed into both warring groups, which then fractured further into hostile sub-divisions as Islam grew.

Muhammad left his men with instructions to take the battle against the Christians, Persians and Jews. For the next four centuries, Muslim armies steamrolled over unsuspecting neighbors, plundering them of loot and slaves, and forcing the survivors to either convert or pay tribute at the point of a sword.

Companions of Muhammad lived to see Islam declare war on every major religion in the world in just the first few decades following his death - pressing the Jihad against Hindus, Christians, Jews, Zoroastrians, and Buddhists.

By the time of the Crusades (when the Europeans began fighting back), Muslims had conquered two-thirds of the Christian world by the sword, from Spain to Syria, and across North Africa. The Arab slave-trading routes would stay open for another 1300 years, until pressure from Christian-based countries forced Islamic nations to declare the practice illegal (in theory).

Today, there is not another religion in the world that consistently produces terrorism in the name of religion as does Islam. The most dangerous Muslims are nearly always those who interpret the Qur’an most transparently. They are the fundamentalists or purists of the faith, and believe in Muhammad’s mandate to spread Islamic rule by the sword, putting to death those who will not submit.

The holy texts of Islam are saturated with verses of violence and hatred toward those outside the faith. In sharp contrast to the Bible, which generally moves from relatively violent passages to far more peaceful ones, the Qur’an travels the exact opposite path. The handful of earlier verses that speak of tolerance are overwhelmed by an avalanche of later ones that carry a much different message. While Old Testament verses of blood and guts are generally bound by historical context within the text itself, Qur'anic imperatives to violence usually appear open-ended.

Answer 6

I know tons of Muslims. I live right near a mosque, and they're nothing but polite and friendly to anyone and everyone. I've never seen or heard of a Muslim around me that's ever even been in a confrontation.

There's always fear when people don't know anything about another.

Answer 7

Don't be fooled by what mainstream Islam has to say...or rather does not say. If they follow the teachings of Muhammed then they read the Jihad section of the Koran which has a great deal to say about Jihad, conversion, death, etc. This is not a pleasant portion of the Koran.

Answer 8

Nobody in the world needs to constantly defend their religion against bigots like you for the fact that only .0005% are extremists.

Check out my link to the peaceful Bible. http://www.godisimaginary.com/video2.htm

Religion is the biggest excuse for hate and war in the world.

I prefer to be an Atheist than hear this garbage about religion.

How about - I DON'T CARE what anyone believes. BUSH is the terrorist. Christianity is the leading killer in the WORLD.

Answer 9

Just read the history of Islam.

Answer 10

I don't need proof. I've been to Muslim countries and felt perfectly safe.

Answer 11

YOU said MAINSTREAM
kkk is not mainstream christianity!

I have no source for this but have heard (be carefull in trusting this information) that the Koran says in order to save someone's soul after they leave Islam you must kill them.