why do some people unreasonably attack Islam when they know nothing about it?

Answer 1

hmmmm.....everyone is attacking everone, u r no exception....lol

Answer 2

If you mean here, as someone else has already said, everybody gets attacked. This is the Internet. Trolls rule the day.

If you mean elsewhere, I don't think it's happening. I think generally speaking Western countries go out of their way not to attack Islam. The problem is that there are a number of very high profile nut jobs doing their best to murder as many people, Muslim and non-Muslim, as they can and claiming to do it in the name of Islam. It doesn't help to see news footage of Muslims dancing in the streets after 9/11, or rioting in the streets because of newspaper cartoons. It doesn't help to have Muslim inmates in Britain suing the government for $4 million because a menu card for Ramadan was misprinted. And the list could go on.

It would help if there were more moderate Islamic voices out there. Perhaps there are - perhaps the media simply aren't covering them. Still, except for a few nut jobs on our side of the fence, I don't think most people are attacking Islam. They're attacking some Muslims who apparently have no regard for their own or other people's lives.

Edit: Bin Laden is not a stereotype. Bin Laden is a human being. A sorry example of one, I'll grant, but he still exists.

Answer 3

Actually, it is the other way around.

Islam assumes that God didn't get it right the first time. This why God transmitted the message through Gabriel to Muhammad. The Qur'an corrects previous revealed knowledge.

Islam basic claim: God is one and Muhammad is his prophet; however, Muhammad does not meet the criteria of a prophet as presented Deuteronomy 18:14-22 specifically verse 22

You may say to yourselves, "How can we know when a message has not been spoken by the LORD ?" 22 If what a prophet proclaims in the name of the LORD does not take place or come true, that is a message the LORD has not spoken. That prophet has spoken presumptuously. Do not be afraid of him. NIV

The attacks are clear especially in Yahoo! Answers where biblical verses are used without any understanding of their meaning. They are often quoted out of context to justify the correcting verses of the Qur'an.

Answer: He who lives in glass houses, should not throw rocks.

Answer 4

They attack it because they know nothing about it. People are often irrationally afraid of things they know nothing about.

Also, look at the rhetoric coming out of Washington these past 6 years. How we should be afraid of terrorists and what we are doing to 'take the fight to them'. The fight is going on in Iraq, a largely Islamic country. Many people in the US, and perhaps elsewhere, don't take the time to think that there is a difference between Islamic Terrorists and Islamic People, even if they come from the same country.

Americans are typically lazy, especially with learning about cultures that have to direct daily bearing on our lives. After all, the terrorists are half a world away.

Answer 5

Stereotypes like Ben Laden and other More are the Cause,but attacking Islam is something and criticising it is quite another things,all religions are subject to investigations and critic including islam since religions have many controversial issues .

Answer 6

It comes down to the order of magnitude.

When Eric Rudolph bombed the Olympic games...yeah it was bad, but in the big picture...not the big. He claims to be a Christian and did it for religious reasons......yet no one attacks Christianity because of it. They just think Eric is a nut.

When Muslim extremists send suicide bombers into innocent places to blow people up...people take notice. When they hijack three planes and knock down two buildings...people take notice.

It is "easy" to blame all Muslims...when clearly this is not valid. I don't blame Muslims, I blame the extremists, who happen to be Muslim.

IF some fundamentalist Christians hijacked a bunch of planes and crashed them all over Mecca......people would blame "Christianity" in the same fashion as people now blam Islam.

Answer 7

maybe because we do!
Islam give no woman any rights.
it's similarity of communism. no creativity, or freedom or right to correct a false teaching about the koran
and the koran also said..JESUS is the Son of GOD.
and they are not EMPOWER BY GOD.holy spirit..to teach them...so that is hwy..they still don't know it.
that JESUS is the SOn of GOD
and abraham MIRACLE SON is the chosen race for GOD.
not Ishmael the son of WAR.is what Ishmael means!
and look 2000 years later..that root of that religon and the arab race like to WAR with each other and the world..which FIT the spiritual characteristic!
they can be lovely ect..but still..it's like a lovely cobra, smooth skin but dangerous bite..oh.smootn and COLD. blooded
chrsitianity in usa and europe want to preserve life, them of middle east arab see like like grass, livestock.they live and they die..period.

Answer 8

They just want to attack Islam , thats why.

They think that by doing that , they are actually prooving Christanity as true.

Because thats the only option left with them .

For me those ppls are pagans

God bless the pagans!

Answer 9

Lack of knowlege. Then again, all most people see or hear about is violence caused by Muslims. If they would take the time to read a bit about it, they would see that it's really not as bad as the media portrays.

Answer 10

It's bigotry, which stems from fear, ignorance and the egotistical assumption of inherent superiority.

That said, one can quite reasonably attack Islam.

Answer 11

It's normal.
People from different beliefs are known to attack each other.
Even Muslims attack each other...in some instances, they fight and kill each other. What a shame!