How can Christians justify calling the Muslim faith violent?

Question

pot meet kettle. kettle, this is pot. <-----i think you guys have met.

primoa...i think history would say that.

Check out Evil Elton John's answer if you want some examples. Last time I checked, Protestants and Catholics were bombing each other to bits in Ireland. Bush claims he is Christian and he has spent 1.5 trillion on a war that is current

Answer 1

"We don't kill people for their beliefs"

But then you have:

-The Catholic Church collaborating with the Nazis in their elimination of Jews (even the Pope was a Nazi)...

-Serbians killing, torturing and starving-hypothermizing Muslims in Yugoslavia...

-Catholics and Protestants killing each other in Northern Ireland....

-Pious Christian Skinheads assaulting immigrants in France, England and Spain...

-The Christian President carpet-bombed a non-belligerent, mostly secular, Muslim people, on the grounds that "God talked to me and told me to do so" (Great point Jeff!!)

(and I'm just pointing out the recent Christian history....if you get me started, I'll mention the Pogroms in Europe, the Crusades, the Inquisition, Salem and Nüremberg witch trials, etc, etc).....

All religions are equally backward and brutal...

PS: Did I mention those kids whose lives ARE wasted thanks to the Catholic Priests that RAPE them??? And the worldwide Catholic cover-up operation that's taking place as we speak and that's costing the Church (and obviously, church goers) millions of dollars?????

Answer 2

To look at Christianity back in history, yes they have been very violant. But to compare Christianity to Islam today is a far stretch of reality. Christianity for the most part in this century has tried to build peaceful environments, while Islam has made most the world into cowards with violence. Take you for example, your too afraid to admit that Islam is the modern day scourge of the earth. Every country who's flag as the cresent moon symbol is a turbulent country, bar few.

Answer 3

Bad words are much sharper than a nife. Physical wounds will heal some day.

The wounds of constant insults, defamation and mockery about the religion of over one billion Muslim, will not be gone easily.

And it has been going on for a along time now.

That's why the teddybear situation is a big deal

Answer 4

Evil Elton really nailed it, but let us not forget Jonestown, Wacko, Timothy McVeigh and the like. Look at the Westboro Baptist Church and their nasty signs at funerals. When we look at modern day events, the people within the christian faith also do many bad things.

I don't think it's ALL religions... the abrahamic ones are the really nasty ones.

Answer 5

I've always noticed that you can understand someones personality by the way he/she interprets his/her religion. A violent person tries to justify his actions in the name of religion, and a peace loving person tries to live peacefully by following the same religion. Any religion can be interpreted as violent, remember, there are even Buddhist militant groups! Even though I'm an atheist, i think all the religions can be peaceful if we stop using it to gain power and money.

Answer 6

They're looking at current examples.


The Crusades are pleasantly overlooked...

Of course, the early crusades were brought on by raids and invasions by Muslim forces....

Ahhhh... the circle of hate. I bet Elton John could write a nice song.

Talms: Thank you for displaying the utter idiocy of zealot thought. "Oh they said something that makes me unhappy - Better whip them sixty times. I have to be right, there are 1 billion people who believe the same thing I do."

Argumentum ad baculum ... Argumentum ad nauseam ... Argumentum ad numerum ...

Answer 7

Can you show the same types of actions that Muslims take being done by Christians on the same scale in present times? If you are talking about the Crusades then I would venture to guess that not a single Christian alive on this earth had anything to do with them, but the Muslims of today are just as violent as they have always been. So, can you give me massive amounts of modern day comparisons?

Answer 8

Because Islam actually IS violent (Yahoo! search The Van Gogh, September 11, shariah law, etc). Hell, there was a woman in Saudi Arabia who was gang raped by like seven men that got 90 lashes and six months in jail because they kidnapped her while she was in a parked car with a man who was not a relative. The rapists got nothing. When the lady's fiance protested the ruling, the judge increased the penalty to 200 lashes out of spite.

Can you find anything close to that in modern Christendom?

Answer 9

Are you referring to the Spanish Inquisition where Catholics killed Jews, Muslims, Christians (aka Protestants) and non-Italian Catholics?

Answer 10

So both have violent histories. That simply means the Christians making such charges are justified, but are guilty as well.

Answer 11

I would agree with you except for one thing...The Christians have for the most part stopped persecuting others over their belief systems. Attempt to convert them, yes...damn them to HELL (assuming there is one) when the don't convert, yes...do them harm when they don't convert NO. That's the difference today. A fanatical Muslim is bound by his/her religious law to kill the Infidel if he/she doesn't submit to the will of Allah...and that behavior hasn't changed, it still goes on today. Additionally, we don't cut off the hands of a thief for stealing to try and feed his/her family (okay three strikes law condemns them to Prison on their third offense regardless of how trivial, but at least they live). PEACE!