teddy bear incident has given islam an even worse name?

Question

This incident has outraged me. As a level minded Muslim, common sense tells me that if you ask any Muslim child what their favourate name is, most likely the child will say "Mohamed." These idiots in Sudan have surely added to the Muslim list of stupid things. Muslims, when are we going to start using our heads? we are seen as a violent people when Islam only asks us to fight when we need to save our lives or for country. i dont blame others for laughing at us, fearing us because we have created this. I love my religion dearly but sadly a fraction of our brothers are idiotic and backward in their thinking.

lol yousedum - i would say 1% of my muslim brothers still live in Jurasic Park.

Answer 1

it is good to know that Muslims are as outraged as the rest of us! in one of my last question a person pasted some photographs of Muslims in Europe and their full intention to hurt the European community! go to my answers and check it out ! it is tin the last 3 questions I have asked!

email me back when you have seen it and tell me what you think! I am on a breather right now of the Muslim religion and islamist folks! so not offense ,but we are all fed up!

It is time for Muslim's to step up to the plate and show some leadership!


EDIT - you are able to visit it now!

Answer 2

A sensible Muslim view, at last. I truly wish that there were more people of your understanding. Unfortunately, the idiots in Sudan have covered the entire faith with excrement. Now I have no use for Islam as a religion (it is possible to show that the Qur'an is a fraud), but the Sudanese affair is ridiculous.

Answer 3

Many in our world think of that worse name. But many charity institutions and many people in our world go on insisting that we should give more economic help to those miserable people in their survival and in getting a better life.

Now, it was "interesting" to see a glimpse of the plump ambassador from that country in London coming out of a mercedes really worth kings.

And it was quite "interesting" to see in the TV-news a nice handsome young man from that race and creed dressed in the impeccable european way speaking about the utmost deadly seriousness of that religious offence, the offence of calling a teddy bear, a child's toy, that utmost holy name you name.

And it was also quite "interesting" to read about the large hysterical mobs in the capital city of that country demonstrating shouting wanting that the incorrigible imprisoned teacher who so unjudiciously had allowed such utmost deadly toy-bear name deed, should be taken out of prison and publically shot to her death.

And it is also even more "interesting" to see that most of the more or less inbred boys from that creed are called the same name (imagine now a school class, if they have any school classes, where their boy-pupils all are called the same utmost holy name).

It is very "interesting" to see that their utmost holy Creed did not succeed in teaching them a bit of a better and richer life and more merciful spirituality and a harmony among themselves and others among them who may think a bit differently and are not so hysterically reactive against some petty freedom of speech.

It is also and even more "interesting" that europeans did never succeed in teaching those inbred desert and oasis people anything to better their life, and it is also still more "interesting" to see that their chinese friends from a fantastic civilisation are not really succeeding in teaching them a better life and a better harmony with the surrounding world and with the world at large.

All of it is quite "interesting".

Answer 4

If you are ligitimate, then good for you.

Yes, the extremists are making your faith look very bad. It gets harder and harder to remind people that the vast majority of the faith of Islam are not all raving maniacs.

Unfortunately, the Wahabbist branch of the Islamic fiath WORKS. It encourages rabid patriotism, deliniates a clear "enemy", and gives absolute answers to questions (not nessecarily good or correct ones, just absolute ones). It acts as an ideal rallying banner for the angry and radical...and blesses their extremism with lots of canned rationalizations and ready-made (and carefully interpeted) holy scripture. These are people who idealize a vision of the seventh century that never really existed...who envision themselves as holy warriors because their leaders use the most militant portions of their religion ro justify everything they do.

As with their Christian and Judaic counterparts, such fanatics cannot be reasoned with. Fortunately they can be marginalized as they are in the West. In the Middle East, though, desperate circumstances create desperate people...who turn to whoever claims to provide the easiest answers. Hence you get radicals in positions of power who turn their followers' rage and frustration on their personal targets of choice.

The ideal of Islam is multi-layered and very complex. Most radicals (just like those of the other Abrahamic faiths) are too intellectually lazy and are too filled with scripture-inspired rationalizations to be reasoned with.

Answer 5

In Mexico, many boys are named Jesus, it's a common name. There is no disrespect in naming your son Jesus, and I would imagine there is no disrespect in naming a Teddy Bear Jesus. So as over the top as the Teddy Bear incident seems to us in the U.S., it must be even more difficult to comprehend to people in Mexico.

Answer 6

I fear many Muslims share the same problems some Christians do. Primarily, extremism.

Answer 7

It does make muslims look like whiners looking for an excuse to feign insult. It makes all muslims look very bad.

Answer 8

I wish most religious people were like you. I hope you can become a leader in the Muslim community and represent well.

Answer 9

Yes... please do, I have much respect for some of the muslims I have met on Y! answers but... things like this make it very very hard to do so.

Answer 10

Well, Muslims are going through a tough time dude seriously. Give them a beak. Basically, their brothers and sisters are being bombed by Christians who preach "Love your enemy" kinda things. So, you know it would turn people insane. And God knows what will happen when Christians start "Hating their enemies" GOD forbid.