Hug a Muslim ( Locked) (518)

You know, I have read the Koran so I can have a better understanding about my colleagues at the time... And I have read the parts stating to kill those who are infidels... May be you have a different version of the Koran, but I have read it In English and Bulgarian and it is all the same... I don't mean to attack you but take it easy, and don't take it so personal...

We have more than a million Muslims in my 7 million country and we live peacefully together... So, please don't brand me a hater...

I am saying again, that's what's written in the Koran... I didn't write it or any of us did...

I'd like to believe this. Maybe you can provide reference points in the Quran to help doubters. It seems unlikely this is true or it is contradicted elsewhere in the Quran (I posted direct quotes earlier) .

It seems those professing islam today murder in the name of Allah as delivered as absolute truth by the prophet Mohammed who murdered or ordered the murder of people in the name of his god, Allah.

“If Islam were a violent religion, then all Muslims would be violent.”

The Muslim Game:

Most Muslims live peacefully, without harming others, so how can Islam be a violent religion? If Islam were the religion of terrorists, then why aren’t most Muslims terrorists?

The Truth:

The same question can easily be turned around. If Islam is a religion of peace, then why is it the only one that consistently produces religiously-motivated terrorist attacks each and every day of the year? Why are tens of thousands of people willing and able to cut off an innocent person’s head or fly a plane full of passengers into an office building while screaming praises to Allah? Where’s the outrage among other Muslims when this happens… and why do they get more worked up over cartoons and hijabs?

Rather than trying to answer a question with a question, however, let's just say that the reason why most Muslims don't kill is that regardless of what Islam may or may not teach it's wrong to kill over religion. Most people know deep down that if God wanted people killed for not believing in him, then he's capable of doing the job himself.

Consider that many Muslims would not even think of amputating a thief's hand. Does this mean that it is against Islam to do so? Of course not. It is clearly mandated in both the Quran (5:38) and the example set by Muhammad according to the Hadith (Bukhari 81:792). As individuals, Muslims make their own choices about which parts of their religion they practice and which they would rather dismiss under the heading of "context".

Although believers may think or say whatever they want to about Islam, it doesn't change what Islam says about itself. As a documented ideology, Islam exists independently of anyone's opinion. As such, it may be studied objectively, apart from how anyone practices or chooses to interpret it.

The Quran plainly teaches that it is not only proper to kill in the name of Allah in certain circumstances, but that it is required. Muslims who don't believe in killing over religion may feel that that way out of ignorance or because they are more loyal to the moral law written in their hearts than they are to the details laid out by Muhammad. Those who put Islam first or know Islam best believe otherwise.

In fact, few Muslims have ever read the Quran to any extent, much less pursued an honest investigation of the actual words and deeds of Muhammad, which were more in line with hedonism, deception, power and violence than moral restraint. The harsh rules that Muslim countries impose on free speech to protect Islam from critique also prevent it from being fully understood. In the West, many Muslims, devout or otherwise, simply prefer to believe that Islam is aligned with the Judeo-Christian principles of peace and tolerance, even if it means filtering evidence to the contrary.

It is no coincidence, however, that the purists who take Islam too heart are far more likely to become terrorists than humanitarians. Those most prone to abandoning themselves to Muhammad's message without moral preconception are always the more dangerous and supremacist-minded. They may be called ‘extremists’ or ‘fundamentalists,’ but, at the end of the day, they are dedicated to the Qur’an and to following the path of Jihad as mandated by Muhammad.

I just remembered the unbelievable news our newspapers wrote about in April this year:


"Top Saudi Sheikh issues bizarre fatwa allowing men to EAT their wives if they are hungry"



Need I say more?! And that's happening in 21 century...