Let me explain the beginning, what Islam is about and what the end means for all of us.
What Allah (God) same God, that we bow our heads to created the universe. When it came time to reveal to the angels and jinn's which was Adam, God molded him from Clay and taught Adam what the things on earth mean. The jinn, which was a servant to God, refused to bow down to God's creation. This jinn then said, okay why should I bow to this man, this human being, I am fire and I am better.
God said if you don't obey and get rid of this hatred inside of you then be gone. This is when the Devil came about and said fine give me until the day of judgment and I will take your people and steer them in the wrong direction. God said fine, but I will have faith in these people to follow my message and commit good deeds on earth.
The Devil follows everyone by whispering in the ear of others to bad things, but it's how strong your faith in God is to not commit those bad acts.
In terms of Islam - It is about the religion of peace, it's about helping those in need, donating, helping the poor, giving back, going through life's struggles and making dua's to God for a better tomorrow, it means praying 5 times a day (if you can), fasting, reading the Quran and truly understanding the Quran, it means understanding how it started and how it ends, those who before us and those who will come after us (i. e: Jesus, Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) and others.
The Quran states when two-thirds of the world is gone, due to disease, hunger, war and more. An Anti-Christ will emerge and tell his followers with an army of 70,000. This is when Jesus will return on earth and the 12th Imam (Imam Madhi) will kill this antichrist. Jesus will pray behind Imam Madhi, Jesus will reveal he is indeed Muslim. Imam Madhi will help people and lead the people for seven years after that Jesus will serve for 40 years after that.
Everything in the Quran that has been mentioned has come true, and the return of Jesus and Imam Madhi is one that will happen in the future. On the Day of Judgement, God will judge each 1 of us due to our actions and how we treated others. Get 1 thing straight (to the ignorant people on here) people who are terrorists like ISIS and Al-Qaeda will burn in hell for thier actions, that's the truth, what those vicious, mentally-deranged thugs are doing is AGAINST Islam, they do not represent the religion of Islam.
Quran (5:33) - "The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His messenger and strive to make mischief in the land is only this, that they should be murdered or crucified or their hands and their feet should be cut off on opposite sides..." Quran (8:12) - "Remember thy Lord inspired the angels (with the message): "I am with you: give firmness to the Believers: I will instill terror into the hearts of the Unbelievers: smite ye above their necks and smite all their fingertips off them."
Quran (48:29) - "Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. And those with him are hard against the disbelievers and merciful among themselves"
Quran (24:2) - "The woman and the man guilty of adultery or fornication,- flog each of them with a hundred stripes: Let not compassion move you." Not only is physical torture prescribed as punishment for moral crime between consenting adults, but believers are told to suppress their natural urge for human compassion.
Torture in the next:
Quran (22:19-22) - "These twain (the believers and the disbelievers) are two opponents who contend concerning their Lord. But as for those who disbelieve, garments of fire will be cut out for them; boiling fluid will be poured down on their heads. Whereby that which is in their bellies, and their skins too, will be melted; And for them are hooked rods of iron. Whenever, in their anguish, they would go forth from thence they are driven back therein and (it is said unto them): Taste the doom of burning." The punishment of those who merely disbelieve in Muhammad's claims about himself is described as being horrifically brutal in many other places as well, such as Quran 4:56, which says that they will face a continuous cycle of torture in which their skin will be burned off only to be replaced by new skin.
How Allah feels about non-Muslims naturally determines the attitude of devout Muslims. In the Quran, Muhammad explicitly uses Allah's hatred of unbelievers to motivate his people to Jihad:
Quran (9:73): "O Prophet! Strive against the disbelievers and the hypocrites! Be harsh with them. Their ultimate abode is hell, a hapless journey's end."
Hadith and Sira
I can think of a few reasons.
There are two type of qoranic verses. The first type are those that were revealed during the first period of islam when the prophet lived in mecca. Since he and his followers were the minority in mecca the verses that were revealed during that time are mostly peaceful and advocating tolerance and kindness to some extent. Then there are those verses that were revealed during the second period when Muhammad lived in Medina and he and his followers made the majority in Medina. That's when he and his followers forced people of other abrahamic religions to either convert to islam, and not just pretend but entirely change their beliefs; pay jizya, which is money you pay to the muslims because you are living in a place where muslims are ruling over you and you have no rights and are less than them. If you refused to accept those two options your blood was halal and you were killed. It's worth to mention that pagans had absolutely no choice and had to either convert or be killed.
The verses during this time preach hate and intolerance. That's also when muslims start spreading islam violently to other places and destroyed many civilizations and forced the people of those countries to convert to islam.
Under these verses non muslims are less than muslims, every muslim's mission should be spreading islam, even if they deny it. The concep of taqqiya allows muslims to hide their agenda when they feel it could put them at a disadvantage. It basically says a Muslim is allowed to lie and pretend in order to save his true motives and guarantee his survival until he lives in a muslim majority place where he can force the religion on otheres.
The thing is, once you have accepted to be a Muslim you can never leave the religion. If you ever do you're a murtad which basically means "returned from religion". A murtad's blood is halal and they can be killed in the name of islam...
Since the Medinan suras were reavealed later, muslim scholars believe these verses are the final concept and are more valid than the first verses.
There are many more reasons of course, but these are probably the most disturbing reasons people perceive islam as a violent religion... And to be honest who wouldn't?
Many are unwilling to acknowledge that SOME muslims do commit violence in the name of religion. Instead, they say "its a religion of peace" and expect everyone to agree and it's repeated after every attack made in the name of islam. Why don't they see the common factor in all these attacks? Why is a blind eye always turned?
Some are very extreme and take what is in their holy book way too seriously.
They are generally not accepting of other cultures/religions (experienced this first hand with my own culture and religion). Imams have publicly said "Kill all Jews" and have been applauded for it (Explain how this is peaceful? Please. I'm waiting).
Women are treated like property, honor killings, forced to cover up, etc.
Some want to enforce sharia law in the west, which is extremely frightening. There have been reports of sharia patrol in Europe. It's fine if something works in your country, but if you move to another country, you need to follow THEIR laws. You can't just start enforcing sharia law in a western society. Sharia law doesn't exist in western society for a reason.
It's terrorists that kill people, not muslims. And terrorists can be Christian, Jew, atheist, any religion or lack thereof under the sun. And I say this as a christian American with an Islamic American best friend. And a big FUCK YOU to those who are prejudiced. You are unamerican and are everything that is wrong with this country.
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One simple reason: Hypocrisy
Here is the dictionary definition of hypocrisy:
The practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform.
Muslims tell rest of the non Muslim world that Islam is a “religion of peace”. However they fail to convey this message to fellow Muslims who indulge in violence. If Muslims start teaching peace to their own people instead of defending their religion after every terrorist attack, this world will be a very peaceful place, there will be no more terrorist attacks, we will all love Islam, and Muslims will not have to go out telling every one that Islam is a religion of peace.
Since when are honor killings and violence against women indicative of peace, mercy, and tolerance?
I think those are more indicative of body pieces, murders, and intolerance.
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IN BANGLADESH, 2011...
'I've got a surprise for you': Husband blindfolds his wife... and then chops off all her fingers to stop her studying for a degree
www.dailymail.co.uk/.../...op-studying-degree.html
Bangladesh man 'admits' cutting off wife's fingers
http://www.BBC.com/news/world-asia-16201961
Police say Rafiqul Islam, 30, attacked her because she pursued higher education without his permission.
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IN BUFFALO NY USA, 2009 ...
Muslim TV mogul Muzzammil Hassan's alleged beheading of wife, Aasiya Hassan, may be 'honor killing'
www.nydailynews.com/.../...illing-article-1.393494
The gruesome death of Orchard Park resident Aasiya Zubair Hassan — who was found decapitated — and the arrest of her estranged husband are drawing widespread attention, as speculation roils about the role that the couple’s religion may have played.
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IN ISRAEL, June 2017...
ISRAELI BEDUIN WOMAN FOUND BURNED AND BURIED IN SUSPECTED 'HONOR KILLING'
m.jpost.com/.../Israeli-beduin-woman-found-burned-and-buried-in-apparent-honor-killing-497191
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IN PAKISTAN, June 2017...
12-Year-Old Pakistani Girl Killed In Latest 'Honor Killing'
www.rferl.org/.../28588302.html
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IN GERMANY, 2005 AND TURKEY, 2017...
www.nytimes.com/.../...-germany-honor-killing.html
Turkey Acquits 2 Men in Berlin ‘Honor Killing’ of Their Sister
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So, what's the lesson to be learned?
All over the world, wherever Muslims may be, there are honor killings. This is not something advocated by others but seems to be endemic to Islamic culture.
It is hard for a culture to shake-off a stereotype when its people are constantly living down to it.
First off many religions have had a violent past islams is no exception. 2 it's fear of the unknown (which in some sense is reasonable). I agree with what trump said "we don't know who these people are" my personal opinion is that probley 98 of them are perfectly fine but 1 person dying from a terrorist is to many no one wants to die like that. Unfortunately incidences like the Manchester bombing doesn't help the cause and PC culture makes people afraid of reporting suspicious activity because I don't want to seem racist. The Manchester bomber was from England he grew up in England and sort of was the guy who recruited him he was very young when His parent to the UK (I'm not sure if he was born there) The fear comes from people like him. People want to protect their love ones as much as possible right now the recognizable Brett is possums (Thank apple speaker) the recognizable threat is muslims. Just like most illegal immigrant are trying to come over for work but there are some who come with illegal drugs and no one but drug addicts wants that. Is a completed issue to some up what I was trying to say
People in the west have a negative attitude to Islam partly because of the terror attacks that have occurred throughout the years but also because Islam is anti-west. They won't assimilate in western society's lifestyle but expect westerners to accept their anti-western ways of life such as genital mutilation on children, wife beatings, banning dogs in their Muslim-dominated neighborhoods, murdering gays etc. Muslim lawmakers are trying to pass sanctions all over the US and Europe through organizations like CAIR that want Islamic curriculum in secular schools and creating "safe spaces"for Muslims only. Other people who know more about Islam have talked about a law that allows Muslims to lie to non Muslims called taqiyya, and they know how far Muslims who closely follow Sharia Law will go to preserve and promote their religion of peace. People in the west don't trust a religion that breeds extremists who will blow up themselves and everyone else in order to get to heaven. Christianity, which Western civilization as we know it was founded on, never did stuff like that.
I've heard this said before. "Not all Muslims are terrorists, but most terrorists are Muslims." And I agree with that statement all the way. Here's the deal. I don't hate the religion. I hate the people who kill innocnet peole in the name of Islam. In addition, I also feel like the Islamic people, and the idea of Islam in Westurn society is a lot different then you have in a lot of middle eastern countries. Which is why after every terrorist attack, you have Muslim and other people from Westurn society trying to make up some kind of excuse as to why Islam should not be blamed or whatever. And it's stupid. I feel like in today's world you have Islam that comes from people in these middle eastern countries where if your gay you are shoved off of a roof, or if you are a women you have no rights. And where killing people in the name of Islam is a honor. And then you have Islam from Westurn society who makes it seem all nice and pretty, when in reality all of women and gay people living in these middle eastern countries would not agree. It's just like with any religion, both of these groups are distorting the religion, so to be honest, who knows what real "Islam" is anymore. But it's the same thing with every religion, it's based on individual interpration. Who knows what it all actually means? But with Islam, people are just going way out of control with their interpration of it. Which includes killing innocent people, and oppressing many others. And people who don't anknowlage this and say "Islam is peaceful blah blah blah" are part of the problem. Instead of apologizing for Islam, you should be focusing on terrorism and saying "How are we going to stop this?" But no, people like you just cry when people make bad statements about Islam. But no one is lying and no one is distorting shit. Open you eyes and face the truth. 😕
I don't hate muslims specially those who are kids or teenagers because they have little to no choice cause they raised them and if they live under their parents roof they gotta follow orders. Even though we know a lot of muslims are friendly and they are people like us, no better and no worse, there are a lot of people out there in the Middle East suffering under Islam, women get stoned and whipped to death for little things, some are even blamed for their own rape, and gay people get thrown out of the top of buildings. It is so sad but true. People get punished by cutting off their hands. literally. The poor women have to cover themselves excessively. It is not peaceful. I wish this wasn't true but most terrorist attacks come in the name of islam. And there are brutal verses on the Quran like behead those who insult islam. Not that its okay to disrespect a religion or anyone but beheading is not a peacful resonse if you ask me. Again, I know most muslims specially those living in the west won't do that. They hate islam, not muslims.
I don't blame people who hate Islam. Personally, I don't. Though I was an ex-muslim I care less about it. The reason I blame those people is that I have friends right now who want to convert to Islam and they come to me asking me why a man is allowed to hit his wife? why is there so much contradiction within Quran? why is there such hate on homosexuality? and why why why why. My answer would be: I am not a muslim anymore.
To be honest with y'all Islam has so much great things to follow such as generosity, caring for the poor, fighting racism, and so on..
The thing is muslims themselves are humans and they are peaceful because they nitpick the good things from Islam which is great. let me put this way modern muslims are way more peaceful than the ones before. However, ISIS is bringing back the old studies and applying them in a savage way. That's why people HATE Islam.
There's two types of haters. Haters who just hate you because you are different and haters who read Quran/ saw what ISIS does and didn't like it.
However, as a guy who is seeking truth there's much more than doing a prayer or following what your parents told you to follow and when I started reading I learnt that Islam has so much inhumane things.
In a nutshell what you see on the internet is just people hiding behind their screens and talking shit about your belief when it comes down to real life those assholes are 1% of the community.
1. not sure who applauds about Jew killing, I believe the only answer would be is they are the same kind of radical as the Israeli that applaud on the death of Palestinian women and children...
radical shits are in humans, not a specific religion unfortunately...
*If you witness these things with imaams, you should report this mosque to the authorities and to other Muslims (majority of Muslims are not fond of atrocious behaviour as they are just like you and I and not fond of senseless killing).
2. how is a blind eye turned?
Any attack that happens the authorities usually link events to Muslims...
Usually before it's even known it's Muslim people, hence many of these people are targeted when walking down the streets and sitting in their vehicles.
On a human level, I feel sorry for innocent lives destroyed. Whether they have religion or not.. To me all people are the same.
I cut my self, I bleed; they cut themselves, they bleed.
I have no sympathy for humans that are a waste, but just cause one person of a certain colour, race or creed does something stupid.. it doesn't mean I villify that particular sects entire people for the mistake of one..
Hatred begets, hatred. violence begets violence.
because it does have violence and murder... not all granted but the Doctrine itself is easily turned in to a blade. otherwise, there would be ISIS groups in every religion but the majority of terrorism as of late with religious backing is Islam.
you can call it peace all you want yet you still have a sword.
Christianity uses to be just as bad and so was Judaism. but they have enough metaphorical and subliminal cherry picking bullshit that they can ignore the more vile verses in favor of hippy shit.
now you can try and counter this all you want but its just Fact.
even the most moderate of Muslims are the more puritan than the most puritan Christian. the current state of their countries being totalitarian countries stuck in the 1800s and seem to be reverting back to the dark ages just with more Guns and media.
it does not look good on the religion as a whole.
regardless of ISIS the sheer influx of refugees fleeing such countries and who are too stupid to realize it is their doctrine and ideas itself that caused them to flee from their lands in the first place
and causing a fuck ton of problems for Europe and any poor bastard who takes them in.
"All we see on the Internet are lies they try to distort the image of this religion"
Sure, because we don't have Sharia police patrols in our cities pissing us off, we don't have muslims sitting on their asses off and living of our taxes, we don't have muslim rape gangs who specifically target European amen to rape, we don't have muslim murderers and thieves who are disproportionally the majority of criminals. It's all lies we see on the internet. The fact that we witness is where we live does not matter I guess.
As all the violent verses of the book of a pedophile warlord that motivate them to do all these things don't matter either. Tolerance? We saw plenty of that in the recent first gay marriage between muslims.
Your muslim loving taqiya affects only stupid, self-hating liberals. Islam is the religion of oppression, violence and death. Everywhere there is islam there is oppression and misery. We don't need the internet to see it. We have 1,500 years of history and today you are living among us and we witness it every day.
Honestly, I hate all religions because it keeps people naive and stops them from thinking for themselves. What I don't hate is the people who follow the religion.
I hate Islamic religion in particular, because the followers seem very strict about it. A lot of 'Christian believers' skip out of church, don't pray anymore, etc; I think this shows individualism and the fact that they think for themselves. I don't see this phenomena with Islamic believers.
Another aspect in general is probably that we know less about your religion, even though I'm an atheïst, bordering antitheïst, I've had about 10 years of bible classes. This caused me to understand their point of view. The amount of occurences that I've heard about Islamic religion during these classes can be counted on one hand.
One more thing I can think of, the guy sitting next to me at work is very much a Catholic believer, but I never noticed this until after a few months. I've never had this with an Islamic believer, you will know immediately.
To get back to my first point, I dislike religions. I don't dislike the people who believe in them, as long as they follow our laws.
Who are you to say what Islam is or is not?
Why is your opinion more valuable than a wahhabist or salafist? Why is your opinion more valuable than thousands or tens of thousands of fundamentalist Islamic clerics and scholars? What of Linda Sarsoor? Why is your opinion more important than hers where she says that women who have come out against female circumcision deserve to have their vaginas ripped out?
Rather than you ask me why, why don't you explain why such radicalism spawns from the most vocal and active Muslims?
Do I want Islam to be the beautiful peaceful religion you say it is? Of course I do. The question is why do its most fervent fillers of which there are tens of millions or more support such radicalism and violence?
“Kill the idolaters wherever you find them, and capture them, and blockade them, and watch for them at every lookout...” (Quran 9:5).
And kill them wherever you overtake them and expel them from wherever they have expelled you, and fitnah is worse than killing. And do not fight them at al-Masjid al- îaram until they fight you there. But if they fight you, then kill them. Such is the recompense of the disbelievers. (Quran 2:191)
"When you meet the unbelievers, smite their necks" (Quran 47:4)
"When your lord revealed to the Angels, 'truly I am with you. So keep firm those who believed. I will strike terror into the hearts of those who have disbelieved. So, strike them at the necks and cut off their fingers."
(Quran 8:12)
Because of people like this
www.girlsaskguys.com/.../q2536082-how-can-i-get-gf-to-respect-follow-islam
As a person who lived his whole life among muslims, even befriended some and got hear them speak, read their facebook comments and posts, and ask them even about islam ( the religious ones who know about islam not the young ones who pretend to know) I came to the conclusion (Much like every other non muslim) that islam contradicts itself, in the first part it tells you not to attack, kill or do this or that, but in the next part it tells you its okay to cut the hand of a thief, to kill whoever kills, to attack the enemies of islam and muslims, to occupy lands in the name of islam (and just kill men but not cut trees or attack women adn children) and thats its okay to kill if you're protecting a land that belongs to muslims , not to mention that islam claims that only muslims get to go to heaven and anyone else who is not muslim can't go there... islam lets you marry 4 wives, the propher mohammed married 9 women, had sex with a 12 years old.
you are free to disagree my friend but this is what what muslims repeat, what those who study islam learn and what has been going on for centuries.
I'm atheist and I don't hate Islam at all because I live with a lot of Muslims and they're the nicest people I've ever met. I don't watch news and I don't allow myself to get brainwashed by some biased lies. My judgments are based on what I see everyday and it is the farthest thing possible from what people are fed through the media. There are those extremists that even Muslims can't stand and those are the ones who have completely ruined what Islam is truly about. As long as you don't force your religion and try to talk me into the right path I'm okay with you...
Your question is exactly what encourages negative feelings.
Religion in itself is (fairly) harmless. People have beliefs and that's cool. Respect others and there is no trouble.
Extremist is the problem. Currently it's Islam, before it's been Christianity, and I'm sure other things if you dig.
Religion isn't the issue. Extremism is.
That's the problem. Muslims don't want to take responsibility for the radicalized ones. They completely wash their hands of any wrong-doing and want others to accept their religion as the only truth. I think it also a massive step backwards in society, advocating for the suppression of women.
Islam is a religion of peace and tolerance? then why does the Quran state that a Muslim shouldn't be friends with jews or Christians? why does the Quran state that you should give Christians and jews a choice between converting to Islam, paying the jizya or death?
Islam doesn't tolerate other religions, Islam encourages to kill those who mock the prophet, Islam encourages people to kill kafir. ISLAM IS NOT PEACE.
Islam is a barbaric religion, the prophet raped a child and is a war mongering dirty pedophile.
20-30% of all Muslims are extremist, which translates to 200-300 million Muslims. Islam is the only religion that spawns so many terrorist organizations, because it's the only religion that encourages people TO KILL.
where as the Bible has TOLD certain people in situations back in the day before Christ to do something, Islam TELLS people to do something.
Because it's vicious and evil. Their book literally says to kill all infidels, and they allow pedophilia.. The question is why is the West so accepting of it? The religion doesn't fit in with Western society.
To the people of the West, quit catering to their beliefs and trying to white Knight a toxic religion. You're only harming us.
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