5 Reasons Why Muslims are Actually Normal - Even Awesome - People (Page 2)

[SlightlyCrazy]

Yes all religions are founded to better life
Ignore the extremes

[Careless_Whisper]

Except for the ones who murder innocent people and rape women and behead those who leave Islam.

[Popo21]

There is murder in every race, religion, culture.. there is actually more murder/rape in western countries than middle eastern countries
People just have a bad image of Muslims bc of the media, but let's go take a peek back in the days when KKK was much worst

[Careless_Whisper]

The main religion today that is killing people is the religion of Islam. What other religion has the death penalty for apostasy?

[Popo21]

thinkprogress.org/.../

[Popo21]

www.globalresearch.ca/.../5333619

[Careless_Whisper]

Again, what other religion has the death penalty for apostasy? I can only think of Islam. Throughout history when Islam has been in power it has murdered innocent people and taken the women as sex slaves. Simply by pointing to some other country and claiming that it has a high rate of violence is trying to divert the argument away from the danger of Islam. Islam is sill a threat no matter how many other countries have a high rate of violence.

[Popo21]

It's not about the countries, sure Islam has had some violence, but every religion has. As a matter of fact, if you want to look back in history, every other religion has been more violent than Islam.

"Violence in the Quran, he and others say, is largely a defense against attack."

"By the standards of the time, which is the 7th century A. D., the laws of war that are laid down by the Quran are actually reasonably humane," he says. "Then we turn to the Bible, and we actually find something that is for many people a real surprise. There is a specific kind of warfare laid down in the Bible which we can only call genocide."

[Popo21]

"Much to my surprise, the Islamic scriptures in the Quran were actually far less bloody and less violent than those in the Bible," Jenkins says.

Jenkins is a professor at Penn State University and author of two books dealing with the issue: the recently published Jesus Wars, and Dark Passages , which has not been published but is already drawing controversy."

Muslims, like I stated in my take, are only prohibited to act violent if we're being attacked.. as a form of self defense. All of the people who hate on Islam, will pull certain verses out of the Quran and totally twist the meanings/words around.. we also have to keep in mind that the English treanslations that are so simply twisted around to make Muslims look bad come no where near the actual Arabic verses, which can't be twisted around.

[Popo21]

As far as killing someone for leaving the religion, read this: sheikyermami.com/.../
That absolutely isn't allowed bc in the Quran it says that no one should be forced into any religion.

[Careless_Whisper]

That is simply a red herring. Pointing to another religion and claiming that it too has been violent does not in any way abrogate the violence of Islam. And by the way, we're not talking about the past, we're talking about the present. I know of no other religion that chops your head off for apostasy. But even today in the twenty-first century. Islam is the only religion that I know of that will kill you if you leave the faith, or commit adultery, or are homosexual. Today, 99.9% of terrorist attacks comes out of the religion of Islam.

[Popo21]

That again, is false, and you have been fed by the media. Even today, the amount of "extremists" that are Muslim are less than 1% and I can confidently say this because stats prove it.
You keep pointing out violence in Islam, which unfortunately, does occur, but by people who don't actually follow the religion and don't know it inside and out.. they just use the religion as an excuse for their violent actions as their are violent people in every group.. killing is absolutely forbidden in Islam. As a matter of fact, most Muslims don't even kill insects because it's alive...

[Careless_Whisper]

And yes, the Quran does say to kill those who change their religion. That website is a pack of lies. Some of the most respected and knowledgeable Islamic scholars support death for apostasy and have a different interpretation of the Quran than what you do.

[Popo21]

again, in my opinion, they're wrong because that contradicts the Quran when it says that everyone is allowed to choose their own religion and that compulsion isn't allowed. They're interpreting it wrongzx

[Careless_Whisper]

That's just a pack of lies. The Quran and Hadiths both support fighting and killing against non-Muslims. This isn't the media, this is the Quran and Hadiths. You can talk about these people twisting the scriptures to justify violence, but the fact remains that these verses still exist and are open to different interpretations. And Muhammad himself was a violent war criminal, a murderer, and a rapist. Islam is NOT a religion of peace, it's a religion of piss. I no longer wish to read any more of your lies so now you are blocked.

[Anonymous]

this must be why muslim countries are all such nice places...

[Popo21]

The reason why they aren't is because everyone invades then for the goods there, cultural reasons for sure, and bc they're still third world countries with corrupt governments.. It has nothing to do with religion

[abundantlyrich]

yeah the progressive westernised ones are

[somanybugs]

Isn't that what every religion claim to be? lol

[ElissaDido]

Thanks ! <3

[Dimmu]

actually number 1,3 are fundamentals of islam

[Decentguy]

Thanks :)