It defines "peace" very differently from how the Western world defines it.
The modern, western world has this idea of peace in which nobody has to compromise anything, but in which everyone can still get along.
The complete embrace of Kinsey's lies, and the absolutely endless assaults on the Church and others in the name of "gay" "rights" - further made telltale by how many are griping about common sense bathroom bills - proves that some ideas are simply impossible to get along. Their mere existence poses an existential threat to other ideologies.
Islam is all about whether or not Jesus was God or man, as well as whether or not Timothy was right to blame Adam for the Fall instead of Eve, and for what reasons.
The idea that one's desires trump one's calling in life is at the heart of Humanism - has been since the Serpent first lied by saying: "Your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods yourselves."
That is also the heart of the LGBT Brownshirt/Rainbowshirt movement. And the heart of Islam, as evidenced by ISIS and it's emphasis on male hedonism at all costs.
Because these movements of the latter camp, that say Volition Dilemma is of greater importance than Vocational Destiny (as did Nietzsche and Heidegger), have this as their central serious defect; the Church is one of the few forces that, by merely existing, is an existential threat to said movements. So they cannot tolerate it having influence anywhere.
No matter how much land the others have, if the Church has any, it has too much. Thus, invasion and war of ideas become inevitable.
Islam cannot have nations exist where women are treated equal to men. Islam finds that emasculating. But they don't go to those lands to assimilate. They go to displace. Displacement via refugee fraud. Like Muhammad himself did to conquer Medina.
They call Allah (Allilah, the Bloodthirsty Pirate Moon god), the "Great Deceiver." Interestingly, that's how the Bible refers to Satan.
Which is why groups like ISIS and the Templars (no matter what alphabet soup they call themselves tomorrow) cannot let anyone else live in peace without paying tribute to them. Without totalitarian power, their positions are indefensible. Hence, you have jihad against Coptics with livers being eaten, and you have gay jihad against American bakers because they won't endorse a category violation.
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READ THE FUCKING KORAN AND HADITH!
You clueless people defend a religion whose holiest man, the person the Koran says, more than a dozen times, is the best man who ever lived and that he should be emulated in every way, led personal war campaigns on civilian caravans, ordered his followers to volunteer to murder a blind man who mocked him, and had a fire built on a man's chest to torture from him the location of buried silver.
Oh, and that time he raped a 9 year old.
If we are to judge a faith based on the holiest person it in, the person who exemplifies all its best qualities, then it is fair to measure Islam by Muhammad, and Muhammad was a violent, cruel, evil man. Islam is a violent, cruel, evil religion.
Do you know the NUMBER ONE reason why someone who was Muslim LEAVES the religion of Islam? In their desire to argue that their faith does not teach violence, they make the choice to read through their books, in order to better argue against people like me who hate the religion they belong to (NOTE: I hate the RELIGION, not the PEOPLE WHO FOLLOW THE RELIGION), and when they read their books, they are terrified what they uncover, and they abandon their faith.
The people who are the loudest, the most vocal, about defending Islam?
White non-Muslim liberals who know fucking nothing about Islam, and are just trying to show off to everyone else how tolerant they are and how much they stand up for brown-skinned non-Christian people who (they assume) are only targeted for their skin color, and could not POSSIBLY be targeted because of the stone age murder cult they are a part of.
if it were, then terrorism wouldn't exist. i believe elements of the religion are peaceful, but others certainly are not, and since I've studied religion, i've had to examine islam's religious book [the Quran] to spot the very verses that condone violence and the contracting ones that dont.
what i need to highlight however is that this can also be spotted in the bible, yet the difference is that the old testament is focused on law, and the rules of the old testament were incredibly stringent for a number of reasons which i won't go into, while the new testament is focused on the salvation, a renewal of these laws in order to be saved. islam doesn't contain such reasoning in its holy book.
ask anyone who is uneducated about islam and they'll tell u it's messed up. no islam is not messed up, but some of its ideas are, which leads to some of their people being brainwashed. I'm so open and accepting of islamic people, but obviously only the ones who wish to live in peace and coexist, rather than create divisions and try to kill us all.
I think it depends on how an individual of that religion interprets it. The Quran, like the Bible and other religious texts, contain both positive/peaceful messages along with negative/violent messages.
Someone who is a member of Islam might follow the positive aspects of it and lead a peaceful life, and someone who is a member of Islam might follow the negative aspects and hurt others, like Isis. Someone who is Christian may use the Bible and promote messages like "love thy neighbor" and "Jesus loves you" or a Christian might use their religion to promote hate and yell "your'e going to hell!" or be like the Westboro Baptist Church. I think it all depends on the individual.
Do I think that there are peaceful Muslims? Of Course.
Do I think that Islam is a peaceful religion? No. The Quran promotes the killing of individuals who do not ascribe to your religion. It also promises lands of milk of honey and virgin boys to those who martyr themselves for the cause. It talks about beating wives into submission. I could go on, but I won't. It seems unfathomable to me that followers can ignore the unacceptable parts of your religion.
A religion that constantly needs to remind everyone it's a "religion of peace" is far from being peaceful.
No other religion on this planet requires that disclaimer and that should be your first clue.
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Does this wound like a "religion of peace" to you?
-28139 Islamic terror attacks since 9/11
-There have been 113 Islamic terror attacks i the last 30 days, killing 830 people, injuring 1396, 32 suicide Blasts in 19 different countries.
-killed twice as many people in one month (5000) in November, 2014) than were killed in in 350 years of Inquisition (2000-3000).
-murder more people everyday than the KKK has in the last 70 years since 1945.
-killed more civilians in two hours on September 11th (2977) than in the 26 years of sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland (2236).
-massacred more Iraqis on a single day in June, 2014 (1566) than the number of criminals executed by America in the last 40 years (1423).
-slaughter more people everyday than were killed during the entire Salem Witch Trials (12).
-Islam has caused the murder 700 million people and counting, more than Christians, Hitler, Stalin and Mao combined.
Are all Muslims like this? obviously not but we still need to take the threat seriously while also taking care not to cause undue harm on the good people found among the Islam religion.I think constantly warring amongst themselves for centuries supercedes the rest. Not all Muslims are violent. But the religion is "peace" by way of war. Which is inherently not peaceful. So no, not a religion of peace because you can't have peace without submitting.
"The Quran contains at least 109 verses that call Muslims to war with nonbelievers for the sake of Islamic rule. Some are quite graphic, with commands to chop off heads and fingers and kill infidels wherever they may be hiding. Muslims who do not join the fight are called 'hypocrites' and warned that Allah will send them to Hell if they do not join the slaughter."
It is irrelevant whether the religion itself is peaceful. It only matters if it is interpreted in a peaceful way. Every religion, ideology and even idea can be turned into an abomination by people who are interested in using it for their own purposes.
No.
"Peace will be found once Islam dominates the world". If that's peaceful to you, then we may have different definitions of peace.of course islam is not the religion of peace never was and guess what it will never be. Islam started as a way to make the arabs more and more radicalized in order to fight against the byzantines and it actually worked out quite well for them they took control of a rich land (egypt) and the rest of the north africa radicalizing more and more people, but what remained was Europe to be radicalized and because the byzantines would not let some stinky arab pigs to get into Europe they said ok we are going to invade Europe though spain and so they did but they forgot that charlemagne was there to stop them and until this day the reason why people gets killed in middle east is this radical religion which was made in order to give the arabs some reason to fight
If Buddhism can be seen as a peaceful religion with roving packs of monks that behead religious minorities in myanmar, I think the same can be said for Islam.
world.time.com/.../Ultimately, there are no religions of peace, because the only alternative to rationality is violence.
That said, only the politically correct would claim that all religions are in practice equally violent. Islam is by far the worst, in spite of silly claims that the Islamic State somehow doesn't represent true Islam, and apparently neither does Saudi Arabia or Iran or any of these other despotic, life-negating hell-holes.No, but if you were to look at it with the wrong approach, neither is Christianity. Its the culture within the religion that dictates behaviour, not really the religion itself.
Much of Middle Eastern Muslim culture is violent and oppressive. Its not bias, its not a matter of opinion, thats how it is.It doesn't matter what "peaceful" Muslims have to say. Islam is a vessel for theocracy, which is inherently violent and intolerant.
If you read the texts, the texts enjoin killing unbelievers many many times, enslaving them numerous times, charging them extra fo4 not being Muslim several times. More than any orher religion it advocates killing and warfare.
Not that it matters what I say, there will always be some made up excuse why, although it clearly says kill people, that it doesn't mean kill them now! Oh, no. That was Then, now all is peaceful. Except when ISIS is blowing people up!
All religions suck anyway.First of all, it isn't even a religion. It is an ideology of submission and for those who say not all Muslims are violent, right, you're really right. There're two types of Muslims. Radical and extremist. The extremists want to behead you, while the radical ones won't do anything to you, but want the extremist to behead you. Tell me what's the difference?
Yes I think it is a religion of peace. Like any other religion, it is interpreted differently by each individual. All the other comments here are ridiculous and narrow-minded.
I would agree with the sentence you have written. Islam is a very misunderstood religion.
Depends. You ever hear of the saying 'guns dont kill people, people kill people'
Apply that logic, making islam the smoking gun. The book itself can't hurt anyone. But its the people that are twisted.No too many passages in the Quran that are pro violence. Christianity has some it has to do a lot with social development where most western nations have moved away from a separation of Chruch and state.
All you need to know about islam is summed up here:
https://thereligionofpeace.com/I agree and think that Islam is largely a religion of peace.
Equating the actions of ISIS with Islam is like taking the actions of the Ku Klux Klan or even the original Pilgrims as being representative of all of Christianity.Unfortunately, the barbarism of groups like ISIS does appear to appeal to a sizeable number of them. Even if it is still a minority, it is sadly a significant one.
Voted C: there are NO peaceful religions, because they all start from the principle that their religion is the ONLY TRUE ONE , and thus all unbelievers have it wrong and should be converted or eliminated.
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