Does Islam Promote Violence?

For most Americans, Islam was a religion that lived on the periphery of their lives, a culture they caught glimpses of in movies and television shows. Then came the tragic events of 9/11, and suddenly the Western world was desperately grasping to understand a religion they knew precious little about. With all the questions swirling around the true nature of Islam, none has been asked more than this: Does Islam promote violence?

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Terrorists Today Use Islam to Justify Their Acts of Violence

- From Jihad Watch

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Just like Christians

Islam does not promote more violence than Christianity. Religion far too often is used just for persuasion or reason for military conflict. Crusades, Reconquista and Jihad are just few for example.
And it does not matter which holy book to cite - Qur’an or Bible, any of those have some neat expressions: "The LORD said to Moses, "Take all the leaders of these people, kill them and expose them in broad daylight before the LORD, so that the LORD's fierce anger may turn away from Israel""
(Numbers 25:14)

- ctrnz August 25, 2008 6:45AM

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Christians today use Christianity to Justify Their Acts of Violence

You will scoff at this, but it is a perfectly fair comparison.

Christians use Christianity and the Bible to justify their acts of violence and discrimination towards Muslims, both Muslim Americans and Middle Eastern Muslims.

President Bush himself claims spiritual insight in the inception of the Iraq war.

But the facts are the facts. Terrorists have killed less than eight thousand Americans since the year 2000. Americans have killed over 100,000 Middle Easterners since the year 2000.

You can hate Muslims and terrorism all you want, but at the end of the day, Americans and our Christian leadership have caused multitudes more death and suffering. You can argue logistics, semantics, intentions, and 'what's right'. But admit it -- Christianity has caused another war in the world against a Muslim nation. And like the Crusades, we are in a bloody, endless war against a religion, justified by 'our' religion.

- betterth October 21, 2008 9:31AM

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