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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- joolaee
September 9, 2008 9:53AM
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While I did think for a sec that Islam was a cause for violence now I think it AT BEST serves as a catalyst. Most of the people who become convinced that suicide bombing their way to paradise is the way to go often do so because of certain foreign policy interventions of foreign nations.
- F2XL
September 28, 2008 12:30PM
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Despite the presence of violence in many regions of the world ranging from Ireland to Lebanon to the Pacific Basin and involving many religions from Christianity to Hinduism, the Western world associates Islam more than any other religion with violence. The Muslim conquest of Spain, the Crusades - which were not begun by Muslims -, and the Ottoman domination of Eastern Europe have provided a historical memory of Islam as being related to force and power. Moreover, the upheavals of the past few decades in the Middle East and especially movements using the name of Islam and seeking to solve problems of the Muslim world created by conditions and causes beyond the control of Muslims have only reinforced the idea prevalent in the West that in some special way Islam is related to violence.
- joolaee September 28, 2008 11:39PM
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I challenge MPAC to prove to us that Islam ruled countries grant the same freedoms as to, lets say the United States, Britain, Japan, etc.
All Islamic ruled countries are oppressive by nature. They tax non-Muslims in order to 'put them under submission' as the Quran teaches.
Christians are tolerated, monitored and controlled just as in China. If they violate the Sharia laws then they're beaten or killed.
Name an Islamic country that doesn't do "any" of these things.
- michaelz January 7, 2009 5:11PM
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to speak in terms of "always" and "never".
That's aside the point. What are you doing is taking the oppression of government and turning it into "Islam".
The majority of people are oppressed in this world. I don't see you saying that Chinese people promote violence. Of course the Chinese government does... but that doesn't mean the majority - Wait, let me say that again - the MAJORITY of Chinese people promote violence.
And here we are, degrading our manufacturing base, creating huge trade deficits, selling off our debt to the Chinese, and that's okay. A country and kills and tortures, oppresses those who disagree with them, murders, imprisons, etcetera...
But whatever. The point is that the *MAJORITY* of Islamic people are non-violent and you choose to ignore this.
How very Christian of you, by the way. I'm sure your pseudo-Christian ideals tell you it's okay to demonize an entire group of people for the actions of others.
- SocialistBetty January 11, 2009 3:10PM
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Violence Pervades Muslim World
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Islam as the common denominator
Correlation does not prove causation.
- BLMQ August 5, 2008 9:43AM
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No, but when the religious leaders call for violence,
you don't need statistics to see what is happening.
You have a Palestinian fatwa sanctioning killing Israeli children because they might grow up to be the enemy. You have Saudis teaching that in the last days the very trees and stones will call to Muslims to kill.
Compare that to the Dalai Lama who threatened to resign if his people resorted to violence. Islamic leaders have the ability to restrain violence. Sistani of Iraq is one example. But the vast majority of Muslim leaders seem to stoke violence rather than promote peace.
- AlibiFarmer
September 5, 2008 3:36PM
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Some Muslims are just plain delusional
First, there was the prominent Muslim who sought a boycott of Starbucks because their logo was Queen Esther. Where is she now that Persia needs her? Second, there was the imam who was immortalized by MEMRI for calling for a boycott of PEPSI which we all know stands for P (Pay) E (Every) P (Penny) to S (Save) I (Israel). Perhaps they get this stuff from the section of the Q'uran with the talking rock that tells a Muslim that there is a Jew hiding behind it. Someone must be slipping something into their hookahs! Must be the Mossad.
- Rashi18
June 22, 2009 3:13PM
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