Of the 500-600 daily readers of this blog, at least one of you has got to be a Muslim. If so, I’d like to challenge you to come out of lurking mode and help enlighten me and others to a few important questions about your religion.
From the Investor’s Business Daily — Religion of Peace?
What better time for CAIR and other Muslim leaders to step up, cut through the politically correct fog and provide factual answers to the questions that give so many non-Muslims pause?
Generally speaking, those questions focus on whether the Quran does indeed promote violence against non-Muslims, and how many of the terrorists’ ideas — about the violent jihad, the self-immolation, the kidnappings, even the beheadings — come right out of the text? But even more specifically:
Is Islam the only religion with a doctrine, theology and legal system that mandates warfare against unbelievers?
Is it true that 26 chapters of the Quran deal with jihad, a fight able-bodied believers are obligated to join (Surah 2:216), and that the text orders Muslims to “instill terror into the hearts of the unbeliever” and to “smite above their necks” (8:12)?
Is the “test” of loyalty to Allah not good acts or faith in general, but martyrdom that results from fighting unbelievers (47:4) — the only assurance of salvation in Islam (4:74; 9:111)?
Are the sins of any Muslim who becomes a martyr forgiven by the very act of being slain while slaying the unbelievers (4:96)?
And is it really true that martyrs are rewarded with virgins, among other carnal delights, in Paradise (38:51, 55:56; 55:76; 56:22)?
Are those unable to do jihad — such as women or the elderly — required to give “asylum and aid” to those who do fight unbelievers in the cause of Allah (8:74)?
Does Islam advocate expansion by force? And is the final command of jihad, as revealed to Muhammad in the Quran, to conquer the world in the name of Islam (9:29)?
Is Islam the only religion that does not teach the Golden Rule (48:29)? Does the Quran instead teach violence and hatred against non-Muslims, specifically Jews and Christians (5:50)?
There are other questions, but these should do for a start. If the answers are “yes,” then at least Americans will know there’s no such thing as moderate Islam, even as they trust that there are moderate Muslims who do not act out on its violent commands.
Many others in the blogging world are imploring organizations like the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and American Muslim leaders to answer these questions.
My ambitions are not quite so lofty. I’d like to hear from an average American Muslim — what say you to these questions?
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Of course the first test would be to say is the Koran any more ‘war like’ than the Bible? The irony of that is that pro-invasion advocates in the Religious Right rejected claims of hypocrisy from the left by saying that in fact the Bible did not advocate peace.
http://mysite.verizon.net/resq9cf2/christianguard/id40.html
Oh well.
I’ve already heard a lot of people on the PC side of the fence contending that these questions “unfairly” cherry pick quotes from the Koran, and that one could just as easily go through the Bible and pick “ludicrous indictments”.
The difference though, is that there are not DAILY news accounts of Christians killing and murdering non-believers in the name of God. I haven’t read a story recently about a group of Christians gathered to stone to death a sinner.
Muslims, on the other hand, jump at the chance to commit Jihad at nearly every slight of their religion.
To compare modern Christianity to modern Islam shows a serious lack of knowledge of either.
These questions are valid, relevant, and deserving of answers from a group such as CAIR. I’m sure the list of volunteers to answer any such questions about Christianity would be plentiful. But for now, the list is nill for those willing to answer honestly about Islam.
The difference though, is that there are not DAILY news accounts of Christians killing and murdering non-believers in the name of God.
If both texts can be cherry picked for inflammatory quotes then it is barking up the wrong tree to look to the texts for explanation of the differing behaviors.
The difference is likely to be found in the Enlightenment which led to the promotion of humanism and religious tolerance as a virtue — ironically values that some members of the Chritian Right fight against to this day.
http://tinyurl.com/evqgt
(To be clear, I don’t know if there are more intolerant quotes in the Koran than the Bible or the converse or if they are equal.)
In any case I’m all for a good Enlightenment in the Islamic world.
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
i’ll try to answer some of ur quistions….
i’m not so good in english so i’ll try to simplify my sentencess
“Is Islam the only religion with a doctrine, theology and legal system that mandates warfare against unbelievers?”
No, Islam never told us to kill innocent people even if they were non-muslims
infact allah told us to deal with other non-muslims by our good manners,But to Fight “who Fights Us ” terrorices us not like a muslim walks & finds a christian or a jew or any other religious & kill him without any reason?! no we’r not this crazy
in fact islam told us :
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the meaning >> “Invite (all) to the Way of thy Lord with wisdom and beautiful preaching; and argue with them in ways that are best and most gracious: for thy Lord knoweth best, who have strayed from His Path, and who receive guidance.
[126] And if ye do catch them out, catch them out no worse than they catch you out: but if ye show patience, that is indeed the best (course) for those who are patient. ” Al.Nahl (125)
Is Islam the only religion with a doctrine, theology and legal system that mandates warfare against unbelievers?
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
i’ll try to answer ur questions as many as i can
who told u that islam told us to kill unbelievers (“if u mean by unbelievers chritstian or any other religious ??”)
Allah told us not to hurt or even kill any innocent man without reason even if he was non-muslim
infact…
Mohamed (Messenger of Allah) teached us to defend them while they r in our lands , our guists Specially christians
And to Be a Muslim we have to believe in Jessus (or Eysa) and in christianity & other religions that refers to one god Allah
we all worship Allah , But everyone worships in his own way
Islam even said that who ever kill person without any reason , (christian or other)
must and will be punished by death as Quran says :”that if anyone slew a person – unless it be for murder or for spreading mischief in the land – it would be as if he slew the whole people: and if any one saved a life, it would be as if he saved the life of the whole people”
we r not barbarians so if a muslim found a man (any religious) to kill him without any reason
Islam never told us that , Allah 7 His Messenger Mohammed told us to help this man as if he was from us
Mohammed even ordered in wars not to kill any old man , a child , or a woman from any religion
we r not barbarians my dear friend
we can’t punsish a whole nation by a sin of one man
“sorry for my english , it’s not so good
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p.s
i’m gonna answer the rest of ur questions as much as i can , in this times you may wanna read more about Mohammed
so if u wanna judge on someone u must know him well
& to know him well read this :
http://mohammad.islamway.com/?lang=eng
i hope u got da meaning
yahia