This thread is inspired by Gurutrish who started one like it on Christians.
In this day and age there is a lot of negative attitude towards Muslims. What do you think of them? Do you like them, dislike, them, or do you not have an opinion? Why?
"Man is a marvelous curiosity ... he thinks he is the Creator's pet ... he even believes the Creator loves him; has a passion for him; sits up nights to admire him; yes and watch over him and keep him out of trouble. He prays to him and thinks He listens. Isn't it a quaint idea." Mark Twain
I have no problem with Muslims. I have only ever met one and we never talked to each other, so I can't really form an opinion from that meeting. I know that a lot a Muslims are very respectable people.
"Man is a marvelous curiosity ... he thinks he is the Creator's pet ... he even believes the Creator loves him; has a passion for him; sits up nights to admire him; yes and watch over him and keep him out of trouble. He prays to him and thinks He listens. Isn't it a quaint idea." Mark Twain
"Man is a marvelous curiosity ... he thinks he is the Creator's pet ... he even believes the Creator loves him; has a passion for him; sits up nights to admire him; yes and watch over him and keep him out of trouble. He prays to him and thinks He listens. Isn't it a quaint idea." Mark Twain
In a class last year I learned about a few different religions. Islam was one. Like Christianity, Islam tells people to love each other and treat each other with respect and dignity. I don't see anything wrong with that.
You are right, the extreemists are the ones who give Muslims a bad name, but that is true with any group.
"Man is a marvelous curiosity ... he thinks he is the Creator's pet ... he even believes the Creator loves him; has a passion for him; sits up nights to admire him; yes and watch over him and keep him out of trouble. He prays to him and thinks He listens. Isn't it a quaint idea." Mark Twain
Well, though you and I are fair to Muslims, I heard a boy in my class the other day that made me really angry. We were playing Password instead of doing our work, and this kid had just replaced me in the game (against my will, I might add ). His word to describe was Muslim, and his very first clue was "they're terrorists." Later, after the guesser didn't know it, he said religion. Not religion first, but that they are terrorists. I was really upset by his unfair and sweeping generalization that I gave him a piece of my mind and left him to think about a few things. He said he was sorry, but he laughed when he said he was, so that made me ticked off, too. Jerk. I think I'll put this in the anger management thread.
"Man is a marvelous curiosity ... he thinks he is the Creator's pet ... he even believes the Creator loves him; has a passion for him; sits up nights to admire him; yes and watch over him and keep him out of trouble. He prays to him and thinks He listens. Isn't it a quaint idea." Mark Twain
Intresting thread Pippin. I am a muslim in the UK and have been a very active member of INREVIEW previously, but recently I have not come here much due to a lot of negative debate regarding my faith especially be a few individuals.
It is true to say that some muslims are extreme, but this genralistaion of extremism does not leave out other faiths. Christianity, judaism even Hinduism nearly every single category of faith has extremists within it. Chrisitans can deny that the Klu Klux Klan are nothing to do with them, but what they do is in the name of christianity, obviously this does not mean that all christians are extremists.
As they say a few bad apples does not neseccarily mean that the whole bunch is bad.
I have taken part in many threads in here expalining to people why and where they misunderstand Islam and how even muslims misrepresent thier faith sometimes. This problem of misreprestation is a global one and it is not unique just to religion, when it suits someone to misrepresent a situation and present it they do so. This process is widely used in the business world to destroy competition or other businesses. Politicians use this teqhnique all the time to throw allegations at one another so that they may demeen one another to win votes and points. Whatever is in thier interests they use it to make personal gains.
In today's world we are faced with this very problem, and Islam seems to be a good point of concentration to throw wild allegations against and use various sources to this faith to make it to be seen more negatively so that prodominantly muslim countries can be targeted and be controlled so to have a strategic advantage over other countries in the world, and also have control over many of the worlds precious resources which can be located in these muslim countries in abundance.
Terrorism has always existed since the beginning of man, and to all of a sudden turn around and blame it all on one religion is ridiculous and sometimes outrageously painful for its followers.
Muslim do not hate anyone the meaning of the word ISLAM is PEACE AND SUBMISSION. Why would a faith which basis is formed on peace want to kill and destroy others.
I have covered the points in other threads, where people throw accusations at my faith sayin our book tells us to do so.... Which is entirely untrue and I have explained why already.
I hope the world will stop this hate and destruction, Christianity being the faith which states if someone slaps you turn the other cheeks, seems in todays world not to follow this at all. After 911 whoever did such a disgraceful act should be punished, but to turn around and destroy a whole country for the sake of it is an Hellish act. What did those poor helpless Iraqi children say to America, Thousands upon thousands of innocents have been killed in Iraq because of a fake war and a fake threat.
America really needs to wake up to what is going on in that white house of yours. Otherwise it will be too late and that Mad scientist working in thier will have created Frankenstein to create havoc, and then thier will be no goin back...........
First hand information is always better then second hand information....
Would you wear someone elses worn out shoes???
raven200 said this in post #7 :
America really needs to wake up to what is going on in that white house of yours. Otherwise it will be too late and that Mad scientist working in thier will have created Frankenstein to create havoc, and then thier will be no goin back...........
I agree that our president is a total moron. He is not a good president at all If only I could vote I would have done my part to try to keep him from being reelected, but, alas, I am not yet old enough to vote. But next year, by golly...!
On an off topic side note, Frankenstein was the creator, not the created. Frankenstein's monster was never named.
"Man is a marvelous curiosity ... he thinks he is the Creator's pet ... he even believes the Creator loves him; has a passion for him; sits up nights to admire him; yes and watch over him and keep him out of trouble. He prays to him and thinks He listens. Isn't it a quaint idea." Mark Twain
Well I have no problem with Muslims and I have never had a problem with muslims, there is a muslim family across the road from me and they would not know the meaning of the word extremeist. They ahve thier faith of course and it is very important to them but they hate these extremists and the father told me that the minute these people did these terrible thing on 9/11 they stopped becoming Muslims as murder and suicide are banned, he also told me that the Koran has no ste rules and it is up to each Muslim to interpret it's teachings for themselves. There are a few bad Muslims in the world but there are bad people in every relgions, if you look at the crusades and witch torture and burning Christians don't come off to good either, I have seen terrible actions by Protestants and Catholics when I was in Ireland and these people thought that they were acting in for God at some level.
The fact is thht the good Muslims are normally shouted dowm by hate filled little bigots, some of which I am sorry to say frequent on this site to spew thier filth.
I have known Muslims that I liked, I have known Muslims that I don't care about and I have known Muslims that I hate. There is good and bad in any race/ sex/ religion/ whatever and Muslims are the same as anyone else. Some of them you like, some of them don't.
The Muslim religion I can take or leave, it's not the one for me (I like bacon too much) but I can see some good "laws" in it and some absoluteloy ridiculous bits, but the Bible is the same.
I think all organised religion is unnescessary. If you feel Gods love, you feel it. You don't need a book to tell you what you feel.
Muslims are great people.
Extremists within each group
create negative stereotypes.
We have christians who judge others
based souly on other peoples religions and
claim that those who do not follow Christ will burn. Those are our extremists.
People I believe who are too heavy into anything (drugs, alcohol, religion, etc) are negative because they are biased and not working for the overall good for ALL of humanity, just those who they approve of.
Which brings up another question.
Why are our soldiors heroes and theirs are terrorists?
Beause they're causing deaths unto us?
What about us killing them? That makes us heroes?
irapsak said this in post #11 : Muslims are great people.
Extremists within each group
create negative stereotypes.
When a Muslim follows in the foot steps of Muhammed and EXACTLY the orders of Allah, are they "extremists"? Glad to hear you say no.
Well, understand that when Muslims kill, torture, mutilate, ambush and burn the innocent, and someone like Bin Laden says that he is following the orders of the Qur'an, and then our politicians say that they are twisting their religion, you better know that it is Bin Laden, who is telling the truth, and not our elected officials.
Welcome to INReview irapsak. Please research this topic here with the search feature. You will learn why it is impossible to be a peaceful Muslim. Likewise, it is impossible to be a "good" Muslim and NOT be a terrorist.
devildog said this in post #13 :
Welcome to INReview irapsak. Please research this topic here with the search feature. You will learn why it is impossible to be a peaceful Muslim. Likewise, it is impossible to be a "good" Muslim and NOT be a terrorist.
I happen to have a good friend who indeed is a peaceful muslim.
You're obviously not educated on the religion in the least.
. Islam is a world religion which has approximately 1.2 billion followers. That means that one in every five people on the planet is a Muslim. In short, Islam is not a minority phenomenon.
Extremist groups who claim to follow Islam are no more representative of Islam than David Koresh is of Christianity.
Declaration: Since Islam is a monotheistic religion, i.e. Muslims believe in only one God, each Muslim declares that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad is his final prophet. Islam recognizes the prophethood of Jesus, Moses, Abraham, Noah, etc.
One of the basic precepts of Islam is the equality of all people regardless of race, ability, or gender
Contrary to popular belief in the West, jihad is not one of the five pillars of Islam
The word Islam is best translated into English as 'commitment'. Followers of Islam, called Muslims, commit their lives to peace, harmony, truthfulness, good works, charity, neighborliness, almsgiving, acceptance of religious pluralism, and diversity.
The religion of Islam does not support, preach, or advocate violence, discrimination, or terrorism in any way, shape, or form.
Al Qaeda is nothing more than a terrorist network. If our president is a republican and makes republican decisions, does that mean that everyone in america is a republican and supports those decsions? No. Frankly, many muslims do NOT support acts of violence. The bible is based on interpretation. So is the Koran. (Qu'ran) Its all on how you interpret it. You can be a christian and go to war over God Issues, such as northern and southern Ireland.
This appears as if you base your opinions strictly on one side of the fence without learning the other side, which my friend, is arrogant.
Also, I dont need to pull threads from this site.
This site is a site purely based on opinions of posters.
I encourage you to retrieve your head from your southern most orifice and research BOTH sides of your biased wall.
04-27-2005 11:56 PM
). His word to describe was Muslim, and his very first clue was "they're terrorists." Later, after the guesser didn't know it, he said religion. Not religion first, but that they are terrorists. I was really upset by his unfair and sweeping generalization that I gave him a piece of my mind and left him to think about a few things. He said he was sorry, but he laughed when he said he was, so that made me ticked off, too. Jerk. I think I'll put this in the anger management thread.
If only I could vote I would have done my part to try to keep him from being reelected, but, alas, I am not yet old enough to vote. But next year, by golly...!
