Thanks but no.
Why do most Muslims not choose to blow themselves up in concert venues. Can it simply be that they don't understand the Quran as well as you do?
The point is that people are (erroneously) arguing, including on this thread, that extremists' views are not supported by the Islamic religion, and that "Islam is a religion of peace" - with a few murders that the "other" people of of the Islamic faith and that "other" Islamic believers somehow need to distance themselves from, due to "not having the same beliefs" and as the "extremists."
My point is that non-violent Muslims who claim Islam is a "religion of peace" are also offering their own very loose interpretation of the book, and they are
also ONLY cherry-picking only the parts that make sense to them.
The point that other people are rightfully making, is when they are saying, "open your eyes, because it's NOT being "racist" to at least *acknowledge* that the actual written book of the Koran ABSOLUTELY has terror commanded toward ANY and ALL infidels and non-believers."
When some uniformed, naive person - here on this thread, or in the real world - comes back with a retort such as "Well, most Muslims do not choose to blow themselves up" this is neither here, nor there.
The entire Islamic religious IDEOLOGY is based on the Koran, and the Koran is not something that I, or anyone else, is "making up" to "make Islam look bad".
- "And fight them (the unbelievers), until there is no fitnah (rebellion), and
until the religion, ALL OF IT,
is all for Allah." Qur'an 8:39
- "Whoever changed his Islamic religion, kill him" 'Prophet' Muhammad, Sahih Bukhari Volume 9, Book 84, Number 57
- "Surely the vilest of animals in all of Allah's sight, are all of the disbelievers". Qur'an 8:55
- "Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah. Those who are with him
are HARD against the disbelievers, and merciful
only amongst themselves". Qur'an 48:29
- "I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. So strike off all of their heads!" Qur'an 8:12
- Former President Barack Obama, Cairo Speech to the Muslim world, June 2009: "The Holy Koran teaches that whoever kills an innocent is as - it is as if he has killed all of mankind."
WRONG. What the Koran ACTUALLY states in the passage that he quoted incorrectly, is the following:
"On that account: We ordained for the Children of Israel that if anyone slew a person -
unless it be for murder or
for spreading mischief - it would be as if he slew the whole people: and if anyone saved a life, it would be as if he saved the life of the whole people. Then although there came to them Our Messenger with clear signs, yet, even after that, many of them continued to comma excesses in the land.
The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and his Messenger, and strive with might and main for mischief* through the land is: execution of crucifixion, or the cutting off of hands and feet from opposites sides, or exile from the land. That is their disgrace in this world, and a heavy punishment is their hereafter." Qur'an 5:32-33.
*Mischief - defined as idolatry or rejection of Muhammad's message in the classical texts.
"Allah's Apostle said, '
I have been ordered to fight the people till they say: 'NONE has the right to be worshipped but Allah.'" 'Prophet' Muhammad, Sahih Bukhari 8:387
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At the Summit Against Violent Extremism, February 2015 "... we are at war with
people who have perverted Islam." - Former President Barack Obama.
Perhaps Barack would now like to expand on this comment, and to explain to us all how ISIS "perverts" Islam?
Warfare against the unbelievers for the sake of Allah -
Qur'an 9:5
Mutilation of enemy combatants -
Qur'an 8:12
Punishing Homosexuals -
Qur'an 4:17
Crucifixion of 'mischief-makers' -
Qur'an 5:33
Sexual slavery -
Qur'an 33:50
Subjugation of 'unbelievers' -
Qur'an 9:29
Forced conversion -
Qur'an 8:39
No one ever said that all Muslims want to blow themselves up. However people are being attacked for daring to voice that
there is a problem with the entire religion's ideology. Or even less controversially as far as I can see - that Islamic terrorism is not something independent of, and unrelated to, or at odds in any way with the teaching's of the faith's GIVEN IDEOLOGY.
At the same time, the same people who are ironically
denying that all of this is factual, also seem to somehow
agree that we shouldn't have terrorism, and that we shouldnt't have gays being stoned to death, and that we
don't support women having their genitals hacked off with rusty scalpels. These things are all part of the religious ideology of the Islamic faith, and yes, the reason most rational and reasonable people seem to agree that on the whole we are against ALL of these barbaric practices and beliefs, is because the entire ideology is COMPLETELY AT ODDS and against ALL of truths and rights that are innate part of our hard-fought for, over
centuries, valued Western culture.
Call me when anyone here has anything else intelligent to say. I'm going to put my feet up and I'm going to put a little paper tropical umbrella in my cocktail now - and I also won't be holding my breath.
Signed,
A scanty bit of a thing
With a decorative ring
That wouldn't cover the head of a goose
