ScarabVenom
Active member
Yeah, I didn't say Islam promotes terrorism, I kinda said what u said but mine was a little summed up. I'm from a Muslim country myself. And that's what's quite unfortunate! People manipulate what religion says in order to suit their own ideologies then they end up fighting under the name of that religion which results in that specific religion getting stereotyped for terrorism. I know that murder is one of the very worst sins a Muslim can commit, and as I said I doubt any Abrahamic religion will promote murder in any way besides self-defense.Islam does NOT promote terrorism. Neither does it propagate it. I would say that no religion does, for that matter...
I will confine my views from the Islamic perspective, and this is something that I've mentioned before somewhere in this forum.
Islam is a religion that promote peace. It also promote understanding and compassion for fellow men. That is what I was brought up to believe. I was also taught that, as a Muslim, it is my duty to protect, not only my family, but also my neighbours. It does not say that my neighbours has to be Muslims.
But what do we get nowadays... Some idiot running around gunning people, destroying properties, killing and maiming inoocents, all in the name of Islam. My question is this- are they really Muslims?
The sad part is that the rest of the Muslim chooses to remain silent, and remain silent, for reasons only known to themselves. This unfortunate silence gave legitimacy to these idiots doing these indespicable acts, and the world, in particular, the West, has the notion that Islam is such a evil religion.
You take Afghanistan, for example. Who are Talibans really hurting? The Americans? the British, perhaps? No!, they are killing and hurting their own people. The Taliban are very much against the female folks getting education- why? If anyone here can explain that to me or anyone here, then that person is smarter than me... Islam promotes knowledge and information to all, and that includes females, too... And the Taliban is practising the true tenets of Islam? I can tell you now, it is pure b******t... The things that is so-called Islamic teaching is no more than tribal and cultural practises.
Most of the time, the issues that you see in the world, is caused by vested interest of that group, be it groups or clan or race. It has nothing to do with religion. Religion is something that they use to legitimise their action.
The Talibans are disgusting. Although, I'm a little far away in knowledge about Afghanistan but man, they kept throwing a woman with stones until she died and I've seen them executing another woman in a freaking stadium or something. I'm sure a 100% Islam doesn't say this and if there's any other religion that says this, I'd doubt a sane man to follow that religion.
When it comes about the West thinking of Islam in a bad way, in my opinion it's the media to be blamed. When a terrorist does something the media comes up and says "the 37 years-old Muslim did....." Or "Mohamed, a 26 years old Muslim man has...." I believe it's the media that's the reason for this stereotype and ignorant folks listening and believing right away plus spreading the word, too. It's kinda stupid cuz one day I was at school while wearing the Middle Eastern Keffiyeh and some douche came up to me and started saying "Allah Akbar" in an honestly ridiculous way. In my country, we have this commercial that says "Terrorism, has no religion". I think this very sentence sums up the issue pretty well.