Does religion make Muslims more violent?

[The SC]

I find Buddhist the most peaceful and Muslims the least but again it depends from person to person

Try to provoke buddihsts, and you"ll get the same violence if not more.

 

[utraash]

This thread is unnecessarily hyped up into oblivion. Its nothing special that is presented in this report. We all know religious extremists exist in every religion. So nothing new here obviously.

Very interesting.... This statistical study speaks entirely different story from what is commonly perceived.....
I have two more points that can concrete the belief of OP .....
1) How many % of followers of each religion involved in violence specifically involved terrorism......?
2) How many % of followers of each religion justified the violence(terrorism) as a religious duty ...? (May be even in the case of misinterpretation)

Any study regarding above two points I made .......?

 

[45'22']

Try to provoke buddihsts, and you"ll get the same violence if not more.

Why should I provoke them

On a given day with similar condition.....they are the most peaceful person as compared to others

 

[Norwegian]

This statistical study speaks entirely different story from what is commonly perceived.....

What is commonly perceived is an entirely different matter altogether. Don't you think its kinda strange that 1.6 billion Muslims who have roamed this earth for thousands of years "suddenly" go on terrorism spree against the West and only West? I mean, why not these terrorist Muslims attack interests of North Korea, South Korea, Taiwan and other despotic regimes around the globe? Why do they only attack interests of nations that are constantly meddling in Muslim countries and specifically Middle Eastern nations for decades?

 

[Lord ZeN]

No religion is violent by itself.
It's the followers who decide it.

 

[TankMan]

Good post OP, it must be taken into account that many Muslim countries are coincidentally located on current geopolitical hotspots - that's a huge factor when it comes to terrorism. Similarly, a few decades ago most of Europe was a hotspot, not because its religion or ideology was violent but because of the way events unfolded in the region - which then gave rise to an ideology (Nazism), however, the region remained a hotspot for a long time during the cold war.

Correlation does not equal causation.

Same thing with South America, to this day there is instability, though not as much as it was a while ago.

Nowadays, it's the Muslim countries' turn. When there is turmoil, ideologies and narratives based on 'religious' propaganda/misinterpretation or political ideologies (e.g Communism, Nazism and all other such 'isms') etc rise, become appealing to victims and belligerents of political warfare and as a result ideologically-motivated fighters and 'religious terrorists' are created.

Of course, that doesn't mean we can just let our religion Islam get hijacked and abused.

Why should I provoke them

The same reason you would provoke Muslims - 'freedom of speech', 'liberal values', 'modernity' or whatever excuse you'd prefer.

 

[hunter_hunted]

Ok OBL was protettcted by Pakistan army living in their cantonment area with his many wives until Amricans came in and put a red dot on his head lol. Hope you know of him now.
Modi (may Gods blessings be upon him) saved millions of muslims in riots within a few months of becoming CM for the first time in his life. He is truly a Gods messenger on earth.

if there are cockroaches don't go crying to papa, you need to try and kill it yourself. try to be a man... for once

Do you have proof that he was OBL ?????? And im really talking about proof . And for cockroaches like you we have a very good insect killer. So now go back and do the chest thumping coz you won

 

[utraash]

What is commonly perceived is an entirely different matter altogether. Don't you think its kinda strange that 1.6 billion Muslims who have roamed this earth for thousands of years "suddenly" go on terrorism spree against the West and only West? I mean, why not these terrorist Muslims attack interests of North Korea, South Korea, Taiwan and other despotic regimes around the globe? Why do they only attack interests of nations that are constantly meddling in Muslim countries and specifically Middle Eastern nations for decades?

Brother then I have another question why ppl from developed part of Europe to third world(including SA) are joining such groups which only spreads terror or violence? What stakes they(non ME) have in ME war .....?
I don't see it West vs Muslim world though I m quite aware of killing machine of west n American face is not under veil anymore how brutally they were involved in killing innocents from Korea, Vietnam to south American land......

 

[Norwegian]

Brother then I have another question why ppl from developed part of Europe to third world(including SA) are joining such groups which only spreads terror or violence? What stakes they(non ME) have in ME war .....?

Imagine you are living in the West, but you are originally or your closest ancestors are from India. Now NATO (Western Forces) try invading India for whatever reason. What should you do? Just sit by and watch? LOL

 

[45'22']

I said similar condition(I.e same freedom of speech,same liberal values,same modernity)

I am not provoking any one ....neither Hindus,nor Muslims,nor Sikhs,nor Jains,nor Buddhists
no body

Good post OP, it must be taken into account that many Muslim countries are coincidentally located on current geopolitical hotspots - that's a huge factor when it comes to terrorism. Similarly, a few decades ago most of Europe was a hotspot, not because its religion or ideology was violent but because of the way events unfolded in the region - which then gave rise to an ideology (Nazism), however, the region remained a hotspot for a long time during the cold war.

Correlation does not equal causation.

Same thing with South America, to this day there is instability, though not as much as it was a while ago.

Nowadays, it's the Muslim countries' turn. When there is turmoil, ideologies and narratives based on 'religious' propaganda/misinterpretation or political ideologies (e.g Communism, Nazism and all other such 'isms') etc rise, become appealing to victims and belligerents of political warfare and as a result ideologically-motivated fighters and 'religious terrorists' are created.

Of course, that doesn't mean we can just let our religion Islam get hijacked and abused.


The same reason you would provoke Muslims - 'freedom of speech', 'liberal values', 'modernity' or whatever excuse you'd prefer.

 

[OTTOMAN]

No religion is violent by itself.
It's the followers who decide it.

Than they are not true followers !

I said similar condition(I.e same freedom of speech,same liberal values,same modernity)

I am not provoking any one ....neither Hindus,nor Muslims,nor Sikhs,nor Jains,nor Buddhists
no body

Can i post verses from Quran to clear the allegations against Islam?
That shouldn't provoke any one... but the satanists and atheists.... opps i can't ... where is freedom of speech?

 

[Lord ZeN]

Than they are not true followers !

Nobody really knows who a true follower is since we don't even know what a true religion means.

 

[Norwegian]

Nobody really knows who a true follower is since we don't even know what a true religion means.

Of course we know who are the true followers. They are called Taliban, Boko Haram, ISIS etc

 

[Lord ZeN]

Of course we know who are the true followers. They are called Taliban, Boko Haram, ISIS etc

Let me add @Norwegian bhai to it.

 

[DrawingDead]

and how the law came ?

This, my friend, is the commonest of all arguments made by religious people. My christian acquaintance used to make that exact argument to me. Let me point out a few facts. The Lord was supposed to have given Moses the 10 commandments as a set of laws. However, at that point in time, the Egyptians already had courts and judges. Hammurabi had his codecs, Assyrians had empires for a thousand years before Moses. How did you think all these happened? These were all pagans and an affront to the Lord according your religion, yet somehow, someway, the Lord seemed to have forgiven all their sins and dropped some knowledge on them? So either you're wrong in attributing evolution of laws to religion or your religion is wrong in attributing the status of supreme being to your god. Which one is it?