Does religion make Muslims more violent?

[OTTOMAN]

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

So.. now you are going in circles.
First you said, no one follow and now you say, no one knows what true set of instructions is!

 

[ravindra1455]

Muslim countries have an average of 2.4 murders per annum per 100,000 people: statistics . PHOTO: AFP

Any discussion on terrorism, almost always circles back to the widespread belief that Muslims are more violent because of their religion, Vox reported.

Although these conversations may always circle back to the bigoted question of whether religion makes Muslims more violent, they lack data and evidence to attribute violent behavior to Muslims.

According to UC-Berkeley Professor M Steven Fish, people in Muslim majority countries actually tend to be significantly less violent, judging by murder rates.

Statistics show that Muslim countries have an average of 2.4 murders per annum per 100,000 people in stark contrast to 7.5 murders in non-Muslim countries.

The percentage of Muslims is an extraordinarily good predictor of a country’s murder rate, the professor found.

To provide some concrete evidence, Fish used his findings and re-run the numbers to exclude non-Muslim majority states -such as Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Jamaica, South Africa and Venezuela-with extraordinarily high murder rates. Those countries with many Muslim inhabitants were still less prone to murders by a large margin.

If Islam was the key factor in the cause of religiously motivated terrorism then it could be expected that ordinary Muslims too would be more violent than ordinary non-Muslims. However, there are over a billion believing Muslims globally and if Islam was intrinsically prone to violence then the data would suggest that. The data however, is quite contrary.

Despite this study, it goes without saying that religiously motivated terrorism is indeed a real phenomenon and a global problem. Fish argued that such terrorism could be a reaction to the Western foreign policy.

The data provided by Fish should be an important reminder that just like other religions, Islam too prohibits violence. Although it is dependent on who is interpreting Islam, it can be said that Islam is not intrinsically violent.
Does religion make Muslims more violent? – The Express Tribune

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

 

[SarthakGanguly]

Just because Quran was misinterpreted by a few galoots doesnt mean Islam as a religion propagates violence. And self defence in any religion is allowed.

Sahih International is a very authentic source. I would recommend you go through their manuals and read for yourself. There is very little to 'misinterpret' actually. Quran for example is not steeped in metaphors as in the New Testament for example. So, it is not misinterpreted.

On second thoughts, don't read the books. Life is better and more beautiful that way.

 

[OTTOMAN]

Just because Quran was misinterpreted by a few galoots

what is there to misinterpret? do we not have enough translators of Arabic?
I have a dictionary.... if help is required.

 

[SarthakGanguly]

A close friend of mine who was a muslim used to always say that Islam was misinterpreted. And I believed him, never felt the need to do research on this subject.

I also have many many friends who are Muslims, but very few go though scripture. Except those having a religious upbringing. So I am not surprised.

what is there to misinterpret? do we not have enough translators of Arabic?

Exactly. From the most respected translations of Pickthall to the present Sahih International ones - the versions are authentic and have inspired many. Literally.

 

[Bossman]

Bullshit article. Lets look at history:
Who started the crusades, the Christians
Who decimated whole civilizations in their pursuit for colonization and resources, the Christians
Who killed millions in two world wars, the Christians.
Who industrialized mass murder by gas chambers and ovens, the Christians,
Who made soap out of its minorities, the Christians.
Who dropped atomic bombs on a country which was already negotiating surrender, the Christians
Who killed 20% civilian population of North Korea?
not to mention Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine and Kashmir.
Finally it is interesting to note that the current source of so the called Muslim terrorism is from areas of the world where the Americans had direct or indirect intervention. Afghanistan and the Soviet Jihad, The Iraq war and Palestine.

 

[Lord ZeN]

So.. now you are going in circles.
First you said, no one follow and now you say, no one knows what true set of instructions is!

Do my two statements contradict itself ? I don't think so.

My first post :I said a set of followers of a particular religion can make it violent.
My second post : Nobody knows whether the set of so called "instructions" provided any religion is true or Not. So there is no way to find a true follower without even finding out a true religion.

 

[TankMan]

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

The post you were replying to was hypothetical, 'if you provoke..'. I'm not accusing you or saying you do or are currently provoking anyone, which is why I used the word 'would'.

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

Why would you say that man, even if it's sarcasm it's disturbing to even think that those swine are followers, never mind true followers, of my religion.

 

[OTTOMAN]

If any one follows any sort of histroy in the name of Islam.. sure it will represent false image of Islam, and that's the idea of its enemies to make baseless sects. and make them do some circus in the name of Islam.... the ultimate objective of such attempts is to keep people occupied in nonsense... so that they don't turned to the real thing Quran... and argument used is foreign language.

 

[doppelganger]

1.6 billion Muslims who have roamed this earth for thousands of years

Sigh ......

"suddenly" go on terrorism spree against the West and only West?

India is the west.
China is the west.
Myanmar is the west.
Russia is the west.
Indonesia is west.
Nigeria is the west.
Syria is the west.
Iraq is the west.
PAKISTAN IS THE WEST.

 

[OTTOMAN]

Do my two statements contradict itself ? I don't think so.

My first post :I said a set of followers of a particular religion can make it violent.
My second post : Nobody knows whether the set of so called "instructions" provided any religion is true or Not. So there is no way to find a true follower without even finding out a true religion.

Your first statement:
'Nobody really knows who a true follower is since we don't even know what a true religion means.'
Your second statement:
'Nobody really knows who a true follower is since we don't even know what a true religion means.'
Does these two statements match to your post i quote now?

 

[Lord ZeN]

Your first statement:
'Nobody really knows who a true follower is since we don't even know what a true religion means.'
Your second statement:
'Nobody really knows who a true follower is since we don't even know what a true religion means.'
Does these two statements match to your post i quote now?

These two are same statements dear.

 

[doppelganger]

Sigh ......



India is the west.
China is the west.
Myanmar is the west.
Russia is the west.
Indonesia is west.
Nigeria is the west.
Syria is the west.
Iraq is the west.
PAKISTAN IS THE WEST.

Egypt is the west.

 

[Norwegian]

Why would you say that man, even if it's sarcasm it's disturbing to even think that those swine are followers, never mind true followers, of my religion.

I am not saying they are the true followers, only they BELIEVE they are

 

[OTTOMAN]

These two are same statements dear.

I am not saying they are the true followers, only they BELIEVE they are

They believe and than these uneducated jobless believers, start investing billions in implementing what they believe, and than suddenly they start operating international against all the world, except India.