Does religion make Muslims more violent?

[doppelganger]

A flawed study...murders are not based on religion.

The professor should have conducted a study on violence fueled using religion. I am sure no religion could come near Islam.

Across the ages, Christianity would still have its nose ahead.

Why across the ages, even in the past century.

But the last 50 years, Islam is the undisputed leader no doubt.

 

[Levina]

I do not know who we includes.

Not me at least. I am talking plain literal. Black and white. No shades of grey.

Then explain what you meant by "thats not reallly true".

 

[Viper0011.]

I gave my opinion as Non-Muslim and that is how the world sees it mostly after so many terror attacks on other Religions and Countries.

As long as you remain in Denial that "All is Well" Then nobody can help you,Neither is the world going to change their opinion about you.

You and I had a debate on this a few days ago. And you supported Hindu extremists' forceful conversion and associated violence on Indian minorities like the Sikhs, Christians and Muslims. If we take "Islamic Extremists" actions into account, which is, to turn other to follow Islam, how is it different than the Hindu extremist organizations like the BJP, Shiv Sena and RSS, who have killed thousands of innocent people belonging to Indian minorities, and now want to convert everyone in India to Hinduism by 2030?? Don't you think the world sees the Hindu extremism here too?

The President of the US, before leaving India highlight the issue of religions tolerance and respect in his speech, the POP had talked to your PM many times. Your minorities are scared like goats because of what's going on.

So why support human rights violations done by Hindus and condemn similar stuff done by Islamic extremists? No matter what the tactics may be, the outcome is the same, terror on other faith's followers due to religion......care to explain the hypocrisy?

 

[BDforever]

Well atleast, nobody was hurt when a fool jumps off a building believing he was Superman.
But in this case, People Blowing themselves up because they believe in Divine Sanction and Scriptures is the problem.
I don't need to point out the idea of "Trying to prove their religion as best and others are inferior/Bad and the need to convert others forcibly or finish them off if they don't convert".
Atleast Superman doesn't do that.

1. ppl hurt himself which is foolishness too, you can't deny that.
2. you are arguing on same point where i agreed. it is believe of ppl. Thief believe in his action, robber believe in his action.

 

[ito]

excellent post.

if anything, islam is the most peace-making and democratic of the older religions, respecting neither cultural mores nor family hierarchy nor mysticism, but looking only at resolving and preventing disputes so that life is made easier... islam may not be complete for the future but it was the most complete when compared to other older religions.

there are practical laws in islam ranging from divorce ( personal comfort ) to prohibition of interest-based loans ( social justice )... these form the real islam, not celebrating festivals or mourning or banging the forehead while praying in a mosque.

those claimers of muslim fellowship who do violence obviously are only following wrong non-islami cultural ideas and their own criminal tendencies... but i also blame the western governments who purposely project these criminals as "muslim"... whenever bbc wants to show palestine, they show post-2007 gaza filled with burqa/mullah types, never they show normal muslims in the "west bank" part.




as an aside, that photo describes a ridiculous trend among some muslim ladies presently... calling themselves "muslimah"... what the hell does that mean??

another ridiculous modern trend is of saying "jazak allah khair".

Too much religion is bad. Yes, all religions are peaceful and this include Islam. But the problem with Islam is it to too much religion, giving raise to fanaticism.

 

[BDforever]

Too much religion is bad. Yes, all religions are peaceful and this include Islam. But the problem with Islam is it to too much religion, giving raise to fanaticism.

argument is like don't be religious just celebrate Eid festival lol

 

[doppelganger]

i said old and not "ancient" ( like in egyptian religion )... that i think is what @BDforever also meant.

You said Islam was one of the older religions. The suffix -er denotes comparison. I merely pointed out to you that Islam was the newest and the latest in the line of all major world religions.

christianity and islam are old enough.

Old enough for what?

There is only one other major religion newer than Islam, and that is Sikhism. And Sikhism is not even a major religion, by number classification. Which means Islam is the youngest.

Again, old enough = for what? To be classified as one of the world's older religions? Not really.

 

[jamahir]

Too much religion is bad.

better is no religion at all.

 

[BDforever]

Old enough for what?

There is only one other major religion newer than Islam, and that is Sikhism. And Sikhism is not even a major religion, by number classification. Which means Islam is the youngest.

Again, old enough = for what? To be classified as one of the world's older religions? Not really.

just a simple question, Do you know Adam also a Prophet of Islam ?

 

[ito]

Yeh, the UC Berkley Professor may not know as much as you do. Why not you conduct such a study? We are looking forward to appreciate your results and conclusion.

You don't need to be a UC Berkley Professor, some times there is no substitute for using your brain properly.

 

[Bagha]

Violence cannot be linked with religion, it depends on people of certain geography .
For e.g. both Lakshadeep and Kashmir is Muslim majority area in India. One is much peaceful but other is not.
That doesn't means people from certain geographies are violent from their birth.
It is more dependant on socio-economic factors which they face from childhood.

 

[BDforever]

Violence cannot be linked with religion, it depends on people of certain geography .
For e.g. both Lakshadeep and Kashmir is Muslim majority area in India. One is much peaceful but other is not.
That doesn't means people from certain geographies are violent from their birth.
It is more dependant on socio-economic factors which they face from childhood.

exactly. Like blaming christianity and buddism for world war 2 lol

 

[ito]

better is no religion at all.

I agree on that....bonds and compassion among human beings are infinitely more important than any religion.

 

[wolfschanzze]

1. ppl hurt himself which is foolishness too, you can't deny that.
2. you are arguing on same point where i agreed. it is believe of ppl. Thief believe in his action, robber believe in his action.

1)They can hurt themselves nobody cares.
2)If you believe in God given sanction to hurt others, then there is a problem.

 

[jamahir]

You said Islam was one of the older religions. The suffix -er denotes comparison. I merely pointed out to you that Islam was the newest and the latest in the line of all major world religions.

yes, i said "older"... but i still don't understand your insistent ignoring of sikhism as the newest.

Old enough for what?

There is only one other major religion newer than Islam, and that is Sikhism. And Sikhism is not even a major religion, by number classification. Which means Islam is the youngest.

Again, old enough = for what? To be classified as one of the world's older religions? Not really.

2000 years is not old enough for you??