Do you think Islam is a Terrorist religion? And if you think that this statement is true or false, then why?

I am only asking a question. This is a fair question not meant to cause anger in anyone.It is just that a question. Asking for answers. Thank You and God Bless Everyone.Do you think Islam is a Terrorist religion? And if you think that this statement is true or false, then why?
absolutely. the koran (specifically mohammed) encourages terror, murder, torture, among other deviant behavior.


read it for yourself.


far, far from any other religion i have dicussed before.


it's comments and history speak louder than i ever could though.


for those who say it is a peaceful religion with fringe extremists...you are NOT paying attention.


look at the middle east. mohammmeds faithful DO NOT want peace, they want DOMINATION.Do you think Islam is a Terrorist religion? And if you think that this statement is true or false, then why?
Islam is no more a terrorist religion than Christians or any other religion. Since every religion known to mankind is made by mankind you will always incorporate greed, power and control into the religion. There will always be a small percentage of people who go off the deep end and cause ';problems'; in the name of their God. But fortunately there are more members who consider these people as outcast and live by their religion dogma instead of wearing in on their cuffs.





It is the media that will bring out the bad, in order to sell their product, which promotes hate for these outcasts. Study history and it will tell you, in this country, we have had hate for race, religion, natural origin, sexual lifestyle etc. It is the lazy brainless people in this world that will fall for this to cover up their own self-esteem.





Love thy neighbor as thyself - Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.





P.S. I am not Islam.
Not at all, Islam is not a terrorist religion. Islam is the religion of peace, tolerance and preaches brotherhood. Islam protect every one whether black or white, poor or rich. It will be better to read Quran to understand Islam. Quran is the final message of Allah or God to the all the community of the world. Quran is not sole property of Muslims but Quran is for all.Once you read this holy book, one may come to know the reality. There are scientific guidance of Allah to his creature.If the people do not understand the message of last Prophet of Allah forget and fogive them. The Allah is the final Almighty authority to judge these people.
All religions have terrorist.





No Islam is not a terrorist religion





Islam means to summit to the will of God. We are for peace not hardship.





Those people are terrorist that just happen to be Muslim.





But as you have noticed this is not the thoughts of mainstream Islam.





The same could be said of Christian who perform acts of terrorism in the name of God, i.e. bombing abortion clinics





I have to disagree with you most terrorist are not Muslim. It is just that Muslims make the new more.





Mystery woman is right here is a link of some of the pictures little girls from Israel were writing on the missiles that were being sent into Lebanon http://www.tinyrevolution.com





To help you better understand my point here are some non-Muslim terrorist.





Here are some non-Muslim terrorist:





(1) The Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA; more commonly referred to as the IRA, the Provos, or by some of its supporters as the army or the 'RA) is an Irish Republican paramilitary organization dedicated to the end of British rule in Northern Ireland and to a United Ireland. The organization has been outlawed and classified as a terrorist group in the Republic of Ireland, the United Kingdom, the United States and many other countries. Since its emergence in 1969, its stated aim has been the reunification of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland as a single sovereign state independent of the United Kingdom, which it believed could only be achieved by an armed campaign against British rule in Northern Ireland. On July 28, 2005, the Provisional IRA Army Council announced an end to its armed campaign, stating that it would work to achieve its aims using ';purely political and democratic programs through exclusively peaceful means'; and that ';IRA Volunteers must not engage in any other activities whatsoever';.


Like all other organizations calling themselves the IRA the Provisional’s refer to themselves in public announcements and internal discussions as Óglaigh na hÉireann (literally ';Volunteers of Ireland';), the official Irish language title of the Irish Defence Forces (the Irish army).





The IRA was chiefly active in Northern Ireland, although it took its campaign to the Republic of Ireland and England, and also carried out several attacks in the Netherlands and West Germany. The IRA also targeted certain British government officials, politicians, judges, senior Military and police officers and civilians in Great Britain, and in other areas such as West Germany, Canada, the Netherlands and Australia. A considerable number of British civilians were killed by IRA bombs during the conflict.





(2) The Oklahoma City bombing was a terrorist attack on April 19, 1995, in which the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, a U.S. government office complex in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, was destroyed, killing 168 people. It is the deadliest domestic terrorist attack in the history of the United States and was the deadliest act of terrorism within U.S. borders until September 11, 2001. Two men later convicted of the bombing, Timothy McVeigh and his friend Terry Nichols, had sympathies with the anti-government militia movement. McVeigh later claimed that his aim was to avenge the Waco Siege.


(3) ETA or Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (Basque for ';Basque Homeland and Freedom';; IPA pronunciation: [ˈɛːta]) is an armed Basque nationalist organization that seeks to create an independent socialist state for the Basque people in the Basque Country, separate from Spain and France. On March 22, 2006, the organization declared a permanent ceasefire stating it will commit itself ';to promote a democratic process in the Basque Country in order to build a new framework within which our rights as a people are recognized, and guarantee the opportunity to develop all political options in the future.'; ETA is considered by Spain, France, the European Union, and the United States to be a terrorist organization, with more than 800 killings attributed to it.





•October 8, 1999: ETA is designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTA) by the U.S. government for the first time.


•25 May 2001: Thousands of Spaniards participate in a silent march through San Sebastian, a northern city, to protest the killing of journalist Santiago Oleaga Elejabarrieta. Banners are held that read ';No to ETA – Peace and Freedom.'; Spanish reporters give a statement saying, ';However much they kill and try to impose their cause through terror we, as media professionals, will defend the expression which took so long to achieve in this country.';


•11 July 2001 Hundreds of people gather in Madrid to commemorate the life of slain policeman Luis Ortiz de la Rosa, who was killed the preceding day. The rally protests ETA's actions.


•15 July 2001: CNN reports that hundreds of Spaniards have gathered in city and town halls around Spain to silently protest two killings blamed on the ';Basque terrorist group ETA';. The cities include Pamplona, Vitoria, and Zaragoza.


•24 August 2001: The Spanish police arrest six suspected ETA members in the Barcelona suburb of Terrasa, seizing over 550 pounds of what CNN reports as ';explosives, firearms, forged license plates and electronic detonator components.';


•26 February 2002: U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill announces that the U.S. has frozen assets of twenty one people associated with ETA.


•22 December 2002: Ibon Fernandez Iradi, who is suspected of teaching ETA members how to make bombs, escapes from custody in a police station in Bayonne, France.


•8 October 2003: thirty four suspected ETA members are arrested in the early morning. Twenty-nine are apprehended in northern Spain and five in France.


•9 December 2003: Police in southwestern France arrest Gorka Palacios, twenty nine, the alleged military commander of ETA. Three people who the police said were collaborators were also arrested in the 6:00 AM raid on a house in the village of Lons, near the town of Pau. At a news conference in Marrakesh, Morocco, Spanish interior minister Ángel Acebes characterized the arrests as of ';great significance'; and of ';first magnitude.';


•February 18, 2004: ETA publicly stated that a ceasefire only in Catalonia had been in effect since January 1, based on ';a desire to unite the ties between the Basque and Catalan peoples.'; Some claimed that this ceasefire was based on a secret pact with Josep-Lluís Carod-Rovira, leader of Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC, ';Republican Left of Catalonia';). Carod-Rovira, despite admitting to having met with ETA in France in December denied having reached any accord, saying that the meeting was an attempt to drive ETA away from violence, and ended with no results. This, during an electoral campaign, became a scandal, and endangered the recent tripartite Catalan government, formed by ERC (ERC), Iniciativa per Catalunya Verds-Esquerra Unida i Alternativa (ICV-EUiA) and the Partit dels Socialistes de Catalunya (PSC). The opposition then accused Aznar of being behind the leak to the media of the intelligence report detailing the meeting and Aznar refused to clarify whether he knew about this meeting before the leaking. Aznar was also questioned as to why the ETA members who attended that meeting were not detained.


•Also in 2004, ETA was initially suspected of being the authors of a series of ten bombings only a few days before the national elections, which targeted three locations along Madrid's suburban train lines on the morning of March 11, 2004, killing 192 civilians (see 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks). This theory was officially endorsed by José María Aznar's government, despite the police quickly gathering evidence pointing towards Islamic terrorism. Many Spanish citizens took this rush to judgment as an offence towards the victims of the attacks and towards the Spanish people; this was generally seen as a decisive factor in the electoral result which overturned Aznar's government (see Spanish legislative election, 2004). The authorship of this attack, the largest European terrorist incident in terms of lives lost since the 1988 Pan Am flight 103 flight bombing, has been finally ascribed to Islamist militants by the Spanish police.


•20 February 2004: Nine men and a woman are arrested, making the number of ETA suspects detained this week thirty three. They worked on a Basque-language newspaper, Euskaldunon Egunkaria, published statements from ETA. They've been released and their torture claims dismissed without being investigated or even calling them to testify [10].


•21 March 2004: A spokesman for the newly elected PSOE government of Spain rejects a proposal from ETA for negotiations because ETA was not prepared to surrender its weapons.


•September 27, 2004: ETA militants sent a videotape to Gara, a Basque newspaper based in Gipuzkoa, in which the militants stated that ETA would continue to fight for Basque self-determination and that ETA would ';respond with arms at the ready to those who deny us through the force of arms.'; This videotape represented ETA's first major public statement since the 11 March attacks. During the weekend preceding the videotape release, the group claimed responsibility for a series of bombings that hampered electricity transmission between France and Spain.


•October 3, 2004: French police launched an operation against ETA's logistical apparatus, making 21 arrests, among them the couple who functioned as top ETA leaders, Mikel Albizu Iriarte (';Mikel Antza';) and Soledad Iparragirre (';Anboto';). They found four zulos (caches) with a vast quantity of armaments, much greater than had been estimated to be at ETA's disposal; they also managed to turn up information about ETA's printing an internal newsletter, but nothing leading to any major bank account or other hoard of money. The operation was considered one of the most successful since Bidart in 1992. As of October 2004, it appears that these measures will result in ETA leadership moving into different hands; it is too soon to evaluate the consequences. Spain has solicited the extradition of Mikel Antza y Amboto via a Euroorden.


•December 12, 2004: The Real Madrid Santiago Bernabéu stadium football Stadium was evacuated due to a phoned-in bomb threat in name of ETA. The bomb—expected to blow up at 9:00 p.m.—didn't explode, and the 69,000 spectators of the match under way at the time of the call were safely evacuated by the Spanish Police at 8:45 p.m.


•May 17, 2005: The Spanish Government offered to hold talks with ETA if it renounced violence. The Opposition Popular Party condemned the overture as premature.


•March 5, 2006: Following the February 2006 deaths of ETA members Igor Miguel Angulo Iturrate, 32, (due to an apparent suicide by hanging) and Ricardo Sainz Olmos, 41, (by a heart attack), Batasuna together with the union Langile Abertzaleen Batzordeak convoked a day of protest and general strike on March 9.[11] On the morning of the strike, ETA detonated several bombs near highways, with no injuries.


•March 22, 2006: ETA have declared a ceasefire after nearly 40 years fighting for independence from Spanish and French authorities. Euskadi Ta Askatasuna has decided to declare a permanent ceasefire as from 0000 (2300GMT) on 24 March 2006.


(4) The Centennial Olympic Park bombing was a terrorist bombing on July 27, 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia during the 1996 Summer Olympics, the first of four committed by right-wing extremist Eric Robert Rudolph. Two persons were killed, and 111 injured.


(5) Political terrorism also may be part of a government campaign to eliminate the opposition, as under Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, and others, or may be part of a revolutionary effort to overthrow a regime. Terrorist attacks also are now a common tactic in guerrilla warfare. Governments find attacks by terrorist groups difficult to prevent; international agreements to tighten borders or return terrorists for trial may offer some deterrence.





(6) Terrorism in India can be attributed to India's many low intensity conflicts within its borders. If terrorism can be defined as ';peacetime equivalent of war crime';, then these sites of low intensity conflicts are prime spots for terrorism in India. The regions with long term terrorist activities today are Jammu and Kashmir (movement for autonomy), Central India (Naxalism) and Seven Sister States (independence and autonomy movements). In the past, the Punjab insurgency led to terrorist activities in the Indian state of Punjab as well as the national capital Delhi (Delhi serial blasts, Anti-Sikh riots). The rise of right-wing politics have also increased terrorist activities, leading to pogroms (Godhra Riots) and the Bombay bomb blasts. In recent times, the Delhi and the Varanasi bomb blasts were aimed not against the Indian state but were aimed to trigger a Hindu-Muslim schism. The perpetrators of terrorism have been members of armed opposition groups. Allegations of the involvement of state agencies of foreign nations have been made, but very little concrete evidence exists to support such allegations.








(7) Japan’s Aum Shinrikyo, who released nerve gas in Tokyo’s subway system





(8) Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso in Spanish) is a Maoist guerrilla organization in Peru; followers are generally called Senderistas. The group never refers to itself as ';Shining Path';, preferring to be called the Communist Party of Peru (see Communism in Peru); the more familiar name comes from the maxim of José Carlos Mariátegui, founder of Peru's first communist party: ';El Marxismo-Leninismo abrirá el sendero luminoso hacia la revolución'; (“Marxism-Leninism will open the shining path to revolution”).[1] The phrase was used on the masthead of the group's newspaper. The name ';Shining Path'; is used by outsiders to distinguish the organization from other Peruvian groups that claim to be ';the communist party of Peru.'; These other groups are generally identified by the name of their newspapers.


Shining Path's stated goal is to replace Peruvian bourgeois institutions with a communist peasant revolutionary regime, presumably passing first through the Maoist developmental stage of New Democracy. Since the capture of its leader Abimael Guzmán in 1992, it has only been sporadically active. Shining Path's ideology and tactics have been influential on other Maoist insurgent groups, notably the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) and other Revolutionary Internationalist Movement-affiliated armed organizations.


Widely condemned for its brutality, including violence deployed against peasants, trade union organizers, popularly elected officials and the general civilian population, Sendero is on the U.S. Department of State's ';Designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations'; list.[2] Peru, the United Kingdom and the European Union likewise regard Shining Path as a terrorist group and prohibit providing funding or other financial support.


(9) The Red Brigades (Brigate Rosse in Italian, often abbreviated as BR) are a militant leftist group located in Italy. Formed in 1970, the Marxist Red Brigades sought to create a revolutionary state through armed struggle and to separate Italy from the Western Alliance. In 1978, they kidnapped and killed Prime Minister Aldo Moro under obscure circumstances. After 1984's scission, Red Brigades managed with difficulty to survive the official end of the Cold War in 1989, even though it is now a fragile group with no original members. Throughout the 1970’s the Red Brigades were credited with 14,000 acts of violence.





(10) The Ku Klux Klan, from Reconstruction at the end of the civil war to the end of the civil rights movement, the Ku Klux Klan used threats, violence, arson, and murder to further its white-supremacist, anti-Semitic, anti-Catholic agenda.





(11) The Weathermen were a U.S. radical left organization active from 1969 to 1975. Its members referred to themselves as a ';revolutionary organization of communist women and men.'; Their goal was the revolutionary overthrow of the U.S. government. Toward this end, and to change U.S. policy in Vietnam, they bombed a number of police and military targets. The group collapsed shortly after the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam in 1975.





(12) From 1978 to 1995, anti-technology radical and former mathematics professor Theodore Kaczynski--known by the codename ';UNABOMBER'; until his identification and arrest by the FBI--carried out a campaign of sending letter bombs to academics and various individuals associated with computer technology. The attacks ceased with his capture.





(13) Beginning on September 18, 2001, a number of media organizations and American politicians received, through the United States Postal Service, envelopes which contained weaponized anthrax. Although as of late 2005, no charges have been filed with regards to these attacks, the matter is widely believed to be an act of domestic terrorism.





(14) In the United States, acts of domestic terrorism are generally considered to be uncommon. According to the FBI, however, between the years of 1980 and 2000, 250 of the 335 incidents confirmed as or suspected to be terrorist acts in the United States were carried out by American citizens.
This question really belongs in the political forum.





No, Islam is not a terrorist religion even though some of its adherents are religious terrorists. This is not an exercise in semantics, even if it looks like one.





There are hundreds of millions of Moslems around the world. If even 0.1% (one in a thousand) of them were terrorists and commited one terrorist act per year, the result would be hundreds of thousands of terrorist acts every year. Instead there are about a thousanth of that number. Islamic terrorism exists, but it is a relatively rare abberation within Islam. An islamic terrorist is probably one in a million.
Islam is DEFINITELY NOT a terrorist religion. it is the most peaceful religion. Here, watch this video. maybe some of ur questions will be answered. it's a real good vid. its not boring.





here u go:





http://ummahfilms.blogspot.com/2006/06/v…





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I can not equate terrorist/terrorism with Islam, the same way that I can not equate Timothy Mcvade with Christianity.
MUSLIMS ARE FUNDAMENTALISTS AND TERRORISTS





Question:





Why are most of the Muslims fundamentalists and terrorists?





Answer:





This question is often hurled at Muslims, either directly or indirectly, during any discussion on religion or world affairs. Muslim stereotypes are perpetuated in every form of the media accompanied by gross misinformation about Islam and Muslims. In fact, such misinformation and false propaganda often leads to discrimination and acts of violence against Muslims. A case in point is the anti-Muslim campaign in the American media following the Oklahoma bomb blast, where the press was quick to declare a ‘Middle Eastern conspiracy’ behind the attack. The culprit was later identified as a soldier from the American Armed Forces.





Let us analyze this allegation of ‘fundamentalism’ and ‘terrorism’:





1. Definition of the word ‘fundamentalist’





A fundamentalist is a person who follows and adheres to the fundamentals of the doctrine or theory he is following. For a person to be a good doctor, he should know, follow, and practise the fundamentals of medicine. In other words, he should be a fundamentalist in the field of medicine. For a person to be a good mathematician, he should know, follow and practise the fundamentals of mathematics. He should be a fundamentalist in the field of mathematics. For a person to be a good scientist, he should know, follow and practise the fundamentals of science. He should be a fundamentalist in the field of science.





2. Not all ‘fundamentalists’ are the same





One cannot paint all fundamentalists with the same brush. One cannot categorize all fundamentalists as either good or bad. Such a categorization of any fund amentalist will depend upon the field or activity in which he is a fundamentalist. A fundamentalist robber or thief causes harm to society and is therefore undesirable. A fundamentalist doctor, on the other hand, benefits society and earns much respect.





3. I am proud to be a Muslim fundamentalist





I am a fundamentalist Muslim who, by the grace of Allah, knows, follows and strives to practise the fundamentals of Islam. A true Muslim does not shy away from being a fundamentalist. I am proud to be a fundamentalist Muslim because, I know that the fundamentals of Islam are beneficial to humanity and the whole world. There is not a single fundamental of Islam that causes harm or is against the interests of the human race as a whole. Many people harbour misconceptions about Islam and consider several teachings of Islam to be unfair or improper. This is due to insufficient and incorrect knowledge of Islam. If one critically analyzes the teachings of Islam with an open mind, one cannot escape the fact that Islam is full of benefits both at the individual and collective levels.





4. Dictionary meaning of the word ‘fundamentalist’





According to Webster’s dictionary ‘fundamentalism’ was a movement in American Protestanism that arose in the earlier part of the 20th century. It was a reaction to modernism, and stressed the infallibility of the Bible, not only in matters of faith and morals but also as a literal historical record. It stressed on belief in the Bible as the literal word of God. Thus fundamentalism was a word initially used for a group of Christians who believed that the Bible was the verbatim word of God without any errors and mistakes.





According to the Oxford dictionary ‘fundamentalism’ means ‘strict maintenance of ancient or fundamental doctrines of any religion, especially Islam’.





Today the moment a person uses the word fundamentalist he thinks of a Muslim who is a terrorist.





5. Every Muslim should be a terrorist





Every Muslim should be a terrorist. A terrorist is a person who causes terror. The moment a robber sees a policeman he is terrified. A policeman is a terrorist for the robber. Similarly every Muslim should be a terrorist for the antisocial elements of society, such as thieves, dacoits and rapists. Whenever such an anti-social element sees a Muslim, he should be terrified. It is true that the word ‘terrorist’ is generally used for a person who causes terror among the common people. But a true Muslim should only be a terrorist to selective people i.e. anti-social elements, and not to the common innocent people. In fact a Muslim should be a source of peace for innocent people.





6. Different labels given to the same individual for the same action, i.e. ‘terrorist’ and ‘patriot’





Before India achieved independence from British rule, some freedom fighters of India who did not subscribe to non-violence were labeled as terrorists by the British government. The same individuals have been lauded by Indians for the same activities and hailed as ‘patriots’. Thus two different labels have been given to the same people for the same set of actions. One is calling him a terrorist while the other is calling him a patriot. Those who believed that Britain had a right to rule over India called these people terrorists, while those who were of the view that Britain had no right to rule India called them patriots and freedom fighters.





It is therefore important that before a person is judged, he is given a fair hearing. Both sides of the argument should be heard, the situation should be analyzed, and the reason and the intention of the person should be taken into account, and then the person can be judged accordingly.





7. Islam means peace





Islam is derived from the word ‘salaam’ which means peace. It is a religion of peace whose fundamentals teach its followers to maintain and promote peace throughout the world.





Thus every Muslim should be a fundamentalist i.e. he should follow the fundamentals of the Religion of Peace: Islam. He should be a terrorist only towards the antisocial elements in order to promote peace and justice in the society.








WAS ISLAM SPREAD BY THE SWORD?





Question:





How can Islam be called the religion of peace when it was spread by the sword?





Answer:





It is a common complaint among some non-Muslims that Islam would not have millions of adherents all over the world, if it had not been spread by the use of force. The following points will make it clear, that far from being spread by the sword, it was the inherent force of truth, reason and logic that was responsible for the rapid spread of Islam.





1. Islam means peace.





Islam comes from the root word ‘salaam’, which means peace. It also means submitting one’s will to Allah (swt). Thus Islam is a religion of peace, which is acquired by submitting one’s will to the will of the Supreme Creator, Allah (swt).





2. Sometimes force has to be used to maintain peace.





Each and every human being in this world is not in favour of maintaining peace and harmony. There are many, who would disrupt it for their own vested interests. Sometimes force has to be used to maintain peace. It is precisely for this reason that we have the police who use force against criminals and anti-social elements to maintain peace in the country. Islam promotes peace. At the same time, Islam exhorts it followers to fight where there is oppression. The fight against oppression may, at times, require the use of force. In Islam force can only be used to promote peace and justice.





3. Opinion of historian De Lacy O’Leary.





The best reply to the misconception that Islam was spread by the sword is given by the noted historian De Lacy O’Leary in the book ’Islam at the cross road’ (Page 8):





’History makes it clear however, that the legend of fanatical Muslims sweeping through the world and forcing Islam at the point of the sword upon conquered races is one of the most fantastically absurd myth that historians have ever repeated.’








4. Muslims ruled Spain for 800 years.





Muslims ruled Spain for about 800 years. The Muslims in Spain never used the sword to force the people to convert. Later the Christian Crusaders came to Spain and wiped out the Muslims. There was not a single Muslim in Spain who could openly give the adhan, that is the call for prayers.





5. 14 million Arabs are Coptic Christians.





Muslims were the lords of Arabia for 1400 years. For a few years the British ruled, and for a few years the French ruled. Overall, the Muslims ruled Arabia for 1400 years. Yet today, there are 14 million Arabs who are Coptic Christians i.e. Christians since generations. If the Muslims had used the sword there would not have been a single Arab who would have remained a Christian.





6. More than 80% non-Muslims in India.





The Muslims ruled India for about a thousand years. If they wanted, they had the power of converting each and every non-Muslim of India to Islam. Today more than 80% of the population of India are non-Muslims. All these non-Muslim Indians are bearing witness today that Islam was not spread by the sword.





7. Indonesia and Malaysia.





Indonesia is a country that has the maximum number of Muslims in the world. The majority of people in Malaysia are Muslims. May one ask, ’Which Muslim army went to Indonesia and Malaysia?’





8. East Coast of Africa.





Similarly, Islam has spread rapidly on the East Coast of Africa. One may again ask, if Islam was spread by the sword, ’Which Muslim army went to the East Coast of Africa?’





9. Thomas Carlyle.





The famous historian, Thomas Carlyle, in his book ’Heroes and Hero worship’, refers to this misconception about the spread of Islam: ’The sword indeed, but where will you get your sword? Every new opinion, at its starting is precisely in a minority of one. In one man’s head alone. There it dwells as yet. One man alone of the whole world believes it, there is one man against all men. That he takes a sword and try to propagate with that, will do little for him. You must get your sword! On the whole, a thing will propagate itself as it can.’





10. No compulsion in religion.





With which sword was Islam spread? Even if Muslims had it they could not use it to spread Islam because the Qur’an says in the following verse:





’Let there be no compulsion in religion:


Truth stands out clear from error’


[Al-Qur’an 2:256]





11. Sword of the Intellect.





It is the sword of intellect. The sword that conquers the hearts and minds of people. The Qur’an says in Surah Nahl, chapter 16 verse 125:





’Invite (all) to the way of thy Lord


with wisdom and beautiful preaching;


and argue with them in ways that are


best and most gracious.’


[Al-Qur’an 16:125]





12. Increase in the world religions from 1934 to 1984.





An article in Reader’s Digest ‘Almanac’, year book 1986, gave the statistics of the increase of percentage of the major religions of the world in half a century from 1934 to 1984. This article also appeared in ‘The Plain Truth’ magazine. At the top was Islam, which increased by 235%, and Christianity had increased only by 47%. May one ask, which war took place in this century which converted millions of people to Islam?





13. Islam is the fastest growing religion in America and Europe.





Today the fastest growing religion in America is Islam. The fastest growing religion in Europe in Islam. Which sword is forcing people in the West to accept Islam in such large numbers?





14. Dr. Joseph Adam Pearson.





Dr. Joseph Adam Pearson rightly says, ’People who worry that nuclear weaponry will one day fall in the hands of the Arabs, fail to realize that the Islamic bomb has been dropped already, it fell the day MUHAMMED (pbuh) was born’
Islam is a peaceful religion and I hate it when people assume that we go by the sword.
I do not believe that True Islam is a terrorist religion. I don't know that much about Islam, but I know that you cannot judge a whole religion by the actions of the radical fundamentalists of that religion.


I actually think Christianity (of the Middle Ages specifically) was more of a terrorist religion because of its wars on the so-called Holy Land.


Christians also have their own brand of rabid fundamentalists who act like terrorists.


I do not mean to imply that all Fundamentalist Christians are this way. There are radical, rabid sects of fundamentalists within every major religion.
mmm...Islam is not a terrorist religion...is their a Muslim terrorists?..yes of course,but can we judge the whole thing from a bunch of extremists....if you were me wouldn't you be offended by the stereotypes?...have you seen a sign of terrorism in R%26amp;S from a muslim?...you should ask yourself that......and let me tell you,we don't consider the extremists to be a muslim,they don't deserve the honour...





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I think it is a religion of extremes %26amp; as such , terrorists receive encouragement from the more radical elements.





Although Christianity has a fundamental code for human behaviour , it doesn't encourage believers to impose their beliefs by force on to non believers as does Islam.





Islam is provocative ! It is domineering ! It does not show love to nonbelievers but encourages its' followers to impose their beliefs !





In summary , no I don't think the religion is terrorist by definition but certainly leaves itself wide open to criticism for


providing the means to encourage it!
Islam is a religion of peace. People choose to see it as a ';terrorist'; religion because of what has happened in the past 50 yrs, and are taking sections of the Quran that talk about jihad and war out of context. What people don't seem to realize is that at the time the Quran was written Prophet Muhammad was not only bringing a message to his people but also creating social and political reform. History clearly shows that whenever social and political reform are introduced to a country or people it brings about chaos, hatred and violence.


If everyone took the time to read the Entire Quran they would see that it teaches how to live a full and prosperous life in the service of God, and condones senseless acts of violence.
No, I do not think it is a terrorist religion. It is just sad that so many terrorists are Muslims. I have met so many wonderful people who follow Islam and they are also against the terrorism. : )
No i dont. Islam is a religion that teaches peace, love and acceptance.
No,False I think that what you are talking about are a small Part of Extremists.There Are extremists in all religion.So i would say No.Since there are Wars and issues there every one thinks that Islam is a Bad religion while christianty,juduasuim,and islam all belive in 1 God
Not all Islamic people are not terrorist. Its just the extreme few that are hard core that are terrorist.


But people from other religions are extremist too and that have committed terrorist acts.


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Muslims, Christians and Jews understand the great danger the international community is in today. The dangers of Hezbollah, Terrorists cells etc..


But keep in mind there is a big difference between Terrosists and Muslims, Chrsitians and Jews.


Danger extends to the 'doorstep' of every democratic, freedom-loving nation.


So Muslims, Christians and Jews are contiually growing and learning about the values we share in common.


Muslims, Christians and Jews are accustomed to being libeled, hated, and used as scapegoats for the world's ills.


However, the difference today is that Muslims, Christians and Jews have been linked together, both by the need to defeat terrorism and our commitment to a common set of moral and spiritual values.


Given the global dangers we face today as Muslims, and Christians and Jews together, we are increasingly becomming aware of the ongoing opportunities we have to forge even closer bonds. ~(~





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any group that tries to hurt any innocent country to me can be known as terrorist GOD BLESS THE U.S.A.
yes and 9-11