Listen Ali, if that is really your name(or if you are just trying to gain more legitimacy by taking a Muslim name). At one point in history, during the middle ages(crusades, Inquisition, 30 years war) and even until the early 1900s Christians were committing daily acts of terrorism in the name of Christianity(Czar Nicholas II and many Russian Orthodox Christians would massacre Russian Jews in the name of Christianity as recent as 100 years ago every Easter through Blood libel) accusing Jews of drinking Christian children's blood and the killing of Jesus). Now this no longer goes on, because of reformation and secularization of society without throwing out of Christianity completely, the same can happen in Muslim countries, and even happens in Turkey today. Unfortunately, people like you would like to completely discredit Islam, in hope the whole world will unite against it which will never ever happen.
Islam does have some violent tendencies but if you look at the Koran the peaceful and coexistent verses outnumber the "violent" and "intolerant" verses. If you say the peaceful verses have been abrogated, well according to most Muslims less than a dozen verses in the Koran have been abrogated and there are dozens upon dozens of verses in the Koran that call for peaceful coexistence with non-Muslims.
Seeing how overwhelmingly majority of muslims are non-violent and coexist with non-Muslims, they are following those peaceful verses and hopefully in the future more will follow these verses and not take the 'violent' ones literally like most Jews today take the stoning to death of those who break the Sabbath literally.
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to ali
Nov 19, 2009
12:53 a.m.
Listen Ali, if that is really your name(or if you are just trying to gain more legitimacy by taking a Muslim name). At one point in history, during the middle ages(crusades, Inquisition, 30 years war) and even until the early 1900s Christians were committing daily acts of terrorism in the name of Christianity(Czar Nicholas II and many Russian Orthodox Christians would massacre Russian Jews in the name of Christianity as recent as 100 years ago every Easter through Blood libel) accusing Jews of drinking Christian children's blood and the killing of Jesus). Now this no longer goes on, because of reformation and secularization of society without throwing out of Christianity completely, the same can happen in Muslim countries, and even happens in Turkey today. Unfortunately, people like you would like to completely discredit Islam, in hope the whole world will unite against it which will never ever happen.
Islam does have some violent tendencies but if you look at the Koran the peaceful and coexistent verses outnumber the "violent" and "intolerant" verses. If you say the peaceful verses have been abrogated, well according to most Muslims less than a dozen verses in the Koran have been abrogated and there are dozens upon dozens of verses in the Koran that call for peaceful coexistence with non-Muslims.
Seeing how overwhelmingly majority of muslims are non-violent and coexist with non-Muslims, they are following those peaceful verses and hopefully in the future more will follow these verses and not take the 'violent' ones literally like most Jews today take the stoning to death of those who break the Sabbath literally.