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Is "compassion and forgiveness" at the heart and central to "true" Islam, and are the atrocities committed by extremists a perversion and distortion of Islamic teaching?
I would say you would have to look at the teachings and example of the founder of Islam, Mohammed, whose life is fairly well documented.
Was he a compassionate and forgiving teacher or was he a warlord who spread his doctrine at the point of a sword?
True islam is marrying 4 women, fighting/Jihad'ing "In sabil allah" (in the name of God to promote Islam) and being unequal to women.
According to a member of the Muslim community in Salford interviewed on BBC News this morning (in light of the Alan Henning killing) "true" Islam is about "compassion and forgiveness".
But I ask the question, is this actually "true" Islam or is this what (arguably most) Muslims would like Islam to be?
Is "compassion and forgiveness" at the heart and central to "true" Islam, and are the atrocities committed by extremists a perversion and distortion of Islamic teaching?
Or is it the opposite? Are the extremists actually more au fait with "true" Islam, and those Muslims talking about "compassion and forgiveness" quite distanced and removed from the truth of Islam?
Are there clear passages in the Qu'ran and Hadith to support either "compassion and forgiveness" OR are there passages which might support the darker side of Islam?
That is one of the most ill-educated, bigoted statements I've seen in a very long time. Do you seriously believe it?While not every Muslim is a Terrorist, every Terrorist is a Muslim
That is one of the most ill-educated, bigoted statements I've seen in a very long time. Do you seriously believe it?
So a badly worded statement of the obvious? All members of Islamic terrorist groups are muslims? Could be. But I still wonder about the end of that paragraph.Well, we know what the gentleman's meaning was. Here's what I took from it:
'While not all muslims are fundamentalist, radicalised members of Islamic terrorist organisations all fundamentalist, radicalised members of Islamic terrorist organisations are muslim'
Was he a compassionate and forgiving teacher or was he a warlord who spread his doctrine at the point of a sword?
That is one of the most ill-educated, bigoted statements I've seen in a very long time. Do you seriously believe it?
...every Terrorist is a Muslim...
This demonstrably untrue, I don't know what you think you gain by stating such a blatant falsehood
This demonstrably untrue, I don't know what you think you gain by stating such a blatant falsehood
While not every Muslim is a Terrorist, every Terrorist is a Muslim
Does nobody remember the IRA?
the stuff we hear on TV these days.
I wouldn't hold too much faith in what you hear on TV.
Also see below terrorist pie chart from CIA figures from 1980 to 2005
Look through the list here. You'll see that the majority of terrorist organisations in the world are still not islamist. Politics is still the largest cause for terrorism.Have you got a Pie Chart from 2010-2014 ??? Ill bet its changed drastically.
I suggest you read your Bible before you go casting aspersions on the Quran for promoting violence.What do u think about the Muslims Quran encouraging / endorsing over 100 passages of proactive violence from a book Muslims consider the highest of divine instructions for living?
Look through the list here. You'll see that the majority of terrorist organisations in the world are still not islamist. Politics is still the largest cause for terrorism.
I suggest you read your Bible before you go casting aspersions on the Quran for promoting violence.
I wouldn't hold too much faith in what you hear on TV.
Also see below terrorist pie chart from CIA figures from 1980 to 2005
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