(November 13, 2014 at 11:47 am)Khansins Wrote: Many people especially in West believe that Islam strictly believes in killing of infidels who do not submit to Islam. Plus that terrorism is influenced by ' Islamic Jihad' and which encourages to eliminate infidels from the world.
Such concept is wrong in its entirety. Islam does NOT allow killing of non Muslims the way terrorists do. Let me explain.
The Quran turns our attention to the high value of human life, whether it is Muslim or Non-Muslim and makes it absolutely forbidden to take an innocent life unjustly. The gravity of such a crime is equated, in the Quran, with the killing of all humanity.
“On that account: We ordained for the Children of Israel that if any one slew a person - unless it be for murder or for spreading mischief in the land - it would be as if he slew the whole people: and if any one saved a life, it would be as if he saved the life of the whole people. Then although there came to them Our apostles with clear signs, yet, even after that, many of them continued to commit excesses in the land.” ( 5:32 )
"Allah forbids you not, with regard to those who fight you not for your faith, nor drive you out of your homes, from dealing kindly and justly with them: For Allah loves those who are just" (60:8)
So terrorists and other such people are enemies not to others but to Muslims as well.
Um no, there are no "misconceptions". The collective middle east overall is stuck in dark age thinking, just like Christianity was in the past. It is not a matter of blaming all Muslims, but the few that hold the most power control the collective climate. The middle east has not had it's Jefferson or Paine. It is not westernized to the extent of protecting religious and political pluralism anywhere near the same extent as the west.
Now I am going to tell you the same thing I say to liberal and moderate Christians even here in the states. You can argue "misinterpretation" and "Most dont", all you want, but you still use the same book others use to justify harm to others.
Christians who value pluralism are well intended but still use the same bible that others use to condemn gays and use the same bible to justify controlling the bodies of women. Muslims are no different. You can value the likes of Malala or our Muslim Congressman Keith Ellison, but that still does not change that the Koran is the same source others use to justify groups like Isis or the infighting between Sunnis and Shiites.
Jews are no different. They have their liberals and they also have their conservatives. You can find those who justify pluralism and others who justify old school male dominate religious nationalism.
The truth is that humans are not aware of their own evolution. They are unaware that their morality is not in any holy book, but in our species itself.
Of course you can find good people of all religions worldwide. But that is the point right there. If one can accept that then that person must consider that it is not the actual book, or the club doing it, but if you are doing good, then it is YOU and your evolutionary compassion.
