Does Islam encourage violence?
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No. The Qur'an specifically states that self-defense is justified, unprovoked attacks are not justified. Pretty standard fare.
The fact that militant radicals, fundamentalists, and terrorists use cherry picking to justify their actions is a reflection of extremist thought. Pretty stand fare as well.
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No. The Qur'an specifically states that self-defense is justified, unprovoked attacks are not justified. Pretty standard fare.
The fact that militant radicals, fundamentalists, and terrorists use cherry picking to justify their actions is a reflection of extremist thought. Pretty stand fare as well.
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The frequency of such radicals in the population is cause for studying the reasons for radicalization. It says nothing of the inherent violence of a particular religion. The vast majority (99%) of Muslims do not engage in violence. The vast majority of Jews and Christians do not engage in violence. The reasons for radicalization are likely pretty complex and certainly include the element of interference by outside countries (hello US and other western nations). It also seems reasonable to say that radicalization can come from indoctrination by bad acting clergy. I'm sure there are many reasons. Why do Muslims terrorists turn to violence? Why do militant Jewish settlers turn to violence? Why do Christian nationalists turn to violence? What seems clear is that state sponsorship allows these distortions of "sacred" text to manifest themselves in violence. We can be pretty sure that if Christians in the US had government sanction to use violence against gays and trans, they would. They have told us so.
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How violent in the US? The US is a secular country but we know for a fact a large part of its government and military are Christian Nationalists. How many people have Christians from Europe (not the "EU") killed or starved to death in their colonial projects over centuries? The answer is in the 100's of millions. Doesn't the Old Testament not advocate genocide in explicit words?
So, are Muslims (a generalized label if there ever was one), "a religious g that advocates violence? Is "Islam" a religion that advocates violence?"
I don't like to use the word "Islamophobia" but I'm comfortable with the word"bigotry".
No amount of dancing on the head if a pin will lead to any logical argument proving that Muslims per se advocate violence.
Is a lie we are being told,, and have been told for centuries.
Some groups of Muslims advocate violence. Only some of this advocacy is religious. Much of it is political.
It's no indictment of Islam, unless you would you'd like to throw all organized religions into the same category.
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How violent in the US? The US is a secular country but we know for a fact a large part of its government and military are Christian Nationalists. How many people have Christians from Europe (not the "EU") killed or starved to death in their colonial projects over centuries? The answer is in the 100's of millions. Doesn't the Old Testament not advocate genocide in explicit words?
So, are Muslims (a generalized label if there ever was one), "a religious g that advocates violence? Is "Islam" a religion that advocates violence?"
I don't like to use the word "Islamophobia" but I'm comfortable with the word"bigotry".
No amount of dancing on the head if a pin will lead to any logical argument proving that Muslims per se advocate violence.
Is a lie we are being told,, and have been told for centuries.
Some groups of Muslims advocate violence. Only some of this advocacy is religious. Much of it is political.
It's no indictment of Islam, unless you would you'd like to throw all organized religions into the same category.
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The frequency of such radicals in the population is cause for studying the reasons for radicalization. It says nothing of the inherent violence of a particular religion. The vast majority (99%) of Muslims do not engage in violence. The vast majority of Jews and Christians do not engage in violence. The reasons for radicalization are likely pretty complex and certainly include the element of interference by outside countries (hello US and other western nations). It also seems reasonable to say that radicalization can come from indoctrination by bad acting clergy. I'm sure there are many reasons. Why do Muslims terrorists turn to violence? Why do militant Jewish settlers turn to violence? Why do Christian nationalists turn to violence? What seems clear is that state sponsorship allows these distortions of "sacred" text to manifest themselves in violence. We can be pretty sure that if Christians in the US had government sanction to use violence against gays and trans, they would. They have told us so.
The frequency of such radicals in the population is cause for studying the reasons for radicalization. It says nothing of the inherent violence of a particular religion. The vast majority (99%) of Muslims do not engage in violence. The vast majority of Jews and Christians do not engage in violence. The reasons for radicalization are likely pretty complex and certainly include the element of interference by outside countries (hello US and other western nations). It also seems reasonable to say that radicalization can come from indoctrination by bad acting clergy. I'm sure there are many reasons. Why do Muslims terrorists turn to violence? Why do militant Jewish settlers turn to violence? Why do Christian nationalists turn to violence? What seems clear is that state sponsorship allows these distortions of "sacred" text to manifest themselves in violence. We can be pretty sure that if Christians in the US had government sanction to use violence against gays and trans, they would. They have told us so.
Bad acting clergy? Yes.
And, I'd add bad acting authority figures, bad acting authorities, and bad acting elites, in various environments.
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It's no indictment of Islam, unless you would you'd like to throw all organized religions into the same category.
Deal.
(As I said before, whattaboutism rarely works with me, since the presumption that I hold the counter example sacred in any way is almost always false)
Agree 100%. Given a chance, all of them would institute a government run by their cult and the rules said cult.
Our founders were quite clear on the subject of separation of religion and state.
America is in no way a "christian nation". That a good portion of our population thinks it is, makes me want to puke.
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