Is Islam the cause Of Terrorism

People who say yes don't know anything about history. Islam is a peaceful religion and yes they had a violent past but what major religion has not had a violent past. Christianity had a more violent past then Islam. No you can't get rid of islam its as big or bigger then Christianity now.

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Originally posted by Grand Moff Gav,
Discuss (by such i refer to Bin Laden,Abu Hamza etc)

Yes.

money and greed is the cause of terrorism

Different opinions are.

Islam is not the "cause" of Terrorism - Religion as a whole, or different political views, (often tied together with Religion), are, in general, the "cause" of Terrorism.

religion is not but oil is.

Religion is far much more responsible then oil is. Religion has always been an excuse for people to kill others in one way or another. Every religion has been at one time. Still its just an excuse not the cause.

Originally posted by ZoSo
Islam is not the "cause" of Terrorism - Religion as a whole, or different political views, (often tied together with Religion), are, in general, the "cause" of Terrorism.

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Originally posted by lil bitchiness
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You said ''islam is not the cause of terrorism'' then you said ''religion as a whole is''

What is Islam but religion?

nope, it all comes down to the oil

Originally posted by cking
nope, it all comes down to the oil

There have been acts of terror long before oil was any concern.

Originally posted by lil bitchiness
You said ''islam is not the cause of terrorism'' then you said ''religion as a whole is''

What is Islam but religion?

What was meant was:
Islam itself is not the "cause" of Terrorism.

Originally posted by Lana
There have been acts of terror long before oil was any concern.

Agreed.

Religion, regardless of what it is, was the cause of terror at some point.

This politically correct bullshit is getting tiresome. Christianity and Islam are no better than each other - refer to the cartoon i posted on previous page.

Yes they are no better, but neither one of them is responsible for terrorism. The first thing that caused an act of terrorism is like the first thing that caused a war. Somebody had a different opinion on something and wanted to make the others know he was right. He used violence.

Originally posted by lil bitchiness
Sorry, this just makes me laugh. 😮

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Originally posted by Fishy
Yes they are no better, but neither one of them is responsible for terrorism. The first thing that caused an act of terrorism is like the first thing that caused a war. Somebody had a different opinion on something and wanted to make the others know he was right. He used violence.

Not by todays deffinition of terrorism, its not.

My point never was that they exclusivly were the cause of terrorism, perhaps you should read all my replies in this thread.

The point made was that ideology creates terrorism. Political ideology. Religions are ideologies. When religion is tied with the state, then it becomes religious and political ideology - and its why people do things that they do.

Islam, Christianity and the rest are as much of ideologies as are communism, fashism, functionalism, etc etc etc.

I think the u.s or other countries did som hanky panky in secret to the middle east that the media never tells.

Todays defintion has not always been right. The romans terrorised much of the world but were never seen as terrorist by historians because they also fought normal wars. Terrorism is redifined everytime times changes. Terrorism as we know it now hasn't been around that long. Earliest I know of is WWII and that had nothing to do with religion just politics.

Still it happened before then just in different ways, and less known because is a long time ago.