Originally posted by Capt_Fantastic
I might not be MuslimScholar, but I'll step in and share my perspective.The hatred of Jews is a result of the skewing of the Islamic religions by fundamentalists. Fundamentalists often times know very little about their own religion. It's history, it's teachings, it's origin, etc. In the middle east, a lot of fundamentalism is a direct result of the industrial revolution. A 'revolution" that had to be fueled by oil. The western colonization of the region resulted in a huge backlash of islamic fundamentalism.
If you take the time to read books by authors like Karen Armstrong, you'll see the evidence for such an argument. But Islam is [B]NOT
a violent religion. But the corruption of Islam didn't start with the industrial revolution. It started as soon as Mohammad was gone. Just as happened with Christianity. One need only go back to the events of the barbary pirates to see that much.Islam is an extension of judaism...just like christianity. Mohammad was said to have interacted with Jesus and Moses in one of his trips through the afterlife. If he'd known about Buddha, he likely would have been inculded in that myth. I think a lot of muslims feel that just because Mohammad was a general that his whole life was a reflection of militant radicalism. But the religion he founded was based on acceptance of other religions and peoples. Despite the teachings of islam that cite how the middle east was meant to belong to muslims, Mohammad NEVER called for violence against the innocent. In fact he condemned it...despite their religious beliefs or ethnicity.
As for Israel, I believe that the Palastinians have every right to be pissed. They've been unilaterally forced off the land that was theirs. But if they were true adherents to their own religion, then they wouldn't respond with violence.
And jihad doesn't mean holy war. It means "struggle". It's just another example of the bastardization of Islam. [/B]
Read books by Kare Armstrong?
Maybe, if you have no brain of your own, and you like being told what to think.
No, DO NOT read books by an useful idiot Karen Armstrong, instead, read the Quran and the original history of Muhammad.
Not the history written by today's unscrupulous apologists of Islam but the history written by the early historians.
Read the book of Al Waqidi, Ibn Ishaq and Al Tabari's.
Noone needs some dumbass of a journalist to pour some more politically correct propaganda into western mind, where majority of people don't know the basic history of Islam.
Islam IS a violent religion. Islam is an Muhammad's ambition desguised as religion.
Founder of Islam, tortured, killed, raped, had sex with 9 year old girl when he was 54.
Muhammad was a mass murder, ruthless torturer, a misogynist, a thief and plunderer, terrorist, narcissist and a lecher.
You know nothning of Muhammad, but what Karen Armstrong told you.
Muhammad's Allah called on for murder of infidels. ''do not take for friends those who do not believe''
If Muhammad did not kill innocent or call for the murder of innocent, then explain to me the barbaric murder of 600-900 Jewish men and boys by Muhammad himself.
He dug out a trench in the market, let them kneel and chop off all their heads. Himself.
As soon as Jewish boy got a pubic hair, he was beheaded. Muhammad himself said that he will expell All Jews from Arabian peninsula, as comanded by Allah, and the the only thing left in Aabia will be the religion of Allah.
What about the famous tortue of a Rabi, leader of Qurayza if im not mistaken, ordered by Muhammad himself to tell him where the Jewish gold and treasure is?
Rabi's eyes were put out and his feet and hands chopped off and he was left to bleed to death.
Jawairiyah, Rayhanah and Safiyah were beautiful young girls who were captured when Muhammad raided the tribes of Banu al-Mustaliq, Qurayza (the tribe where all men were beheaded at the market) and Nadir. The prophet slew their husbands, fathers and their male relatives and let his men rape them while he kept the prettiest for himself and raped her in the same day while they were still in the shock of the loss of their loved ones.
You are wrong - fundamentalists, as you call them, do not bastardise or shame Islam.
They are the ones who are following the TRUE Islam. The Islam Muhammad practiced, and preached.