State of Islam
This won’t be a long post so bear with me. I’ve been browsing the internet lately only to find so many sites that put up a whole story about how Islam is actually a violent religion. Of course, the main ammo that they use is the recent violence world-wide which, unfortunately, is done by Moslem (under the provocation of The Pope’s statment).
I’m getting really tired of all this. Here’s my reasons:
- They only partially quote The Koran (or Al-Qur’an if you wanted to spell it correctly). Of course, when doing so, they tend to use some verses to bend the religion in their favor. Books that is published to solely discrediting Islam is prone to this kind of practice. In specific, they usually only quote the swift retribution that should be dealt to the non-believers. They delete the verse that says such retribution is only allowed in the act of self-defense (meaning: when you’re attacked first). Take example the First Crusades.
- Stereotyping. Let’s just say that the people that rallying on the streets is only 1% of Islam which is around 14 Million people. If compared to the number of the believers of the religion (1.4 billion), that number is very small. But since the footage of the violence made by those minority are circulated world-wide, there’s a stereotyping for the rest of the Muslim population (the rest 99% that is) that they must also a violent community (which is totally not true).
- Most terrorists are Muslim, so all Muslim should be guilty. Much like the stereotyping, these people condemn Islam only because a very minor fragments of its believers are terrorists. What kind of logic is this? You can’t value one religion because of the doings of its believers. Look at Bush. What has he done? Lying about the WMD, lying about the Al-Qaeda - Sadam connections, lies lies lies, bombs bombs bombs. Does that mean Christians is a liars religion? Of course not! We do not look at the values of a religion based on the believers practice. Hell, one of my good friends is a Catholic and I value his honesty the most.
- Double-standard. If Muslim take part in violence, then it must be the act of terrorism. But if non-muslim took part in violence, it’s just a common criminality. What the hell? Do you still remember the Oklahoma bombing and how the US announce that this is an act of terrorism by an Arabic Muslim? And later on when they figured out that the unabombers are their own citizen (and not Muslim), the degrade the status to “severe criminality”?
All in all, I’m tired of all this. We muslim should speak out the truth that we are not the religion of chaos or violence. We do not tolerate killing people without reason, we do not tolerate bombing buildings just to get your messages spoken, we do not tolerate the shooting of a nun just because we are provoked, we condemn such things. It’s for the sake of the truth. People are already bent the religion to serve their purpose and this must be stopped. Not by violence, but by understanding and inter-cultural dialogue. Let them know the truth!
“We muslim should speak out the truth that we are not the religion of chaos or violence. We do not tolerate killing people without reason, we do not tolerate bombing buildings just to get your messages spoken, we do not tolerate the shooting of a nun just because we are provoked, we condemn such things.”
I met some muslims who believed killing non-muslims was justified and they support some terrorist act. We should also speak the same thing (the above quotation) when we met our ignorant brothers.