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Religion of Violence Religion of Peace
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Is Islam a religion of violence or a religion of peace?

Muslims all over the world insist that Islam is a religion that espouses peace and understanding. Yet everyday we read or watch news of violence made by their fanatics. What's your say on this?

Religion of Violence

Side Score: 36
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Religion of Peace

Side Score: 70

Arguments Tagged As: Religion of Violence [clear]
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Islam means peace. The religion divides the world into two zones: the house of peace (Islam), and the house of war. If you're not in the house of Islam, then you're in the house of War. Gee, I wonder what that means...

62 days ago | Tagged As: Religion of Violence
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I really wish the "peaceful" Muslims would do something about the non-peaceful ones, because it's making them all look bad.

274 days ago | Tagged As: Religion of Violence
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let me tell you something, if you say your a follower of Islam, and say its peaceful or act peaceful, your not really Islamic at all. your a sub-division believer who has chosen to follow some preacher who speaks of Islam is his own version, of course i would rather have some fake peaceful Islamic religion then the other kind, but thats irrelevant to the question. Muhammad was a war lord, if you do not believe me, read his bibliography, but not the liberal version of course. when he started off "peaceful" you could say, the merchants in Mecca got worried his ideology would ruin their business. so they kicked Muhammad out of Mecca. he goes to a nearby town and uses his religion as a recruiting tool to take back Mecca. when hes ready, he has about, o, just around ten thousand men only. so a big battle happens, Muhammad wins, they raid Mecca and conquerer it. after that new rules and rituals are added to the religion, such as the most unpeacful one invented which is, if a person who is captured, dose not turn to the Islamic faith, he is a slave, he must pay a slave tax such as giving up a daughter or money etc, if he refuses to be a slave, you then decapitate them. when the Ottoman empire pushed into Europe, instead of giving slaves their two options when captured, they were enlisted into the military life the second they were captured, they became janissaries, elite soldiers who were used to be European christens, who then get brainwashed with the Islamic religion. and now adays, the whole idea of a suicidal bomber killing innocents is praised and deemed the most highest form of martyr possible in the Islam religion. so if you still think the Islamic religion is peaceful, read some educating books like " guide to the Islam religion" and things like that. they will show you the true Islamic religion in its bloodbath cult.

5 days ago | Tagged As: Religion of Violence
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Kill, enslave or convert all non-muslims, as it says quite a few times in Quran and proven more than enough in southeast europe does not sound like a peaceful religion. Even the beginning of the Islamic movement (6th cent.) was started with war...and one of the first victims of those who did not wish to join Mohammed were Jews living in the areas of Mecca & Medina.

125 days ago | Tagged As: Religion of Violence
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Any Religion that promisses you 72 virgins if you die bombing someone else is a religion of violence. Just like Christianity was a religion of violence in the middle ages when the pope said that any Crussader who was killed in battle would go to heaven. Both are really one and the same.

351 days ago | Tagged As: Religion of Violence
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@beaty

You know, all God asks of us is that we strive to become righteous people. We will try and we will fail, and beg God's forgiveness, and keep trying throughout life. Never stop striving and praying for goodness and you will have succeeded in the eyes of God.

1 day 21hrs ago | Tagged As: Religion of Violence
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You know anyone can call himself a Muslim. Only his actions will tell, whether or not he is telling the truth. So if his actions are in accordance with the injunctions of the Quran he is in fact a Muslim, if not he is an impostor and a liar.

1 day 21hrs ago | Tagged As: Religion of Violence
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This my friend is NOT Islam. Islam is what the Quran proposes and God says in the Quran that He has PERFECTED our religion. What ever has been added after that, like Ahadith, Siras, Fatwas etc. is therefore null and void as God Alone is the Giver of religion, Not men.

1 day 22hrs ago | Tagged As: Religion of Violence
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If he makes it public in a Muslim country he is given three days to repent. If he refuses to do so then he should be killed. That is to protect others from having their faith weakened. It doesn't make Islam violent.

Um...hello? Um..hi? Seriously?! What you're saying is, if a Muslim makes public his change of heart in a Muslim country, they will kill him (Or threaten him that if he fails to change back in 3 days, he will be killed). AND you go on to say that this doesn't prove it's a violent religion?

I'm confuzzled.

99 days ago | Tagged As: Religion of Violence
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151 days ago | Tagged As: Religion of Violence
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So Christianity in the Middle Ages was a religion of violence then?

351 days ago | Tagged As: Religion of Violence
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