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...

I really wish the "peaceful" Muslims would do something about the non-peaceful ones, because it's making them all look bad.

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.

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.

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.

i said he almost did. he had suicidal tendencies. obviously he did not, since he was still able to form the worlds most intolerant religion.

christinaity today is violent? are you on drugs. who started the intifada against israel? islamic hamas people.

who attacked the twin towers?

islamic al qaeda

who started an embrgo against america becouse it did not partake in the attempt to destroy israel?

islamic saudi arabia

who wants to nuke israel?

islamic iran

who started riots over a cartoon of muhammad?

islamic musilms

what do most islamic middle eastern nations wnat today?

the destruction of israel and america

so whos more violent? its not that hard to tell.

Muhammad did start wars, he would raid mecca caravans because they were infidels, what happened? tribes around mecca attacked Muhammad's tribe. he also attacked a Jewish tribe he allied with because they were vincible. and they decapitated all of the infidels in the tribe, Muhammad took part in the slaughter.

thats funny, no suicide. Muhammad also committed suicide when he got his first "Revelation" from god, he thought he was possessed. and that Islam says not to kill others. thats why Muhammad asked his followers to assassinate people who made fun of his religion. get ur info right.

own religion if they agree to be second class citizens, give up all liberties and show no public display of their truth, and they don't agree with them, then the Muslims are to kill them. yeah ur own faith is allowed. and Muslims do to want world domination. Muhammad was a war lord who said god told him to conquer all of Arabia and to kill infidels which are non Muslims, you have your info completely wrong are are receiving false teachings about Islam.

@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.

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.

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.

Please see this and decide..

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-871902797772997781

did not meant to send argument twice so i re edited this page so it would not say the same argument twice.

no religious wars?! open minded?!? Muhammad commanded the death of Jews and called them filthy swine on many occasions. Muhammad also demands that infidels that choose not to turn to the Muslim faith are to be second class citizens that have to pay a tax, and if they denie that then they are to be killed. and on many occasions Muhammad denied peace to his victims, such as hes home tribe that kicked him out for saying he was not a prophet and killed them. also that if one does not partake in a jihad against infidels he is sining to god. Muhammad also comments that infidels in battle are to have their heads and hands cut off. also that Jews have perverted the bible and that Christians are ignorant and dumb. how is Islam peaceful?

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.

So Christianity in the Middle Ages was a religion of violence then?