What do you think of islam and muslims?

I want to know how people in west think about islam and muslims?

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Yes we believe in Allah and Allah only...But we also as muslims belive in Jesus as the messenger of Allah alongside many other Prophets (May Allah be pleased with them all).

Well everyone has their own opinions regarding culture, religion, race etc.

But personally I believe that a number of non-Muslim individuals have a lack of knowledge regarding Islam (no offense to anyone reading this). After all that has occurred in recent years such as the bomb attacks in the UK and the 9/11 in the USA, individuals have begun to see Islam as a religion that indicates that acts as such as killing yourself and others is permissible. But I cant stress enough that Allah in no sense has made acts as such permissible.

It is clearly mentioned in the Quran that Allah is our creator, the giver of life and the giver of death so we in any sense do not have the right to carry out an act as such.

Furthermore, those individuals that carry out terrorist attacks have misinterpreted the correct meaning of the quran and it's meaning. Thus have placed a negative example regarding Islam and the Islamic beliefs.

from a non muslim point of view I find it an interesting religion along with several other eastern religions I find it interesting how much of the Culture in the areas of central asia had maintained such a unique identity in the world.

well I actually dont know that much about it.

what country are you from?

I`m egyptian , from cairo

hi totyfrooty I am muslim and I have met many westren people in our country and I think they respect our religion as we respect them and Islam and Christian are heaven religion and all muslim belive in jesus.
sorry for bad english.

Its good! And It's the bestest! And Im muslim! Islam dont belive in jesus! We, muslims belive in Allah! anyway are you Islam totyfrooty?

Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world. In 2006, countries with a Muslim majority had an average population growth rate of 1.8% per year (when weighted by percentage Muslim and population size). This compares with a world population growth rate of 1.12% per year.

According to a CNN rebort 'Islam is The second-largest religion in the world after Christianity, Islam is also the fastest-growing religion. In the United States, nearly 80 percent of the more than 1,200 mosques have been built in the past 12 years. Some scholars see an emerging Muslim renaissance as Islam takes root in many traditionally Christian communities. Islam has drawn converts from all walks of life, most notably African-Americans. Former NAACP President Benjamin Chavis, who joined the Nation of Islam recently, personifies the trend.

I am a christian in the worlds largest muslim country.Which makes me a minority. Where I come from ,in the village where my parents were born, we were always thought to respect our muslim brothers and sisters.And they respected us back.There was a great sense of tolerance,when we needed help to bulid churches they would help us when they needed help to build mosques we helped them too.It sounds rather good to be true.That's why it's only found in that village. and some other parts,but rarely,I suppose.
Even though the 9/11 or other terrorist acts have given a different image to most western people about Islam. I personaly can seperate a terorist's ideal and the religion of islam.They are two seperate things.Just like I can seperate a priest who rapes young boys from the religion of christianity. The acts of men shouldn't be blamed on his religion. People are imperfect beings.If they fail to be good people it is not the teachings that they follow in life that's wrong ,but themselves. They either misinterpreted it or used it to their advantage.

Interesting article:

Why it is that Muslims — not Hindus, Christians, Buddhists or atheists — are in the global news threatening to kill someone over a toy or a cartoon or an opera.
Finally, the uproar dies down — only to break out again in a new place over a new grievance.

There are certain unspoken rules of the game behind all these incidents. The first is the lack of reciprocity. Christ can be mocked in the Middle East without any consequences.

Muslim leaders can venture to the Vatican at Rome, the ancient center of Christianity, to consult with the pope about the necessity of more interfaith understanding. But should a pope or clergyman want to reciprocate by venturing to Mecca, he better convert to Islam first.

New mosques and conversions to Islam are common in the West. But to send missionaries to, or build a new church in, Saudi Arabia, Sudan or Pakistan is to court death.

Condescension is also required. The demonstrator who waves a sword calling for a beheading is often excused. The poor guy must not be educated, rather than just cruel and dangerous. “We’re so sorry for the little mix-up” is the public Western answer to the shout of “Death to you!”

We also know why all this won’t stop, whether in Pakistan or Sudan — or whether over a cartoon or a teddy bear or who knows what is next.

There are certain unspoken rules of the game behind all these incidents. The first is the lack of reciprocity. Christ can be mocked in the Middle East without any consequences.

Muslim leaders can venture to the Vatican at Rome, the ancient center of Christianity, to consult with the pope about the necessity of more interfaith understanding. But should a pope or clergyman want to reciprocate by venturing to Mecca, he better convert to Islam first.

New mosques and conversions to Islam are common in the West. But to send missionaries to, or build a new church in, Saudi Arabia, Sudan or Pakistan is to court death.

Condescension is also required. The demonstrator who waves a sword calling for a beheading is often excused. The poor guy must not be educated, rather than just cruel and dangerous. “We’re so sorry for the little mix-up” is the public Western answer to the shout of “Death to you!”

We also know why all this won’t stop, whether in Pakistan or Sudan — or whether over a cartoon or a teddy bear or who knows what next.

A globalized world means communications are instantaneous. What one person in Denmark draws is broadcast immediately to millions in Islamabad and Khartoum. And they are apparently glued to, but very angry at, the modern world that pops up on their television screens.

The Muslim Middle East has much of the world’s oil. So its excesses are put up with by the rest of the world rather than loudly condemned. But after 9/11 and the bombings in Madrid and London, Islamists screaming for a beheading cannot quite be laughed off. Instead they may be the vanguard of something far worse.

Decades of multiculturalism have brainwashed Europeans and Westerners into believing that Islamic furor must be judged in a special cultural context, or is only understood through some real past grievance, usually dating back to the Crusades.

Sometimes apologists dredge up Timothy McVeigh or violence in Northern Ireland as if to prove that supposed Christian-inspired terrorism is just as much a world danger as jihadism. We know it isn’t, but such moral equivalence sounds liberal and might calm down the mob.

Other times we drag Iraq into the conversation and say the armed removal of Saddam radicalized Muslims — as if the fatwa against Salman Rushdie or 9/11 followed the outbreak of that war.

What would stop this unhealthy teddy bear syndrome?

— Weaning ourselves off imported oil and therefore the need to appease those who have it.

— Politely informing Muslims that Westerners believe the norms of free speech and expression are to be uniformly applied. No one religion or region gets a special pass.

— Supporting human rights abroad and offering some constitutional alternative in the Middle East to theocracy and dictatorship that both encourage Islamic radicalism.

— And remaining militarily strong.

Remember that the fanatic waving his age-old sword in the Khartoum street over a teddy bear shows the same dangerous derangement as the nut in Tehran who may one day want his hand on the Bomb.

Article:

Allie Martin
OneNewsNow.Com
December 7, 2007

Three Muslims were recently sentenced for beheading three Christian teenage girls two years ago in Indonesia.

The victims were attacked as they walked to school on October 29, 2005. The attackers then wrapped the girls' heads in plastic bags and left one on the steps of a church. The bags also contained notes promising the murder of more Christian teenagers. However, the three murderers were caught and convicted and received prison sentences ranging from 10 to 19 years.

im a muslim. and we do believe in jesus. isnt he the one who's going to come down on judgement day ?

I have done many research with Islam and I find it the most wonderful religion I have come across. The way they worship ALLAH and only ALLAH is beautiful. Many people have the wrong idea of being muslim and its really annoying to know that people can judge someone by the acts of others. Though I am not muslim I am hoping that one day I can become one!

haha...I guess my answer is too exited.

ISLAM IS ARABIC NAME WHICH MEANS PEACE IT IS THE RELIGION OF GOD TO ALL PROPHETS THIS RELIGION HAS NO FOUNDER LIKE ETHOR RELIGION IT WAS THE FIRST RELIGION TO ADAM AND LAST TO MUHAMMED ISLAM IS THE RELIGION OF ALL PROPHETS IT IS AGAINST ALCOHOLISM ADULTERY AND OPPRESSION THE FOLLOWERS ARE CALLED MUSLIMS AND THE PROPHETS BEFORE MUHAMMED WERE ALSO MUSLIMS BUT BECAUSE THEY WERE NOT CALLED SO USING ARABIC LANGUAGE MUSLIMS BELEIVE THAT EVEN JESUS WAS A MUSLIM BACAUSE HE FOLLOWED GODS RELIGION.

we islam rockss

well I am a muslim and I think it shoul be the only religion in world I mean it has great meaning to it we dont commit such horrible crimes were very peaceful people we thank allah for living everyday our religion is very peacefull and thats what we want for everyone but people arnt seeing that they think of muslim as terriost or idiots and it hurts my feelings that they dont anything about our religion but that still dosnt stop them from saying all this crap.

Mouixx... only a small percentage of people in the world believe that Muslims are terrorists. Most educated people never believed that because most of us have met or been close to Muslims and found them to be very loving and peaceful people. That being said... you should never let what anyone says about you or your religion hurt your feelings. Be confident that you know the truth and no one can hurt. you. My answer to the original question is that I don't believe anything about Islam and Muslims. I believe things about individual people I have met in my life. Some of them were good people and some were bad. They came from all sorts of religions and some were atheists. It isn't the region that defines a person. It is their morals and behavior. I recommend we stop blaming groups of people for the actions of a few.

Islam power :p

According to the website Islam Watch, in Russia, some two million ethnic Muslims converted to Christianity last year. Ten thousand French Muslims converted, as did 35,000 Turkish Muslims. In India, approximately 10,000 people abandoned Islam for Christianity

4/3/08: Imam Abdul Makin speaks:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maHSOB2RFm4&eurl=http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21026/islamic-hate-speech

I find their culture , beliefs & religion interesting.

6/1/08: A blind seven-year-old student at an Islamic school in eastern Pakistan has died after his teacher punished him for not learning the Koran, police said today.

“Qari Ziauddin, who teaches Koran to boys in Qari Latif Islamic school, hanged Atif upside down with a ceiling fan in the school after beating him with sticks, which caused his death,” local police official Akram Niazi said.

The teacher also failed to take the boy to hospital after he fell ill and his condition deteriorated, he said.

Police said a postmortem examination report also confirmed physical torture as the cause of death.