Does Islam Promote Violence? Here’s The Best Answer
Reza Aslan gave the best possible answer.
Click here for reuse options!Islam doesn’t promote violence or peace. Islam is just a religion and like every religion in the world it depends on what you bring to it. If you’re a violent person, your Islam, your Judaism, your Christianity, your Hinduism is gonna be violent. There are marauding Buddhist monks in Myanmar slaughtering women and children. Does Buddhism promote violence? Of course not. People are violent or peaceful and that depends on their politics, their social world, the ways that they see their communities.
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bpollen November 14th, 2015 at 22:11
Nailed it.
KABoink_after_wingnut_hacker November 14th, 2015 at 22:16
Agreed.
Medieval superstition has been used for millennia to keep the masses ignorant and make them kill. And that goes for all religions.
Anomaly 100 November 14th, 2015 at 22:48
All religions promote violence wants you become a fundamentalist. Look at those god fearing Christians who have bombed abortion clinics here in the states.
Organized religion is violent at its core.
bpollen November 14th, 2015 at 23:04
And yet I have met absolutely wonderful and caring Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Baha’i, Wiccans, Jews…
Anomaly 100 November 14th, 2015 at 23:48
So have I, but once they become fundies that’s where they start going off the deep end.
Sea Stories November 14th, 2015 at 23:49
Mother Teresa, et al.
Anomaly 100 November 15th, 2015 at 11:33
She wasn’t a fundie though:-)
StoneyCurtisll November 14th, 2015 at 23:10
Exactly~!
Sea Stories November 14th, 2015 at 23:49
That is a subset of the Christians. Just like the Muslim terrorists are a subset of the otherwise peaceful people who choose to follow Islam.
Budda November 15th, 2015 at 07:31
But they still claim to be ‘Christians’…….or :Muslims”
Sea Stories November 15th, 2015 at 07:52
Hitler claimed to be human. What is your point? I don’t believe in their faiths but I have no problem with the people who do. If there were no religion, do you think we still wouldn’t have all these mentally ill people killing others? They use religion as a crutch or to hide their illness. Doesn’t make them all bad. And the politicians who use faith as a springboard for their careers would simply find some other means of hoodwinking their base if there were no religion.
Budda November 15th, 2015 at 08:28
That is my point; they use their religion as an excuse or justification.
mea_mark November 15th, 2015 at 09:58
Religion exacerbates the problem by allowing people to justify their violence through their religion. It’s not the religion, it’s the misplaced justification through religion that is the problem.
Chris November 15th, 2015 at 14:06
You mean FUNDAMENTALIST organized religion.
I’m a Methodist and, as a denomination, it comes out (usually) on the correct side of social issues. It still has a way to go regarding gay issues, but it’s pretty tolerant. Like all human institutions, it is capable of error. But, again, it does a LOT of good regarding helping humanity.
Besides, potluck suppers are great! :)
Anomaly 100 November 15th, 2015 at 15:01
I loves me some pot luck suppers!
KABoink_after_wingnut_hacker November 14th, 2015 at 22:49
Time to learn and evolve.
fahvel November 15th, 2015 at 03:58
Konrad Lorenz suggested that the human of today is the missing link between where it came from and the true humane being.
Connie Goodwin November 15th, 2015 at 06:44
Chris November 15th, 2015 at 14:01
Republican:
“You can’t fool us! “Reason and science” are code words for communism!”
StoneyCurtisll November 14th, 2015 at 23:09
John Brown..
http://www.ducksters.com/history/civil_war/harpers_ferry_john_brown.jpg
The Kansas abolitionist, (a just cause) yet he and his followers were violent mass murderers and attempted to overthrow the government of the United States of America at harpers Ferry Virginia..
The man was ravaging lunatic who finally got his due at the end of a rope~!
Budda November 15th, 2015 at 07:29
Excellent point.
Bunya November 14th, 2015 at 23:57
People using their imaginary deity to kill is as stupid as murdering in the name of Foghorn Leghorn, but yet they do – and they have a huge following of low level thinkers.
Tell me again how human beings are the intelligent species.
bpollen November 15th, 2015 at 00:09
Praise Foghorn!
Leghornu Akbar!
The Radical Wing call themselves ISAY-ISAY…
rg9rts November 15th, 2015 at 02:55
showing our age??? are we???
fahvel November 15th, 2015 at 04:57
can’t B. homo sapien is probably the cruelest and most immature species of higher life form.
Mike November 15th, 2015 at 07:27
I say, I say, Boy what in tarnation are you talkin about…???
maggie November 15th, 2015 at 00:27
she did good….;)
Larry Schmitt November 15th, 2015 at 04:10
Unfortunately, conservatives don’t listen to people like Reza Aslan. So they will never see this, and will continue to believe, because Fox tells them so, that Islam, and therefore every Muslim, is violent, and every Muslim is probably a terrorist.
starskeptic November 15th, 2015 at 18:26
Gigantic “no true Scotsman” fallacy from Aslan.