anil wrote:Arunima Singh wrote:suni51 wrote:I said terrorism is bad and that includes everyone involved. Who said if the terrorists were Muslims they were bad but good if they were Christians, Jews or followers of any other religion? I feel bad when even a single person gets killed in such incidents and here it was a whole lot of devotees. I condemn all terrorism coming from anyone.
I totally agree with you. Terrorism of any sort id condemnable and no religion justifies terrorism. It is actually the extremists and fanatics of religion who misguide the gullible minds and no such outrage should be tolerated. And in name of no religion such extremist thoughts should get fodder. Terrorism spares no religion. We have seen it across the world. Though most of terrorists belong to Islam, they have not spared Muslims. Pakistan has been a victim of its own home grown terrorism.
Followers of Islam is more fanatic that followers of other religion. Islam is not much old religion. It is history of Islam to force people to change their religion on the basis of threat. What is happening in Pakistan, they deserve it.
Islam calls itself a peaceful religion and Qurans teachings have been debatable but it is ike all other religious teachings is about peace and justice ,.. I am quoting below some opinion about quran's teachings and how easy it is to misinterpret it by terrorists and those who have devious motive
Numerous scholars and authors, both Muslim and non-Muslim have testified to the underlying rejection of violence, cruelty, coercion, and intolerance of the Quran and its embrace of justice and self-defence. According to Fawzy Abdelmalek, "many Muslim scholars speak of Islam as a religion of peace and not of violence. They say that the non-Muslims misunderstand the Quran verses about Jihad and the conduct of war in Islam."[16]
Nissim Rejwan asserts that "violence and cruelty are not in the spirit of the Quran, nor are they found in the life of the Prophet, nor in the lives of saintly Muslims."[17]
According to Feisal Abdul Rauf, "the Quran expressly and unambiguously prohibits the use of coercion in faith because coercion would violate a fundamental human right— the right to a free conscience. A different belief system is not deemed a legitimate cause for violence or war under Islamic law. The Quran is categorical on this: "There shall be no compulsion in religion" (2:256); "Say to the disbelievers [that is, atheists, or polytheists, namely those who reject God] "To you, your beliefs, to me, mine" (109:1–6)"[18]