How Uneducated Can People Be?!

Submitted by ZK (United States), Feb 7, 2008 at 21:04

Let me first say that I am not a Muslim, I am a Christian, so this will be coming from a Christian point of view, not a Muslim one, but from a Christian who has ACTUALLY studied. I've studied the religion of Islam like crazy, and I understand it, however the amount of idiots who don't know anything about Islam and put out obviously racist and ill-informed info are repulsive. First off, Jihad means struggle literally, yes both externally and internally. Now when it comes to Jihad in terms of war, terrorists are giving it a bad name and idiots are not understanding it. First off, when it comes to war and jihad, there are VERY STRICT RULES that go along with it. Islam and REAL jihad FORBID the killing of and fighting against civilians. Muslims would go to war with a country and tell them an option first. Either A) Surrender and convert the laws to Islamic laws (which meant murder is illegal, adultery is illegal etc and that you had to pay a tax which was given to the poor) and they were told they could keep and practice any religion they wanted freely, but had to abide by the laws and pay tax for the charity to the poor. or B) Wage war and see who won basically. If the Muslims were victorious they people living there were allowed to practice any religion they pleased but simply had to follow basic rules (much of which are principles in America and other countries!) and pay the tax for charity. Muslims are NOT allowed to kill civilians, they are NOT allowed to force their views, ideologies or religion onto anyone, and you probably don't know this but SUICIDE is forbidden in Islam and is believed that if a person commits suicide for any reason they will immediately go to HELL. Yes killing civilians, suicide and all this is FORBIDDEN in Islam. The mass media just loves to believe the nut-cases who cry out Jihad For Islam when its not even allowed in Islam. Its like having a person running around with a cult screaming "Jesus told me to be a crusader and kill Africans" and the world going "Oh look at these terrible Christian Crusaders and their terrorists, Christianity must be nothing but a bunch of Crusaders running around committing terrorism. People PLEASE get your facts straight.

In reguards to this whole second Quran found stuff... yeah thats BS. I've studied at Arabic schools and Islamic schools... there is no second Quran. Use common sense. The Quran was memorized to the teeth when it was introduced, and continues to be memorized so that every single word, character, accent is EXACTLY the same. There is only one Quran taught, the actual Quran and you can write or find any other fake version you like, but it is not authentic because you can find tons of scholars who have memorized the Quran and will point out any error right away. All this stuff about the second Quran telling muslims to run out and kill unbelievers is total BS.

Now as far as these "Islamic Republics" or states. Yeah those are fake too. Take a corrupt leader who says he's Muslim but doesn't act or follow Islamic laws like they should and you get a fake Islamic country. Don't let the corrupt people in power, or the loud lunatics make you believe the falsehoods in life. Like these Kings and Princes running so called Islamic countries... yeah guess you didn't know that having a King or a Prince is forbidden in Islam. So how is it that a person claims to be a King and Muslim at the same time when Kings are forbidden in Islam.

Its amazing how people will believe anything they hear without finding the truth out first. I'm not a Muslim, I believe in being a Christian and don't plan to convert, but I do seek knowledge and truth, and thus I studied religions along with my other subjects. People who believe the lies about religions might as well believe that the earth is flat and if you sail too far you will fall off the edge. Thats why I strongly believe (as sadistic as it may sound) that we should just take the warnings off labels and weed out the idiots in life by letting nature take its course.

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