Re: Radical Islam will hurt us all

Submitted by Ali (Canada), Sep 8, 2009 at 20:53

These radicals have killed Muslims more than any other denomination. Everyday you hear about attacks on the general population in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq. About striving to go to heaven, I dont clearly understand what you are trying to say. If a person lives for God, he will surely strive to please God and spread his message. When you do so, you go to heaven. So, basically if you live your life for God in Islam as well, then you will go to heaven.

There is no such thing as a Radical religion. Whenever there has been war, it has been due to politics and never due to religion. For example, it would be inaccurate to call the KKK radical Christians. A Christian that understands the word of God will never carry out acts carried out by the KKK. A true believer in any religion wouldn't carry out acts that would harm others. These so-called radical Muslims have very minute understanding of their own religion. They have been deprived of education for centuries and therefore depend on their imams to tell them the correct way. This is in a way against Islam since you are supposed to verify something an imam has told you before you follow it.

Its very hard to explain these war-torn areas. I have nothing against my Christian and Jewish brothers and neither does my religion. Its all propaganda. If you read some history, Muslims used to split mosques into half and turn the other half into churches where Christians needed such a place. This was during the Muslim Golden Age when normal Muslims had knowledge what their religion was about. Its just the lack of worldly and religious knowledge among modern Muslims that has lead them to be in the state they are in. Both kinds of knowledge are greatly stressed upon in the Quran too. Peace

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