absurdity

Submitted by Afshan Ali (United States), Sep 11, 2006 at 19:16

it is absurd when a person who claims to have tolerance of others attacks their beliefs. it is absurd that when a religion's name ITSELF means peace that people can tie that religion to any form of violence. in plain out arabic, jihad means struggle. no if's or but's about it. jihad means struggle. the western world has changed that simple definition to justify the attacks that have happened to this country.

no one will or can ever say that the events of 9/11 are justified. those that were responsible cannot be called followers of islam. there is no where in islam that states kill those who are innocent, kill those who are different. yes, the quran states that in the end there will only remain muslims in the world and islam will be the last religion. we know this by simply reading the quran and understanding that it was the last religion to form, but also the last relgion that will remain. (the quran has never since its birth been altered or questioned...until now) people also seem to forget that there were muslims killed on 9/11, not just non-muslims. this contradicts the theories that have arose about all muslims want to kill non-muslims. wake up! there were muslims killed in this act! all that i know is that the people responsible for the attacks on 9/11 were NOT muslims holding "jihad" for islam, and anyone who firmly belives otherwise should read the quran for themselves.

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