Islam is a peaceful religion

[Gonz]

yea, right

Karachi gunmen kill 7 Christians
09/26/2002

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) -- Armed assailants tied up Christian charity workers, taped their victims' mouths closed and shot them execution-style Wednesday, a bullet each to the head.
The attack killed seven people in the southern port city of Karachi -- and shattered hopes that a sweeping crackdown on Islamic militants had broken the back of violent groups targeting foreigners and Pakistan's Christian minority.

The shooting was the latest in a string of attacks against Christian organizations that has killed at least 36 people and wounded 100 since President Pervez Musharraf's decision to join the war on terrorism in Afghanistan and crack down on extremists at home.

http://www.azdailysun.com/non_sec/nav_includes/story.cfm?storyID=49493

 

[Jeslek]

That is bad. Very bad. I feel very sorry for those people's families. At least those murders had the courage for a proper execution and not just jumping in and firing automatics or stabbing them in their sleep. (This is for some reason important to me.)

 

[ris]

while connected to islam in india and pakistan there have been terrible acts like that carried out by hindu's too, and extremist christians have been responsible for mass-killings in the middle east in the past, not to mention the northern ireland troubles [protestant v catholic].

extremists suck.

 

[unclehobart]

Religion is peaceful... after all... its just a few philisophical scribblings of old campfire tales from the days of yore laid out as a template for a model life as well as scare little kids. Its the people who try to live outside of the basal lessons of the stories and actually act out its literalism to the Nth degree and whack his neighbor in the leg with a pointy stick to force him to live the same way that is the problem.

 

[Scanty]

so true...

 

[freako104]

actully religion is supposed to be peaceful but there are those extremists. i do feel Islam is peaceful as some of my friends are Muslim and they hate violence. you cant judge by a few bad apples however i do also want to say how easy it seems to be to kill in the name of a god.

 

[Gonz]

They desire that you should disbelieve as they have disbelieved, so that you might be (all) alike; therefore take not from among them friends until they fly (their homes) in Allah's way; but if they turn back, then seize them and kill them wherever you find them, and take not from among them a friend or a helper.

You will find others who desire that they should be safe from you and secure from their own people; as often as they are sent back to the mischief they get thrown into it headlong; therefore if they do not withdraw from you, and (do not) offer you peace and restrain their hands, then seize them and kill them wherever you find them; and against these We have given.you a clear authority.

Cursed: wherever they are found they shall be seized and murdered, a (horrible) murdering

The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His apostle and strive to make mischief in the land is only this, that they should be murdered or crucified or their hands and their feet should be cut off on opposite sides or they should be imprisoned; this shall be as a disgrace for them in this world, and in the hereafter they shall have a grievous chastisement,

 

[PT]

The fact is, most of the wars this world has had have something to do with religon, so to say that any religon is peaceful is wrong. Every religon will have it's extremists, who take what they read, and interpret it to mean that anyone who doesn't believe the same way is wrong. I don't know of any religon that actively supports freedom of thought.

 

[ris]

shall i look for some of the similar texts from the bible [especailly old testament] or judaic texts?

nearly all as bad as each other rolleyes

 

[HeXp£Øi±]

A wiser man might go there, but i won't touch this thread with a ten foot pole. Some of the worst atrocities throughout history have been commited by people calling themselves Christian. Even in our time some of the men who disgust me the most call themselves Christian. What does that say about god? Nothing.
And that's all i have to say about that.

 

[Luis G]

Some of the worst atrocities throughout history have been commited by people calling themselves Christian. Even in our time some of the men who disgust me the most call themselves Christian. What does that say about god? Nothing.
And that's all i have to say about that.

my words preciselly.