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I believe it is. It is also worthy of reform.
Yes, as are all sincerely held belief systems of the world.
However, terrorists parading under the banner of any religion do not deserve respect.
I second Griffons words.
Jihad in Islam is overexaggurated. The media does that in all cases. The media makes countries like Guatemala, Cuba, Nicaragua, and Panama sound like starved out, drugged out hell holes when in fact they aren't as poor as the scary stats the media brings out. That's one example. It also overexaggurates pollution. If you took their large numbers of tons of pollution in the sea, you'd think that the entire oceans were overrun with chemicals.
Is it worthy of respect? Yes, it gets my respect. And I wish it only receives respect from the unbiased and the accepting. The Islamophobes (many of which are on this site) need not give respect to Islam because Islam does not want their respect.
Religion is suspect anyone, and islam has done nothing to earn respect. In many ways they are no different than any other religion, so nothing exemplary there. In other ways they are centuries, if not millenia behind everyone else, definately nothing to respect there.
So at best they're the same as everyone else, at worst they're a modern incarnation of medieval thinking.
Religion is suspect anyway*
If someone gains wisdom and fulfillment from a religion, it's worthy of respect. That includes Islam, no matter what bigots who don't realize there are good Muslims say.
All religion is open to manipulation. The religion itself should not be blamed for what a minority of its adherents do in its name.
No, it's another crackpot belief system just like many other religions.
It is not self explanatory, can someone make judgement by only what they see on CNN??
What are the basic premises of Islam? Are they worth respect? What about Muhammad "the final prophet"? Some of the previous prophets included Nua (Noah), Ibrahim (Abraham), Musa (Moses),and Isa (Jesus). Muhammad did not completely reject Judaism and Christianity. Seems like he was drawing from some well tested theory.
At one time we weren't all so smart as we are now. Things that were hard to understand had to have an explanation. So some “god” got the credit, and a belief system was born.
That deity gained followers whether it was to appease this deity, emulate him, and maybe gain his favor or intervention. Along comes some charismatic person, he could be a melgamaniac, maybe an opportunist or just an unpredictable dummy; but this person gains power through the organization of the belief system. The person, be he good or bad, now has a following and definitely has an agenda. This guy (only being immortal for a limited time) up and dies leaving his followers with no plain facts. All that is left 50 other guys with different interpretations, a power struggle, and an abundance of legends, myths, and theological elaborations.
So who is at fault? The “religion” whose original purpose was a set of answers given to explain the unknown. Or the “dummy” who has had his power legitimized by the “organized religion”? Organized religion has always been a tool to control the masses. The masses have always been a valuable resource. Afterall Muhammad before he died he unified Arabia and was getting around to Syria and Palestine.
^Well, Lily, I agree with much of your comment. I would like to add, though, that beliefs are not subject to proof, and as such, one or more of these religions might have it right.
What if, for instance, the Christians have it right? I mean, concerning God, absence of proof isn't proof of absence, right?
I think it is sometimes too easy for we "rational" folks to dismiss unprovable beliefs as silly or improbable. I mean, Lily, all of reality is impossibly improbable.
We seem to confuse our beliefs with reality itself. I mean, just because we may believe that a religion has it wrong, there is no way to prove it.
God might be like gravity: You don't have to believe in gravity for it to kill you if you jump off a tall building.
Now, that's a scary thought. #:>)
So...let's hope they are wrong. Right?
So true 007... sometimes just a feeling you may have is proof positive.
It's a surprise that the same people that criticise christianity aren't here defending islam.
Do these people even know anything abou the faith???
Their all terrorist trying to act and say they are religious.
islam is a disgusting religion founded by a seizure prone, psychotic, narcississtic, delusional pedophile.
As much as I dislike the undermining of religions, I really have no respect for Islam.
I honestly believe that the world would be a much happier and safer place if Islam was removed, and let's be honest, it's true.
when you throw out all the outdated mythological nonsense, yes. the same can be said for all religions, but i'd put islam second only to buddhism. the genuine parts at least, the morality parts.
Please change the record. I for one and sick of 'Islam this, Islam that' day in, day out.
^We anxiously await your ballots.
Lemming is right on the money
I can't respect a religion that has no respect for me, simply because I don't "submit" to it.
Voted : yes
Of course Islam is worthy of respect, every religion is worthy.
Jinn_the_Kafir i have challenged you on a number of occasions about your hatred towards Islam and you haven't given me anything tangible to back you up. I can tell you why so many people hate Islam, it's because they are treated like they are the next thing to the Nazis just like communists were during the cold war, muslims are now treated as if they are utterly evil and nothing can be further from the truth.
You are talking about a faith with over a billion followers, how many are actually terrorists? A few thousand. Those few thousand radicles DO NOT act and speak for the millions of innocent muslims in the world! You cannot claim that Islam is a religion of hate because you would be a hypocrite. Pick up any history book and you'll see that Christainity has caused more death and destruction than all other religions in the world combined, i would bet my bottom dollar that WW2 alone caused more death than Islam would have in it's entire history, which was caused by christian nations. The Popes in the middle ages would send tens of thousands of christian RADICLES into the middle east to wage war on innocent muslims, The Knights Templar alone killed thousands of muslims in their "holy" war. The Nazis who were all Christian killed millions of Jews in their conquest. I'll put it this way....
133,000,000 people died during WW1, WW2 and the cold war alone, all three caused by christian nations and those deaths caused mostly by christians. how many people have been killed in the last century by muslims? a few million maybe?... What does that show you.
They have no education, what is taught to them is handed down through the family. Like the Bible the Qu'ran is a guide to show how a muslim is to behave in his life if he wants to go to heaven, all those people have is their faith because they don't have anything else. T
he Qu'ran has been currupted, there have been numorious programs like Panorama which show that readings from a Qu'ran from 30-40 years ago is different from a Qu'ran form the modern day but they can't see the difference because they are taught that anything in the Qur'an is true no matter what.
You cannot hate Islam, you have to be a complete idiot to hate it because if you hate a religion then you also hate it's followers and a 1/6 of the population of the planet is a lot of people to hate for no real reason.
What angers me are the Islam haters, i bet they don't know anything about Islam but they hate it because they think it's evil. These people need to understand Islam before they judge it and just see that Islam is a religion of peace, it always has been and always will be but like i said it is a few radicles that are killing people, hate them not the religion as a whole.
I'm sorry i went on a bit there but a subject like this just makes me angry because all i see are people on this site that just show blind hatred for something that they don't understand.
I would wager that some of the haters of the faith are American, from a nation that got a right royal kick up the arse because it got complacent (no insult intended). Hence the rediculous results. Well in my eyes Islam haters are no better than Islamic radicles because IMHO they are both on the same wave length.
I'm not Muslim btw i am a Christian just like the haters but i have the forsight to see Islam for what it is and for not what these haters think it is.
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