puto wrote: ↑Fri May 10, 2024 12:30 pm
This is not correct to say about
Islam which means peace. Only an opinion is arguable, so only an opinion may serve as the thesis statement of an argument. To say Islam is evil is wrong; not only in expression and ignorance of the evidence. May that evidence be direct or indirect Islam is a peaceful religion. If your thesis needs evidence in the paragraphs; then to back-up the thesis statement. The definition of Clausewitz, "War is an act of force ... which must lead, in theory, to extremes."
Quran "Fight for the sake of Allah against those who fight against you, but do not be violent because Allah does not love aggressors." (al-Baqara 2.190). "If they incline peace; then make peace with." (al-Anfal 8.61). Present day realities are conformist. Do not propagate Islam as an act of war. The
Quran is ethical. Establish forgiveness over sin. Ius in bello, "And fight in God's cause against those who wage war against you, but do not transgress limits, for God love not the transgressors" (2.190.) Do not kill innocent people.
Islam is peace which comes from submission to God's will. Do not have Islamophobia a fear of Islam and fear of Muslims.
Please do research and use induction to come to the fact the subjective responses derived from your analysis of the facts. Analysis and synthesis are two different terms in logic.
That is my opinion, I could be wrong. PS, backed up by support and warrants.
I have done a detailed analysis of the 114 chapters, 6236 verses and 77K of words in the Quran:
Excel to Analyze Q Verses in 1400 Themes
viewtopic.php?t=41993
You should cultivate sufficient intellectual integrity and not pass comments without a full understanding of [not agree with] the Quran.
Islam basically means 'submission' to the will of God;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam
To qualify as a Muslim, a believer must enter into a
covenant [
divine contract -
mithaq,
haq] with God to comply with all the terms of contract in exchange for a promise of salvation in paradise [bonus of 72 virgins thrown in].
The Quran comprised two phases of M's psyche and life, i.e. the early Meccan and the later-Medinian.
The later Medinian verses abrogated and override all related verses in the early Meccan phase.
There are peaceful verses in the early phases of M's life on the early Meccan phase but they are abrogate and overridden by the more violent verses from the later Medinian phase.
If there are any peaceful, good or 'moral' verses they are only valid for believers and not for non-believers [infidel & kafir].
A contracted Muslim is a slave [abd] to Allah and must [contractually obligated] comply fully with Allah's commands to the best of his abilities.
In the Quran, sanction is given to all Muslims to kill non-believers upon the slightest threats [fasadin] to the religion and when the deed is done, they are heavily rewarded.
Amongst 300 violent verses imposed upon non-believer, this is the fundamental evil verse;
- [Quran 5:33 ]The only reward of those who make war upon Allah and His messenger and strive after corruption [fasadin] in the land will be that they will be killed or crucified, or have their hands and feet on alternate sides cut off, or will be expelled out of the land. Such will be their degradation in the world, and in the Hereafter theirs will be an awful doom;
— M. Pickthall
The term '
fasadin' in this case of its relevant use, refer to the "slightest threats to the religion" and this had been practiced since the beginning.
This is why believers had killed believers who committed threats [even the slightest e.g. drawings of cartoon of M and other insults to the religion].
Even disbelief in the religions [as disbelievers, infidels, kafir] is a threat to the religion, i.e. if all convert out as disbelievers, the religion will vanish.
There are Muslims [likely the majority] who happen to be good humans, thus they do not comply with this command to kill non-believers who commit even the slightest threats [e.g. drawing of cartoons of M]. Since they [good humans] did not comply with God's command, they are bad believers who have committed a sin and may not qualify to go to paradise.
An evil ideology by itself is not a big issue if its followers are minimal, e.g. like 100,000.
But there is a big issue if the evil ideology is adopted by >1.5 billion believers.
So if only 10% of believers are very evil-prone, there are 150 million of them around the world.
So even there are 1,350 millions of believers who are good humans, but
a pool of 150 million evil prone believers feasting on evil laden verses in desperation to save their souls is a very dangerous and such evils is so evident since the 600s AD when that religion emerged.
Humanity need not fear the 1350 millions of such believers, but it is rational to fear
the inherently evil religion
and the 150 million evil prone believers.
What say you?