ikpureaim-A lot of you guys are showing your true colors, yikes. I'm sure that the Quran doesn't say kill for the hell of it knowing that none of you guys have read it for yourselves and just cherry picking verses. The media has done an exceptional job of pretty much nailing people of the Islamic race as a whole. No it's not just extremists of Islam but a certain sect of the Sunnis.
Just please stop bashing the religion in this thread if you're viewing it from an outsiders perspective!
Some facts for you. Don't generalize Sunnis because 90% of all muslims are Sunnis. Thats 90% of 1.6 billion people and not all of them are extremists I mean come on there are 1.6 billion muslims in the world if Islam bred terror everyone would be dead by now. The combines forces in total of Islamic State, Boko Haram and Al Qaeda makes up 0.003% of the global muslim population. Less than 2% of all terror attacks are carried out in the name of Islam. I've read the entire Quran, I've read the Bible as well. That doesn't make me an expert on this topic at all but its enough to prove to me that the majority of the people who posted in this thread about Islam haven't read the Quran and are forming prejudice opinions on Islam through their cherry picked verses of the Quran. The same people aren't able to put those verses into context or know what they actually mean because they lack the background knowledge to do so.
I believe he was referring to ISIS as a group composed of two extremist branches of sects from Sunni Islam -- not Sunnis in general, or Wahhabis/Salafis as a whole. The majority of Muslims are Sunni and they do not represent the actions of this terrorist group. It's very saddening that less than 5% of 1.6 billion people suddenly are chosen by the media to represent Muslims on a wide scale. Aside from cultivating more hatred and distrust, associating revered phrases with actions of terror continually is a sore indicator of how much willful ignorance still exists in our world.
Yes ISIS is a religious terrorist group. And yes it is run by Muslims. Yes, these specific Muslims choose to represent Islam as a violent political struggle. Yes, this is one representation of the religion. To all hating on Islam or religion in general: you are allowed to judge a religion based on its adherents -- but keep in mind how you do it because a small marginalized group does not represent the whole most accurately.
This doesn't just apply to Islam, it applies to any other religion. If you truly want to understand a religion please stop judging it completely by its adherents and try to understand the doctrine of what the religion itself wants to be. Reading a page of wikipedia overnight doesn't make you an expert on it. Hearing something from Fox News doesn't make you informed. It takes years, a lot of research and reading to fully understand a doctrine and all its implications.
Yes people do represent their religion to some extent, but people are not perfect. They are certainly capable of contradicting their own religion, whether out of stupidity or personal gain. Fun fact ISIS has never read and understood a page of the Quran because everything they are doing is going against the religious doctrine adopted and practiced by 95% of Muslims around the world. To link their fanatical actions to that major religious doctrine, and then start hating on the religion and its adherents, is an incredibly stupid thing to do.
I really don’t want to open up a can of worms but no country really has a spotless history. Yes Middle Eastern countries are abundant in terror and violence – even among its own people – but it’s not like the USA has never committed genocide on Native Americans or bombed tons of deleted uranium in civilian areas in Iraq. Let’s not kid ourselves here. Violence is violence. Wherever it is, however it is. I understand you want to be patriotic but stop cherry-picking and misrepresenting actual history please.
I’m saddened deeply by the Paris terror attacks and how people were targeted for bloodshed. They were ordinary people just like you and me and to suddenly learn that your family or loved one is gone forever must be devastating. There’s nothing these people will be able to do to bring their loved ones back and it’s heartbreaking, completely unjust. These people will want retribution which is understandable but all I can say is I hope it goes out to the people who actually deserve it.