A strict reading of the Quran, the traditional scholar's interpretation,and the hadith suggests that they're actions aren't condemned by the good book.
A strict reading of Dr. Seuss does in-fact compliment my cherished belief that there is indeed a cat in the hat.
The thing people are failing to appreciate is that
Islam is not a monolithic bloc. There is are more than a few different schools of interpretation and historicity, not to mention regional and personal variation as well. In the same way you can't point to a Christianity, you can't point to a Islam.
Just look at the imams in Saudia Arabia....you will see that those who are hardcore fundamentalists...
If you don't understand why this is true in Saudia Arabia then you know absolutely nothing about the history of the kingdom.
It goes back to the establishment of the Saudi state where the
house of Saud (why does that sound familiar) made a pact with the
house of al-Wahhab. Essentially, the al-saud's would control the temporal realm - economy, external security, etc whilst the house of al-Wahhab had control of the spiritual realm and everything that obviously entails.
The interpretation laid down by al-Wahhab at the time was extremely hard-line (and still is), aka the
Wahhabi schoool. To make matters worse this has been for a long time the official school of Islamic thought in the kingdom and the scholars have been propelled to high positions. Saudi Arabia is also pouring tremendous amounts of oil wealth into spreading their particular interpretation (see
soft power).
It would sort of be like if we lived in a time when the power of the church was intertwined with the holy roman empire (anyone remember the inquisitions?). A time we can't forget that the church was massively corrupt and mal-aligned.
generally endorse these violent acts (especially towards Jews).
Christians and Jews as "People of the Book" (eg. the abrahamic religions)/ ahl al-kitab have a special protected status within Islam. Let's not forget, historically, the jews were a collection of tribes in arabia and conflicts happened in the distant history. Let us also not forget that Israel has caused significant tensions for Arab nations but this is a political issue as well.
At one the of high points of Islamic culture and politics in Spain (Muslims did actually reach all the way into Europe, Spain of course being just below France, many seem surprised by that) Jews, Christians and Muslims managed to co-exist relatively peacefully and with relative freedom and prosperity (
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There is a difference between hating jews and being opposed to the state of Israel in its current form in one way or another. You can be opposed to North Korea and the government but not be necessarily against the north korean people.
We also shouldn't confound things done especially in the name of Islam with things that have happened to of occur in Islamic places or be committed by Islamic people. People were doing horrible shit to each other way before Islam came along (surprise!). People will continue to do horrible shit. In less than developed countries like China, with a low level of religiosity, we still see plenty of cases of rape, murder, revenged, etc.
I can garauntee you for a fact that those who were protesting in Sydney were the ones who took their religion seriously (going to the mosque continually, reading the quran, reading the hadith, etc.) and those at home watching their fellow brothers and sisters in Islam make a fool of themselves didn't.
The ones that went are more likely than not fired up young men. The word was spread by a text-message. The kind of pictures show us a similar age distribution that we saw at the unfortunate tragedy that was Cronulla. A fair few of those i would wager are Muslims in name alone and only went to protect community identity or out of some kind of perceived insult. If you asked them, they might say they were a Muslim but then head down to the club on the weekend, get smashed and never pray. Sometimes its a fine line between who and who isn't a muslim but in my example, they aren't. The others in the protest are the more conservative elements that obviously got fired up by this kind of thing.
All movements have their odd-balls. There is a particular paleogeologist who invoked the kraken (a super intelligent sea monster) to explain a certain distribution of fossils. Is he representative of geologists? Are the ultra-conservative American Christians who are absolutely opposed to evolution and so many teachings about social justice representative of Christianity as a whole? Nope. It's not black and white, its shades of grey. There are plenty of decent Muslims out there who just go about their daily life like you and me and practice their religion in private. The idiots just happen to shout louder and get more press. We shouldn't forget there were plenty of people peacefully protesting (which is a democratic right, absolutely nothing wrong with this), talking to the community about Islam and handing out brochures and qurans to those who wanted them. Sadly, all their efforts and sentiments were worried by the dickish few. Muslims being average people like everyone else or helping out the community doesn't nearly sell as many papers or generate as much press as a minority doing scary things.
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It seems people here have absolutely 0 understanding of the Quran or Islamic History (not targeting you specifically thushan) and proceed to make claims based off that obviously flawed knowledge. Imagine attempting surgery with your sole qualifications being that you played the game operation once. Whereas the violent verses in the Quran came later and renounced the peaceful ones. :/
You'll find its in reverse. A more correct term for what you called renunciation is "abrogation".
The Quran is split into distinct portions revealed in certain places, in certain times, under certain circumstances.
A lot of the supposedly violent verses that are often taken out of context refer to the conflicts that the Muslims and Muhammed (unlike Jesus he was also a politician and a general) were in at the time. Some of this can be seen simply by reading the context around the passages and others can be obtained by reading interpretative material.
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Can you please explain to my why is it we see this type of violent reaction ONLY from Muslims? Why don't Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, or Jews get offended when their religion is portrayed in a negative light, they are as passionate about their religion as Muslims.
Ill just leave this here...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_violence_in_India#Modern_India
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