Hi Jazzy
What about those Imams and Muslim teachers shown in the film, calling for the killing of infidels? Are they all wrong? Are they not real Muslims?
What do you make of them?
Yes, they are wrong. They believe in God, but have the wrong opinions about other things in the faith. Now, aren't there Christians like that? Atheists like that? Of course they exist. Are they 'real'? Now what do we do with them?
Should we kill them? Should we kill the wrong-doing Muslims, Christians, Atheists, Jews..? If violence ain't the solution, which I do not believe it is, what can we do? You all could also give some suggestions, instead of going at us Muslims "what to do?". We don't know, you don't know, they don't know. Stupid dilemma.
What about those who carry out the killing of the adulterous woman? And the hanging of the gay men? Are they not real Muslims?
What do you think?
No, how many times do we need to say that? Those popes who take advantage of young boys are they not real Christians?
Sorry I'm going to be a bit nasty again, but apparently it is necessary to make some Muslims understand that some of their beliefs are by no means without 'offense'. Imagine some Dutch politician would release a book, film or manifest with the following message:
1. Dutch women should not be allowed to marry Muslims (
http://islam-qa.com/index.php?ref=115&ln=eng)
2. Dutch people should not befriend Muslims (
http://islam-qa.com/index.php?ref=11793&ln=eng)
3. The Dutch should not resemble or imitate Muslims (
http://islam-qa.com/index.php?ref=1189&ln=eng)
4. Dutch social security benefits should only go to non-Muslims (
http://islam-qa.com/index.php?ref=3854&ln=eng)
5. Muslims should be taxed differently from the rest of Dutch society
6. Dutch people should buy goods preferably from other ethnically Dutch people, rather than from a Muslim (
http://islam-qa.com/index.php?ref=6699&ln=eng)
Just imagine the outcry. I could go on for quite a while there and all these rulings are from an apparently respected and mainstream website. And I don't even have to quote the offensive segments in Islamic holy books where we really aren't referred to in a respectable manner. I know many of these opinions are probably not shared by most Muslims, but they constitute a significant minority opinion, one which cannot simply be ignored. Just because Islamic insults and generalizations about the 'kuffaar' are written in an ancient book doesn't make them any less wrong. The Muslim community certainly has it's own disrespectful extremists, who IMHO are most certainly are not a shred better than Mr Wilders. Portraying Islam as an innocent doctrine that would never hurt the feelings of non-Muslims is very much false.
Both are false, both idiotic sides. My father came to Finland, of all countries, 15 years ago. One week in this country and a well-learned teacher, from a famous university here who met him in a meeting and goes at him "In our history and religious books you Muslims are portrayed as blood-sucking beasts and barbaric people who hate peace. This is how history teaches us, don't expect goodness from us."
Hah. We obviously know the hate non Muslims have towards us is nothing new. You said about the ancient books insulting you are not any less insulting just cuz they are old. But ho! Why the heck bother about the ancient books, can't you look pass that? As said, it is a minority who has this great hate towards non Muslims, continue writing hateful books and with all due respect, do you await love and hugs from Muslims in Iraq and Afganistan after what the non Muslims do there
today, not hundreds of years ago? Now you could throw an argument of the same kind right back at me, and probably someone will BUT what does that
help?
We can discuss forever and be mainly satisfying our own needs to feel we're doing something, whilst others suffer daily.