im not a musslim but it pisses me off to hear a bunch of predjudice stuff about how islam and all musslims are violent, most of these people never met a musslim and certainly never read the entire koran, they base their conclusions about islam from either laziness or propaganda from the kind of people like jerry farwell. but again predjudice people will either buy anything their told and refuse to do any independant research.

Jihad means "Holy War"???
Jihad is almost always wrongly translated as "Holy War." The Arabic word Jihad actually means "to struggle" or "to exert one's utmost."
In the context of the Koran, Jihad means the struggle for good against all evil. This struggle also includes the suppression of the lower self in order to reach a state of higher God-consciousness that leads to a pure soul.
Jihad can take place in many forms, including speaking out against injustice or spending your wealth in the cause of public good, such as alleviating poverty. Jihad does also include armed struggle, which at times becomes necessary in order to protect the weak and to establish freedom of religion. (Jihad in the context of armed struggle is known as Qital.)
Critics of the Koran love to quote passages such as 9:5 of the Koran, which calls for taking up arms against those who ascribe partners with God. Most often, these critics fail to recognize the context of such passages. Cutting and pasting verses out of their context to lend credence to an argument clouds the more important overall picture.
All verses in the Koran that deal with armed struggle advocate the use of force only for self-defense in the widest sense possible, such as freeing the oppressed and establishing the freedom of worship.
The Scripture clearly says that fighting in the path of God does not include converting people by the sword. The Koran emphatically declares, "Let there be no compulsion in religion" (2:256).
All legitimate scholars recognize this essential ethic as one that Muslims must abide by, even during times of war.

but its alot easier for simple minded people to choose not to read the koran out of fear they may be proven wrong about there ideas about islam. also there to fucking lazy to read it, its about the same lenght as the bible, theyd rather take a few qoutes out of context.

ill play the game you guys play when you come to conclusions about different religions:
"Happy shall they be who take your little ones [babies] and dash them against the rock." Psalms, 137:9
"I have not come to bring peace, but a sword." (This quote is actually attributed to Jesus in the New Testament, Matthew 10:34.)
so i can believe all chrstians are violent. thats the same thing predjudice christians are doing against islam.

fucking read the koran before you spew uninformed bullshit.
juggalo420 Reviewed by juggalo420 on . real islam: thread meant for ignorant christians im not a musslim but it pisses me off to hear a bunch of predjudice stuff about how islam and all musslims are violent, most of these people never met a musslim and certainly never read the entire koran, they base their conclusions about islam from either laziness or propaganda from the kind of people like jerry farwell. but again predjudice people will either buy anything their told and refuse to do any independant research. Jihad means "Holy War"??? Jihad is almost always wrongly Rating: 5