Charlie Hebdo: first cover since terror attack depicts prophet Muhammad

Re:Charlie Hebdo: first cover since terror attack depicts pr... by xcode_ on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @09:35AM (#8880072)

I've studied Quran too and a bit of comparative religion and nowhere did I find any instance where it preaches violence.

Look on the life of Prophet Muhammad for instance (you'll find plenty of non-Muslim accounts on His life that are non-biased) never you'll find any instance where he punished someone just because he ridiculed him.

Forget about prophet, just when Europe was going through the dark ages and Muslims were building knowledge cities in Spain etc. There were departments specifically reserved for scholars to come and discuss and question each other's religion! It's part of our history books, and a fact.

What we're seeing today is some radical Muslims dominating the majority and just because they have taken up guns people have started associating violence with Islam.

Do you know that the most number of people that have suffered from these extremists are infact Muslims themselves? I'll urge you to dig this further :)

p.s "Islam" when translated to english means Peace. Do I need to say any further?

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Re:Charlie Hebdo: first cover since terror attack depicts pr... by codingthebeach on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @09:57AM (#8880190)

This is just outright disingenuous. Both books have ample violence and the Quran specifically commands followers to chop off the body parts of the infidels. I can quote you the verses if you'd like. The Bible has its share of violence and gore too. What game are you playing at?

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Re:Charlie Hebdo: first cover since terror attack depicts pr... by tim333 on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @07:46PM (#8883577)

>never you'll find any instance where he punished someone just because he ridiculed him.

Abu 'Afak seems close. He wrote a politically charged poem against Muhammad and was killed. Perhaps not just for ridicule, more for political opposition but even so it seems bad form.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_%27Afak

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Re:Charlie Hebdo: first cover since terror attack depicts pr... by olavk on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @12:56PM (#8881432)

> I've studied Quran too and a bit of comparative religion and nowhere did I find any instance where it preaches violence

Then you didn't read the actual Quran. I will not claim that the Quran is more violent than other holy books, but it certainly has its share of calls to violence.

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Re:Charlie Hebdo: first cover since terror attack depicts pr... by EliRivers on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @10:03AM (#8880236)

"Islam" when translated to english means Peace.

A more common translation is "submission".

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