Richard Dawkins says it outright. One wonders why so few other atheists are speaking out in the same way. Note that he does not hasten to qualify his comment by saying, "Islamic extremism" or "radical Islam."
Dawkins: "I'm reasonably optimistic in America and Europe. I'm pessimistic about the Islamic world. I regard Islam as one of the great evils in the world, and I fear that we have a very difficult struggle there."
Narrator: "Why is it more problematic than Christianity, for instance?"
RD: "There is a belief that every word of the Koran is literally true, and there's a kind of closemindedness which is, I think, less present in the former Christendom, perhaps because we've had long - I don't know quite why - but there's more of a historical tradition of questioning. There are people in the Islamic world who simply say, 'Islam is right, and we are going to impose our will.' There's an asymmetry. I think in a way we are being too nice. I think that it's possible to be naively overoptimistic, and if you reach out to people who have absolutely no intention of reaching back to you, then you may be disillusioned."
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|2011-02-09 11:03:51 Robert Tulip - Views of David Cameron and Lee Kuan Yewhttp://www.corybernardi.com/2011/02/the-failure-of-multiculturalism.ht ml provides a lively discussion about response to Islam, including a recent speech by UK Prime Minister Cameron and the comment from Lee Kuan Yew: ""I think we were progressing very nicely until the surge of Islam came... I would say today, we can integrate all religions and races except Islam."
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|2011-03-18 14:13:22 Ismail - Mr.It is quit unreasonable for someone to make such a comment against Islam, that all religion should be integrated exception of Islam, why that comment please.
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|2011-07-20 19:21:25 AlexIt is because the the Quran verses that teaches the hardline approach of Islam, Its exclusiveness, Intolerance with non-muslim, Its religious superiority. You cant integrate with hard approach/foundation.
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|2011-02-10 03:36:59 K Baloch - You Would be Target nowI agree with you.History of islam is repeating it self.Muslims need to rewrite Koran to omit all verses those teach murder,rape and intorenance for the sake of their next generation.
God Less you and keep you safe,Dear Richard Dawkins.
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|2011-02-18 05:26:25 Ginger - Big difference: there are no extremist Talmudists!Mr. Crowe, Director, you display a supreme, absolute ignorance with your simplistic statement. The Talmud is nothing if not a long series of debates and multiple interpretations of the Tanakh. There are no radical fundamentalist Talmudists going around doing their best to blow up, or by other barbarous means, utterly destroy not only infidels but those who do not share down to the minutest detail a particular Islamic sect's interpretations of the Qu'ran like Islamists do. Judaism, totally unlike Islam, not only does not have any designs on converting anyone but, au contraire, actively strives to dissuade any who seek to convert to Judiasm. Big difference in all ways.
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|2011-09-28 09:50:55 abd - who are the victims of terrorismIt is the media giving a Bad representation of Islam. The people who breed violence do not even represent one percent of the Muslim population. As a matter of fact, the victims of terrorism are mostly from the muslim community. America had victims of about 4000 citizens in 9/11. To take revenge, the Bush administration unilaterally bombed Afghanistan and Iraq, which cost more than 400,000 lives. What wrong did these men,women and children do?
Where is justice which America is boasting about? Where is peace which america is boasting about? Afghanistan and Iraq are still in a bloody state, with more innocents dying.
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|2011-12-22 13:11:11 Anonymousi think yu shuld learn or at list ask doze who know Tru Islam wad it teaches. Islam doesnt teach any of these atrocities yuv mentioned above. n i swear n promise yu dat kno1 willb able to re-produce th Quran n Omit verses in it lyk d bible has been tampered with/interpolated. b sur of wad yu sur n don slander plz.
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|2011-12-22 21:52:30 AnonymousYa, we dooo ask doze who no da tru Izlam - and dey say da same ding. We even read da Koran 4 ourself. nobody be slander noboy heer.
Heer are som uv doze who no da tru Izlam:
http://islamreality.wordpress.com
Wad dey say dere?
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|2011-02-10 11:13:10 A - Dawkins correctDawkins is correct in the history of questioning.
even a quick read of the Bible will give the reader examples of every major name form Moses to Jesus questioning God in their life and relationship with God.
This sort of questioning and openness probable had a large part to play in the creation of the scientific mind in the west.
If anything our modern science has taken the questioning too far and become too certain of answers...
Anyhow the moslems are allowed to disrespect science, western values, gay marches, and whatever but people are likewise allowed to disrespect Islam and think it has many evil aspects.
The intensity of Islam's evil is all the threats of and sometimes actions of vilionce and death against people who say islam is evil or whatever that moslems don't like to hear.
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|2011-02-10 17:49:33 ArjMy prolonged and often protracted intellectual struggle with the tenets and principles of Islamic philosophy has led me to this overwhelming and deeply profound conclusion regarding that desert creed:
f**k Islam.
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|2011-02-10 19:21:40 Nick222 - What rock have you been hiding under?"One wonders why so few other atheists are speaking out in the same way."
Ya gotta be kidding! Why don't you do some research before you make such a statement. Try "atheist +evil +Islam" in Google; you'll get more than a million hits. As one example, try my own http://zenofzero.blogspot.com/2010/09/five-foundational-evils-of-islam .html .
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|2011-02-11 22:57:02 Acharya SIf you knew whose blog you were on, you would realize that I've been following the atheist community's commentaries for very many years - probably long before you crawled out from whatever rock you've been hiding under. Why don't YOU do some research before making such insultingly ignorant remarks on the blogs of people you clearly have no clue about?
The fact remains that, AS SAM HARRIS HIMSELF HAS COMPLAINED, relatively few people in the liberal/atheist community have been been critiquing Islam. They mostly confine themselves to Christianity.
Anyone who has actually been following these issues for any length of time knows exactly what I am saying. It is obvious you have not and do not. Your snide commentary is thus a sign of ignorance, not the brilliance you believe it to be.
Cheers.
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|2011-02-10 21:26:31 KRASHKOWALSKI - ISLAM = DEATHISLAM IS THE ONLY RELIGION ON THIS PLANET THAT CONDONES VIOLENCE, DEATH & TERROR TO FURTHER ITS CAUSE. DOES CHRISTIANITY DO THAT ? NO. DOES JEWISH DO THAT? NO.
NEITHER DO THE HINDU OR BUDDHIST FAITHS, OR ANY OTHER RELIGION THAT I HAVE FORGOTTEN TO MENTION.
THAT IS WHY ALL PEACEFUL & RATIONAL PEOPLES OF EARTH HAVE TO UNITE AGAINST ISLAM & DESTROY IT.
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|2011-02-11 12:14:04 Anat - Extremists
Dawkins seems to forget over1500 years of CHRISTIAN EXTREMISM. One that has not only blighted the lives of many millions for centuries and is responsible for the torture, death, destruction and suffering of countless milions across the world, the destruction and inahalation of countless cultures and whole continents (all in the name of "the prince of peace" and "turn the other cheek" and love thine enemy" deity and all that...and the relentless persecution and mass murder of the very people that "prince of peace" came from among others.)
It took rivers of blood for Christianity to arrive at the place where we are today. Even today there are those who still mouth the extremist Christian rubbish that has provided an excuse for genocide and mass murder over the centuries. Closed minds than and now who cite the words of scripture, who take every word of the New Testament literlly and use it as an excuse for extreme violence and a belief in the right to impose their will/religion/way of life on other people was (and in some cases still is) very much part of "the doctrine of the faith".
Having said that - there is NO DOUBT the extreme danger Islamist Extremism poses to us all. NOT ONLY PHYSICAL!!
To allow it even marginal success is to allow the world to slide back to a dark time - a time of evil - a time we have not known for some centuries in the west...
Religious extremism and literal interpretations of scripture - usually done by nutters, head-cases and those mediocre half wits, power hungry villans or miserable sods whose lives have been and are so messed up they have nowhere else to run but to the perceived certainty of religion - is dangerous in any religion!!!! and there are extremists in ALL religions!!! Yes even today amongst Christians, Hindus' Jews and others.
Dawkins, as an intelectual and a man of reason, should see that in a world changing so fast, so radically, most of humanity has no time to digest the change, internalise or accept it - cultural differences are of the essence and the impact is enormous and the backlash vicious.)
Do I abhore and am scared of radical Islam? terrified!
Do I see it as an absolute danger to all of us? YES!!!
Do I believe that there has to be a way to fight and vanquish it completely? YES! an emphatic YES!!!!
Do I see it as backward, deplorable, evil and that the idea of a culture sanctifying death and destruction as a religious tenet makes me want to puke and than scream in rage, fear, frustration? ABSOLUTELY!!
But the arrogance of forgetting the devestation Christianity - especially Extremist Christianity - brought on the world is deplorable. This was Christianity a few centuries ago!! This is radical Islam now!
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|2011-02-12 16:36:24 john matthews - Where's your primary source/sources material ?Islam an christianity are not even remotely even on the body count . Do a bit of checking/research . Or would that be against the presuppositions you hold on so tightly to ? One more thing , if or when you look closely at Christianity check your sources , they also can easily be bent to the left or right , real scholarship actually examines everything it can before coming to conclusions .If you decide to reply please Let me know who your reading , an have read . There are good scholars an bad scholars out there , just as there are good carpenters an bad ones . We live in the house others construct , its up to you an me to check the work before we move in an live there . Peace john .
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|2011-02-19 08:37:54 SquirtNot to mention that most of the "Christian" bloodshed was against muslim aggression. Don't forget they nearly took Europe. If it wasn't for Vienna in the north and Martel in the south... who knows what would've happened.
Even the much (rightfully) maligned Spanish inquisition(s) left a tiny body count, somewhere between 1 and 5 thousand over 200 odd years.
One execution was one too many but given that at the time you could hang for stealing food AND the murders by muslims exceed that yearly it is a small body count.
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|2011-02-11 21:49:04 Ronn - AnatYes, there are "extremists" in Christianity and Buddhism and other religions besides Islam. Yes, Christians have committed some horrific crimes throughout the centuries. But the problem in your argument, so common with Islam apologists, is that those Christian "extrmists" weren't following the the words of the New Testament nor the examples from the life of Jesus.
Dawkins is right not to use the terms "extremists" and "radicals" when referring to Islam because to the Western-raised individual, or the Christian or Buddhist or Hindu, Islam is in itself extreme and radical, and Mohammed would today be called an "extremist" or a "radical" by apologists like you. As one promonent cleric said, rightly, "There is no 'moderate' Islam. There is only Islam." Bin Laden and his followers and the Muslims who commit terror and the murder of unbelievers are simply following the the words of Allah and the examples from Mohammed (hadiths). That is not radical or extreme - it is what is expected from Muslims who take their religion seriously.
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|2011-02-14 02:34:03 Jeff - Following the teachings of JesusYes, Christian extremists DID follow the example of the life of Jesus. Jesus claimed to be God, and God is the most prolific serial killer in history. You can't separate the New Testament from the Old like that. Jesus has more blood on his hands, I suspect, than all do the Muslims who ever lived, and that's saying a lot. Both the Bible and the Q'uran are texts of unspeakable violence and barbarity.
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|2011-02-16 20:13:09 d.e.goodman - OT vs NTI suppose I could be wrong, but I think the Piso's wrote the NT because the "TIME," had required it. The "God" of the OT, was not a very nice guy! Any "God" let alone "man" who would murder, oops "sacrifice", his own son THAT-WAY, is no "God" at all. He is a SERIAL-KILLER of the worst sort. Even going as far as murdering his own SON! (SUN) Or allowing it to happen, which is the same thing. "Accessary before the fact." I'm glad to know Jesus' story, just like the story of Muhammad, are Mythological, and have no basis in reality. It is surprising what you can get people to believe! They are such a gullible bunch it's amazing! Man wasn't made by God, God, was made by man. Until we all realize that, there will always be wars and "rumors of wars," and people will never understand we all, BLEED RED! We ALL love our children. We ALL love. However, we are also capable of HATE. And it is HATE, that must be eliminated if the Planet is to survive. The next "false-flag-attack," is liable to come in the "form of a mushroom cloud." Because that is what TPTB need to execute the New World Order into reality. So when it does happen, you can bet your ass, IT WAS PLANNED THAT WAY! Next will be either a holographic-Jesus/Mohammad/Buddha/Krishna in-the-sky "second coming", or a "remote-controlled" INVASION by the "Aliens" which too, will be "false-flag" to get people to accept the NWO. DON'T believe it! "WE don't get fooled again!"
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|2011-02-12 03:48:51 Mike O'MalleyQuote:I think, less present in the former Christendom, perhaps because we've had long - I don't know quite why - but there's more of a historical tradition of questioning.
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Richard Dawkins doesn't know why?
Because the Latin Church bequeath to Western Civilization an unequaled endowment of intellectual and spiritual treasure including a certain radicalism inherited from a long dead Latin African Church. That African Christendom was extinguished by islam in a time before Richard Dawkins reckoning.
The Latin Church gave the World Aquinas.
Islam gave the World Al Ghazali.
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|2011-02-15 03:13:36 aselfishpoet - and another is......'freedom of religion'. the idiot that thought that one up should be... err... scolded severely. that phrase has got to be the oxymoron of the millennium. how can one be simultaneously 'religious' and 'free'? the word 'religion' has two possible latin roots, one is 'relegare', which means 'to read again' and the other is 'religare', which means 'to bind fast'. either way it makes sense - they keep re-reading that book they're shackled to ;-)
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|2011-02-27 01:53:51 CT - Rock itDawkins rocks. (So does Hitchens) I thank them for stepping up to the plate.
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|2011-02-28 21:54:01 Peaceman - ...Please do your research properly before making statements...
Finding something that will back your argument, by taking things out of context is not the right way to debate...
Dawkins does not know what the true essence of Islam is or what it means to be a true follower of Islam... Neither do terrorist extremists...
Most of the incorrect myths about Islam can be dispelled with accurate, proper, correctly sourced research.
I hope you are all able to conduct your own research and one day realise, you were wrong about Islam.
youtube - Syed Ammar Nakshawani
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|2011-03-01 03:56:32 AnonymousYes, read the Koran so you too can know what Islam is all about.
Quotes from the Quran
The Religion of Peace
Faith Freedom
Islam Watch
Jihad Watch
Prophet of Doom
Islamic Crusades
Women's Rights in Islaml
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|2011-05-01 14:50:28 jonathan sergesonIslam In its a abilities to keep entire countries like Afghanistan in the dark ages is unparalleled. schools get bombed for teaching even the most simple arithmetic as it is seen as a threat to there ideology.
3 children where killed 40 other injured.
The County of Spain translates more of the world literature and learning into Spanish every year than the entire arab world has translated into Arabic since the 9th century.
The only problem with islamic fundamentalism are the fundamentals of Islam.
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|2011-10-12 08:51:37 que - :)please dont say bad words for islam..
i hope you guys go to hell for what you say about islam..
when the world you may know the truth of islam,,
i hope you guys learn for saying that to islam..
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|2011-03-06 18:24:05 Samuel"Isalm is the only religion on this planet that condones violence, death & terror..."
You are kidding, right? Religion = violence. Establishing rules based on false occurrences and loads of fantasies to further its cause is what every religion, sect or anything so-called spirituality, without an exception, is very much based on, period. Do you really think that there's one true religion worthy living for? There's nothing to the whole subject at all.
You see, by "all peaceful & rational peoples of Earth" you mean the destroyers. Do you see the paradox at least? It's all a big crap, let's admit it.
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|2011-07-22 20:20:07 Tonz - Muslims do not knowMost of the non arab Muslims do not know the meanings of the teaching of Koran. They simply follow it because its their religion. The moment they come to know the true meanings a rational minded person will have trouble swallwing these verses. Islam is not peacful, please check youtube and listen to Anjim Chaudry. I really admire this guy as he is truthful in what he believes and is open to confess. Unlike most other so called moderate musims deny this, as deception is also a part of islam.
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|2011-07-26 09:07:43 ibrahim ali - COMMON CHALLENGES AND ENCOUNTER FOR PEACE IN THE
The site http://www.goldenduas.com is launched with messages of definite orders
of God/Almighty Allah towards world safety and unity amongst all religions in
accorance with the directions under Holy Quranic verses 17:16,28:59,39:55 and
45:14which are available in www.Quran.com.
It is the time to discuss the following because according to the Quranic verses 5:14,
5:82,7:158,45:14,57:27and28 and 61:6 it is revealed that Christians are not arrogant
and amongst them are priests and monks.Our prophet Jesus said that he is a messenger
of God,confirming Torah which came before him,and giving glad tidings of a messenger to
comeafter him,whose name shall be Ahamed.It is also further revealed that God sent
Jesus and gave him the Gospel.And He ordained in the hearts of those who followed
Jesus,compassion and mercy and it is also revealed that the believers of prophets Moses
and Jesus fear God and believe in His messenger Mohamed and it means that Jews and
Christians can also follow Islam without converting to Islam as compulsory conversion
is banned under the Quranic verse 2:256.He also says that He will give them a double
portion of His mercy and He will give them a light by which Christians and Jews shall
walk.
Besides,according to the Quranic verse 45:14,Jihad is not recognised as it says:
45:14. Tell those who believe,
To forgive those who
Do not look forward
To the Days of God:
It is for Him to recompense
(For good or ill) each People
According to what
They have earned.
Further the Quranic verse 2:99 reveals that no one can refuse to follow the Quranic
verses except those who are perversing and again the Quranic verse 5:14 reveals that
God took their covenant,but they abandoned a good portion of the message that was sent to
them[Christians,Jews and Muslims].So,God planted amongst them enimity and hatred til the
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4:157.That they said [in boast]
"We killed Christ Jesus
The son of Mary
The Messenger of Allah";-
But they killed him not
Nor crucified him.
Only a likeness of that
Was shown to them.
And those who differ
Therein are full of doubts,
With no [certain] knowledge.
But only conjecture to follow,
For of a surety
They killed him not.
4:158. Nay,Allah raised him up
Unto Himself;and Allah
Is Exalted in Power,Wise;-
[The resemblence of Jesus was put over his traitot Judas by God and the people killed him
while Jesus was raised to heaven by God and Jesus is in heaven].
Holy Bible says:
1."Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves".
-Matthew 10:16.
2."Be strong, do not fear; your God will come, he will come with vengeance;
with divine retribution he will come to save you". - Isaiah 35:4
Holy Quran says:
28:59. Nor was thy Lord the one
To destroy a population until
He had sent to its Centre
An apostle, rehearsing to them
Our Signs; nor are We
Going to destroy a population
Except when its members
Practise iniquity.
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|2011-08-03 20:46:52 Jabran - Islamic Athiesti am an athiest . ofcourse i was a muslim one day. but that changed. i think that islamic religious books like quran have to be rewritten in a good way.
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|2011-08-12 16:57:41 Stuart ParsonsI have read the Quran and the sirahs of Ishaq, Tabari and Kathir, studied the Sunnah and Sharia, read numerous pro and anti islam books and visited countless pro and anti Islam websites.
Believe me, NqIslam is a far greater threat to the well-being of mankind than Fascism or Communism ever were.
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|2011-09-27 00:39:07 Sultan - SultanYes ,I agree 100% with every word that Stuart Parsons wrote , it seams like he is a very intelligent person,but I would like to add that NqIslam is a far greater threat to the well-being of mankind than nuclear weapons ever were .
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|2011-10-12 13:16:03 que - i proud to be muslim
I then begin to think of how I was raised to believe that Jesus (pbuh) died for my sins. I questioned the Christian belief of how all the righteous people in the Old Testament were “saved” and in heaven if Jesus wasn’t even born yet. I thought to myself “If Jesus was sent to save the world of their sins, then that meant that everyone went to hell that was on earth before he was born”. Christians keep saying that God had to send Jesus as a perfect sacrifice, but what need does God really have when God is the Almighty, who created everything?!
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|2011-10-12 09:02:56 AzChristianity gets no sympathy around here.
que "i proud to be muslim"
So are these muslims:
"Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth."
- Omar M. Ahmad, founder of Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) July 4th, 1998
http://www.danielpipes.org/rr/394.pdf
"Ultimately, we (Muslims) can never be full citizens of this country...because there is no way we can be fully committed to the institutions and ideologies of this country"
- Ihsan Bagby, CAIR
"The 9/11 hijackers should be honored as martyrs."
- Warith Deen Umar, Former Muslim Chaplain, New York Prisons
"I am a traitor to America because my religion requires me to be. We pledge to wage jihad for the rest of our lives until either we implant Islam all over the world or meet our Lord as bearers of Islam."
- Samir Khan
"I want to see the U.S become an Islamic nation.”
-Ibrahim Hooper, CAIR Spokesperson
"No we don’t want to democratize Islam, we want to Islamize democracy" "We love you, America – and we want your children for Islam"
- Islam on Capitol Hill.com
"Greater integration between Islam and the West depends on incorporation of Sharia law into the legal systems of Europe and the U.S."
- Ground Zero Mosque Imam, Faisal Abdul Rauf
http://islamreality.wordpress.com
Islam is NEVER to be trusted
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|2011-10-19 07:48:25 Rabia - ISLAM REMOVES DARKNESSES OF EVILHow Mr. Dawkin dare to say such that " Islam as one of the great evils in the world, and I fear that we have a very difficult struggle there"..
Islam is true and divine religion. Islam spreads peace and love among whole mankind. But unfortunately now in this whole world no where complete Islamic System is implemented as Our most Beloved Prophet Muhammad(S.A.W) implemented. As being his nation its our responsibility to give Message of Allah to other nonMuslims/Non-Believers. There is no reward for any Non-Believer in Life HereAfter(Eternal Life). Allah Almighty, the one and only one creator of whole universe, for all 7 sky,earth, mountain,trees, plant etc. Each and every movement on this Earth is known only by Him, Even a small leaf fall from any tree, nobody, no man have ever power to keep record or can't know where any leaf is growing or falling. But all this only only only Known by Allah. He created your body Mr. Dawkin...CAN YOU PROVE OR IS ANY SCIENTIST OF THIS WORLD CAN MAKE HUMAN_BEING. IF YOU ARE SO TRUE OK THEN MAKE ANY HUMAN BEING AS YOU ARE YOURSELF with complete parts of your body e.g your eyes,nose, brain, heart.. can any man(so-called biological scientist) can they give life to any person.HUH STUPID PERSON. You are taking other persons with you into HELL.. You are misguiding our youth and new generations. Take back your FALSE statements. Please go-through the sites mention below.
http://english.islamway.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxzOu_gD54U
http://www.scribd.com/doc/5989265/Kabar-Ki-Azaab
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|2011-10-20 15:46:29 AnonymousDawkins is right - Islam is evil. You just proved it with your proselytizing: "There is no reward for any Non-Believer in Life HereAfter(Eternal Life)."
Gee, that's nice - so only Muslims go to "paradise." Your "paradise" of 72 virgin girls and hairy men lying around being attended by boys with pearl earrings would be my HELL.
Do you even know what you're promoting?
The Religion of Peace
Time to grow a conscience, stop being ignorant and join the human race, before it's destroyed by religious fanatics.
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|2011-10-22 15:42:30 moeen - what should a muslim then should do?Do you believe in one God? Do you believe God of Jews and Christians are the same as of hindus and budhists? Or Muslims have a special one.
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|2011-12-09 16:22:40 Jacob - What Muslim Should do?You should repent of your sin and accept Jesus as your savior and Lord and you will have a guarantee of salvation. If you not you will die in your sin and will certainly enter into hell. Only Jesus can save you, don't be deceived by muhammad, he has no prove to be worthy as a prophert.
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|2011-12-23 09:32:31 Xaid - To all non muslim brothers!If a non-Muslim believes that Islam is a merciless religion with something to do with terrorism; a religion which does not give rights to women; a religion which contradicts science; in his limited sense that non-Muslim is correct to reject such Islam. The problem is he has a wrong picture of Islam. Even I reject such a false picture of Islam, but at the same time, it becomes my duty as a Muslim to present the correct picture of Islam to that non-Muslim i.e. Islam is a merciful religion, it gives equal rights to the women, it is not incompatible with logic, reason and science; if I present the correct facts about Islam, that non-Muslim may Inshallah respect Islam.
To know the correct picture, people generally seek help of other people(mostly Islam critics) and have blind faith in them. I insist that such people should first consult the QURAN to know whether they are right or wrong and also its translation. Then they will come to know why the holy book needs not to be rewritten.
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|2012-01-05 21:18:56 Anonymousrichard dawkins is there to blind you islam is the only non- tainted non-changed religion. christianity is man made so why let it guide you he says its evil haha the media is creating a bad image of islam America has caused the end of life for several million people and 9/11 well there was no proof binladen was behind it the confession video was proven to be fake and binladen is said to be working or worked for the cia tim osman whether this is true or not im not sure but it makes sense America supports Israel a zionist country that shouldn't be there the world is controlled by zionists. there is more to be said but i dont have the time.
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|2012-01-22 16:21:54 PDubya - Belief equals retardationThe Quran is full of sh*t, as is the Bile (sorry, Bible. Freudian slit) and it is now the time for believers of these too be treated like the lost, sad little children that they are. For far too long humanity has been held back by these lying liars and their ridiculous delusions of immortality. In order to truly evolve and find peace as a species (race is irrelevant, culture is the issue) we need to accept what we are, our place in the universe and the fact that life is just a ride.
P.S. Rabia, thank you for your comment. From the glaring contradictions of your argument all the way to your inability to spell, punctuate or even use Caps Lock correctly, prove the idiocy of the believer. Well done!
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|2012-01-29 23:03:58 sophia ahmed ARE U BLOODY KIDDING ME
u guys are not muslims so u dont know the truth about islam u just know the bullsh*t that is spoken anout US
- you guys are soo gallabul - belive wat ever u hear !!!
unlike u i understand and respect all other religions out there ...
u guys fink ur religion is all dat *looooooolz* ur religion is as equal as anyone elses just remember that !!!
barstards !!!!! - go get a lyf other than say sh*t online and not to my face, cowards! dont mess around wiv me trust me iwill find out were u guys live- i should know i work for microsoft haking and tracking people down is what i get paid £250.000 a year... TRUST ME!!!!
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|2012-01-30 03:08:25 ASThank you for the hate speech and threats of violence - very attractive and peaceful behavior that will assuredly make more people like Islam.
Spewing hatred and threats of violence seems to be the Muslim way of dealing with everything - thank you for demonstrating that fact.
What's not to love? Why oh why would Dawkins and others say such things, when there are such wonderful examples of Islam like you around?
In the meantime, hopefully many more people will come to learn about Islamic doctrines, such as the following - apparently you enjoy belonging to and are so proud of this belief system that you will write hateful and violent threats towards others for discussing it.
http://islamreality.wordpress.com
Islamic supremacy and global domination
Prohibition of music and singing
Imprisonment, flogging, torture and death for homosexuals
Jihad to force Islam on the world
Jews as apes and pigs
Jews as the eternal enemies of Muslims
Jews as originators of all evil and catastrophe in the world
Osama bin Laden in Paradise
Raping women okay in Islam
Female genital mutilation "obligatory" in Islam
Sex slaves for Muslim men
Child marriage/rape
Mohammed having sex with a 9-year-old girl
Wife beating
Death for "insulting" Mohammed
Death to apostates and infidels
Genocide of Americans
Jihad to "raid the world"
Non-Muslims being not innocent and subject to death
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|2012-02-01 03:56:07 ANTI-religion and PRO spiritua - Religion is the EVIL and so many of you have falleGinger, if that is your real birth name....Judaism are people who have self proclaimed themselves as God's children, that would be supreme thinking! And then to believe that is it only 144,000 of you, you are even judgemental about your own kind?! We are all God's children, well most of us, I think some belong to satan and hide behind the word of God, like most islamics. Those of us who are truly God/s children know it in our hearts, and that comes from within, not ANY religion. When will you people learn, God did not teach religion, he simply taught his word. MAN MADE RELIGION, worte religion and taught it....NOT GOD. If you people would all get off your high horses of "religion" and understand that, the the world would be a better place, except for the islamic religion, that is a sick and diluted way of thinking, and if all of these fools want to believe in a book written by man then you will always be fools and never learn the real word of the real GOD!
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|2012-02-01 04:15:53 Request for Investigation"Sophia ahmed" thank you for that perfect example of why people don't like your kind, and it supports what most of us think of your "religion". Now I will do all that I can to report you to Microsoft and this web site...I thank you for the additional information, I too am a li'l wiz!! You have the audacity to threaten someone due to theriir own personal opinion....grow -up little boy hiding behind a women name...coward!???? To actually state that you will show up at their home???? Are you psyco....well I know the answer....YES..come look for me, I dare you! I also dare you to threaten me so I can put you up on charges and put you where people like you belong....IN JAIL!! Do you understand that you are in a country where you take responsibility for what you say and do? Do you understand that you are in a country that was at war with the middle east and our government taught us to hate your kind! Do you understand? Now as for your religion, it is a sick beliefandif you believe in itthen you too are sick. You can't see what your religion teaches as being okay and it clearly is not okay! That is your problem if you believe the islamic religion, then you are a fool! I too was raised a specific religion, but I was able to see through the crap, unlike you brainwahsed idiots!!Understand "sophie", all religions are MAN MADE you idiot, written by a bunch of sick cowards who needed desperate and easily influenced a**holes to follow and you did, unlike some of us. Ever hear of spirituality...you feel it in the heart, it is real and IT IS GOD! Why would you follow a man-made religion and then say it is GOd you follow, it is not God you follow, it is lying man you follow and you are a fool for doing so. God even said his UNTRUE word will be spoken in many languages, by many who teach the wrong word, but it is for us to know what is real and what is man-made, and islamic belief is man -made if not, and no disrespect you little threatener, but also evil!! You are following satan not GOD, and I truly hope for your soul that you learn that religion is not GOD!! The evils in this world have created false man0-made religions to fool and seperate GOD's children and it looks like it doing an awsome job, look at the world, look in the mirror.....FULL OF HATE!!! Not to mention a little bit of psychoticism!! And that's all you, you can't blame anyone for that...now come look for me, so I can have you arrested and charged for threatening someone you liittle coward (I guess that comes from your religion too). Now get the f**k out of our country if you don't like our attitude toward your belief or live with it and shut your mouth! I'm waiting for you...
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|2012-02-16 10:49:29 Taha - Mr. Dawkins, with all due respect to you and all !Dear fellow humans, please accept greetings from a muslim. Would it be justifiable to you if I start accusing atheists as criminals without even knowing what they believe in, how they think, why they are anti religion? I dont think so.
To argue or disapprove of someone or something I need to study, research and than conclude. I do not have anything against any of those who are disrespectful to my religion. However, I would expect educated sane people to atleast study the Quran first in detail, think calmly about it in a holistic manner and than form an opinion. You cannot call Islam a religion of hatred, violence etc on the bases of those who are following their own version of Islam by misinterpreting it or because they have been misguided by our clerics. It would be exactly like forming an opinion about an organization by simply looking at a handful of its worst employees. The organization's operational manuals would certainly not be advocating misconduct or bad behaviour but some of its employees may not be following instructions properly!
It is important to be clear about your beliefs, I think, because if you say "I do not believe in God and I hate religions", you are taking a very big risk! What if when you die you find out that their actually is a God and that Islam or Christianity etc. actually was a true religion! There wont be a turning back (most probably and according to the Quran).
Just to give you another side of the picture (and you can definately study it yourself), the Quran says the following :-
1. (16:82) But if they turn away from you, (O Prophet remember that) your only duty is a clear delivery of the Message (entrusted to you).
2. (17:53, 54) And tell my servants that they should speak in a most kindly manner (unto those who do not share their beliefs). Verily, Satan is always ready to stir up discord between men; for verily; Satan is mans foe .... Hence, We have not sent you (Unto men O Prophet) with power to determine their Faith.
3. (21:107 to 109) (O Prophet?) 'We have not sent you except to be a mercy to all mankind:" Declare, "Verily, what is revealed to me is this, your God is the only One God, so is it not up to you to bow down to Him?' But if they turn away then say, "I have delivered the Truth in a manner clear to one and all, and I know not whether the promised hour (of Judgment) is near or far."
Hope this will make you guys ponder a little. Happy research friends.
Taha
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