Posted on 06/30/2006 10:44:05 PM PDT by nickcarraway
I am a sufferer myself.
Osama?
YOU are responsible Mohammad Yazid!!!!! Every muslim is responsible....when you all realize this....the world will be a better place!
Who is to blame for the image? Perhaps the people who cut off heads and kill innocent people. Let's start there.
Just more garbage.
Silence is tacit approval. Start there.
Maybe if he loads it with dynamite and a detonator, it can be a "Muslim Car."
Several world incidents linked with Islam have occurred, such as the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the 2002 and 2005 Bali bombings, the 2004 blast in Kuningan, South Jakarta, and several church bombings at Christmastime, all claiming numerous lives. Naturally the cumulative effect of these occurrences is to create a bad image of Muslims among non-Muslims.
The author may be on to something here
I think most of the Muslims approve of what radical Islam is doing.
If it were some Christians doing what their radicals do you'd have Christians out in force denouncing it in this modern world.
Instead you have silence and the silence sould be the downfall of Islam.
Islam needs major reforms.
Don't worry. When the navel-gazing is done they'll fall back to the tried and true: blaming the Jooz.
They have only themselves to blame.
sould = could
Perhaps some might assert the press.
Inexplicable?
illogical?
As someone who witnessed first hand the hateful and destructive work of the Indonsian Muslims in Kuta in 2002 and in Jimbaran 2005, I'm pretty sure neither adjective is appropriate.
"An honest attitude will offset all these misunderstandings. There is no need to be ashamed of acknowledging that amid the waves of globalization, Muslims have fallen far behind in promoting the modern ethical values long practiced by non-Muslims. These values include democracy and the ethos of diligence and discipline, all of which improve human existence."
...there are several factors for the backwardness of the Muslim society. First and foremost is their illiteracy in general and women illiteracy in particular. Another major reason of Muslim fall is the fact that hardly 16% of population is involved in industrial production. It is important to note that 60% of Christian population is engaged in industry. High population growth is another major factor for Muslim backwardness because this rapid population rise neutralizes whatever economic development takes place in Muslim Societies. Human Development Index prepared by UNDP gives a very dismal picture of the status of literacy, health and economy of Muslim nations. In the first 25 best countries listed under HDI (2002), no Muslim country figured in the list. Barring few small oil producing Muslim nations, majority of the Islamic world lies in the middle and low categories of human development, a clear indication that the Islamic nations needs to increase their focus on human development. Latest data (2002) about the Human Development Index (HDI) and Per capita GDP of some of the important and large populated Muslim countries are as follows;
HDI Income
(Per Capita)
Indonesia: 112 850$
(Population 210 M)
Bangladesh: 139 350$
(150 M)
Pakistan, 144 500$
(1300 M)
India 127 500$
(I Billion, Muslims, 140 M)
Egypt: 120 1200$
(70 M)
Turkey 96 2700$
(65 M)
Iran 106 $1,600
(70 M)
S. Arabia 73 $9,000
(22 M)
Malaysia 58 $4,000
(25 M)
Sudan 138 $450
(30 M)
Nigeria 152 $350
(120 M)
Libya 61 $7,000
(6 M)
Morocco 126 $1,300
(30 M)
Afghanistan 145 $300
(24 M)
Iraq 74 $5,500
(2.5 M)
Tunisia 91 $2,000
(10 M)
Syria 110 $1,300
(15 M)
Algeria 73 $1,700
(30 M)
http://www.irfi.org/articles/articles_251_300/status_of_muslim_societies_aroun.htm
I don't fear muslims... I pity the masses and despise the islamists.
They want me to fear them, but I will not.
What effect did Muhammad have on the ethics of his followers?
"Of any moralising or demoralising effect that Muhammad's teaching had upon his followers we cannot say with precision. When he was at the head of the Robber community, it is probable that the demoralising influence began to be felt; it was then that men who had never broken an oath learnt that they might evade their obligations, and that men to whom the blood of their clan had been as their own, began to shed it with impunity in the "cause of god". And that lying and treachery in the cause of Islam received divine approval. It was then too that Moslems became distinguished by the obscenity of their language. It was then too, that the coveting of goods and wives possessed by Non-muslims was avowed without discouragement from the Prophet...."
- D.S. Margoliouth in Muhammad and the rise of Islam
http://www.yahoodi.com/peace/muhammad.html
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