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Criticism of Islam.

mikkel_the_dane

My own religion
Justice as defined by whom? Maybe all those Muslims who believe in equal opportunities for girls and women should stand up and fight against those Muslims who support keeping women under their thumb.

Yeah, always start with your "tribe". That is in part why I "hunt" atheists, skeptics and secular humanists the most. I start with my own.
 

ecco

Veteran Member
But we have the right to rule by God's judgement as a people
That's the biggest problem with religion; the belief that "I'm right: The rest are wrong".

The fallacy of this can be easily seen by acknowledging that every religious person believes this. Even within religions, Christian Protestants and Christian Catholics disagree and fight and die to ensure "I'm Right"; Muslim Sunnis and Muslim Shiites disagree and fight and die to ensure "I'm Right".

@Link, when you say "we" who are you talking about?
 

ecco

Veteran Member
It's not evil for Muslims to want to be one people under one government.
What kind of Muslim government? One led by Sunnis or Shiites or the rulers of Saudi Arabia or those who lead the Taliban or their sworn enemies, the members of ISIL?
 

firedragon

Veteran Member
That's the biggest problem with religion; the belief that "I'm right: The rest are wrong".

The fallacy of this can be easily seen by acknowledging that every religious person believes this. Even within religions, Christian Protestants and Christian Catholics disagree and fight and die to ensure "I'm Right"; Muslim Sunnis and Muslim Shiites disagree and fight and die to ensure "I'm Right".

@Link, when you say "we" who are you talking about?

Its true that Shii's and Sunni's had rifts for a long long time. It was a great political battle. But this thread is there for you to take on their rifts, beliefs or whatever and present a case.
 

mikkel_the_dane

My own religion
That's the biggest problem with religion; the belief that "I'm right: The rest are wrong".

The fallacy of this can be easily seen by acknowledging that every religious person believes this. Even within religions, Christian Protestants and Christian Catholics disagree and fight and die to ensure "I'm Right"; Muslim Sunnis and Muslim Shiites disagree and fight and die to ensure "I'm Right".

@Link, when you say "we" who are you talking about?

Yeah, and then there is "science is the best method we have to understand the world and there is objective evidence for the fact that science is the best method". That "we" is tribal and not limited to religion.
 

firedragon

Veteran Member
What kind of Muslim government? One led by Sunnis or Shiites or the rulers of Saudi Arabia or those who lead the Taliban or their sworn enemies, the members of ISIL?

So you intend die hard to convert this thread into your beloved topic as shallow as can get right? ISIL, Taliban, ISIL, Taliban, ISIL, Taliban, ISIL, Taliban, ISIL, Taliban, . ;)

ISIL, Taliban. Would you like me to open a new thread for that topic so that you can discuss it in detail, thoroughly?
 

Link

Veteran Member
Premium Member
Justice as defined by whom? Maybe all those Muslims who believe in equal opportunities for girls and women should stand up and fight against those Muslims who support keeping women under their thumb.

I agree but it has to be intellectually fighting.
 

Link

Veteran Member
Premium Member
That's the biggest problem with religion; the belief that "I'm right: The rest are wrong".

The fallacy of this can be easily seen by acknowledging that every religious person believes this. Even within religions, Christian Protestants and Christian Catholics disagree and fight and die to ensure "I'm Right"; Muslim Sunnis and Muslim Shiites disagree and fight and die to ensure "I'm Right".

@Link, when you say "we" who are you talking about?

I'm talking about Muslim nation. In this sense, I will tolerate Sunni government and it does not have to be a Shiite government. Just should allow freedom of speech and religion.
 

Link

Veteran Member
Premium Member
I think the kind of government needed is one that investigates human rights better with respect to Quran. The problem is tyrants ruling Muslims for so long has made ignore this aspect of the Quran.
 

Link

Veteran Member
Premium Member
Justice as defined by whom? Maybe all those Muslims who believe in equal opportunities for girls and women should stand up and fight against those Muslims who support keeping women under their thumb.

Do you know in Iran, there is more graduates from University that are women and more women in government then most countries in the world? Women contribute a lot to society in Iran.
 

Link

Veteran Member
Premium Member
Justice as defined by whom? Maybe all those Muslims who believe in equal opportunities for girls and women should stand up and fight against those Muslims who support keeping women under their thumb.

God is source of justice - peace is a title of God that he has entrusted his creation with. They make use of it in their transactions and social affairs. There is no better to teach justice and peace then Quran in my view.
 

firedragon

Veteran Member
Every version of Islam is a true version from the point of "religion as is", and then to me, no religion out there and no sect is as "Islam ought to be", but every sect believes they are that, and non-Muslims don't have a methodology to sort all that out.

Good point. But that thread was opened for those who use these fanatics as the caricature to propagate what islam is.
 

ecco

Veteran Member
You've not heard of Chinese persecution of Uighur Moslems, or Tibetan Buddhists then? This is happening now.
The State of Religion in China
  • The Chinese Communist Party is officially atheist, but it recognizes five religions: Buddhism, Catholicism, Daoism, Islam, and Protestantism. Authorities tightly monitor registered and unregistered groups.
  • There are a growing number of religious believers, including those who practice folk religions and more than a dozen other banned faiths.
Religion and anti-religion is often a tool for a Government to get rid of unwanted groups and individuals.

Officially Buddhists and Muslims are allowed to practice their religion. It is obvious that the animosity toward the Uighur and Tibetan goes far beyond religion.

Howabout Lenin's war on the Orthodox Christian church? The later Soviet tactic of labelling all religious people as mentally ill, and confining them to asylums? You didn't know about any of that either?

Yeah. I guess you believe that all religious people were labeled as mentally ill and confined to asylums. Pre-Stalin Russia was overwhelmingly religious. Stalin would have had to imprison over 90% of the population if the imprisonment was solely due to religious beliefs.



During the purges of 1937 and 1938, church documents record that 168,300 Russian Orthodox clergy were arrested. Of these, 106,300 were shot.[78] Many thousands of victims of persecution became recognized in a special canon of saints known as the "new martyrs and confessors of Russia".

A decline in enthusiasm in the campaign occurred in the late 1930s.[79] The tone of the anti-religious campaign changed and became more moderate .[73] It ended at the outbreak of World War II.

NKVD Order No. 00447 of July 30, 1937 - About repression of former kulaks, criminals, and other anti-Soviet elements") was signed by Nikolai Yezhov and approved by the Politburo during the Great Purge.[1]
In other words, get ridof those who oppose - reagardless of why they oppose.
 

ecco

Veteran Member
But that thread was opened for those who use these fanatics as the caricature to propagate what islam is.
What "these fanatics" are you referring to? Sunnis, Shiites, Wahabis? There are so many. But which are you referring to?
 
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