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forget about what you hear in the media or whatever people talk about in the streets about this religion and start thinking with your good old rusty brain for a second. How in god’s name a religion so old (1400 years) became in a plink of an eye the source of all evils?

I’m personally amazed that  international intellectuals are not debating this religion’s ideas reasonably to come to a better conclusion wether this system of belief is the source of terrorism as some governments claim in our modern world!! To do so, to investigate the true meaning of this religions ideas, we need to participants who are willing to leave their personal views outside the room and think with pure logic.

lets take it logical for once and look at the context on which ignorant people are basing their judgments regarding this religion.

Islam encourages violence against none-followers and atheists:

is that true? do we see true members of Islam run in the streets and shoot or stab other people around them? I don’t think so. The entire conflicts we see on TV is pure political drama. Take Lebanon for example, the civil war was among Muslims and Christians, but that had nothing to do with beliefs religion wise, it all had to do with politics and politics only. Muslims in America were never reported to wage hate-wars against Americans citizens, not even if they where harmed in a racial insult, not like Italian Americans or African Americans who would fight back if the felt any insult. Why don’t local Muslims fight back? because their belief system urges them to be patient, to held their anger and think before to act. In fact their holy book insets upon calming down before and waiting for judgment day, then and only then they might take revenge.

Yes, the holy book of Muslims ( the Quraan) does have some verses that talk about war in time of conflict. in summery, those verses guide weak Muslims ( in the ancient times 1400 years ago) how to fight back if they feared on their life, and their families. is there anything weird regarding that? lets imagine that someone attacked your house, your wife and kids, would you you do nothing, or you would fight for your right of living? its that simple in Islam, you attack back whenever you are attacked ( in the now and here), you don’t wait for revenge, you don’t initiate the fight ( hit after being hit).

Today’s terrorist who claim that they are Muslims, shift the meaning of TRUE Islam to justify their false acts. Its very wrong in Islam to attack helpless people and blow buildings up like what happened in 9/11. What happened in NY in that day is extremely wrong, an event that affected the shaky relation among the east and the west and prohibited Arabs and Muslims from interacting with the west as they please. Now, to be an Arab inside America, is like being a black man in the 60’s American. Arabs and Muslims are suffering discrimination and racial profiling after 9/11, and the entire Arab world was harmed and classified as a potential terrorism cell.

Islam, is like any other religion, it has its own unique ideas that might sound strange for some people. These ideas come to match the humanitarian sense in all of us. This religion encourages people to do good, to help each other, to fast ( only to feel the hunger of the world), to do what ever could be done to help the poor, to treat women right ( believe it or not, the last words of Mohammed the Prophet was to never miss prayer and to treat women good).

I restate, this religion like any other religion has its own system, and to follow it is your own decision. To judge this system we need to stand neutral about it and observe it with logical eye. we should ask our self “why” and “what’s the story behind … ” to understand more.

never let media deceive you and tell make you believe the separation among the unity of humanity. whatever was you belief, you still human, with the sacred right to live.