Islam

Answer 1

A Muslim may have any colour.

Answer 2

Black Muslims may describe any black people who are Muslim (such as the numerous African Muslims in the Sahel region), but historically it has been specifically used to refer to African-American Black nationalist organizations that describe themselves as Muslim. Some of these groups are not considered to be Muslim within mainstream Islam.

It is worth noting, however, that Islamic doctrines argue that all Islam should be practiced the same way regardless of skin color.

In the Quran, Holy book of Islam, God has said:

" God does not forbid you from showing kindness and dealing justly with those who have not fought you about religion and have not driven you out of your homes. God loves just dealers."(Quran, chapter 60/ verse 8)

Prophet Muhammad (peace upon him) used, in any military conflict, to prohibit soldiers from killing women, children, old people, or any civilian. He would advise them: {...Do not betray, do not be excessive, do not kill a newborn child.} And he also said: {Whoever has killed a person having a treaty with the Muslims shall not smell the fragrance of Paradise, though its fragrance is found for a span of forty years.}

Also, the Prophet Muhammad (peace upon him) has forbidden punishment with fire.

He once listed murder as the second of the major sins (the first major sin is denying the oneness of God), and he even warned that on the Day of Judgment, {The first cases to be adjudicated between people on the Day of Judgment will be those of bloodshed.}

Muslims are even encouraged to be kind to animals and are forbidden to hurt them. Once the Prophet Muhammad (peace upon him) said: {A woman was punished because she imprisoned a cat until it died. On account of this, she was doomed to Hell. While she imprisoned it, she did not give the cat food or drink, nor did she free it to eat the insects of the earth.}

He also said that a man gave a very thirsty dog a drink, so God forgave his sins for this action. The Prophet was asked, "Messenger of God, are we rewarded for kindness towards animals?" He said: {There is a reward for kindness to every living animal or human.}

Additionally, while taking the life of an animal for food, Muslims are commanded to do so in a manner that causes the least amount of fright and suffering possible. The Prophet Muhammad (peace upon him) said: {When you slaughter an animal, do so in the best way. One should sharpen his knife to reduce the suffering of the animal.}

In light of these and other Islamic texts, the act of inciting terror in the hearts of defenseless civilians, the wholesale destruction of buildings and properties, the bombing and maiming of innocent men, women, and children are all forbidden and detestable acts according to Islam and the Muslims. Muslims follow a religion of peace, mercy, and forgiveness, and the vast majority have nothing to do with the violent events some have associated with Muslims. If an individual Muslim were to commit an act of terrorism, this person would be guilty of violating the laws of Islam.

Islam calls for peace love and living in harmony with all people irrelevant to their cultures, faiths, gender, or color.

Islamic terrorism is a new term falsified by media and politicians to go ahead with their plans of getting control of Muslim countries and to limit the growth of number of people converting to Islam.

Terrorism is not related to Islam. Islam is a peaceful religion.

• Your statement that 'Terrorism is not related to Islam. Islam is a peaceful religion' is absolutely true.
• If you check carefully the terrorist records, sure you will find your statement that 'While the majority of Muslims ARE NOT TERRORISTS, the majority of TERRORISTS ARE' MUSLIMS... ' is not absolutely true. Media has played strong role in visualising that most terrorists are Muslims. Example evidences are:
• • When Muslims are resisting occupants of their lands they are called Muslim terrorists. Notice that, currently, all world occupied lands and countries are only belonging to Muslim majorities while non of other religion majorities are currently under occupation.
  • When terrorist act happens by non Muslims (Christians, Jews, or any other religion) they are propagated by their nationality (Irish, Israelis, Serbians, Indians, ...) and not by their religion. However, when a terrorist act happens by Muslims, they are propagated by their religion and not by their nationality. This is to falsify the Muslim view in the eyes of the public and to justify the governments acts against Muslims in many countries.
  • Historically, refer to terrorist acts in Serbia, in Chechen, in China, in Korea, in Japan, in USA and Australia against the original inhabitants, in Spain, during the WW1 and WW2, ... etc to recognize objectively that not the majotity of terrorists are Muslims.

Well , basically , Islam is growing. Islam is the most influential religion on the planet. Muslims are generally very practicing people. They practice their faith while Christians in the West don't care about Christianity. Almost ALL the neutral sources say that Islam is growing..

The associated consequences are obvious. Christians are basically reformed and know what bad exists in Bible. They have reformed and are now moving towards better society. Islam on the other hand is not yet reformed. That's why one of the bloodiest wars ever on muslims known as CRUSADES is not repeating. Christians have reformed to such an extent that all cruelty in the name of Jesus is removed. On the other hand, cruelty in the name of Allah still exists.

9/11 - USA bombings

7/7 - London Bombings

26/11 - IND Bombings

31/3 - Thailand Bombings

270 million slaughters of Christians, Zoroastrians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists etc.

Shia - Sunni wars

All deadly attacks in the name of GOD, are done by muslims. The only sole reason is that they practice their religion with utmost care.

On the other hand, the Christians are totally reformed, there are at least 1 billion Christians worldwide who dont want to repeat Crusades and consider Crusades as the last option, that too if needed. BUT for Muslims, it is religious duty to enforce Shariah and subjugate / persecute / murder innocent non muslims.

Muslims do rally in UK calling for repeat of 7/7. They do rally in IND calling for repeat of 26/11. They also do rally in Europe saying - ACCEPT ISLAM, LEARN FROM 9/11.

This is the actual problem. In Christianity, if a man considers killing others as a service to GOD, some Christians become vocal against him. They ensure that the pro - terrorist is either sent to Jesus OR made to lament. In no cases, a Christian terrorist is declared martyr. BUT, in Islam; first - a terrorist is martyr since he kills in the name of Allah, second - rarely any muslim will criticize him, third - If any muslim criticizes him (by mistake), he would have fatwa issued on his name - Ex: Harun Yahya is boycotted. Tahir Ul Qadri is declared shirk (a sin as per islamic sources). Javed Ghamidi faced death attacks and Nawab Karim was sent to Allah.

This video clears the actual problem with islam

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avYtAyCxUbA

Arab nations are one of the richest lands in the world. They bribe people urging them to convert. Many such conversions are done. The second way, islam converts is by using Al Taqiyya which means deception. They can lie and deceive innocent non muslims to trap them. The Al Taqiyya is permitted till muslims are in minority. The moment they attain majority, it becomes a fair game. Fairness as per islam standards is repeatation of holocausts of non muslims. The biggest holocaust in the world history is slaughter of 80 million hindus to the Jihadi hands. (proven by Will Durant AND Koenraad Elst). Hitler was a peaceloving Deutsch leader. For some time, he came in contact with Mullahs and Maulvis. He then left Christianity to become Mohammedan. After that, happened World Wars. The second biggest holocaust - Jew holocaust of Israel.

Yes, Islam is growing and in the same way, terrorism is also growing. The reason for growth of terrorism is NOT actually increase of radical muslims BUT peaceful muslims doing nothing.

Answer 1

Certainly, there is a solution, which is for one side to concede that the other side was right all along or for both sides to find a compromise path. In the case of religions, that is practically impossible, even when communities are in the hundreds of thousands, never mind the billions.

However, there need not be a reconciliation to undo the schism separating Sunni and Shiite Islam for there to be peace, tranquility, and equality between the sects. Sunnis and Shiites do not fight or quarrel in any Western democratic state in which they find themselves. They have shown that the solution is incredibly simple and easy: Both sides must renounce the vitriolic rhetoric of condemning the other side to hell, both sides must see themselves as Muslims first and Sunni or Shiite second, and both sides have to have an open and honest dialog about the numerous atrocities that Sunnis and Shiites have committed against one another during the over 1300 years of sectarianism, in-fighting, and persecution of minorities. Iran will have to come clean about how harshly it has dealt with the Sunnis and Saudi Arabia will have to come clean about how strongly it repressed the Shiites.

Unfortunately, many leaders in the Middle East have seen this religious-fostered hatred to be in their interest since it deflects attention away from liberal leaders who wish to criticize the failings of the regime. If you have an imminent enemy in the "neighboring" sect of Islam, why would you attack your defender?

Answer 2

for solution first better to know problem.

Shia and Sunni have mostly same beliefs and both believe in fundamental beliefs of Islam. Today there is up to 260 sects in Islam that are in two main categories of shia and sunni.

the conflict of shia and sunni has been always amplified by world Imperialism to prevent Islam from gaining power.

Shia believes in Allah, prophet and all fundamentals of Islam.

Shia pray 5 times a day but usually do the 2, 3 and 4, 5 pray together and so may seem they do only 3 pray a day. there is some differences in details of pray like genuflect (for shia should be on a stone or part of earth and for sunni on carpet or floor ).

shia believe after death of prophet God selected the successive for prophet who is the political leader of Muslim community and people can not and does not the right to selected it.

Shia believes the Caliph (Representative of God in earth) is selected only by God and can not be selected by people because God said in Koran: "Indeed, I will make upon the earth a successive authority" (Quran 2:30) or "O David! We did indeed make thee a vicegerent on earth" (Quran 38:26) also other verses.

Shia believes such verses means only God can select an Islamic political leader (Caliph).

In Shia Islam Caliphs after prophet are 12 Imams and all of them are the same and have no mistake and have the knowledge of everything (not absolute knowledge like knowledge of God) and they hear all sayings and even thinks of all humans after even after their death by permission of God and they are intermediates between God and human Shia Muslims always support them and forgive their lives for them.

Shia Muslims do not consider selection of Abubakr as Caliph by people valid because God did not select him. They believe God ordered prophet to declare people that Ali is selected as successor of prophet and prophet did this mission many times during his prophet-hood and mainly in Ghadir event after last Hajj of his life at a 3-4 hour speech in front of 120,000 Muslims at Ghadir in hot desert after 2 days stop of long caravan for gathering and 3 days after speech for congratulations and homage of Muslims to Ali. Islam at that time had high power in world and Some companions had high interest in leadership position after prophet. Muslims knew that it is the final Hajj of prophet (predicted by prophet) and were going along with prophet to hear what prophet says at end of his life. Shia believes Ghadir event is the most important event of Islam and is mentioned in Koran in many verses like "Today" (اليوم) in verse 5:3 of Quran is the day of Ghadir. Or Verse 5:67 (O Messenger! proclaim the (message) which hath been sent to thee from thy Lord. If thou didst not, thou wouldst not have fulfilled and proclaimed His mission. And Allah will defend thee from men (who mean mischief). For Allah guideth not those who reject Faith) is revealed at Ghadir day and is about declaring political leadership of Ali after prophet.

Both Sunni and Shia Muslims accept happening of Ghadir event But different interpret. Some Sunni writers tried to reject the event of Ghadir as declare of leadership of Ali and said at Ghadir prophet only wanted to say Ali is my friend and no one should bother him. Ali had 3 different missions to Yemen by prophet during 10 years and in 2 of them some companions of prophet had some conflicts with Ali and and prophet said some sayings about Ali to solve conflicts and some sunni writers have mixed stories of missions of Ali to Yemen with story of Ghadir to prove Ghadir event is not about Leadership of Ali and is not important.

Shia scholars believe some Sunni writers have changed and deviated historical evidences about political leadership of Ali in old historical books and republished them to destroy evidences of leadership of Ali from old Sunni books.

The famous Shia book Al-Ghadir (الغدير) by Allameh Amini is a collection of evidences and proofs for Ghadir Events written after referring to 100,000 Sunni books and full reading of 10,000 sunny books. Allameh Amini is a famous Shia scholar and spent 40 years of his life in travelling to access original old Sunni books in libraries in different countries to write this 20 volume book only from Sunni books and not using any Shia book. Some Sunni scholars tried to reply this book but then said if we want to reply this book we should first destroy all books of ourselves.

Shia doctrine have root in Karbala tragedy. When tragedy of Karbala happened most of Iranians understood there is two different kinds of Islam and after happening of Karbala tragedy most of Iranians became followers of "Ahl al-Bayt" and forgive their lives for them like what they did in Iranian Revolution and Iran-Iraq War. Shia Muslims have at least 120,000 Hadith (saying) from The Fourteen Infallibles that is the base of Shia Islam along with Quran. Shia believes according to " Hadith of the two weighty things" The Fourteen Infallibles are the only valid interpreters of Quran and sayings of them are from God because they are Representative of God in earth and they do not say anything from themselves. Shia believes 12th of them (Mahdi) is alive and because people have killed all 11 Imams before him, he is in hide like Jesus and will come out of hide toghether with Jesus when people become ready and want to accept his leadership. All 11 Imams have been killed and during their life thy all have been in prison or under hard control of government to not have any political action. They never had enough serious followers to can get political power. Among them only the sixth Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq was relatively free in his life to have only scientific activities (but banned from any political action) and so only he is known in west because he established university and had students from all over the world. Westerns know him as a polymath: an astronomer, alchemist, Imam, Islamic scholar, Islamic theologian, writer, philosopher, physician, physicist and scientist. He was also the teacher of the famous chemist, Jābir ibn Hayyān (Geber), and of Abū Ḥanīfa, the founder of the Hanafi school of Sunni Islamic jurisprudence. He never wanted be a famous man and only shared his knowledge with who wanted to learn. Some researchers consider his teachings the root cause of renaissance.

Sunni Muslims also accept Mahdi and his worldwide leadership as Caliph of God in earth at end of world. There is a famous Hadith from prophet Muhammad (PBUH) that Mahdi at hide is like sun behind cloud, he is hidden from people but people receive his benefits. Shia Muslims say some faithful believers have connection with Mahdi and use his knowledge. Shia Muslims believe that it is proved at least 1000 persons have had connection and talk with Mahdi during his hide period but Any one having relation with Mahdi keep it and does not declare it in public until is alive.

Some believe that dogs are unclean and should not be kept indoors, but can still be kept as guard dogs, sheep dogs, hunting dogs, guide dogs, etc.

Therefore we can take from this, that this is how the society has developed over time. So one person may not have liked dogs and said it was in the Quran to avoid any disturbance. This then passed through the generations until many, many Muslims believe that they cannot touch dogs.
they can lol :)