[QUOTE="kayn83"]I think there are good muslims and bad muslims. You shouldn't judge people of a religious faith generally as there are some good and some bad as the case in any religion.
As for the religion itself I've heard conflicting views, some say the religion preaches to kill non-believers but then I think someone explained the context of that statement and its validity. Personally, I think the religion is fine, its just certain sects have overblown it and used it to justify their terrorism.
And to the thread, some of the comments are blatant islamophobia and discrimination towards muslims. Please improve your word choice.
armen925
very good analysis i agree. Its absurd to throw labels around all muslims. There are some good and there are some bad.
As for your second point, that is the conflict. To argue about the authenticity of the religion or more per say the Qu'ran and Hadith. Well lets take a look.
"Men are overseers over women, by reason of that wherewith Allah hath made one of them excel over another, and by reason of that which they expend of their substance. Wherefore righteous women are obedient, and are watchers in husbands absence by the aid and protection of Allah. And those wives whose refractoriness ye fear, exhort them, and avoid them in beds, and beat them; but if they obey you, seek not a way against them; verily Allah is ever Lofty, Grand." (Quran 4:34 A.M. Daryabad Trans.
"Do not let non-Muslims enter mosques. They will go to hell." ( Repentance: 17 )
"O ye who believe! The non-Muslims are unclean. So let them not come near the Inviolable Place of Worship." (Repentance: 28)
"O ye who believe! Murder those of the disbelievers .... and let them find harshness in you." (Repentance: 123)
The Temptation, Fall, and Expulsion from the Garden
Adam, Eve, and the (female) serpent at the entrance to Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France. The portrayal of the image of the serpent as a mirror of Eve was common in earlier iconography as a result of the identification of women as the source of human original sinThe serpent tells the woman that she will not die if she eats the fruit of the tree: "When you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."[7] So the woman eats, and gives to the man who also eats. "Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons." The man and woman hide themselves from God, the man blaming the woman for giving him the fruit, and the woman blaming the serpent. God curses the serpent, "upon your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life;" the woman he punishes with pain in childbirth, and with subordination to man: "your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you;" and Adam[8] he punishes with a life of toil: "In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground." The man names his wife Eve,[9] "because she was the mother of all living."
"Behold," says God, "the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil." God expels the couple from Eden, "lest he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever;" the gate of Eden is sealed by cherubim and a flaming sword "to guard the way to the tree of life."
In a story preserved in the prologue of Gilgamesh, Enkidu and the Underworld, the goddess Inanna gains knowledge of sex by descending to earth and eating from various plants and fruits. She transplants the huluppu tree from the Euphrates to her own garden, but a wicked serpent made its nest amongst the roots of the tree. This tale connects the serpent to the garden, and with the presence of Inanna, the theme of sexuality.
Eve in Bible from wiki
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