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Questioning Whether Islam Is Religion of Peace

Submitted by Kylie, Jul 10, 2007 01:47

Hathout is just as fanatical about spreading islam as the terrorists, he's just fighting the battle on a different front.


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Dear Mr. Ibrahim

We in the Muslim world need to be saved from those who preach evil. We need to persecute... [MORE]

sultansq@hotmail.com 

Jul 10, 2007 10:08

Strange how when Israel commits all those crimes and massacres (which has been the case for the past sixty years)... [MORE]

Folan 

Jul 10, 2007 08:44

Raising the bar further, most Muslim scholarship of today maintains the refrain that Islam is not meant to be another... [MORE]

notawhitegal 

Jul 10, 2007 02:44

Hathout is just as fanatical about spreading islam as the terrorists, he's just fighting the battle on a different front.

Kylie 

Jul 10, 2007 01:47

This is merely an apologist smokescreen to detract from the fact that Islam is NOT a religion of peace. "Westernized"... [MORE]

Julie 

Jul 9, 2007 16:35

How this kind of commentary can be seen as exceptional or extreme in a world perpetually held to ransom and... [MORE]

Michael McDonald 

Jul 9, 2007 15:34

Al Qaeda jihadis follow the Sunnah(the example of Mohammed) and the Koran explicitly. That is why in a debate about... [MORE]

Elizabeth 

Jul 9, 2007 14:23

Reasonable Muslims now agree that when a religion veers so far off course, it loses immunity to inquisition. "We ought... [MORE]

kaosktrl 

Jul 9, 2007 12:17

This is known in Islam as "Taqiyyah". The word "al-Taqiyya" literally means: "Concealing or disguising one's beliefs, convictions, ideas, feelings,... [MORE]

Paul Becker 

Jul 9, 2007 21:29

Bravo ! Excellent column by a brave writer. It is about time muslims took a good hard look at what... [MORE]

Anne Martin 

Jul 9, 2007 12:16

Mr. Ibrahim's editorial is clear, succinct, and honest. It also has the virtue of being true. Thanks to the NY... [MORE]

David Kleykamp 

Jul 9, 2007 01:58

Having had the privilege of living and traveling in the Muslim world, living in Lebanon and Morocco – as a... [MORE]

James 

Jul 9, 2007 18:20

Something about your post does not ring true James.

You claim that your wife is a practicising Muslim. If that is... [MORE]

Zarin 

Jul 9, 2007 19:34

The basis of James's commentary, that Islam is primarily a personal or community religion, is highly misleading. As one who... [MORE]

spinifex 

Jul 10, 2007 00:11

What great news is the terror suspect who died in Glasgow from burn wounds. Pitty is he is from Bangalore... [MORE]

Dave 

Aug 3, 2007 05:41

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