Ah, the grammar guy again! How have you been? I see you've forgotten to capitalize the 'M' in 'Muslims'.
Anyway, in the first article that I linked to, the "notorious hate website" has taken its information from the website of the University of Southern California, which seems to be a reliable source. In the second article, the writer gives his counter-arguments, again, citing references and links from less-notorious hate websites, in each argument.
May I recommend taking a proper look at what has been linked to, before moving to other pages, next time.
Or you could, you know, show a few examples of errors they have made in that particular article... If you feel that the website has 'misinterpreted' the Quran (most common defence), then that too shows the ambiguity of the guidelines prescribed in it, like I mentioned in the final sentence of my first post, and discredit for the same should go to the holy book as much as the misinterpreters. By the way, it's Qur'an, not Qu'ran... So unless you can put the apostrophe in the right place, I'd suggest spelling it simply as Quran, like I did
(Unrelated to the above quotes) Couple of months ago, a major terror plan was about to come to fruition in the state where I reside, which failed after one of the terrorists accidentally blew himself up, alerting everyone around his rented house and resulting in the arrests of his fellow accomplices. Investigation of those nabbed by
the police also revealed that that they were using the Quran as a tool in local 'madrasas' (unregulated schools where many Muslim kids go to) to spread the message of jihad and hate. Terrorist organisations too use the Quran as a means of justifying their cause. The Quran has been proven as a powerful and effective instrument of brainwashing people into committing inhuman acts. Now, obviously in the civilized societies we live in, we cannot and should not prohibit any religious book, but the governments of States in Asia should make it a high priority to do away with all unrecognized 'educational institutions' that do not function under any prescribed state curriculum, as a part of the fight against terrorism, if they are to eradicate (or at least substantially contain, like people have mentioned) the problem from the root level.
wow.
As a Muslim guy who has been to one of those 'unregulated' schools as you claim in India, no less, that seriously hit me like a bullet into my heart, because it is so general and pretty much an untrue blanket statement, if ever there was one.
Just because a small percentage of A**holes misinterpret and/or use the Holy Qur'an as their only source of Islam, doesn't mean they represent the entire religion of Islam and its Followers at all.
Here is a comment by a popular FB Entertainer,
Zaid AliT, who some of you may be aware of:
I hate when the media says "Islamic extremists." Muslims are not terrorists. We are one of the most loving, caring and peaceful people in the world. The word "Islam" itself means "peace". Terrorism has no religion. If all the Muslims in this world were terrorists then you wouldn't be alive today. Stop being ignorant.
The above is a verse of the Qur'an which explicity states that killing of Innocents is a no-no.
Furthermore, Suicide is strictly prohibited in Islam, and anyone trying to justify it
(suicide attacks,etc.) by any means is just a misguided A**hole who is confused and brainwashed.
Also, ALL of Islam isn't just contained in the Holy Qur'an as so many people seem to claim.
Rather, as the words,
"La Ilaha IllAllah Muhammadur Rasulullah" which means,
"There is None worthy of worship but Allah, and Muhammed(P.B.U.H) is his Messenger" are said by ALL Muslims to express their faith, it also shows that whilst the Qur'an is the word of Allah, FOLLOWING the Teachings of Muhammed(P.B.U.H) is also required.
These teachings of Muhammed(P.B.U.H) are called Hadiths, and have been preserved throughout the history of Islam, by the Scholars of Islam.
Sadly, the majority of these Terrorist Bastards do not adhere to the words of the Prophet(P.B.U.H) and instead brainwash their followers
(other Extremists) by telling them that the Holy Qur'an has everything, when in Fact, the Holy Qur'an is actually explained by way of the Hadiths of Muhammed(P.B.U.H) for the most part in detail.
Finally just to clear up, I am NOT in any way supporting these Extremists at all, nor is Suicide accepted in Islam
(rather the said punishment for doing it is very severe).
However, I am truly taken aback when people make comments where they paint All Muslims and the Religion of Islam with the same brush because of what a small percentage of Misguided Followers do, due in Most Part, to wrong forms of Education and lies taught to them.
I'm going to desist from going into stuff about the "Heroic West", because this isn't some movie where there is a script with Heroes and Villains. Both sides do loads of shit which has made this problem of Terrorism get even bigger and bigger, rather than solving it.
As the saying goes,
KILLING BEGETS KILLING.
The answer is in
UNITY, and that my friends unfortunely is far,far away...