Is it normal for people to be so ignorant about islam?

"And that's mostly because those people have read the Koran themselves and made their own research"

I read the Quran and it's because I did research that I won't convert lol. It's hopeless, gullible people who would just read it and convert. No individual with a sound knowledge of physics and chemistry would believe such primitive rhetoric.

Unfortunately the Muslim religion is a violent one. They don't want anyone to live without converting or paying a tax. A tax to stay alive! Also women are property to them, nothing else.

As to the Bible being violent, yes the Old Testiment is violent, but still, where does it say that only Jews can be allowed to live?

Also I do not follow a lot of the Old Testiment. God gave us a New Testiment for a reason, and I follow that one. Where is the violence in the New Testiment? Cause I don't remember any. I do remember Jesus saying "Love thy Neighbor," as well as "If someone hits you on your cheek, turn your cheek." Seems pretty passive and non-violent to me. Which is the opposite of islam.

Oh well, if people from said religion keep being violent and exploding themselves, you shouldn't expect the other people to want to know more about their religion...

It is just as stupid as any other religion. No better, no worse. Well, maybe a little worse. You know with Muhammad (anal rape be upon him) being a child molester and all that jazz. So yeah, fuck Islam and everything else. It is bullshit.

Yeah they're peaceful and really don't want to force it on the whole world..right

Muslims are more ignorant than anyone else.

Almost everybody is ininformed about Islam, because when I tell someone about Islam they always say that it is a religion of peace. If you think that you are dumb and most likely young. You can't really know what Islam is just by hear information from the news or someone you know. You have to read the Quran. If you read it most people will be surprised, and the Muslim that are terrorists do not twist the religion because Muhammad the Muslims prophet terrorized everybody who was not a true Muslim.

It's not that people are ignorant about Islam. It's that like any religion based off of a book written over a thousand years ago, there is going to be different people who interpret it different ways, since no one is still around to tell us what the Prophet truly meant. And the fact is, that half of the Muslims are all for violence and ridding the world of unbelievers and such. While the other half, is indeed, a very peaceful people, who don't wish violence on anybody.

Why you talk like this

(to OP)
Because it's all bullshit and people generally steer clear of bullshit.

It wouldn't hurt if you guys wrote an English translation that actually made some sense instead of being all weirdly disjointed with parenthetical words and junk.

Admittedly as an atheist my only interest in reading holy books is to mock some of the sillier aspects and be able to call believers on their hypocrisy when they break their own rules. But with the Koran I can't even be bothered. I've looked at a couple translations and they're all terrible.

Can you tell me why Mohammed said that Arabia should only be for Muslims? If that is so how can you worship such a man and yet ask for tolerance?

Are you one of the greatest hypocrites to ever exist?

I don't know, but it frustrates me. I've seen a lot of Islamophobia recently especially after the US ambassador in Libya was killed last year, including some on this site which surprised me. There's a huge amount of anti-Islam propaganda, and a lot of people generalise the extreme Islamists they see on TV to all Muslims (which is as ridiculous as generalising the Westboro Bapists to all Christians). I suspect there's a lot of anti-Western propaganda in Islamic countries too.

I'll admit I'm ignorant about Islam. I don't know a huge amount about it. I certainly don't hate it though.

Yeah, it's normal.
I'm not Muslim myself but all things considered, it's not the worst religion out there. It's just easier to believe what we see on TV and on those cute little Facebook pictures we like to share than to understand the religion, do the research and acknowledge the human side of it all. Open mindedness and tolerance isn't true unless it applies across the board.

if anything "religion" seems to be the one true "conductor" of more hate , war & indifference among the masses worldwide than any other force on the earth alone !

The most interesting thing i find with religion of any kind .. Is the ability it has to divide people & provoke arguments & wars alike - this should be enough to raise one very logical & important question alone - if religion is si great & mighty then .. How come it invokes such things ?

Help me be less ignorant. Tell me where the wall of Gog and Magog is as mentioned in the Quran Al Kahf Surah and I will convert.
If you cannot tell me where this miraculous wall is or if the wall you mention doesn't fit the construction details clearly outlined in the Quran then tell me why you worship a false prophet that lied to you?

Islam is not alone about this...
there is a growing wave of fear and intolerance spreading networks. there isn't a single day where you won't find "news" like "there is poison in vaccines", "there is poison in drinking water" etc...most of them as you know are not true or solved.
why? ratings! they feed on people's fear. there won't be any news without drama,tension, suspense etc

Where do you live? If you live in the states, I would understand the misconception about Islam. America has a lot of propaganda against muslims or arabs. Media like newscast and even movies portray it terribly. And of course people are going to take what they hear as truth, cause not everybody is interested in learning and not everyone understand structures. I think it is easy to be fooled and have something to blame, when you feel like There's a we and them situation, people tend to keep bashing.
I dont have any issues with religion, as long as it not opresses people within it. Sometime religion is not a choice and it shouldnt mean that you deserve less if your a woman, homosexual etc etc. And I prefer it if religion would keep out of politics, that combination has proven to be dangerous numerous of times.
Education is the only key to make individuals understand differences in culture and religion.

The Qur'an is a rather hateful book. It's also a quite beautiful book. It's very similar to the Bible in those respects.

In the places where other religions have dominated so utterly as Islam has been allowed to in some areas, the results have been the same, violence and intolerance.

In Africa, 'witches' are burned in the name of Jesus. In Asia, the Muslims are attacked by Buddhists. It happens everywhere.

You need to go on youtube and search for: legacy of a prophet

What a bullshit question. It's phrased in a way that OP wins regardless of the answer. Answer yes and you're an ignorant hate monger. Answer no and you're implying that muslims are in the right.
OP just wants to back up another batshit crazy religion that the person was born into...

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A tip; they were discussing if women has a soul..let's not talk about rape, as it was too common occurrence for the Europeans then..

SuperBenzid, can you now tell me what Europeans were doing to women 1400 years ago? While Islam was giving them rights, rights to inheritance, rights to choose and not choose to marry, rights to divorce... Please enlighten us with your deep research!

This makes me so sad. An ex-girlfriend thought Muslims were a kind of Catholic, and that they came from a place called "Muslim". I'm glad to be rid of her lol.

Yep, ignorant people don't know that if you suicide bomb to kill the infidels you get 72 virgins!

I really hate how some people are so ignorant and assume all Muslims are 'the same' - as in out to cause trouble. Personally, I don't follow any religion and honestly think it all does the world too much harm and has, over time, created too much hate. I believe we can live in a moral and responsible way without religion altogether. But I really dislike it when people unfairly judge Islam and see all Muslims as potential terrorists. It's shocking how some people are so ignorant. For every person who thinks that way, though, there are a few who don't. It's just that bigots like to take to the internet to air their often ridiculous views that are based on hate, racism, prejudice, ignorance... the list goes on.

i'm not wearing a hat for no one

People are ignorant of Islam because they'd rather watch sports, play video games, do drugs than rather read about Islam which is an ideology more evil and dangerous than Nazism.

If non-muslims really knew what Islam stood for, they'd be out in droves to have Islam banned and muslims deported.

In a nutshell, Islam is a 7th century fascist genocidal mafia death cult that seeks the forced conversion, subjugation or genocide of non-muslims.

Your fake prophet was a proud terrorist, pedophile, rapist, mass murderer, thief, psychopath and all around scumbag.

The retarded death cult he spawned is based on muslim men acting in fidelity to their icon Mohammad, which is why you see muslim men honor killing their wives/daughters, stoning girls for being raped, stoning/hanging gays for being gay and massacring non-muslims like Christians, burning their houses and so on.

Most muslims became muslim because their ancestors were forced to convert with a sword and their throat or their children's. All you're spewing is a white-washed lie/propaganda. Once people find out the truth, it will mean the end of Islam inshallah.

I guess the comments speak for themselves, this is what I was talking about. I'm not even going to argue, because you can't have an intelligent discourse when a person is filled with hatred and clouded judgement.. Peace to you all. May Allah guide you.

It's sad that some people are this hateful of others beliefs.

@Superbenzid, and @Robbieforgotpaw... sheesh get a life... you sound so ignorant commenting on this post like this.

Don't make a fool of yourself even more.