'Terror plot' to blow up transatlantic flights out of London. But islam is peaceful, right?

Question

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article3672067.ece

Answer 1

Every religion has it's radicals. Remember this is one of the largest religions in the world, so even a very small percent of whack jobs can be a sizable number. Christians have the same issue, there are tons of examples but I think Ireland alone should make the point.

Answer 2

Of course it is.

Answer 3

The issues is that these guys, no matter what they are claiming, is having someone pull their strings to do this.  Find the mastermind, do an MI6 on their idealogical promotion and the problem is solved.

Answer 4

The Muslim religion itself is peaceful yes.. to other Muslims.

Matthew forgot that part.

But un-like Muslims, Christian  terrorists are usually insane individual people, not an organization.

And not condone by any other Christian religion, not in the Bible and not by the community or government to which they live in.. how many Muslims can say that.

Anyone who says Islam is a religion of peace.

I don't deny it is, for other Muslims as I said before, but you have to admit it's not one of tolerance.

In fact it does incite violence to other religions.

But if you are out numbered in a country where your religion isn't prominent, you wait till your numbers ( population) has increased.

Anyone who denies the FACTS of what I just said needs to read learn about Islam, if you said you have, then I know you are lying.

So their words mean nothing to me, and shouldn't mean anything to others.

Answer 5

Yes, Islam is a peaceful religion...suffering from a handful of extremists and kooks.

After all, Christianity is about love and peace, right?  Which explains why we have Christian pro-lifers who murder abortion doctors.  Love & peace, right?  Or, how about the priests who love...little boys that is.  Or, how about a president who claims to be doing "God's work" by declaring war in revenge for 9/11 on a country had nothing to do with it?  Yeah, that's turning the other cheek!

Christians get upset when they're tarred with the broad brushes others use to condemn kooks claiming to be working in "God's name" - and yet they turn around and do the same thing to millions of Islamic followers worldwide.

The hypocrisy is just staggering.

Answer 6

those disgusting people are doing those things in the name of islam.

islam IS peaceful. but there are messed up people who belong to many religions and use it as an excuse to kill innocent people.

Bush is a christian if i am right, i know he does not come under the term christian fundamentalist but i wouldnt exactly give him the noble peace prize either

sorry if my answers offend you but its my opinion only.

Answer 7

the muslim religion itself is peaceful yes, but just like christian terrorists, it only takes one person with a warped view and the ability to sway others to bend a peaceful religion into a cause of death.

Answer 8

NO, Islam is not a religion of peace.  See Fitna for chapter and verse citations from the Koran exhorting violence and forceful expansion   http://www.themoviefitna.com/

Regarding your question about the foiled terror plot, more information is available in Ronald Kessler's The Terrorist Watch than is normally promulgated in the MSM about this.  Mr. Kessler is a New York Times bestselling author with many reputable and well reviewed non-fiction works.

Islam in its current version is NOT a religion of peace.  We need some truly God inspired Islamic scholars to create a New Koran, a version that inspires peace, and cooperative prosperity but not with sword, or WMD etc.

Winston Churchill wrote:

"How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries.

Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity.

The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men." "Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities.

No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science - the science against which it had vainly struggled - the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome."  (The River War, first edition, Vol. II, pages 248-50) London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1899)

No stronger retrograde force existed in the world for him, nor for us now.