Is there ever a reason Allah, God, The Creator warrants violence?

It is my belief that evolution and the progress made with Education, Counseling, Consultation and Personal Sacride Hajj, Pilgrimage made to each level of our lives, Family, Community and Nations will eventually turn society into a more peaceful one especially if there is access to Excellence in Education, Counseling and Consultation.

If someone is going to hurt us we have a right to fight back, however if we know someone is behaving baddly or aggressively towards us we can seek guidance and community support to resolve the challenges of relationships rather than violence.

Anne Marie Elderkin Habibi

Alaikoam Salam

I am not sure what your talking about Canada of course would never accept a sharia law that allows people beinng whipped or stoned to name a few issues.

From what I have read Islam allows for a great deal and so does Canadian Law why should any Muslim want to change Canadian Law or Human Rights?

I have met no Muslims who do not feel welcomed in this Country.

I admit though not all Candians are as accepting as my Family!

Anne Marie Elderkin Habibi

How did we get far off topic?

Murder in the name of Allah hmmmmm...How about murder in the name of pride or ignorance. History shows that members of great monotheistic faiths (Islam, Judaism and Christianity) have all killed in the name of  cause which we would call unethical. Some Muslims kill in the name of Allah because of a deviated belief which convinces them that they are fighting for a just cause. Some Christians kill in the name of Christ for the same reason as well as Jews. This is not just applicable to them but to any member of any faith who exercises forces without peaceful dialogue or anyone who exercises phsyical violence to obtain physical possession of another.

This is excerpt from an article on religious tolerance in Quran

For the whole article:

http://clearvision.com.pk/perspectives.php?func=show&id=7 - http://clearvision.com.pk/perspectives.php?func=show&id= 7

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Perspective in Quran

Let us examine the perspective of Quran on this issue, which is based on dignity of mankind, respect of human life, freedom of religious beliefs and importance of voluntary redistribution of wealth.

•  Respect for mankind is a fundamental value in Quran[vii].
• Quran emphasizes that the human life is sacred[viii] and nobody has a right to inflict damage on any other person�s life and property, if that person has not harmed anybody.
• Quran clearly states that there is no compulsion in matters of faith, because the right way is clear from the wrong way and it is up to an individual to decide which way to take.[ix]
• Quran clearly warns that the duty of a believer is only to convey and not try to convince[x] or use coercion to convert people to their faith[xi].
• Quran warns believers not to harm those who have not harmed any body and always deal kindly and justly with them[xii].
• Quran also condemns the amassing of large fortunes without sharing it with the less privileged. In the parable of the �blighted garden�[xiii], God warns monopolist who shut out less successful rivals. God also warns that mutual rivalry for piling up of worldly things diverts you from common good[xiv].

Alaikoam Salam

Thank you for this article, I may have seen part of this before elsewhere or hear of it.

Look forward to your sharing more articles and your thoughts on the topics.

Anne Marie Elderkin Habibi

Muslim outrage huh.  OK ... let's do a little historical review.  Just some lowlights:

• Muslims fly commercial airliners into buildings in New York City.  No Muslim outrage.
• Muslim officials block the exit where school girls are trying to escape a burning building because their faces were exposed.  No Muslim outrage.
• Muslims cut off the heads of three teenaged girls on their way to school in Indonesia.  A Christian school.  No Muslim outrage.
• Muslims murder teachers trying to teach Muslim children in Iraq.  No Muslim outrage.
• Muslims murder over 80 tourists with car bombs outside cafes and hotels in Egypt.  No Muslim outrage.
• A Muslim attacks a missionary children's school in India.  Kills six.  No Muslim outrage.
• Muslims slaughter hundreds of children and teachers in Beslan, Russia.  Muslims shoot children in the back.  No Muslim outrage.
• Let's go way back.  Muslims kidnap and kill athletes at the Munich Summer Olympics.  No Muslim outrage.
• Muslims fire rocket-propelled grenades into schools full of children in Israel.  No Muslim outrage.
• Muslims murder more than 50 commuters in attacks on London subways and busses.  Over 700 are injured.  No Muslim outrage.
• Muslims massacre dozens of innocents at a Passover Seder.  No Muslim outrage.
• Muslims murder innocent vacationers in Bali.  No Muslim outrage.
• Muslim newspapers publish anti-Semitic cartoons.  No Muslim outrage
• Muslims are involved, on one side or the other, in almost every one of the 125+ shooting wars around the world.  No Muslim outrage.
• Muslims beat the charred bodies of Western civilians with their shoes, then hang them from a bridge.  No Muslim outrage.
• Newspapers in Denmark and Norway publish cartoons depicting Mohammed.  Muslims are outraged.

Dead children.  Dead tourists.  Dead teachers.  Dead doctors and nurses.  Death, destruction and mayhem around the world at the hands of Muslims .. no Muslim outrage ... but publish a cartoon depicting Mohammed with a bomb in his turban and all hell breaks loose.

why is this??