Islam

What are your opinions on the Islamic faith?

As a Muslim myself I feel like the world has mixed opinions. Some people base their opinions based on Islamic terrorist activity and believe Islam is the motivator behind these attacks - I 100% disagree. Islam teaches its followers to never resort to violence and anger, as this can cause harm to another person - and we are not to harm other human beings as we should believe they are our creators creations and need to respect that, yet people still using the name of Islam to engage in these activities claiming to spread Allah SWT message across the world. Others may base their opinions based on some oppressive regimes and their attitudes against female freedom. As a woman myself I support all women in these countries, states, etc to fight for their freedom and break free from any oppression.

I’m just curious to know what your opinions are, so please feel free to reply. I’d love to hear more from the forum. xxx

My opinion on any type of faith is very simple: you are free to believe whatever you want, as long as your faith does not infringe on my freedom to believe in something else and does not explicitly incite violence. I am personally not particularly familiar with Muslim religion, but I do not believe that the Qur’an explicitly encourages violence. Unfortunately, like every other religion, its verses can be interpreted and exploited for different purposes by different factions.

In my opinion, every religion has followers with varying levels of devotion. Devotion here isn't just about performing religious duties, or knowing the number of verses or anything that's technicalities, but also about whether the values ​​and teachings contained in the scriptures and hadith are applied in daily life. I won't deny that many Muslims are disobedient; they simply write verses in their bios, wear modest clothing, and so on to appear "religious." But are they truly devout? or are they better than other who don't do or wear the same as them? Not really.

Because, in truth, religions on this earth are like books in a library; they have a purpose: one of to guide humanity to become better. Remember, to be a better, not worse. Therefore, if there are followers who harm or disturb others, it's clear they don't truly understand what their religion truly teaches.

I agree, and I think sometimes people try to use religious to favour themselves and their actions so they can avoid persecution’s a social judgement. A really horrific example of this is ISIS and their actions against the Yazidi community in Sinjar, particularly women. They stripped women of their identities just because they followed a different religion. Raped them, enslaved the, sold them and degraded their entire identities. They used Islam as a reason to allow this to happen arguing they were attempting to wipe out a ‘demonic ideas’. I think this also has an element of patriarchy as well.

well, such practices have been around for a long time, actually are nothing new and not only done by people 'who claim to be Muslim' (please check history). However, because information is now so readily accessible to all parties, we can observe their reactions even across vast distances.

I agree.

For me i believe smt that @faber_88 said in the first part. So i think religions are good bc if they are important for ppl than that is already good. ANDDD if the religions give you good morals and that you do good deeds and you become a good person that is positive only. And i think that abt Islam and also Christians and Hinduism and any religion.

For me the only problems from religions is if it says that if you dont believe in a religion you are punished already. So if you live in good way and you do good things but STILL you are punished bc you are not from that religion. That is really unfair bc i think the only thing that is REALLY important is that you are a good person and do good things. And if you do that you should not be punished. I am not sure but i think for example in Christian faith that you are punished if you are not Christian. But if i am not right please tell it below and i am sorry if it is wrong. And i have no idea how this rule is in Islam or in Hinduism and certain other religions.

In my family we are Buddhist and we believe that we can be wrong bc even the Buddha said that he can be completely wrong. And that it does not really matter as long as you do good things and you are a good person. And if you are from a different religion that is not a problem at all. Or maybe you are buddhist and believe some things really differently. That is also ok.

And abt violence: i think every religion has ppl that were violent. I dont know if it is bc of those ppl and that they are just saying or that they believe that the religion says that. Or that the religion really allows it. I am not sure so i cant say anything abt that for ANY religion. I know that what we believe of Buddhism is that violence is NOT ok. And if others say that abt their religion i believe that.

Sorry that i type a LOTTT this time but bc it is an important topic i wanted to make it clear bc i dont want that anybody is maybe super offended by it but that i just said it wrongly. 🙏🙏

And abt violence: i think every religion has ppl that were violent. I dont know if it is bc of those ppl and that they are just saying or that they believe that the religion says that. Or that the religion really allows it. I am not sure so i cant say anything abt that for ANY religion. I know that what we believe of Buddhism is that violence is NOT ok. And if others say that abt their religion i believe that.

Have to agree about this: in every religion, there are people who are violent and are only using their religion as a blunt-force instrument against other people. That's not ok. But at the same time, I can find concord with anyone who uses their religion (or humanist atheism for that matter) to try and make themselves a better person.

No religion is uniform with followers who are clones of each other. In every religion, there are different kinds of branches. The militant branches in every religion tend to be full of horrible human beings and at the same time, the peaceful, loving branches of each religion are full of people, who, while imperfect and stumbling, still try to do good things and be good people. In either case, I don't care what your religion is, I just care if you are using it to be a better person or to hit people who are already hurting.

It's very normal, personally, when i see those who have the same religion as me but them using religion as a tool of oppression, manipulation, harm, etc ofcourse, I really hate it. because it's clear they don't really carry out what is in religion, but will only damage the image of religion which is pure with their detrimental actions.