Islam, once a bright spot for culture has been bastardizeed into a dirty, evil religion. In its current form it promotes hatred toward other religions, it puts down women, and allows terrorism.
Here is a case where the culture of the region is so backwards you wonder if they ever will be able to take a spot at the adult table of life.
From Knight Ridder News
ABU QASH, West Bank - Rofayda Qaoud - raped by her brothers and impregnated - refused to commit suicide, her mother recalls, even after she bought the unwed teenager a razor with which to slit her wrists. So Amira Abu Hanhan Qaoud says she did what she believes any good Palestinian parent would: restored her family's "honor" through murder.
Armed with a plastic bag, razor and wooden stick, Qaoud entered her sleeping daughter's room last Jan. 27. "Tonight you die, Rofayda," she told the girl, before wrapping the bag tightly around her head. Next, Qaoud sliced Rofayda's wrists, ignoring her muffled pleas of "No, mother, no!" After her daughter went limp, Qaoud struck her in the head with the stick.
Qaoud's confessed crime, for which she must appear before a three-judge panel on Dec. 3, is one repeated almost weekly among Palestinians living in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Israel. Female virtue and virginity define a family's reputation in Arab cultures, so it's women who are punished if that reputation is perceived as sullied.
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After reading this, do you honestly believe that Islam is still a great, loving, happy religion? Do you really think so? People who right now protest America's involvement in trying to make their lives better are making it harder for these people to get ahead and taken seriously. They are enablers of this sort of evil bastardization of Islam. Where are they when Sadaam starves orphans to death and cuts out tongues of people who disagree with him? Where are they when this sort of family "justice" happens? |
Article comments
1 - queenkv
that is horrible.
It's these select groups of people who pervert the religion - the twisted interpretations and the misguided violence.
I know several friends and acquaintances who are Muslim. They are all very decent people, who believe in respect for all human beings. Furthermore, they do not have a yardstick to judge other people and determine their worth, based on virginity and other so-called forms of honor.
2 - mike
"Christianity, once a bright spot for culture has been bastardizeed into a dirty, evil religion. In its current form it promotes hatred toward other religions, it puts down women, and allows [state] terrorism."
Sounds to me like an excellent summation of the GOP agenda.
3 - debbie
Oh Mike,
reverting to the partisan trash talk again?
Are you seriously defending this type of conduct????
Did you forget to take your medicine again???
4 - tom mangan
I read about a case like this in rural Turkey ... a woman was raped so somebody in the woman's family killed the rapist. In order to prevent a blood feud the rape victim had to be killed as well. It seems incredibly bizarre or barbaric to our eyes, but in a society with rigid notions of family honor (and, one presumes, large families), sacrificing one member of the family is preferable to the whole family being entangled in a blood fued with another family that could decimate both. It's very Star Trek: the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one.
5 - jadester
"After reading this, do you honestly believe that Islam is still a great, loving, happy religion?
Do you really think so? People who right now protest America's involvement in trying to make their lives better are making it harder for these people to get ahead and taken seriously. They are enables of this sort of evil bastardization of Islam.
Where are they when Sadaam starves orphans to death and cuts out
tounges of people who disagree with him? Where are they when this sort of family "justice" happens?
"
the problem is, you tan take the worst of most large-scale religions, and make them seem evil. Look at all those priests who have been found to have molested little boys. You gonna tell me that's the product of a nice, "good" religion that doesn't have any problems?
And if you want to look at the whole culture, are you seriously trying to tell me a culture where some women have to sell their bodies to make enough money to survive on is much better?
The truth is, there are bad elements everywhere. Truly, humans being humans, i don't know that we can ever be rid of bad elements in society, untilwe ourselves are extinct, because that's just the way humans are.
6 - jadester
evil elements may have corrupted islam, but i say the same is true of christianity - it has largely been corrupted by evil people. The same is probably true of others too (i don't know enough about them but i will assume so until i do, because corruption is ingrained in human nature)
7 - bilo
It is more difficult to destroy prejudgements than atom ...Einstein..
have you ever blamed christianity or America because of murdering people in Africa ? Or Israel murdering children in philistine? Firstly, We must be aware of 'What is terror? Who defines terror? ( For details, please read Noam chomsky, Edward said, )
In short, I wanna say that 'terror doesn't have a religion, nation , or ideology..' But don't forget the thing that it cannot live without the support of america or any developed capitalist state... such that; El-Kaide was established and supported by USA goverment...
8 - Eric Olsen
Bilo has fallen to the propaganda of the dark side.
9 - Tim Hall
..Israel murdering children in philistine..
That was, what, 3000 years ago?
10 - Eric Olsen
Memories are long in that part of the world, but perhaps he/she meant Palestine?
11 - Tim Hall
Eric,
With Bilo's spelling, it's anyone's guess what he meant. My comment was meant to be a joke.
As for the Tom Bux's email, I'm not a fucking anti-semite!
12 - ClubhouseCancer
Funny, but I didn't read anything about Islam in that news article.
13 - Eric Olsen
Tim, I know the comment was a joke - I was, um, playing along. I'm not sure what you mean about the email, but I would never assume you are anti-Semitic.
CC, Tom is talking about culture here, not he religion itself.
14 - Suleman
MR. TOM
What do you have to say about Christainity, Judaism etc etc , are they not corrupt now as well. if you wanna know more about the truth go to www.submission.org and get real for the sake of your own good and those whom you are misguiding.
If you still feel the same way about Islam, I wish you a good time in hell.
Bye
15 - Sandra Smallson
Look, why do people always talk trash when trash needn't be spoken? Ofcourse, there are bad elements in every religion. However, I'm afraid if you replace Islam with Christianity or Judaism in the quote Tom has written you sound like a paranoid person without an atom of sense in your head.
What Tom has written is spot on. Islam has been hijacked by the fundamentalists. Christians have fundamentalists too. They overstate the issue. However, the difference is this, we do not have Christian states or Countries whose modus operandi is the abuse of women or promotion of hatred towards other religions. Personally, I know no Christian state that involves itself in terrorism and I don't want to say Jewish state cos then I would have the Israeli ants trying to explain to me how self defence is somehow terrorism because some children were killed when Yassin was bombed.
Even if a person were disingenuous enough to liken Northern Ireland to Syria or the Palestine, a major difference is the total lack of common sense by an alarming majority of Muslims. You can not find me supporting the actions of the IRA simply because a majority if not ALL of them are Catholic. Yet, you will find most Muslims giving excuses as to why their fellow brothers and sisters are evil. A muslim friend of mine, well educated, born and bred in Britain, and can not be called the illiterate I call the brain washed masses in teh Islamic Countries, took her time to give me reasons as to why 9/11 was somewhat understood by "moderate" Muslims. HA! She went off on a tangent about Palestine, the Zionists and Oil and so on.
Now, what do you say to a person like that? Anybody who can find any excuse or justification for 9/11 is almost if not equally as evil as those who planned and carried it out. How these suicide bombers must be rotting in hell wondering where the fuck Mohammed is and how come they haven't received their medals of Martyrdom. Stupid fuckwits.
I find that 9 out of 10 Muslims seem to understand why the suicide bombers do what they do. This leads me to believe that but for the grace of God, were my friend to live in Syria or the Palestine for less than two years, she too would arrive in Israel or any American Embassy with explosives wrapped round her waist and perhaps her child in tow ready to explode, killing innocent citizens all in the name of "Jihad".
Look at the Anti-War demonstrations. Look at the attacks the West is getting from it's own people for actions taken or inaction in the Middle east or with anything that has to do with Islam. What happened after 9/11 from the Muslim world? Or Bali? Or Madrid? Where are the millions of Muslims publicly condemning these acts? We get the odd statement from some representative of the Arab leaders that could be taken as support by either side.
I don't care what misled pacifists say. Or Politically correct people spew. The point of the matter is that modern Islam is a horrendous thing and Tom is spot on.
16 - sibel
ATTENTION PLEASE
What you and Tom wrote is really nonsense. I am from Turkey and and I am a Muslim and I know very well that, more than you do, these cases are just exceptions caused by uneducated and extreme people. ıt is not right to overgeneralize it for the whole Muslims. It is not really fair. I believe such exceptional cases can be seen in all religions and communities. It is not related to be MUslim or Christian but related to being a human. you do not have a right to blame on all Muslims. My family, my friends, and everybody that I know or hear on TV or internet... and I are strongly against to those cruel events and the people who overgeneralize them to the Islam. Please be sensible and objective, not full of prejudges
By a Muslim
17 - sibel
ATTENTION PLEASE
What you and Tom wrote is really nonsense. I am from Turkey and and I am a Muslim and I know very well that, more than you do, these cases are just exceptions caused by uneducated and extreme people. ıt is not right to overgeneralize it for the whole Muslims. It is not really fair. I believe such exceptional cases can be seen in all religions and communities. It is not related to be MUslim or Christian but related to being a human. you do not have a right to blame on all Muslims. My family, my friends, and everybody that I know or hear on TV or internet... and I are strongly against to those cruel events and the people who overgeneralize them to the Islam. Please be sensible and objective, not full of prejudges
By a Muslim
18 - The Wizzard
All religions are the works of MEN !!!
Therefore all religions are EVIL !!!
The more fanatical the following of a religion, the more evil is performed in the name of whatever 'god' they worship.
Christianity has killed over 700 million in the name of their god.
The muslims do likewise, but with greater perversity.
Ban all religions.
19 - John Bil
All religion is counter productive for civilization, and in general terrible. Look what happened to Rome after it converted to Christianity, it went to hell in a hand basket. The Middle East should be the worlds most advanced countries instead their the most backward.
Comment by John Bill
20 - imagine
I am glad that our western ways have finally put a damper on this backwards way of life. enjoy your newfound taste of freedom.
free muslim women
end the hatred
stop killing in god's name
stop the zealot religion founded by terrorists
enter equality.
21 - Nancy
Sibel, if it isn't true, one must then ask how it is there aren't also such barbaric killings & mass murders by buddhists, jains, hindus, quakers, etc. I'm talking in the here & now, not back in the Bad Old Middle Ages. One must also ask why, if there IS a majority of educated, "normal" muslims, they all seem to be sitting on their thumbs, too afraid or apathetic to speak out loudly & very, very strongly about these backwards people who give other muslims a bad name. I strongly suspect it's because a) islam is a religion mostly embraced by people who are illiterate, & backward to begin with, & 2) because altho they give lip service to non-muslims who are horrified by such antics, most muslims actually approve, in a corner of their minds. I've read the quran, hadith, & other muslim writings, and it is not a religion that promotes peace & goodwill, nor does its history reflect that its a peaceful religion. Terrorists distort it, yes - but it was already a distorted, primitive belief structure to begin with, as is fundamentalist christianty. If 'modern', moderate muslims want to convince the world otherwise, they'd better do a whole lot more than they currently do to put a stopper on the more backward elements of their co-religionists.
22 - noanchorbabies
You just have the two nouns in your title in the wrong order.