The reason is easy. Their main prophet of the religion was violent and murdered many, many people. He was abusive to people! So if the role model of the religion is violent and abusive, I think we can figure why some of the people that follow him, and his beliefs, are as well!
Of course you arrived at this conclusion after exhaustive research and reading everything you could on the subject and presumably you found some unbiased scholars to enlighten you.. God Bless indeed.. Until now I thought, I knew where you were coming from but now I know where you are coming from.. No need to respond to this note since this is my last post on this thread..
Here is a link for those who have few minutes to see what Prof. K.S. Ramakrishna Rao, who is a Hindu, Head of the Department of Philosophy, Government College for Women University of Mysore, Mandya-571401 (Karnatika), India had to say on the subject.. The article talks about most of the questions raised by posters re. Islam..
Re-printed from "Islam and Modern age", Hydrabad, March 1978.
Mohammed The Prophet
usc.edu
For those of you here on the thread who want to go beyond this level of detail (and perhaps found the above biased in some way) and actually read some books (assuming people are serious, which I kind of doubt except a poster or two) here is an author, known authority, presumably unbiased since she is German born, Scholar and partial list of her books that should shed some light..
Professor (Emeritus) of Indo-Muslim Culture at Harvard University and Honorary Professor at the University of Bonn, Annemarie Schimmel is a leading German Islamicist who has published more than fifty books on Islamic literature, mysticism and culture, and has translated Persian, Urdu, Arabic and Turkish works into English and German. Her works include Gabriel's Wing: A Study into the Religious Ideas of Sir Muhammad Iqbal (Leiden, 1963), Mystical Dimensions of Islam (Chapel Hill, 1975), Triumphal Sun: A Study of the Works of Jalaloddin Rumi (London, 1978), Islam in the Indian Subcontinent (Leiden, 1980), And Muhammad is His Messenger (Chapel Hill, 1985), A Two-Coloured Brocade: The Imagery of Persian Poetry (New York, 1992), and Deciphering the Signs of God: A Phenomenological Approach to Islam (Edinburgh, 1994) |
