01-27-2010, 09:18 PM
Quote:The same is true with only about 25% of Islam where it is allowed to be moderate, meaning that about 75% of Muslims follow a fundamentalist ideology.Asking where you got those numbers from would be a futile exercise, I suspect, so I won't bother. But tell me, wouldn't this fundamentalist majority adhere to Koran scriptures like the following?
"And do not dispute with the followers of the Book except by what is best, except those of them who act unjustly, and say: We believe in that which has been revealed to us and revealed to you, and our Allah and your Allah is One, and to Him do we submit." (29:46)
"Surely those who believe, and those who are Jews, and the Christians, and the Sabians, whoever believes in Allah and the Last day and does good, they shall have their reward from their Lord, and there is no fear for them, nor shall they grieve." (2:62)
"Many of the people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians) wish that if they could turn you away as disbelievers after you have believed, out of envy from their ownselves, even after the truth (that Muhammed is Allah's Messenger) has become manifest unto them. But forgive and overlook, till Allah brings His Command. Verily Allah is Able to do all things." (2:109)
I don't believe in all that 'Fundamentalist Islam is bad' stuff. Like always, it's just people abusing a religion to further their own personal or political goals.