Are all Muslims against Christians and think they are infidels?

United States
December 31, 2007 1:27am CST
Does it annoy a Muslim that I am a Christian and believe in the Bible?
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@Harley009 (1416)
• India
31 Dec 07
Myself a Muslim :) Why should we get annoyed when one being a Christian? We don't have any problem as long as one don't make problem to us. Then about Infidels, The term 'Infidels' in introduced by Christians or Jewish itself. Infidels = A person who does not acknowledge your god, One who doubts or rejects central tenets of a religion or has no religious beliefs. The term infidel is used by Jewish/Christian/Muslims, generally for non-believers of each religion. It specifically means, one who understand the religion as truth and then he decline it. In Quran Jews and Christians are called as "People of Book" Does that matters whether Christians are considered are infidels or not?
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@lecanis (16647)
• Murfreesboro, Tennessee
2 Jan 08
Harley, I just wanted to say that your words touched me. I get really tired of all the Muslim-bashing that goes on, not just online but also offline, and it's nice to see a Muslim standing up for what their religion truly means.
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@Harley009 (1416)
• India
3 Jan 08
janisspaggiari59, Thanks for understanding. but still I want to clear something more, If we consider one as Infidel, anything to worry about? NO, some Anti-Islamic-extremists spread rumors that Muslims want to kill all Infidels, Islam never teaches to kill any infidel too, as long as they don't make any problem. The term infidel is just a technical term used inside the religion, but many people take it and made it a big thing. Nowadays that term is somewhat offensive I know, so Muslim scholars hardly use it. But you can see that word much in anti-Islamic literature. Thanks again.
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• United States
31 Dec 07
I'm glad to hear that I am not an infidel to Muslims.Thanks for clearing this up.The media would have you thinking that anyone who is not Muslim is an infidel to Muslims.
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@lecanis (16647)
• Murfreesboro, Tennessee
2 Jan 08
It depends on the individual. There are extremists in every religion. I've had people of many religions be offended by my beliefs, but that doesn't mean that I expect every person of those religions to behave in such a manner. I have Muslim friends who don't seem to mind that I'm not Muslim. My religion is even further away from theirs is even... I'm a Celtic Reconstructionist Pagan. Yet my Muslim friends accept me and are kind to me just as anyone would be to a friend. :)
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@lecanis (16647)
• Murfreesboro, Tennessee
3 Jan 08
Yes, as far as I know I'm the only Celtic Reconstructionist Pagan in mylot, though I have met others at other websites, and offline as well of course. It's not that common a title, but it basically just means that I'm reconstructing the ancient Celtic religion. :) I agree that we should all learn to appreciate each other's beliefs and live in peace. Where I live I'm part of a Unitarian Universalist fellowship, and in that religious group we have members of many religions: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, various types of Paganism, Humanism, and Agnosticism. And those are just the ones I can think of offhand. Being in such a mixed religious community is awesome for me, because it means I can learn about other people's beliefs firsthand from them instead of through rumors or third parties, but also in an atmosphere the encourages doing your own study and looking deeper into the topics discussed on your own.
@Harley009 (1416)
• India
3 Jan 08
I knew about pagan & wiccan more only after joining myLot, and I think 'Celtic Reconstructionist Pagan' is only you here in myLot :p I didn't met at pagan in real life, we don't have pagans around here, but have many other religions like Islam, Christian, Hindu, Buddhism, Sikh, Jain, Zoroastrian, Parsi etc. We should learn to love and live together. -Cheers!
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@academic2 (7000)
• Uganda
31 Dec 07
Some muslims are pretty nice people, but there are fundamntalists who are so extreme they dont cae killing you-i also know of few extrme christians, so etremeism is accross tha board
• United States
31 Dec 07
I don't know any Muslims but Its good to know that they are not all like what the media shows them to be.lots of people are dissolusioned about Muslims and their faith.
@Pose123 (21635)
• Canada
2 Jan 08
Hi janisspaggiari59, There are good and decent people in all religions. There are also fundamentalists in most religions. Many Muslims and Christians are good friends. Blessings.
• United States
3 Jan 08
Well.I thought there just had to be some good Muslims.I am learning something about Muslims here that they can worship in their religion and I can read my Bible and we can still be friends.
@adnanezzi (243)
• India
31 Dec 07
who says that islam is against chirstanity.in fact the holy quran states that the nearest religion to islam is christinaty because it preaches humbleness as does islam. in islam early stages it was a chriestian king who supported muslims from tryanny and gave sheltered to them. there are many chapters in quran which are dedicacated to mary and jesus therefore any true muslim cannot deny jesus.
• United States
31 Dec 07
I'm glad to know that Muslims don't have a problem with Christians and that we can live and let live.
• Italy
10 Jan 08
After all Christian, Hebrew and Islam religions all share the Old Testament as sacred book. Probably those fundamentalist hate much more religios that are far more distant from them, or maybe atheist which have no religion at all. I think that hating / killing someone in the name of something so vague and imaginary is extremely absurd. Without religion you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things; but for good people to do evil things, there is the need for a religion! Religion (fundamentalism) acts as a catalyst of hate, giving people the way to wage wars and fight other human beings simply because their beliefs are different. This is REALLY so absurd and irrational; the crime is based upon one or more institutional organizations (religions) that work hard to make people put their rationality aside, to embrace dogmatic beliefs. To make people have faith means to make people do and think things true with no need for an evidence i.e without using their rationality. THIS is the real crime that brings fundamentalism
• Italy
11 Jan 08
Not only. But you also should be prepared to tolerate that somebody else thinks that you are wrong, that God is not what you think, and Jesus is not his son, nor he bears any divine message. You should be prepared to confront someone who has different metaphysics ideas, and disagree with your "god". And not try to fight him for this. Only if you can tolerate the philosophic/religious opinion by others without trying to fighting them, there will be a "religious peace". For instance, when christian conquistadores came into contact with indios for the first time in 15th-16th century... they felt the urge to convert those population, to bring them the "Message of God". They felt obligated to do so by their own belief and holy scripture. And the result was a breed-ending massacre. Simply witnessing in an apparent peaceful way one's own belief and "holy messages" is the door to religious war. It will briefly turn into bloodletting... because there is nothing that can be mitigated into conciliation when you are down to dogmas and unprovable sentences.
@ikinta (1236)
• Indonesia
5 Jan 08
Well..yeah..most of Muslims are. But I dont know for sure what they actually think. Most of them were just been told that other religions are infidel. I personally dont believe it.
• China
31 Dec 07
you had better not tell them which religion you are involved there are always some terrific extreme ones.
• United States
31 Dec 07
Too bad some Muslims got to be so extreme.These are the ones that are hard to understand how some could be this way and others can be decent people and accept you for who you are.