You still don't seem to understand. They already are in your life, pushing for laws in your country, and making those who turn from Islam disappear.Dafuq are you talking about? If they try to kill me, obviously I will fight back. I will put my life on the line to defend my way of life against their Islam, not mine.
The problem is that Islam is Islam. Just because you are allowed to have a pattern of life that is not Islamic does not mean that your community is of the same belief as you.
It's a shame you can't currently understand the irony of this statement.I think maybe, you should try to stop and think about why people in the Middle East are turning to religion and violence as a whole. People are not going to do so simply because they find a verse in a book, no, they use the verses in the book to justify their violence.
All of the flack religious conservatives catch, and you suddenly believe that people in the middle east are somehow not going to get the idea for violence from their book that mandates violent conquest as a religious duty?
When you have people talking about the 'miracle' of the Qu'ran... you suddenly act surprised when they take the language in it seriously? Funny thing - when you perpetuate the myth of the Qur'an's 'miraculous' and 'incorruptible' status... people take its claims about being the revelation from God quite seriously.... and the commands to conquest mean orders from the being who created the world.
Being from a western society - I understand you have a diminished view of deities, in general, and do not have a lot of faith in metaphysical power or miraculous action.
But in places like Africa, people are arrested on suspicion of being shape-shifters (or, rather - goats are arrested on suspicion that they are criminals who used shape-shifting magic). Many parts of the world have a much more devout belief in miracles and the paranormal (or divine intervention). When they see a book that is held up as being a miracle and it says to do stuff - they take the command quite seriously.
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Case in point.
Religious freedom must be understood within the Islamic context.That 28 percent also includes people who will resort to violence to defend their rights for religious freedom. That question is really looking at it in a black and white view.
There is only freedom for Islam within the Qu'ran. There is not freedom for other religions. That is in direct conflict to the commands of the Qu'ran:
9:33 It is He who has sent His Messenger with guidance and the religion of truth to manifest it over all religion, although they who associate others with Allah dislike it.
In other words - Islam is to rule over all other religions. "Religious freedom" is the right for Islam to do just that. It doesn't mean anything else.
This is why terrorists shoot up places that portray pictures of Muhammad. To allow others to do that is tantamount to allowing another group to violate the laws of Islam - which are supposed to reign supreme. Thus - a punishment is levied. When Islam is not the legal authority - this manifests as a terrorist action.