I'm sad that the condemnation by so many Imams that has happened in wake of the bombings has not gotten as much play as Lindsey Graham wanting to make them enemy combatants.

You do have friends here on DU that know the overwhelming majority of Muslims condemn violence and are just peaceful people wanting to live their lives just like everyone else wants to.

You will not enter paradise until you have faith; and you will not complete your faith, till you love one another.

Faith is a restraint against all violence, let no Mu’min commit violence.


Of course the Sufis have more non-violence than the Sunnis and the Shia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacifism_in_Islam

Prior to being exiles the Prophet was largely non violent.

"‘Forgive him who wrongs you; join him who cuts you off; do good to him who does evil to you, and speak the truth although it be against yourself.’


From my personal experience the average Muslim in a normal living situation is less violent than their American counterpart but I don't attribute that to theology as much as I do: less alcohol, more family cohesion and the fact that they are less mobile and people tend to be more peaceful when they are living in multi generational communities that have stable populations.

does not condemn the act of any other Muslim it obviously means they condone it, that's a standard rarely applied to any other group

I'm glad the large majority here at du aren't this way.

about local Muslim leadership condemning violence in the strongest possible terms and stories condemning Muslim leaders for not condemning violence. Catch 22.

There was one person I saw on a fairly right wing site... but still with some liberal/democratic presence... who put up a thread after the Boston Bombing asking if you trust any Muslim. I'm not kidding you, he declared them all to be terrorists... and more than 50 percent of the people agreed with him. Now, I'm not a fan of say their middle eastern societies, which have lowered civil, and political rights, less advanced economies, lack of effective democratic government and are mostly dependent on oil, but I don't blame every single Muslim in the world for the actions of a few loons.

The people who do that are the real lunatics, and in a rational society they should be treated as such.

and they give the rest of the people in that religion a bad name.

It's unfortunate.

I think if people who are afraid of or suspicious of Muslims lived among them, they'd lose their fears. People fear that which they don't understand.