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[sadik06]

Hi friend:

is Islam a religion of terrorism or It is just accused of?
And who are selfbombing are they real muslims or not?
Do you know something about Islam?
Islam and christianity the same religion?

[reportfromcyprus]

There's a Muslim woman running for election in Greece for the socialist party. Do you agree with this and is there anything in Islam which would influence the decision of a woman to run for political office?

[New_Alex]

religion is soemething embedded deep inside each of us.

Of course Islam promotes everything but understanding with people.

[cypezokyli]

the islamophobia (just as christianophobia ) is rising imo .
everybody seems to have accepted the big b*** of clash of civilizations and they are just sitting around waiting for it to take place...
islam is just a religion like all the rest. actually islam is in the same religious group as christianity together with judaism.
islam is not a terrorist religion - there is no terrorist religion.
some people have interpreted islam in a way to suit their own targets. the problem with that is :1 ) the moderate islam has not decided to stand up against those extremists 2) the christian fanatics in the white house are not helping with their actions.

[sadik06]

There's a Muslim woman running for election in Greece for the socialist party. Do you agree with this and is there anything in Islam which would influence the decision of a woman to run for political office?

- the women in Islam can contribute in political leadership,
Social responsibility in Islam is derived from the Quranic verse which states: "And [as for] the believers, [b]both men and women - they are friends and protectors of one another: they [all] enjoin the doing of what is right and forbid the doing of what is wrong, and are constant in prayer, and render the purifying dues, and pay heed unto God and His apostle. It is they upon whom God will bestow His grace: verily, God is almighty, wise." [/b](Quran 9:71). This verse shows that women and men are to work together in the religious realm (the reference to prayer), in the social realm (rendering purifying dues, presumably to help the needy), and in the political and educational realm (the reference to heeding God and His apostle -- one must understand what God commands and have a voice in society to heed God’s teachings). The references in the verse to the activities required, e.g. enjoining the right, prayer, etc. show that both women and men are to take an active role in society rather than merely a passive one.

[sadik06]

Ariel Sharon, Israeli Prime Minister:

"I don’t know something called International Principles. I vow that I’ll burn every Palestinian child (that) will be born in this area. The Palestinian women and child is more dangerous than the man, because the Palestinian child’s existence infers that generations will go on, but the man causes limited danger. I vow that if I was just an Israeli civilian and I met a Palestinian I would burn him and I would make him suffer before killing him. With one hit I've killed 750 Palestinians (in Rafah in 1956). I wanted to encourage my soldiers by raping Arabic girls as the Palestinian woman is a slave for Jews, and we do whatever we want to her and nobody tells us what we shall do but we tell others what they shall do."
In an interview with General Ouze Merham, when questioned about the loss of Zionist soldiers during the massacres of Rafah and Khan Yunis in 1956.*
- what can you say?

[jamal]

hi,
it is important to talk about islamophobia in cyprus,among cypriot society,
once i asked one greek cypriote lady about the possibilitty of unification of cyprus, she said it is impossible,i said why? she replied, since we are six years old they teach us, tukish are moslims, and we are christians, we can never be one, they are our enemies for a long time...
so, the system of education,the media, has an effect on cypriot society, trying to enrich the hateness between moslims and christians...
of course there is also the affect of international media after 11 september...
we need to sensibilise the cypriote society about this issue...
cyprus as a democratic contry has to make efforts to show the tolherance and the respect of other etnithies...

[sadik06]

Christians Unaware

The Christian does not know that the true spirit of charity which the Muslim displays, always, towards Jesus and his mother Mary spring from the fountainhead of his faith - the Holy Quran. He does not know that the Muslim does not take the holy name of Jesus, in his own language, without saying Eesa, alaihi assalam ("Jesus, peace be upon him")

The Christian does not know that in the Holy Quran Jesus is mentioned twenty five times. For example:

"We gave Jesus, the son of Mary, clear signs and strengthened him with the Holy Spirit" (The Holy Quran 2:87)

[reportfromcyprus]

As long as the communities are separated out as they currently are, how can we hope to make each side aware of the other's social structure and faiths?

Too many people have profited from division, hatred and anger for the situation to be reversed easily, and I am talking about the past 2000 years, not the last four decades.

Has our division become genetically hard-wired? Now, all the politicians have to do to manipulate us to their ends is to push the buttons we're born with.