Does anyone else find it odd that Muslims in European countries are using the ..........?
80634
because islam is intollerant of other religions. I can ask the poster above, how is it that islam "respects" other religions and yet saudi arabia does not even allow churches or synagoges to exsist in the country??? islam respects NOTHING but islam.
822035
many muslims come to UK from the middle-east for transplants. Privately of course. Whether it's for quality care or avoidance of religious taboo, I can't say. We all want to survive.
917124
i am a muslim, and you are allowed to date, the major factor is that the religion of islam tends to be more on the vague side, allowing poeple to interpret and practice in whatever way they feel is right in their hearts.  the problem with the mulsims over seas is that they tend to read the koran (holy book similar to bible and christianity) and read every word literally and are unwilling to change with time.  overall it is the basic meaning of the koran that should be sought after, not the word for word exact definition.  i hope this was clear and gives you a little more insight.
351186
It's been a long time.  That's a muslim custom.  Call me names if you want, I'm just reporting the facts.  Of course they're wonderful people, just like us.
790433
I am very upset hearing that Muslim women are banned from wearing head scarves in France and now the Dutch are ready to ban women from wearing the traditional Burqa (covering of the body with a coat and the face). These countries are basically telling everyone that Muslims have no right to do what is in their religion. I mean, how narrow minded can these people be? Seriously! These countries are taking away the freedom to practice religion and discriminating against Muslim women (and men) because a few idiotic people claiming to be Muslim have attacked the US. The fanatics should be caught and put in jail but don't tell everyone who are not fanatic Muslims NOT to wear what they want to wear or have to wear as per their religion. \nWhat would happen if the Christian and Catholic churches were banned from having their nuns cover themselves from their head to toe? What about if the Jews were told that they could no longer eat Kosher meat and had to eat non-kosher food because Kosher was banned? \nOf course, the people in these other countries are narrow minded folks who think they are right and everyone else is wrong. How much of this can anyone take? It is NOT right to take away a person's religious freedom because of security. I agree that there needs to be precautions but women can wear hijab and other police women can check them if they need to when they go to airports or other areas that they need to do security checks. Telling Muslim women (and it doesn't matter how many of them cover or not) is basically stating to the world that Muslims have no right to practice their religion freely in public (and in private if they go too far). \nFrance and the Dutch have gone too far with their bans. They need to stop persecuting those who have done nothing to them. Look at their own countries....there are people who are not Muslim who have tried to hurt them and get away from the security. So stop screwing Muslims over with these crappy laws!
989838
I actually read a book based on that premise, called Prayers for the Assassin, where America was now a divided country - a bible belt Christian nation, and an Islamic nation. In any case, it is Islams professed goal to convert everyone into Islam - either convert by preaching, convert by inducement, convert by coersion, or simply outpopulate them by breeding.\n\nThis trend is somewhat visible in europe - with its more liberal immigration policy. In countries like Norway, Itali, Sweden etc., the only ones comming in (legally or illegaly) are predominantly muslims from Africa/ South Asia, and the only ones producing 5-10 children are also muslims.\n\nI am not sure whether Islam is a true or false religion, or in fact, if there is even any true religion. But I am sure that Islamic jurisprudence (based on Sharia) is a false jurisprudence. It relies too much on unproven, or false theologies, is much too barbaric for modern standards, does not allow for any growth and is certainly discriminatory towards women. \n\nI dont have any issues with people professing their religion at their homes in private, but I certainly would not want the laws of the land to be based on one. And even if some mosques are being built in Michigan, I dont think US is in danger of becoming an Islamic country (any time soon).
1099799
I think in part this is true because of a lack of knowledge on the part of English speaking Christians, who have either read Jack Chick tracts about "moon gods" or simply are not aware that Allah is a word from another language.\n\nBut I also think Muslims themselves may bear some of the blame for this - the insistent use of "Allah" among English-speaking Muslims instead of using the same word other English speaking religious people. And then there are those triumphalist muslims who argue that Christian and Jewish words for God (such as YHWH, "I AM", or El) are not his name and only "Allah" is. \n\nI would hope that if Muslims decide to be less confrontational about naming, the rest of us might do so as well.
894089
No you can't, I agree with what you said 100%. \nIt's scary what's happening in europe, muslims are emigrating there in droves and they bring along with it all their hateful ideology, and if the time comes when they are asked to chose between their hateful clerics whims, or their country... They are gonna chose the hateful cleric.
125930
The only way that they could find him guilty of it is that they have a law against it.  They could not possibly found him guilty and fined him if it were not against the law.  They side with the newspapers for the sake of freedom of speech, which is also a law throughout most of the Western World.  The fact that Europe has laws in many countries against speaking out and denying the Holocost is because they had concentration camps in their countries and many of their citizens were either killed or worked there.  These laws are on the books in these countries out of respect for what has happened in History.  This is not a difference of Muslim and Jew, these are two completely different things.  The Muslim belief that the Holocost is a myth is unfounded, however that is the way you feel.  It just happens to be against the law to talk that way about it publicly in some countries.  The cartoons that has enraged the Muslim world were not meant to be religious cartoons but political statements, it happens that they were in bad taste because Muslims are not wanting to look beyond the insult of their Prophet's Image being used.  That is a problem when you are dealing across different cultures.  In hindsight I am sure all involved with these cartoon's wish they had never happened and most will not allow that to happen again, however in our culture we allow for these kind of things when dealing with freedom of the press and speech.
604393
Some people in the US and Europe are influenced by these people. This shouldn't happen. Islam is not always good. The people who believe in it try to exaggerate over some issues. I think they need to know that sometimes what they do and say make no sense at all.
168073
Isn't it amazing how limited some peoples views are.  A few Muslims try to kill dozens of Europeans with car bombs and such.  Do the Europeans blame the entire Middle East?  NO!  A few European newspapers print some cartoons and the entire Middle East blames everybody in Europe.\n\nSo lets compare.  On one hand we have dead people, the other a cartoon.  Which is more serious?  \n\nComplain to the individuals that printed the cartoons and blame them.  It's not the country's fault or it's citizens.   I believe that the newspapers printed those cartoons to upset Muslims and so they could sell more newspapers\n\nEven though these countries in Europe believe in freedom of religion, if these immigrants keep act up like they do, things might change for the worse.
284199
because of how they are portrayed in the media! for example when there was the riots in Denmark for that cartoon it was only a small minority of Muslims but the media made it look like it was what all Muslims are like!....but i must ask this I'm a christian and i want to ask you if there was a cartoon drawing of Jesus in the paper do you think some Christian's would riot like the Muslims? i have no personal problems with Muslims but i do think that its more of an excuse to riot if you follow Muslim...I'm not saying your like that.\n\nactually hums2oldies most muslim extremist belive its the only way to get to heaven by killing so no christians were not the same!
194975
Don't European-American Christians value strong religious commitments, but view strong Muslim religious commitments as dangerous?  Think about it.\n\nAnd goodness, bridget, you might want to also think about doing SOME of your own homework, and not rely on YahooAnswers to do it ALL for you.
322969
You're totally right.The discrimination is done mostly against the muslims and islamic beleifs.It hurts when somebody abuses the religious beleifs of my people even though I dont practice islam.Such a shame!..
578285
I do not agree that that are, or that a Muslim life style is so much different to a Western Lifestyle. In order to back up this questions you would need to provide examples of people that you believe are doing this.
948650
That is another strange question!!\nsome people asks questions to trigger racist anti Muslims to start their hateful comments. There are no places that called Muslim areas in London, there are Muslims in London who live nearby each others as they are not welcomed by some racist people like yourself. \nBefore asking a question you have to ask yourself why am I asking this question....Yes there are more than 1.5 million Muslim in the UK and they are allover the country, if this makes you feel better!! SICK!
937459
You make some good points. It's amazing how so many people can deliberately ignore calls from Muslim leaders, even in "moderate" countries, to kill or convert all non Muslims. Were it up to me, we wouldn't give a penny to any of those monsters.