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I hope this thread helps in clearing the confusion

Please see this Thread, Just to make issue more clear. http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/showthread.php?t=34442

Please see this Thread, Just to make issue more clear. http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/showthread.php?t=34442

Please see this Thread, Just to make issue more clear. http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/showthread.php?t=34442

Islam against oppression and violence at all its shapes and levels, you are only has the right to get violent when you are defending yourself against attacks. The teaching of Islam are tolerant that is why it's compatible with the different eras that because it's easy going religion against extremism (quote the prophet Mohamed "The religion is ease not hardness"), At the Islamic conquerors the last thing that the Prophet Mohamed said to the troops is "Don't harm any child, women, old men, Don't cut down a tree, Don't pollute any water, Church is not to be harmed", He always thought that people should be Muslims when they are convinced, not of fear (quote the Qur'an {the holy Islamic text} "There is no compulsion in religion".). the Islam salute is "Peace on you" because that is the Islamic religion, it's all about peace, it starts with the inner peace to the global peace. In Qur'an, It is mentioned 300 times in many occasions that we should think and use our mind and wisdom is the true quality of real Muslims. Example : this is a translation of lines in Qur'an "He has made for you the Night and the Day; the Sun and the Moon; and the Stars are in subjection by His Command: verily in this are Signs for men who can think" "Do ye enjoin right conduct on the people, and forget (to practise it) yourselves. And yet ye study the Scripture? Will ye not understand?" "God send the holy book with guidance, can't you think?" "Do they not consider the Qur'an (with care)? Had it been from other than Allah, they would surely have found therein much discrepancy." the last one encourage us to think carefully in what the qur'an says and make sense of it All of this and the Pope says "But for Muslim teaching, God is absolutely transcendent. His will is not bound up with any of our categories, even that of rationality." the Pope made his remarks on what ?? it's clear that he has no idea what he is taking about (I'm assuming good intentions). the problem is that these words came from the Pope, not a regular ignorant person. He is the Pope for God sake, He should know better than that. frankly, his word (even they are wrong ideas about Islam) has great impact on the Christian community, It's like "Islam is evil and go kill all Muslims to have world peace", that is the reason for the anger, his words meant (even if he really didn't mean this) that "Islam and Muslims are our enemy". Pope Benedict probably should self-criticise Christianity's violent past before commenting on the other faith For many eras, a lot of blood war crimes were committed under the cross flag or by Christians, Muslims didn't say the Christianity or the Christ is this or that, because we know that the Old Testament, the New Testament and the Qur'an are all from God contain no harm and no violence. The Arabic word ( jihad ) has been narrowly interpreted in the non-Muslim west as "holy war", reducing it to the sole dimension of physical violence. In fact jihad also means effort, or struggle, along the path toward God, and Muslims have many and varied ways of interpreting it. Jihad is not violence, it means the self conflict to do good in life, it's when you keep yourself away from sins no matter the temptation, when you go seeking knowledge and learning, that is the true meaning of the Jihad and you get rewarded for that. you don't get rewarded for killing innocent people, in fact you get maximum punishment (hell for eternity) no matter the victim religious beliefs. it's said in Qur'an "who kills any innocent soul is as killing all the humans" But, unfortunately some people can't contain their anger. I'm personally against violence.

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