Who Speaks For Islam trailer

Co-author of "Who Speaks for Islam: What a Billion Muslims Really Think" spoke in Los Angeles in April 2008, along with screenwriter and Executive Producer of "24", Howard Gordon. This is a 3-minute trailer of interesting excerpts from that 90-minute program.

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[QBisbest]

The fuck? 90% of Muslims think Americans are friendly? Way off on that statement woman, most Americans hate Muslims and most Muslims hate Americans. This is because both cultures are VERY different. I couldn't care less if the Qu'ran promotes peace, I've never read it, so I am completely ignorant of its contents, but It is the action that ultimately decide my views on a religion, and the overwhealming majority of the people of the middle east certainly aren't peaceful towards non-muslims.

[jeannekyle]

@QBisbest the key words in your comment are, "I am completely ignorant." The statistics cited in this talk are based on the report published in the book, "Who Speaks for Islam: What a Billion Muslims Really Think," the product of a mammoth 6-year study by the Gallup Organization conducting tens of thousands of hour-long, face-to-face interviews with residents of more than 35 predominantly Muslim nations.

[HzWings]

If those who convert to Islam would sincerely know what the Word of God says, they would think twice before embracing a religion that is contrary to what is really true.

I know people are looking for something different but they need to know the truth to really be satisfied.

[jeannekyle]

@HzWings I'm sure many devout Muslims believe the same thing about Christians...

[NuPheonix]

@jeannekyle Secularism anyone? We hate every time we hear Christians, and Muslims, and Hebrews alike say god caused this sign, or you deserve the worst, because you won't listen to me and what my god says, or women are inferior, or that gays are abominations and sexual perverts. You're all hateful and would do best to get it through your skulls as get along with the fastest growing group in not only the U.S., but the world, the secular humanists. The secular nations today are the most peaceful.

[jeannekyle]

@NuPheonix Since I'm also a secular humanist, I can say that you don't speak for me. I'm able to respect that others have different beliefs than I have. Of course, I think mine are correct, or I wouldn't hold them ;-) If you separate your emotional attachment to your beliefs and listen to the talk as a rational open-minded human, you'll hear the interconnectedness underlying the issues addressed.

[joshmaio]

@HzWings WHERE IS THE TRUTH IN ISLAM. COME MAN YOU AND I KNO MUHAMAD CONDEMS KILLING AND U SAYING ISLAM DONT CONDEM KILLINGS

[NuPheonix]

@jeannekyle I wish these posts weren't so limited to size. I get so harsh in these. I can understand the beliefs of others, but what really irks me is the idea of a god given right to dictate how others live, and to limit the human experience through the supposed name of god. I really don't understand it, but rather see a superiority complex in a lot of people that practice this. To me, it's a world wide issue just waiting to slowly solve its self. For now I'm frustrated that is hasn't yet.

[NuPheonix]

@jeannekyle What about secular humanism? We don't make up and invisible man in the sky, and, to add to that, why is your god limited to being male? Maybe because he's MAN made.

We don't have circumcision, because we know that human male babies don't need to be skewered at birth. We support gays because, well, why not? Circumcision sounds like more of a perversion, cutting a infants genitals?

Also, misogyny makes no sense to us, since we love the beauty and wonder of women. Any thoughts?

[dantedraco]

@drumrnva LOL

[drumrnva]

Wow. Never thought I'd hear the show Friends described as "art".

[HzWings]

@jeannekyle

I guess they do.