(IQ2) Islam is a religion of peace? 8/8

Intelligence Squared (US) - The world of debate presents:

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Think twice : "Islam is a religion of peace" ?
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2 versus 2 debate (06 Oct 2010)
Moderator: John Donovan (Correspondent for ABC News)

Arguing in favour of the motion are Zeba Khan and Maajid Nawaz.

Zeba Khan
(Writer and advocate for Muslim-American civic engagement).
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Coming from a middle-class, American background, Zeba Khan argues that Islam is a religion which values knowledge and compassion above destruction and violence. She concedes that there are as many interpretations of Islam as there are Muslims, but stresses that the vast majority of them espouse virtuous principles.....[....]

Maajid Nawaz
(Director, Quilliam Foundation)
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Maajid Nawaz believes that Islam must be re-claimed from the minority who have defined its public image. Extremism should be challenged and democratic values promoted; the majority of Muslims do have a responsibility to speak out about terrorism more actively. Islam should and deserves to part of the effort to create world peace.....[....]

Arguing against the motion are Douglas Murray and Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali
(Founder, AHA)
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali believes the reason the motion for the debate is not 'Is Christianity a religion of peace?' or 'Is Judaism a religion of peace?' is because those would be academic questions. Unfortunately, placing Islam under the microscope is not an academic exercise: it is a pressing and timely issue, precisely because religion continues to inspire Muslims around the world to commit violent deeds.....[....]

Douglas Murray
(Author, commentator, Director of the Centre for Social Cohesion)
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Douglas Murray states that Islam is complex and tripartite: there is the Qur'an, its teachings and the life of Mohammad; there is the tradition of Sharia, and then there is what Muslims do now. Thankfully, what Muslims do now offers hope. Most Muslims now exercise their judgement as moral beings, without referring to defunct Holy books. However, the Qur'an itself is bad, really bad. Muhammad himself was also a bad man; he had child brides, multiple wives and beheaded Jews....[....]

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• islam
• islamism
• terror
• koran
• quran
• extremist
• muslim
• hadith
• shariah
• peace
• war

[regalsmartie11]

Give me this debate in Iran, Saudi, any muslim country in the middle-east and Asia and then I will say maybe it is totally a religion of peace. Thank you for a brilliant liberating debate where I can without fear think freely and be critical.

[sooperfukker]

@regalsmartie11 Do you really think the debate in this form would've been possible in a muslim country without violent outbursts ?

[celal777]

Funny how these advocates for Islam are blissfully unaware of how totally their minds and personalities have been shaped by the Judeo-Christian ethics of their adopted countries where they were mostly raised and educated and not by the Islam of their countries of origin. Yet they just can't bring themselves to let go of this evil religion. Why do you think that is ?

[sooperfukker]

@autlaw80

Fishy ? What I find much more fishy is, that Islam's penalty for apostasy is : DEATH. I think that is a much better explanation for what we see or don't see. And by the way .. she's not the only one, she has just been given special attention because she was in the Netherlands when the political murders of Islam criticis took place (Fortuyn and van Gogh) and she was on the killing list as well.

[humanadvice]

Is Islam a religion of peace? Islam is a just system that promotes equality between man and woman by giving more right to the woman, against usury/banking interests, against suicide and terrorism ( Quran says killing 1 innocent is like killing the whole humanity, saving a person, is like saving humanity), quran loves those who build societies and help the poor( each muslim must pay 2.5% of their annual income in charity), Islam is a civilization and noy a political sect. Is Islam peaceful? 100%

[humanadvice]

UNFAIR DEBATE.

[humanadvice]

Thank you for the upload. The panel for the motion should have had people with more Islamic knowledge. They clearly don't know how to reason either from the Quran or from the Bible! Islam is not a 'religion', it's a way of life. If you go and speak with educated muslims like Hamza Yusuf you will get the REAL THING and not from 4 people who take BBC/CNN as their teacher. FACT is: ISLAM IMPROVES SOCIETY, TERRORISM COMES AS ANGER RESPONSE FROM MILITARY OCCUPATION FOR OIL IN THE MIDDLE EAST!

[TomFynn]

Islam is a religion of peace? Sure it is. Unless of course you doubt that...

[acacius001]

KEEP EVERYTHING WHAT SHE EARN BY HERSELF WHILE THE MAN MUST SUPPORT HER AND THE WHOLE FAMILLIE FINANCIALLY. NEVER HEARD ABOUT THAT HEE. THOSE LIARS ARE JUST SAYING THINGS THAT THEY WANT TO HEAR. THIS IS NOT FAIR AT ALL. BUT ALLAH IS THE CREATURE, HE WILL PUNISH ALL THOSE LIARS. NOT ME WHO WILL PUNISCH, NOT THE ISLAM, BUT ALLAH, LIE AS MUCH AS YOU CAN BUT THE REALITY IS THAT EVIL NEVER EVER WINS AGAINST THE ALMIGHTY ALLAH NEVER.

[acacius001]

This is sooooooooo unfair, they should have put people who actually read and know the quran. They are indeed refering to attack. But those attacks was meant and is meant when people attack you. You have the right to defend yourself and to kill everybody who wants you to kill in your own groud. Not to kill innocent people. we helped christians and jews in the past allot. This debate is not fair at all. We are not allowed to kill innocent people at all.PER EXAMPLE IF WOMAN WORKS SHE IS ALLOWED TO

[45Sunny54]

Ayaan and Douglas very honestly and straightforwardly debated the topic... This was very enlightening

[LlLChubby]

Those who were for motion proved to be a pair of cretinous clowns,who,apparently,were out there to let the other other team humiliate them and all those Muslims sitting there.OBVIOUSLY,they didn't had ANYTHING to say to account for the child marriage/sex in Islam,and it's unimaginable that they wouldn't have known in advance that Muhammad's sex with 9 yr old will be criticized,yet,LAUGHABLY,they muster enough guts to come in front of such a big crowd in support of Islam.