What really motivates Islamic violence?

[HeraldtheNews]

He was coming into Canada: it was Canadian customs' officials who apprehended his teaching materials under suspicion they were hate speech, when in reality all it was, is teachings on what the Koran teaches. It was subsequently all returned to him, and no charges were laid against him. Good thing, too, for he does not promote hatred at all, simply exposes Islam for what it is.

Thanks for taking the stand you are exposing Islam for what it is. It's sad when innocent people put their hope in a religion like that. The truth isn't very popular these days. In fact, when Jesus preached the first time in Nazareth, they tried to throw Him over a cliff. You are certainly not lacking the Holy Spirit.

 

[HeraldtheNews]

Bacon. They secretly like bacon and once they establish their worldwide caliphate they will deem it an acceptable food item.

There's a reason they like bacon.

 

[Shammy]

What really motivates Islamic violence?

There's peaceful Muslims of course, but, for the most part, Islam is a confused religion without a purpose or message or direction, obsessed with meaningless religious legalism, oppressing women, and with destroying anyone who opposes them, even their own people or themselves, like the devil is obsessed with delusional destruction. Even ancient Judaism's religious laws pointed to fulfillment of the law in the Jewish Messiah, and the law of grace, love and mercy. If Islam and the Q'uran is followed to it's logical conclusion, and God knows they take it seriously, the logical result is idolatry, spiritual blindness, legalistic bondage, and violence. The attackers in France were not terrorists, they were acting as true Muslims and Islamic jihad is actively supported by tens of millions of Muslims and tens of millions more through their silence, because it's at the core of their religion.

Legalism dies hard. Even after the Apostle Paul was converted from religious legalism through a dramatic encounter with Christ after His ressurrection, and worked tirelessly as one of the greatest heroes of Christianity to teach that Jesus came to save us from this, 2000 years later, even many of us as Christians are still obsessed with legalism including even Pentecostals, Baptists and Catholics, and even state justice is obsessed with legalistic atonement of sins. That's why knowing Jesus has to begin with the free-gift of Christmas...
Being born into Heaven (wedding);
And a faithful life (marriage);
This is true freedom--
Freedom from religion...

You should be asking what causes mid-east terrorism and violence.

 

[Sirk]

You should be asking what causes mid-east terrorism and violence.

Careful....your roots are showing.

 

[Sirk]

Islam is a violent intolerant "religion" and it does't belong in the United States in its current form.

 

[Tintin]

Careful....your roots are showing.

Split ends.

 

[JonahLynx]

You should be asking what causes mid-east terrorism and violence.

Primarily dangerous Islamic belief systems. I'm not being anti-Muslim about it, that's just what the people committing these acts are saying.

 

[Shammy]

Careful....your roots are showing.

If you mean my Irish roots, they are pretty easy to discern from the flag.

 

[Shammy]

Primarily dangerous Islamic belief systems. I'm not being anti-Muslim about it, that's just what the people committing these acts are saying.

Partly, but a lack of freedom, poverty and education are major factors. They also have no opportunities for success. Since criticizing their own governments is a sure way to arrest and execution they because easy targets for others to misdirect their rage and frustration.

 

[Sirk]

Primarily dangerous Islamic belief systems. I'm not being anti-Muslim about it, that's just what the people committing these acts are saying.

Nah...they take teenage boys...give them an underage girl to have sex with...promise them adventure, strap a vest on em and off they go to Valhalla.

 

[JonahLynx]

Partly, but a lack of freedom, poverty and education are major factors. They also have no opportunities for success. Since criticizing their own governments is a sure way to arrest and execution they because easy targets for others to misdirect their rage and frustration.

I agree with you but targeting random people with suicide bombings is a strategy almost entirely unique to Islamists. Terrorism itself is hardly perpetrated by followers of any other religion. There would probably still be violence over there without Islam, but not to the degree or nature of what we are seeing now. But yeah the constant destabilizations aren't helping.

 

[Shammy]

I agree with you but targeting random people with suicide bombings is a strategy almost entirely unique to Islamists. Terrorism itself is hardly perpetrated by followers of any other religion. There would probably still be violence over there without Islam, but not to the degree or nature of what we are seeing now. But yeah the constant destabilizations aren't helping.

I am far from knowledgeable enough to know the history of suicide bombings. Is Islam making the violence worse, or the violence making the Muslims there worse? Hard to know.

 

[p_rehbein]

With regards to the question posed in the title of the OP only:

Evil

 

[JonahLynx]

I am far from knowledgeable enough to know the history of suicide bombings. Is Islam making the violence worse, or the violence making the Muslims there worse? Hard to know.

Like you said, it's probably a combination of things. But I don't think we can pretend that religion doesn't play a role in their behavior since they are after all declaring their motives for the atrocities to be in the name of their god.