Can Islam and the Western world coexist peacefully?

Sunday 12th April, 05:00 PM JST

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proudathiest at 12:17 PM JST - 18th April

The Question>

"militant atheists" - can you give us an example?
likeitis at 12:32 PM JST - 18th April

"militant atheists" - can you give us an example?

Some communist rebels? Not all of course.
memyselfI at 12:32 PM JST - 18th April

Hello

It's me again.．

To answer this question

First of all not everybody thinks the same. Not everybody want to change their culture and beliefs and ADOPT a new system of beliefs.

Not everybody is on the same page.

Let's forget about this " european philospy "

Conquer a country and trying to make it as the exact copy of your home country,

Let's forget about that roman empire capture the city complex.

" Alexandria, Egypt " Let's Respect one another and forge unity.

Let's share the world.

Maintaining Peace with Superior firepower is soooooooo 20th century thinking.

I can't wait for the day when we stop thinking creative ways to kill each other.

Nuclear and Biological

Someday my dream will come.

But until that dream happens we have to respect different cultures. Only time and talking will change things.

Superior Firepower only lasts for a short while.
Falstaff at 12:45 PM JST - 18th April

If you believe in survival of the fittest, there will never be lasting peace. Sad reality of our human nature.

Let's be real and look at our own little world of our daily life -- we are driven to be better. Better than whom? Why? So our co-worker loses his/her job instead of us. Job sharing? Well, if its not in the company's best interest, it wouldn't happen. The little "wars" in our life contine... Do you think the wars around the world will stop? Only as long as it is in our best interest. There will be peace if the circumstances are good for me, but war if they are now.

Religions can coexist as long as both sides want them to. Its as simple as that. Whether or not this peaceful existence is true to each one's religious viewpoint is the question.
Falstaff at 12:47 PM JST - 18th April

There will be peace if the circumstances are good for me, but war if they are now.

Sorry, should be "not"
Nessie at 12:53 PM JST - 18th April

"militant atheists" - can you give us an example?

I would call host desecrators militant athiests.

http://santitafarella.wordpress.com/2008/07/16/pz-myers-is-wrong-about-host-desecration-an-agnostic-urges-other-agnostics-and-atheists-to-shun-pz-myers-until-he-reaffirms-liberal-values/
Nessie at 12:58 PM JST - 18th April

Some communist rebels?

That's athiest militant, not militant athiest.
tokyocrawler at 01:51 PM JST - 18th April

What a stupid question! firstly Islam is a religion! so are you asking if a certain religion can coexist with a certain culture?? well..what is the heck do you mean by Western world??
There seems to be some assumption made that Islam is seperate from a part of the World gepgraphically known as the West....some mixed up concepts here folks...leading to some mixed up answers....are we talking religion with religion or culture vs another culture or geography?? what about a person born in the West who becomes a muslim? then we have an example of perfect co existenece!

Better to compare Western world and Eastern world, or Islam and christianity, like with like...

anyway,assuming I kinda know what you wanna ask...

Islam, and many other religions already exist in and are part of every country in the Western world our history is woven with influences from all sides ...the mere fact that we see them as "over there" is a basic mistake!

Clarify your questions or you just encourage a bunch of ridiculous and ethnocentric responses
WilliB at 08:52 PM JST - 18th April

tokyocrawler:

" What a stupid question! firstly Islam is a religion! "

Is it really? Any muslim cleric could explain to you that islam is much more than a personal religion; it is complete way of life, a political, legal, and cultural system, a culture. And one that has no concept of being integrated into a different one. To the contrary, in islamic doctrine "peace" on earth will be achieve once the whole world is submitted under islam (which means "submission" in Arabic).

This is not a secret; we used to know that. The fact that you don´t only demonstrates the result of our politically correct school education.
jewel at 09:59 PM JST - 18th April

The only way they will coexist is if the Western world becomes Muslim. It is best to let Muslims be Muslims and Westerners be Westerners without forcing oneself upon each other or asking either to compromise their culture or religion, but to coexist one has to give up their beliefs/lifestyle or both have to give up some things. Muslims have strong beliefs and Westerners have strong ideas of what they feel is the best way to live so to ask either to give up something they strongly believe in is wrong and is bound to have a clash.
RandomTask at 09:55 AM JST - 19th April

I dream of the day when religion is but a bad memory.
Sarge at 10:05 AM JST - 19th April

RandomTask - Dream on. There will always be people who gaze at the stars and ask themselves how it is that this beautiful blue planet we live on came into existence, and find that religion gives their lives a sense of meaning and comfort.
mareo2 at 11:50 AM JST - 19th April

Sarge at 10:05 AM JST - 19th April

RandomTask - Dream on. There will always be people who gaze at the stars and ask themselves how it is that this beautiful blue planet we live on came into existence, and find that religion gives their lives a sense of meaning and comfort.

I cant agree more.

RandomTask: Let` me make an example, my mother is a budist, I despise what the Budisth gov made to the Burakumin and what is still a hiden dicrimination here. But of course I dont think that modern Budism is dangerous. I think that what is really dangerous is fanatism in any form, be religion or politics or anything else like ecology.
Jigg88 at 01:28 PM JST - 19th April

Yes, just like human and fish can coexist peacefully
Ah_so at 05:56 PM JST - 19th April

Ah so: since you have religious texts at your fingertips you'll probably be aware that the violence of the Old Testament was rejected 2000 years ago by a religious figure with the initials JC.

I am aware that Christianity does not really follow the teachings of the Old Testament. However, you asked us to name 1 religion that sanctioned stoning for apostacy other than Islam and I also named Judaism, which is a large religion. In terms of the Old Testament, we like to pick and choose which bits of it we consider worth our inclusion and which bits are just the random rules of an ancient tribal society.

Most of the OT prophets still get a pretty big billing in the Christian church and why has the modern church not cast out the books of Deutronomy and Leviticus etc and added them to the apocrypha?