Is the majority of westerners uncomfortable with Islam?

Islam, in my mind, can be peaceful with christianity. But, I believe muslims can follow 2 paths of there profit Muhammad, peaceful, as in his early days, or violent, as he is when he gains an army, and does acts that I can say are not peaceful. Both paths are ligitament. One I can be more comfortible with than the next. The ones that yell, "Death to the West, Death to America/Israel", are not the ones im comfortible with. The ones that are peaceful, although no one such ethnicity/religion is fully peaceful, as long as they try there best..

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I am not comfortable with anything that controls every facet of your life. It would be okay if everyone had the ability to choose to follow Islam, and didn't have to fear the law if they decided to live their lifes in un-Islamic ways, but thats not the case.  Its not Islam's fault, but rather the social and political climate in many parts of the Middle East.

I would feel the same about Christianity if the Middle East was Christian.

Edit: I would like to add in that think religion is the root evil. Too many bad things are done on behalf of religion. Currently, I feel more nervous about the spread of Islam than I would if Christianity was spreading but I should acknowledge that all religions are what I feel nervous about


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I'm Catholic and a Westerner.  I love Islam and if I wasn't Catholic, I'd probably choose to be Muslim.

Islam's a great religion.

I am totally and completely uncomfortable with Islam, but no more uncomofortable than I am with Christianity or Judaism.  All three of these religions seek to control every faucet of someones life and thus appeal to people who are not emotionally idipendant or self reliant.  We know these Abrahamic faiths create massive social discord when unleashed on people unfamiliar with their tenents and are so absolutist as to sanction unproductive and uneconomic inquisitions and persecutions. 

I however am not uncomfortable with non Abrahamic faiths, but they are still dangerous if they effect public policy more than logic and reason.

isn't it considered illegal to say no thanks to Islam once you are a Muslim, with the prescribed punishment of being stoned to death if you abandon that faith?

Even Ottomans time there were atheists, So I think this is not a rule of islam.

 

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No, I  am not offended. I heard it also, some muslim country(Dont know  their name) do it. But I dont think, It is a law of  seriah.

 

Although I feel �uncomfortable� with any form of organised religion, be it Islam, Christianity or Hinduism, I feel even more uncomfortable and intimidated with the forces and their motives, that have built up Islam and Islamic countries into the bogey-men of the post-1990 �new world order.�
It seems that Western capitalist society can not live without a clearly defined imagery of an enemy.
After the collapse of Stalinism, or �Communism� as it was known then, there was a huge vacuum that urgently needed to be filled. Western society need the concept of a thread to its existence, the looming external danger that helps to divert from its own unsolvable problems, and that is useful to install all sorts of authoritarian and undemocratic emergency measures required to control its own people if it should become necessary.
The danger of �Communism� used to justify all this, and in absence of any other real thread, Islam was enrolled.
If you compare the paranoid mass hysteria that gripped US-America and its allies during the Cold War, of which Mc Carthy�s anti-communist witch- hunt is the ugliest example, you will find there are numerous parallels to the current hysteria about �Islam�. The often quoted website �jihad-watch� is a prime example for Anti-Islam paranoia, and many recent posts in AE will document how deeply that has sunk in.
I can�t wait to watch Hollywood�s re-make of � I married a Communist�, with its slighty revised title, �I married a Muslim�.




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Originally posted by Ahmed The Fighter  I think only uneducated western people are uncomfortable with islam,They don't know too much about islam they see the bad terrorists only but in real they don't implement Islam,Islam mean peace not war or kill,Islam ideology said as prophet Muhammed(pbuh)said:- The ink of the scholar is more holy than the blood of the martyr. The most excellent Jihad is that for the conquest of self.

I wish it were only that. I've met plenty of educated westerners who are uncomfortable with Islam. It is not just the terrorists: it's the muslim lifestyle. For example, even open-minded well-educated westerners are uncomfortable with women wearing the full veil and face-cover in a western city. They simply are uncomfortable with a religion which regulates every aspect of one's life. As I said before: Christian westerners don't like Islam because it clashes with their own beliefs; secular westerners don't like Islam because they are liberal and it seems to them like Islam infringes upon one's liberty.  

Lebanon has a big Christian population, so I guess it wouldnt be hard for Christians to live there...

Originally posted by Decebal Originally posted by Ahmed The Fighter  I think only uneducated western people are uncomfortable with islam,They don't know too much about islam they see the bad terrorists only but in real they don't implement Islam,Islam mean peace not war or kill,Islam ideology said as prophet Muhammed(pbuh)said:- The ink of the scholar is more holy than the blood of the martyr. The most excellent Jihad is that for the conquest of self. I wish it were only that. I've met plenty of educated westerners who are uncomfortable with Islam. It is not just the terrorists: it's the muslim lifestyle. For example, even open-minded well-educated westerners are uncomfortable with women wearing the full veil and face-cover in a western city. They simply are uncomfortable with a religion which regulates every aspect of one's life. As I said before: Christian westerners don't like Islam because it clashes with their own beliefs; secular westerners don't like Islam because they are liberal and it seems to them like Islam infringes upon one's liberty.

I concluded from your topic Islam have a little popularity in the west,I think each religion have a cultural we must respected in both sides in Islam the veil is not a shame thing ,I think there is no clash between us but misunderstooding can be solve by corporate propaganda in christianity there is strange things like veil such as the singlity of priests.but i think it is not real reasons to uncofortable.