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Jesus taught to turn the other cheek when you are wronged. He taught to love each other as we love ourselves. He taught us to be patient and kind. Christianity and Islam are polar opposites in their content.
The problem arises when many Jihadists interpret that as any type of wrong that has been done to them is declared an act of war. That's kind of the point of Jihad.
First, its easy to follow a warlike doctrine in a peaceful way. Similarly, you can follow a peaceful doctrine in a warlike way. If humans routinely treated their holy documents as a source code to be executed, the result would be amusing and ludicrous.
Here's why this is such a great link:
1- It shows a denomination of Islam that isn't decentralized, like the majority of Islam.
2- It shows a peaceful interpretation that doesn't emphasize the "hey go conquer" stuff.
Anyway, to answer your question more exactly, these guys are to Sunni Islam as Mormons are to Protestantism- they believe another guy came and brought a new patchset. The relevant part is because he patches jihad to eliminate the conquering offensive style jihad.
Of course, these guys are considered heretics by the Islamists :/
Its interesting you say that (and a fairly accurate representation of Sunni views).
Because Sunnis initially maintained we 'patched' jihad. We maintained the [violent among] Sunnis had mutilated jihad and we had only restored it to its original form, as Islam intended it to be. A century or so later, 9/11 happened and lots of the Sunni clerics came out with our exact 'patched' version of jihad saying it was what the Quran taught (fighting only allowed in self defence, jihad essentially a reference to spiritual self reformation through striving towards ever higher morality etc).
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[–] middle_path 1 point 3 points 4 points (+4|-1) ago
So they follow the word of a war monger in the name of peace? How, exactly?
[–] weezkitty 1 point 6 points 7 points (+7|-1) ago
Like Christians follow the bible?
[–] Ohooh 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
I mean, Muhammad literally took people to war and conquered Mecca as well as other territory, so I wouldn't compare him to Jesus in this instance.
[–] Perigran 1 point -1 points 0 points (+0|-1) ago
Jesus taught to turn the other cheek when you are wronged. He taught to love each other as we love ourselves. He taught us to be patient and kind. Christianity and Islam are polar opposites in their content.
[–] Wikiahmadiyya [S] 1 point 3 points 4 points (+4|-1) ago
The Quran forbids war with the exception of self-defence.
[–] edgelord ago
The problem arises when many Jihadists interpret that as any type of wrong that has been done to them is declared an act of war. That's kind of the point of Jihad.
[–] middle_path ago
Could you provide a source for that? I'm genuinely curious.
[–] Vailx 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
First, its easy to follow a warlike doctrine in a peaceful way. Similarly, you can follow a peaceful doctrine in a warlike way. If humans routinely treated their holy documents as a source code to be executed, the result would be amusing and ludicrous.
Here's why this is such a great link:
1- It shows a denomination of Islam that isn't decentralized, like the majority of Islam.
2- It shows a peaceful interpretation that doesn't emphasize the "hey go conquer" stuff.
Anyway, to answer your question more exactly, these guys are to Sunni Islam as Mormons are to Protestantism- they believe another guy came and brought a new patchset. The relevant part is because he patches jihad to eliminate the conquering offensive style jihad.
Of course, these guys are considered heretics by the Islamists :/
[–] Wikiahmadiyya [S] 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Its interesting you say that (and a fairly accurate representation of Sunni views).
Because Sunnis initially maintained we 'patched' jihad. We maintained the [violent among] Sunnis had mutilated jihad and we had only restored it to its original form, as Islam intended it to be. A century or so later, 9/11 happened and lots of the Sunni clerics came out with our exact 'patched' version of jihad saying it was what the Quran taught (fighting only allowed in self defence, jihad essentially a reference to spiritual self reformation through striving towards ever higher morality etc).
[–] middle_path ago
Thanks for the explanation.