Ask a Terrorist

Newsweek Web Exclusive

« Return to Article

Discuss

Member Comments

  • Posted By: wantstolive @ 12/21/2007 11:58:26 AM

    muhammed was a bully and a sexual pervert. read the koran, it is an eye operner. he ruled like his new rulers are today. intimidation, fear, and death. in the meantime, back at the cave or where ever, he is probably consummating a 1 to 3 day marriage so he can have sex without being an adulteror. how special is that? and excuse for everything, isn't it great? anytime you do something wrong, have a revelation and add it to the koran to cover your butt. why would you follow a pervert? because you are killed if you don't. why women don't poison the men or shoot them on site i will never know. i do know they live worse lives than cats or dogs do. illiterate stepford wives. disgusting

  • Posted By: 2cents @ 12/21/2007 11:07:33 AM

    There's a lot of talk about which religion(s) are the true religion(s) of peace and which are not. Let me throw my hat into this ring if I may. The final right of the Hajj is to cast stones at the devil. A metaphorical "fighting fire with fire." There is nothing wrong with this if you are actually throwing stones at the real Devil. But, I ask, who decides where the devil lies?
    It becomes all too easy to see the devil everywhere you go. Leaders invoke the devil in their enemies when they need the support of their followers. Anyone who commits any trespass can all too easily be labelled a devil. Since when does a man truely know the face of evil, or the face of God for that matter? Is it right for a man to label another in this way and then, acting out of righteousness, throw stones at him?
    Jesus taught that "He who is without sin should cast the first stone." I would take this to mean that it is not right to throw stones at all, especially if you yourself have committed trespasses against others. Jesus did not meet the Devil with anger and violence, he simply rose above it and refused violence. Why then does Islam incorperate into it's most holy rights this use of violence against evil? Isn't it obvious how easily this can lead people to take "justice" into their own hands while helping men justify violence against those they have "judged" to be devils. This is the root of extremism.
    Please let me know if I've got this wrong, but there is only one conclusion. By the way, I would not consider myself a Christian.

    • Posted By: wantstolive @ 12/21/2007 11:52:34 AM

      You are right. It is extremism in every way. but when you have a country full of illiterate people who are following religious leaders, clerics etc., then the problem becomes more profound. I see nowhere in the koran where muhammed was peaceful at all. everytime he didn't something that was immoral he would have a revelation and add another line justifying it in the koran. want sex outside of holy matrimony, go for a 24 hour banger or 3 days, whatever. he ruled by killing people and fear, he reduced women to mindless itiots, and his whole life was about sex. why do you think women have to cover from head to toe? because he couldn't keep it in his pants. however if you didn't want to marry for a 3 day siesta of sex, you could always rape a christian woman, because they don't count for anything. muhammed was a bully that ruled by intimidation and fear, raped little girls, and looted and chopped anyone in his way. what a pervert, and people still believe in him, little mini perverted hitler.

  • Posted By: faminchin @ 12/21/2007 10:06:44 AM

    Singh....my religion teaches to turn the other cheek. Jesus died on the cross, so that we all may live and be forgiven for our sins. Jesus didn't pick up the sword, he willingly gave his life, for me and you. Christianity teaches that the things of this world are worthless and that we are to deny the flesh, and feed the spirit. That is the reason I am against war and killing. I am familiar with the Koran and have made every effort to understand the Muslim faith. I know that the majority of Muslims don't support terrorism and the killing of innocence. I am also puzzled as to why good Muslims haven't turned on these terrorist, if they truely believe the Koran?

    At the same time, I understand, that the United States Government cannot sit by and wait for the next terrorist attack on innocent civilians. I am troubled by watching our two political parties, fight with each other over political power, without reguard to what's best for our nation.

    But if you study the two men who founded these two different religions, you will see a stark contrast between the two. Jesus never killed anyone. Jesus preached peace, love, and understanding. Muhammad on the other hand, lived his life on earth traveling from village to village beheading people in what is referred to as "cleansings". Now I ask anyone reading this......which is the true religion of peace?

  • Posted By: Singh @ 12/21/2007 9:44:27 AM

    I have heard that the Koran teaches it is a sin to commit suicide, so why do these terrorists blow themselves up instead of fighting till their last breath? I've also read that there are strict rules concerning jihad like you must not kill any civilians, or destroy any of the enemies crops or livestock, and you are not allowed to force anyone to convert to Islam during Jihad. I've read some of these things for myself in the Koran while other things I was told by Muslims (in the form of books, not personal conversations) some of them have done Jihad in the past too. These terrorists are not waging Jihad they are hypocrites who are twisting the words of their own Holy book the Koran. I must mention that the Koran makes it very clear that Allah hateth an agressor. I am not a Muslim, personally I do not agree with everything the Koran teaches, but honestly from what I've read I do support a Muslims right to wage true Jihad, true Jihad is a righteous and holy war, but this war being waged by the terrorists is making a mockery of the Koran and personally I think the true muslims should turn on the terrorists and destroy them before the terrorists destroy Islam with there false teachings.
    I became a Sikh a little over a year ago, and my religion teaches about the right to fight the enemies, but my religion teaches that war is a last resort "when all other means have failed then it is righteous to take the sword" Guru Gobind Singh
    my religion also has a rich history of the Sikhs fighting wars to protect theirselves and fighting wars to protect people of other religions. I feel as a Sikh it is my duty to fight to protect my faith, and to protect others no matter what they believe, no matter if they are Christian, Muslim, Bhuddist, Hindu, etc, I'm willing to fight to the death to protect others.
    My point is that there is nothing wrong with Jihad, it's they terrorists that are twisting the meaning of Jihad.

  • Posted By: faminchin @ 12/21/2007 9:13:31 AM

    We have a choice people.....we don't have to support this terrorist. We can hear the same things Zawahiri will be saying by watching our Democrats on CSPAN. Ried and Pelosi do a great job at presenting Al Qaeda's message. Or, go back and listen to a few of Kerry's speeches during the last presidential campaign, and you can hear the same things you will hear by going to Zawahiri's web interview. Read Newsweek and Time, you will hear the same message......America Bad....America Must Be Punished....Bush Bad....Bush Must Be Destroyed...........it's all one in the same. Why support Zawahiri's web interview, when you can support Americans with the same message?

  • Posted By: Aykee @ 12/21/2007 6:42:28 AM

    On which site can we ask the questions? and how much does this service cost? I hope the answers are truer than the ones we get from Washington and his "objective" media. :))) That's true democracy. At the end, Al-Qaida has learned from the USA how to use the media and democracy to manipulate the masses.

  • Posted By: lawtachi @ 12/21/2007 6:21:26 AM

    its sad that the world and all its people have to go through such activities which in obvious facts is showing the lack of unity in humanity, hopefully questions that are going to be asked and answered will bring involved parties to their rightfull human senses for peace to prevail for the future of us and those to come.

  • Posted By: johnnmaine @ 12/20/2007 9:32:48 PM

    I can only hope that the journalist he refers to are not a part of the American media. By the time the networks and newspapers finish analyzing and speculating what his answers really mean, they will be telling every American to see a grief counselor and the American voters will elect him president.

  • Posted By: cheetah2114 @ 12/20/2007 6:58:21 PM

    On what site can we ask questions?

Reply

Report Abuse

Enter comments if any for reporting abuse