Islam: What the West Needs to Know
This documentary sets out to investigate the notion that Islam is a religion of peace and explore the widely circulated idea that those who commit violent acts in the name of Islam are a fanatic few. The filmmakers try to hold Islam's own sources to the light to make the controversial claim that the religion is actually driven by a violent, expansionary ideology that seeks to conquer any contradictory religion, culture, and, ultimately, government.
This film is by far the most interesting presentation of Islam that I have yet to see. I recommend viewers be fully awake before attempting to watch it, as some amount of concentration is required to reap the full benefits of this documentary.
Packed with direct quotes from the Koran and other reliable sources, along with compelling visuals and tasteful interviews, it will challenge even the experts. Is violence built into the Muslim ideology?
I found this very informative. I knew nothing about Islam and will investigate the views that were presented. If what has been said is true; then this documentary should be seen by everyone.
I am a well educated woman, not a follower of any Abrahamic religion. And I have studied all these three religions for years. After listening to the whole documentary very carefully, I have one conclusion to share with you:
Every era, every historical time, has its shrinked minds who spread nonsens and untruth in the name of objective facts and Truth. They know how to put every single word, every event, every proposition out of its theological, linguistique, cultural, political and geografical context and reduce everything to one single factor, which in this case they call it "Islam".
You have this kind of people througout history, everywhere, in all cultures and in all religions. Be aware of the false claims and halfs truths they try to spread. Be critical of what they call their sources. Because I asure you what you hear here is for a very great deal only twisted facts and twisted truth.
These "commentators" are driven by a blind hate. Some of them should go and take a very good look at their own history and the history of their own faiths.
islam is no better or worse then any of the abrahamic religions sorry to say. its oppressive towards women, its totalitarian and it has a vision of global supremacy. Anyone who thinks that jews or christians dont have blood on their hands or in their holy books dont know their god from their a--holes and sure as hell do not know the history of their faith...i hate how this documetary trys to state all these "evils" of islam without mentioning that the other two abrahamic religions are just as bad and in a lot of ways worse lol.
how anybody can expect, respect for Muhammad from such people who don't care about their own prophet
Is it really that hard to just stop fighting?
Are any of these goofy stories really worth dying for?
Is it really worth someones life and possible soul to be fighting over who's got the better main character?
Are we really so stupid that we kill each other by the millions over books?
Does the average individual really give a damn about what someone else around him believes?
Um...wake up.
If you want the fighting to stop, then stop fighting.
How you go about this is your own business.
We are not seperate groups, we are one very big group stuck with a few different personalities but we're also stuck on this rock together.
"Us vs Them" and Violence are primitive and barbaric ways of thinking and acting, they divide us and create strife because if no ones getting along then we're all suffering from our own short-comings.
Its 2011, if every person on the planet woke up tomorrow and realized that none we fight about is really worth fighting about and we should work together, there would be nothing we couldn't accomplish, we would become the kings of this age. We as a species have the capacity for so much good if we could only stop focusing on the petty and insignificant differences between us.
Stop thinking in terms that separate us.
The concept of different races of human is only an illusion, its a title, not a state of being. It doesn't matter if you call yourself Japanese, American, German, Polish, English, Welsh or Arabic, you're all Human Beings and are equally entitled to rights and freedom and everyone could have that if we could just work together.
“Live Simply That Others May Simply Live” – Mahatma Gandhi
I have just finished to watch the documenary and I am shocked.
There is a part of me who still doesn't want to believe that it could be true that a jihad against infidels is on. We prefer to call it terrorism but what they say about the Quran and the hadith, and the concepts of El Taquia, houbna and jakilia simply make me feel thinking. Honestly, I think what they say in the documentary is true but before reaching a final conclusion, I will read the Quran and collect information.
Another poor soul looking for a way to get taught in the school of hard heads. I will stop and because you and your lost friends will never understand. So Vlatko I have a proper education and a job. I have an education from two countries and i'm sad to say the one they provide in america dose not suffice. So re-educate yourself my friend. Till next time Peace be upon your poor souls
Here are some verses in the Quran and Hadith about Equal rights
"And when the news of (the birth of) a female (child) is brought to any of them, his face becomes dark, and he is filled with inward grief! He hides himself from the people because of the evil of that whereof he has been informed. Shall he keep her with dishonor or bury her in the earth? Certainly, evil is their decision."
(An-Nahl 16:58-59)
The rights of Muslim women were given to us by Allah (SWT), who is All-Compassionate, All-Merciful, All-Just, All-Unbiased, All-Knowing and Most Wise. These rights, which were granted to women more than 1400 years ago, and were taught by the perfect example of the Prophet Muhammad (SAW), were given by the one Who created us and Who alone knows what rights are best for our female natures. Allah (SWT) says in the Quran:
"O You who believe! You are forbidden to inherit women against their will, and you should not treat them with harshness, that you may take away part of the Mahr (bridal-money given by the husband to his wife at time of marriage) you have given them, unless they commit open illegal sexual intercourse. And live with them honorably. If you dislike them, it may be that you dislike a thing and Allah brings
through it a great deal of good." (An-Nisa 4:19)
Islam considers a woman to be equal to a man as a human being and as his partner in this life. Women have been created with a soul of the same nature as man’s. Allah (SWT) says in the Quran:
"O mankind! Be dutiful to your Lord, Who created you from a single person (Adam), and from him (Adam) He created his wife (Eve), and from them both He created many men and women and fear Allah through Whom you demand your mutual (rights), and (do not cut the relations of) the wombs (kinship). Surely, Allah is Ever and All-Watcher over you." (Al-Nisa 4:1)
And in the words of the Prophet Muhammad (SAW),
"Assuredly, women are the twin halves of men." (Sahih reported by Abu-Dawud (RA)
Islam does not blame Eve alone for the First Sin. The Quran makes it very clear that both Adam and Eve were tempted, that they both sinned and were both forgiven after their repentance. Allah (SWT) says in the Quran:
"Then Satan whispered suggestions to them both in order to uncover that which was hidden from them of their private parts (before); he said: "Your Lord did not forbid you this tree save you should become angels or become of the immortals." And he (Satan) swore by Allah to them both (saying): "Verily, I am one of the sincere well-wishers for you both." So he mislead them with deception. Then when they tasted of the tree, that which was hidden from them of their shame (private parts) became manifest to them and they began to stick together the leaves of Paradise over themselves (in order to cover their shame). And their Lord called out to them (saying): "Did I not forbid you that tree and tell you: Verily, Satan is an open enemy unto you?" They said: "Our Lord! We have wronged ourselves. If You forgive us not, and bestow not upon us Your Mercy, we shall certainly be of the losers." (Allah) said: "Get down, one of you an enemy to the other (i.e. Adam, Eve, and Satan, etc.). On earth will be a dwelling-place for you and an enjoyment, - for a time." He said: "Therein you shall live, and therein you shall die, and from it you shall be brought out (i.e. resurrected)."(Al-A’raf 7:20-25)
in first Timothy 2:14 the bibles states that it was Eve who's to blame for being deceived not Adam. You see Islam is a way of life that has evidence. If you read you will find
Poor brother antagonist is just lost. His education is just limited, he's just studying from the school of FOX and CNN. Antagonist You never read the Qu'ran nor the hadith so you will never understand our Prophet(and i do mean your and my Prophet) Because he's your prophet to. You may not believe in Muhammad but he's much your's as he is mine. What about the prophet Lot who got both his daughters pregnant. antagonist did you know that women have no equal rights in the bible, here are some leads if you still don't believe
New Testament:
1 Timothy 2:11-14 - "Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression."
1 Corinthians 14:34 - "Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law. And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church."
1 Corinthians 11: 3 - Now I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.
There are many other verses in the bible that tells man they have a higher authority over woman, Yet there are many verses in the Quran that saids otherwise. So go out get the Quran and have some time out with your lord.
Read the English translation of the Quran and tell me you still believe this phony Zionist propaganda
@sin nombre you have converted to islam from being a catholic right, did it not strike you as odd that the prophet mohammad likes to f*ck little kids, how can he be from god he can only be from satan or just a warlord making up the rules to suit himself, you have been told a lot of lies friend you have to save yourself from they devils. maybe u just like them cos u hate the whites, i guess i might if i was black or whatever and join the stronger enemy of them. Join back to the good side lad.
There is no hate towards jew in the Qu'ran. If you can find me a verse in the qu'ran (not in from the internet) but from the book itself. Then you are right. But till then akhi (brother) peace b upon you
@Sin nombre I have felt sympathy for palestine before I learned that Islam preach hate about the Jews in the Koran and even if palestine belonged to the Jews you would still hate them. I actually like the 3rd reich but I know when to let go of something when it is just stupid. The Jews might be intolerable people but Islam wants to conquer the world and has no tolerance for anyone, this may be bourne out of anger but everything in the Koran seems to be angry anyway. You should have stayed catholic, I don't believe the bible but jesus was crucified, I'm going to look into gnostic christianity because apparently jesus may have went to another dimension, they believe there is a world here on earth which we cant see but thats all I know. The roman catholics killed them all but their writings were found not so long ago, I may read them. Peace be Upon you.
Because it's not? they take land that were the palestinians and kill people for the sake of nothing. England and the united states gave them some of the land. But human greed let them take more and more. Every one sees this happening and are seeing that Israel should not be there. Look brother i was once a kuffar and was on the side of the kuffar, born a roman catholic and left it once i became a communist back in my fathers land of Colombia. but now i see that for every little thing has it's purpose including the "OCCUPATION". Just like how the europeans took over and coloniZed the north, central and south america. It's funny how the jews that ran away from the "OCCUPATION" are doing the same tactics that were done to them on the palestinians. From what i am reading you have a one point of view in knowledge. Like again as i said before, i feel pity for you Peace be upon you (If you know what that means).
@sin nombre I don't even need to reply to that lol you might believe what you just said but come on you might as well just say that the moslems have already colonised mars. Brainwashed isnt the word, I can think of a few insults for you but I'll let you be, I'm only a kuffar in the company of other moslems, at other times I'm your fake friend. So tell me one thing why do all arab countries not allow Israel to be a country?
i feel bad for those like you Antagonist, do yourself a favor and read a book. I think that you are brain washed by the christian and west propaganda on us muslims. No one here said any thing about Israel (no One) but you. our past is a past of rich education, we had scholars from all parts of the known world teaching each other every thing, and they were not only Muslims. from math, science, physiology, calligraphy, astrology just to name a few and we gave that to the poor white europeans. Who in that time were living is squalor and dying from diseases, We were asked to come and help them by the christians and the jews to fight off a barbaric tribe that would have wiped out all of the known christian and jewish world in europa. Muslims (not Moslem another propaganda word that has been brain washed to poor lost souls like yourself) did not force themselves into europa like the jewish have in palestine or the zionists because true jews know that they do not have a holy land this was written in the books of moses . Killing more and more Muslims daily and have no right to live in occupied lands, i have no hate just pity over those who don't understand. It' is not in my way of living to hate other that are not Muslims or have a different point of view. It's sad you would say such things to someone who you never met nor ever hung out with. In the word of every jew and muslim "Peace be upon you"
@Sin nombre is that you admitting to terrorist activities lol, well the west has moved on from they days but it wasnt all one sided. it sounds to me you have been fed a lot of propaganda by the Moslem religion, there is an agenda which is very simple in islam and that is to try and make the whole world Islamic, they are well entrenched within our society so why not use this opportunity to fulful the wishes of the prophet. Radical Islam has almost zero to do with Israel and the United States, this is merely an excuse used by moslems to get the sympaphy vote and to make people from the west take pity and not realise that you are not angry because of what the west has done at any point in the past but you are angry because your religion teaches it and demands it. Tell me what are the sins of the west when you consider that Palestine was at one time Christian but the turkish moslems took it from us in the past, they were our enemies in the first world war and we took it back. Just so happened the jews had nowhere to stay and have as much right as christians, jews or moslems to be there so why cant the moslem world accept it and concede palestine to the jews. It's because you are taught anti-semitism as part of the Koran. All this bile you spit out is within you. The jews donts deserve to be treated this way. You have loads of land so be happy with it. If you are greedy and hateful it was sowe your own destruction. Cant wait until that day when Islam will be confined too the past. I include christianity in there, they are all lies. Jesus was resurrected though so thats Islam wrong straight away. Watch the real face of jesus when science meets religion. Do yourself and all the moslems you know and stop follwing an evil false religion. I feel sorry for you man.
@ antAgonist, i'm sorry that people like you forgot that christianity came to the so called new world killing, stealing, raping and wiping out whole nations language, faith, culture in the name of jesus. If we during the times of the crusade and the conquistador had CNN, MSNBC or Fox we would have called (well i think everyone would have called) the christians terrorists. Look at how many countries in the past have been effected by the christian onslaught of their "HOLY CRUSADE". Muslims are attacking because of many years of persecution, but if you had any common sense, you would tell yourself. "How can any one sneak bombs, or in that case make bombs without being caught by the government". Nothing can't pass the technology we have today only unless they have an agenda to accomplish, meaning the government and their schemes they plot
@sin nombre more muslim lies, you people think we are stupid that is your problem, im guessing you havnt seen the evidence from undercover mosque. Your propaganda is null and void you parasite.
This documentary was one of the worst films i've ever seen in all times, these men are taking the word of OUR lord and making it as if the lord of the Qu'ran did not order prophets in the bible to go out and kill those that did not follow the same as Lord of the bible and the torah. The problem with people is they stopped reading when they finish school and read nonsense like the news paper and watch television. We as a whole have to stop letting the media, and these so called scholars who are not Muslims define what the Qu'ran says. It's like having a person who don't believe in any religion, faith, or way of life explain to us what Our lord have to tell us in our books. It is as though we wish to start world war III through ignorance like they did with the other first two wars.
@Hhumanist, I share your take on this documentary. What about the Bible? Does it also contain passages condoning violence? I have never read it, because I find it insufferable, but the matter is worth investigating.
From a personal point of view, the Christian crusades are over. It is 2011 and Islam still insists on Jihad.
@dean watch undercover mosque before you come out with garbage statements like that, open your eyes no one cares about your stupid ideas
It's an interesting video but ultimately it fails because it lacks balance (an alternative point of view in defense of the Koran) and does little to place the selected verses in context. I ended up learning quite allot but from one point of view, which is never healthy.
If I want to know about the Koran (which I do on a purely academic level and as I have many Muslim friends) I will consult many sources as one should with EVERY topic.
BTW, I'm an atheist, a fierce critic of religion (I like Hitchens and Dawkins) and someone who does not try to win the approval of my religious friends (I only choose moderates as friends regardless of ideology held) therefore, I'm not making an apology for the Koran or any other 'sacred' text, I just require high standards when it comes to journalism. On this basis, the film fails.
Your comments please...
you all people keep arguing who's right or wrong
why???
it is because religions...!!
it is very simple to see the proof that all religions are wrong because they divide people and they try to kill each other, even a 7 year old kid know that this is wrong.