Does religion make Muslims more violent?

[Norwegian]

Muslim countries have an average of 2.4 murders per annum per 100,000 people: statistics . PHOTO: AFP

Any discussion on terrorism, almost always circles back to the widespread belief that Muslims are more violent because of their religion, Vox reported.

Although these conversations may always circle back to the bigoted question of whether religion makes Muslims more violent, they lack data and evidence to attribute violent behavior to Muslims.

According to UC-Berkeley Professor M Steven Fish, people in Muslim majority countries actually tend to be significantly less violent, judging by murder rates.

Statistics show that Muslim countries have an average of 2.4 murders per annum per 100,000 people in stark contrast to 7.5 murders in non-Muslim countries.

The percentage of Muslims is an extraordinarily good predictor of a country’s murder rate, the professor found.

To provide some concrete evidence, Fish used his findings and re-run the numbers to exclude non-Muslim majority states -such as Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Jamaica, South Africa and Venezuela-with extraordinarily high murder rates. Those countries with many Muslim inhabitants were still less prone to murders by a large margin.

If Islam was the key factor in the cause of religiously motivated terrorism then it could be expected that ordinary Muslims too would be more violent than ordinary non-Muslims. However, there are over a billion believing Muslims globally and if Islam was intrinsically prone to violence then the data would suggest that. The data however, is quite contrary.

Despite this study, it goes without saying that religiously motivated terrorism is indeed a real phenomenon and a global problem. Fish argued that such terrorism could be a reaction to the Western foreign policy.

The data provided by Fish should be an important reminder that just like other religions, Islam too prohibits violence. Although it is dependent on who is interpreting Islam, it can be said that Islam is not intrinsically violent.
Does religion make Muslims more violent? – The Express Tribune

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[TimeTraveller]

Muslim countries have an average of 2.4 murders per annum per 100,000 people: statistics . PHOTO: AFP

Any discussion on terrorism, almost always circles back to the widespread belief that Muslims are more violent because of their religion, Vox reported.

Although these conversations may always circle back to the bigoted question of whether religion makes Muslims more violent, they lack data and evidence to attribute violent behavior to Muslims.

According to UC-Berkeley Professor M Steven Fish, people in Muslim majority countries actually tend to be significantly less violent, judging by murder rates.

Statistics show that Muslim countries have an average of 2.4 murders per annum per 100,000 people in stark contrast to 7.5 murders in non-Muslim countries.

The percentage of Muslims is an extraordinarily good predictor of a country’s murder rate, the professor found.

To provide some concrete evidence, Fish used his findings and re-run the numbers to exclude non-Muslim majority states -such as Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Jamaica, South Africa and Venezuela-with extraordinarily high murder rates. Those countries with many Muslim inhabitants were still less prone to murders by a large margin.

If Islam was the key factor in the cause of religiously motivated terrorism then it could be expected that ordinary Muslims too would be more violent than ordinary non-Muslims. However, there are over a billion believing Muslims globally and if Islam was intrinsically prone to violence then the data would suggest that. The data however, is quite contrary.

Despite this study, it goes without saying that religiously motivated terrorism is indeed a real phenomenon and a global problem. Fish argued that such terrorism could be a reaction to the Western foreign policy.

The data provided by Fish should be an important reminder that just like other religions, Islam too prohibits violence. Although it is dependent on who is interpreting Islam, it can be said that Islam is not intrinsically violent.
Does religion make Muslims more violent? – The Express Tribune

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Thanks for Tagging Sir.......

 

[syedali73]

Good research. Thank God it was not the work of a 'Muslim' else it would be rejected right away.

 

[Tridibans]

Its not the "RELIGION", every religion has some very good points....

But its those Muslims who are more "Islamic" than ISLAM, Some wannabe Muslims in Pak/ AFG who are more "Arabic" than ARABS and finally, those Mullahs and Clerics who are more "Religious" than the RELIGION itself.

 

[WAJsal]

Those people don't really represent the teaching's of Islam.

 

[TimeTraveller]

See, No Religion says that we should harm others....and hence the simple answer is NO........

 

[Slav Defence]

Muslim countries have an average of 2.4 murders per annum per 100,000 people: statistics . PHOTO: AFP

Any discussion on terrorism, almost always circles back to the widespread belief that Muslims are more violent because of their religion, Vox reported.

Although these conversations may always circle back to the bigoted question of whether religion makes Muslims more violent, they lack data and evidence to attribute violent behavior to Muslims.

According to UC-Berkeley Professor M Steven Fish, people in Muslim majority countries actually tend to be significantly less violent, judging by murder rates.

Statistics show that Muslim countries have an average of 2.4 murders per annum per 100,000 people in stark contrast to 7.5 murders in non-Muslim countries.

The percentage of Muslims is an extraordinarily good predictor of a country’s murder rate, the professor found.

To provide some concrete evidence, Fish used his findings and re-run the numbers to exclude non-Muslim majority states -such as Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Jamaica, South Africa and Venezuela-with extraordinarily high murder rates. Those countries with many Muslim inhabitants were still less prone to murders by a large margin.

If Islam was the key factor in the cause of religiously motivated terrorism then it could be expected that ordinary Muslims too would be more violent than ordinary non-Muslims. However, there are over a billion believing Muslims globally and if Islam was intrinsically prone to violence then the data would suggest that. The data however, is quite contrary.

Despite this study, it goes without saying that religiously motivated terrorism is indeed a real phenomenon and a global problem. Fish argued that such terrorism could be a reaction to the Western foreign policy.

The data provided by Fish should be an important reminder that just like other religions, Islam too prohibits violence. Although it is dependent on who is interpreting Islam, it can be said that Islam is not intrinsically violent.
Does religion make Muslims more violent? – The Express Tribune

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Excellent post Norwegian. I will be giving you a proper response at 9:00 pm.Doing assignment right now

 

[jamahir]

excellent post.

if anything, islam is the most peace-making and democratic of the older religions, respecting neither cultural mores nor family hierarchy nor mysticism, but looking only at resolving and preventing disputes so that life is made easier... islam may not be complete for the future but it was the most complete when compared to other older religions.

there are practical laws in islam ranging from divorce ( personal comfort ) to prohibition of interest-based loans ( social justice )... these form the real islam, not celebrating festivals or mourning or banging the forehead while praying in a mosque.

those claimers of muslim fellowship who do violence obviously are only following wrong non-islami cultural ideas and their own criminal tendencies... but i also blame the western governments who purposely project these criminals as "muslim"... whenever bbc wants to show palestine, they show post-2007 gaza filled with burqa/mullah types, never they show normal muslims in the "west bank" part.

as an aside, that photo describes a ridiculous trend among some muslim ladies presently... calling themselves "muslimah"... what the hell does that mean??

another ridiculous modern trend is of saying "jazak allah khair".

 

[JonAsad]

excellent post.

if anything, islam is the most peace-making and democratic of the older religions, respecting neither cultural mores nor family hierarchy nor mysticism, but looking only at resolving and preventing disputes so that life is made easier... islam may not be complete for the future but it was the most complete when compared to other older religions.

there are practical laws in islam ranging from divorce ( personal comfort ) to prohibition of interest-based loans ( social justice )... these form the real islam, not celebrating festivals or mourning or banging the forehead while praying in a mosque.

those claimers of muslim fellowship who do violence obviously are only following wrong non-islami cultural ideas and their own criminal tendencies... but i also blame the western governments who purposely project these criminals as "muslim"... whenever bbc wants to show palestine, they show post-2007 gaza filled with burqa/mullah types, never they show normal muslims in the "west bank" part.




as an aside, that photo describes a ridiculous trend among some muslim ladies presently... calling themselves "muslimah"... what the hell does that mean??

another ridiculous modern trend is of saying "jazak allah khair".

Jazak Allah Khair habibi-

btw another ridiculous modern trend is not to write the word A of Allah in capital-

 

[jamahir]

Jazak Allah Khair habibi-

btw another ridiculous modern trend is not to write the word A of Allah in capital-

sigh...

i prefer to write everything in small letters.

 

[wolfschanzze]

Like it or not, The world views a religion by what its practitioners do,as long Muslims do terror attacks on other nations and Religions,The view will not change.
Neither is there a reform in Islam and neither do moderates in Islam stand up to the extremists,instead the moderates try to brush it under the carpet and in end become apologists for the Extremists or start ridiculing others and start pointing fingers at others.
As long, as this continues and there is no change in that behaviour,a Favourable view of Islam and Muslims is not going to happen around the world.
That is the truth!

 

[Levina]

I dont like the title of this thread.
No religion supports violence, and if violence is what Islam was about then scores of muslims would not have shunned terrorist activists that take place in the name jihad, neither would have muslim countries boycotted Islamic state.
Extremists exist in every religion!

But muslims should stop comparing their religion with other religions and stop trying to prove that their religion is better.

 

[jamahir]

Like it or not, The world views a religion by what its practitioners do,as long Muslims do terror attacks on other nations and Religions,The view will not change.
Neither is there a reform in Islam and neither do moderates in Islam stand up to the extremists,instead the moderates try to brush it under the carpet and in end become apologists for the Extremists or start ridiculing others saying or start pointing fingers at others.
As long, as this continues and there is no change in that behaviour,a Favourable view of Islam and Muslims is not going to happen around the world.
That is the truth!

if you cannot form sensible words, leave the thread.

 

[Levina]

islam is the most peace-making and democratic of the older religions

Call it one of the most peaceful religion.
We're equally peaceful you know. lol

 

[45'22']

Call it one of the most peaceful religion.
We're equally peaceful you know. lol

I find Buddhist the most peaceful and Muslims the least but again it depends from person to person