hey guys
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first things first,
'I would like to ask you what major religious holidays do you follow in your country?'
I live in England, and here they celebrate alot of holidays like christmas, easter, haloween, and all the usual ones. most of the ones celebrated in america and the rest of the english speaking world i guess.
As a muslim, i dont tend to celebrate them in the conventional sense, we dont put up lights and decorations nor do we go trick or treating (though we do tend to buy easter eggs
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some muslims decide to celebrate some of them, most muslims dont.
Muslims only really have two holidays, the two eids these celebrations last for 1 day and 4 days for small and big eid respectively
hope that answers your question reynold
now Mutt x my friend,
'what do you think are the primary religious causes of Islamic violence are and what are non-violent Muslims doing about it?'
i dont think im the perfect candidate to answer such a question but ill have a stab anyway (i think im not experienced enough being quite young)
Islam, like most religions and most governments recognises that war is part of life, although its a bad part we cant deny that people having been fighting from the dawn of time for both religious reasons (the crusades) and non religious reasons (world war 1&2). as such we belive that allah gave us guidance on how and why to fight theses wars so that it was done in the most humane way,
What can justify Jihad?
There are a number of reasons, but the Qur'an is clear that self-defence is always the underlying cause.
Permissable reasons for military Jihad:
Self-defence
Strengthening Islam
Protecting the freedom of Muslims to practise their faith
Protecting Muslims against oppression, which could include overthrowing a tyrannical ruler
Punishing an enemy who breaks an oath
Putting right a wrong
What a Jihad is not
A war is not a Jihad if the intention is to:
Force people to convert to Islam
Conquer other nations to colonise them
Take territory for economic gain
Settle disputes
Demonstrate a leader's power
Although the Prophet engaged in military action on a number of occasions, these were battles to survive, rather than conquest, and took place at a time when fighting between tribes was common.
i guess extremism, and violence are a misunderstanding of the points above, some people justify what theyre doing by saying 'were proctecting the freedom of muslims' or 'were putting right a wrong'
the rules for jihad are also very humane and attractive i think youll agree
The opponent must always have started the fighting.
It must not be fought to gain territory.
It must be launched by a religious leader.
It must be fought to bring about good - something that Allah will approve of.
Every other way of solving the problem must be tried before resorting to war.
Innocent people should not be killed.
Women, children, or old people should not be killed or hurt.
Women must not be raped.
Enemies must be treated with justice.
Wounded enemy soldiers must be treated in exactly the same way as one's own soldiers.
The war must stop as soon as the enemy asks for peace.
Property must not be damaged.
Poisoning wells is forbidden. The modern analogy would be chemical or biological warfare.
anyways sorry for that convoluted explanation but i think its good to understand the basics.
now....what are non violent muslims doing about it.... again being quite young im not 100% sure, the things i can see being a young person is that mosques and teachers now go a long way to explain jihad to the younger generation more, implanting the ideas above more firmly to avoid the youngers being 'brainwashed' into violent thinking. for me thats a great start because if people understood islam correctly there would be little external extremism
well i hope that answers your question too Mutt
if you want any clarification i can try, but like you see im by no means a very knowledgeable source
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