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Originally posted by Jidoe
It's kind of difficult for me to take one side or the other here becasue they are both correct and incorrect.
The Quran, in itself, teaches us to cherish both our friends or enemies. However, bad translations like the ones Savaric posted only helps the extremists from both sides (don't forget that today people are learning most things from the internet and in my opinion, those sites which mis-interpret are very harmful).
On the other hand, it is clear and beyond any doubt that most terrorism today is done by fundamental Islamists (I'm not going to say there is no Jewish/Christian terrorism, because there is, but much much less).
In the past few years, I've been trying to understand the motives of Islamic terrorism and I believe it to derive from two main things:
1) Money - most terrorism, especially the Palestinian terrorism is to receive money.
2) Wrong interpretations of the Quran - this is the fault of the Sheikhs and Dawa teachers for simply telling lies to young peple, promising them virgins and money for their families and literally driving them to commit suicide.
I was trying to push this points to. I and a majority of the Muslim community here do not agree with how much violence is used in trying to solve problems in the Middle East. Not only by the Jews, but especially the suicide bombers. 