Should we believe Religion (Islam) or its followers?

Sunday, October 15, 2006 Should we believe Religion ( Islam ) or its followers..? I Have been long hearing from my friends who have been saying that do not guage the religion(Islam) by followers, followers could be wrong...guage religion by reading it or learning about it or knowing it..... why would anybody be interested in learning about other religion(islam) when he/she have their own work to do. don't they have any other good work to do..?? Then why do we believe followers..?? well we see them daily, we go to work with them daily..and more than that we hear them daily..They do only one thing spread hatred...these guys do not even spare kids, they do not want to make them responsible future citizens, instead they want them to be Future Jihadis.... If Islam is of peace and harmony...why aren't we hearing anybody calling for peace for the world....why aren't true muslims who follow religion by Quran (not misinterpretation) waging Jihad against those people who are maligning their own religion...?? If America Bombs Pakistan in future then these people will stike in India and bring India to stand still...this is their hatred towards America and love towards fellow muslims....alas!!! this will not be true when North Korea or a Non-Muslim country will be bombed by America.... For the good of Islam there has been one noble person who came on to the world with a noble cause and won a nobel prize and that too for PEACE...Muslims allover the world should learn from him..work for country not for religion.... 8:54:52 AM Posted By India India Comments (0) Society Comments Name Email Comments My thesis is that all human beings are alike but what makes them act differently is their exposure to different cultural influences. I contend that it is the Islamic culture which proclaims that it alone is the true religion which makes a Muslim rather narrow-minded in matters of religion whereas Hindus are broad-minded because of the influence of Vedanta on his culture. Therefore saying, “Do not judge Islam by its followers” is to assume that the problem is not with the teachings of Islam but with the innate nature of Muslims as human beings. Jesus on the other hand said that a religion be judged by its followers when he paraphrased it as “Judge a tree by its fruits”. I concur with Jesus.