EVERYONE should have the freedom to pick their religion.... dont you think???

im very sry to hear all this complaints against islam.. the media has left a very wrong opinion bout islam among people..islam itself means peace and love..we dun force people to convert to islam nor do we stop people from leaving islam... every religion has its rights to preach thier own religion... n every one is given the rights to practice what they want to.. there are more converts to islam becos of the love the love and brotherly hood bond that we share.. dun jus blame the religion cos of the terrorist organisations... extremists are present in all the religions they share thier own ideas but that doesnt mean the religion is based on terrorism... even christain missionaries forced people to convert to christianity n killed people who refused.( no offence...jus trying to prove my point) if thats the case is what bush trying to do rite?? is he takin the world by force or is islam trying to?? can u point any islam based leader or organisation waging open war to take over the country??? every one has thier own opinion...pls dun hurt others sentiments unless or untill u have a clear idea..we want to spread love not hatred... people say muslims hate people from other religion but as much as people from india are treated in pakistan the muslims indians are not treated with dat dignity smetimes in india... there are sme minus points every were but please dun base the whole religion on those.. we dun hate ny body..we consider everpne as brothers and we are here to share love n peace...

the vocabulary of Islam does not contain the word freedom and every country that laudes its freedom shoulrd forbid its practice!

lol...what about christianity? what about judaism? doesn't these religions retaliate against "traitors"? or those who don't belong to these religions? after all, religion is not about God, it's only about power. EVERY RELIGION! just consider every religion a political party. that's why there is this struggle to get as many followers as they can. coz the belivers mean money and support. that's all. whoever thinks that because he/she is a christian/muslim/whatever, he/she will go to heaven, is a big idiot. If there is a God, i don't think He cares about the religion you belong to, but the way you live your life. And, if He doesn't consider only this, then He is an idiot. :)

Dear Sabbathandruth, I do hope every religions have some or many people in them who have a very bad nature of fighting in the name of their own religions, but we do have keep in mind that there are other side of people are who well known to their religion on that part were peace and love is more focused. Hence I feel all religions with the backness of peace and love will always win. Those who practice certain religions and who do not go according to those taught in that may have to face bitter consequences. The freedom to have any religion is justifiable but to follow the positive side of that religion might be the most important part. I had seen cruel people in every religions except very few like Budism, may be I had not heard its other side.

the one you have watched does not does not include the whole of muslims,as you have said they are muslims from london.i dont think we should should judge them right away,since not all muslims wanted to have bloodshed and violence.the thing you have watched is just a small fraction of the whole muslims.im a christian but i believe that we must not judge them just because their brothers in london do it does not mean that the muslims in singapore do it as well or in any other parts of the world.we have to make sure first before we give them our judgement...

Hi there, I see that your discussion is full of hatred against Islam. However let me tell you that no one can be converted by force in Islam. The Holy Quran states in Chapter 2 Verse 256, that there is no compulsion in religion. Regarding the extremists in Islam who try to convert people by force or to kill those who convert from Islam to another religion are wrong. However, that is not a reason to blame the whole Islamic community. There are approximately 2 billion of Muslims worldwide, if all od them were terrorists, life on earth would have be extinct since a long time ago. However, terrorists killing & hating in the name of Islam form an insignificant percentage of the whole community. Therefore, I agree that terrorists and ONLY TERRORISTS should be deported from the country.

well i think this very reason is y the u.s. is such a great country, because we can convert to whatever religion without threats being made to us, (only by family)lol! but i do agree, everyone should have the freedom of picking their religion.

I think everyone should have the ability to choose their own religion. We cannot tell people what they should or should not believe. I tell people about what I believe and why i believe it, but I would never force someone to believe the same as I do.

really? i am surprised... many have converted fromone religion to another. people should be free to choose what they want to believe and they should not be punished. if this is the case, i think they have not fully understood the true human emotion... or they wanted to be away from all aspects of being human? i do not know about muslims and islam... i dont want to talk against them.. i just hope some people will be more thinking of others. maybe they do not want to dominate... it could have been one person's wrong decision? the leader perhaps??

That is harsh! I believe that everyone has the right to their own choice of religion or lack of it so very strongly that I did not have any of my children baptized into the religion that I was raised in. Instead we talked about the various religions and they met people of different religions and even attended religious services of others. They are informed and open minded and the choice is entirely their own as it should be.

Yes everyone should have freedom to pick their own religion.From birth we follow our parents religion and values but when we grow big we find our answers in some other religion then we are free to choose that religion.

i don't hate any religion even if you are a muslim...i have lots of friends who are muslims but they are different from others...they even afraid to their fellow muslim brothers...not only for muslims but all other religions we mus be fair in treating others specially when they are not same on our belief...freedom of religion is a long process and not all country grant it to their country men...many religions now still they struggle for acquiring the freedom to exercise their faith...i know some of the religions that they are treated as like terrorist to almost people in the world specially the islamic countries...but time comes they will win, god won't allow that bad will dwell them.

Yes. I totally agreee with you. We can't live without religion. Everyone has his God in heart, who he worships and belives in. The religion helps the government to keep the society in order.