why can't muslims live in peace?

i'm not pointing fingers or anything. i'm a muslim too and i love the religion. it's just that there are so many things being pointed around already, i just wish that we muslims don't need to argue or fight amongst ourselves. just like the tolerence that we practice, especially when observing fasting during ramadhan, i really do wish we can stop fighting amongst ourselves and the whole world could also stop fighting about everything. peace is everlasting. violence only leads to an early end. salam to you fellow myLotter..

I see, I believe you are a good Muslim.... you can advocate peace for them and be catalyst of peace to the brothers of Islam... Shalom!

that would be the ideal situation. but i hate it when our politicians & government doesn't see things that way. most of the time they always 'politicize' and make an issue about everything. and inevitably this always flames up emotions of the people on the ground. talking and explaining to individuals is easy, but when the message has to go across to many people, that's the difficult part. like they say on tv sometimes,"the person is smart, but people are not". i guess that statement is kind of true when we see the what's on the news nowadays. Martin Luther King said it best,"can't we all just get along..?". we can hope, we can pray for it. but peace will always be something that all of us have to want collectively in order to achieve it, i guess..

Have you heard the story about 3 blind men, who want to know the shape of elephant? I think, people are like that. Only see from one side, which more comfortable to them. And unfortunetely then, they create a border line, and consider those who are outside of the line is an enemy. Naive and stupid. Hope we not become one of them.

that's the thing. i do believe that no religion advocates violence as a solution to anything. but it's so weird that the some people who preach religion, peace and brotherhood, don't practice what they preach when it actually comes down to doing it. differences in belief is good, as it gives us different perspectives about the same thing. but i hate it when some parties use that same fact to encourage hatred & violence. *sigh...what kind of world did we inherit, and what kind of world are we leaving for our kids? there's got to be some wise leaders out there who can put some kind of sense into extremist and such..