Islamic Studies survey on the perception of non-Muslims towards Islam and terrorism

Hello and good day to everyone. The Islamic Studies class in my university is conducting a survey on the perception of non-Muslims towards terrorism and Islam. This survey is part of the outreach project included in the syllabus.

On behalf of my group members, I would like to express my gratitude to anyone that answers the survey. I sincerely hope that you would answer the survey seriously without any bias that you may have.

Islamic Studies Survey

Thank you for helping us with our project.

 

I studied physics, non of this namby pamby stuf, my degree is a real mans degree.
I will take part in your survey to help you out, which is more than anybody did for me when I was wrestling with the 3 dimensional schrodinger equation.....

Also out of interest, why 'Islamic studies', do you have 'Jewish studies' or 'Mormon studies', what is so special about Islam that you have special studies for it?

 

We do have moral studies. Since the official religion of our country is Islam, it is a requirement for all Muslim students may they be locals or international students. As for the non-Muslim students, they have to attend the moral studies classes. Thank you and hope this answers your question

Just so you know, I am taking my degree in Mechanical Engineering so it is a real mans degree in a way too

 

Why do you use "Islam" and "terrorism" in the same sentence? Is it a guilt thing?

 

Mechanical engineering is OK.

Just out of interest, I found your survey a bit short, and you might like to consider the question regarding the IRA and ask if people have heard of the Spanish ETA as well:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETA

Also you ask for 'race', I put human, not sure if this was what you meant but you might change it to a choice from a selection of options as its a question that could have 1000's of variations and will make the results difficult to categorise.

But if you had been studying physics you would have known this because physics is for real men with big nads, like me.

But to anybody reading this then fill in the survey it really is short and will take about 1 minute.

 

@Helvetii - It is nothing of that sort. It is just due to the general impression given by the people nowadays and our group are just trying to see how far this is true. Thank you if you have answered the survey.

@hardeep80s - Thanks for the support. As for the race, what I mean by race is for example: Chinese or Indian or Caucasian, etc. I have been studying physics. Thank you for answering the survey and about the information about the ETA. I haven't heard of them myself. Thanks again

 

The "survey" was total propaganda crap. It wasn't a survey at all, just an opportunity to try to spew weasel worded propaganda onto the "survey" participants.

 

I notice the "survey" also wants a name and email.

 

@Will.spencer & alexispetrov - It's up to you on how you wanted to look at the survey at. It is just a 1 minute survey letting me and my group know what people think about Islam and right now from the reaction from both of you, it is hostile. First of all, I am just a 17 year old kid who is trying to do his homework. I just want this survey filled by people so that I can create a report, give it to my lecturer and get a few marks out of it.

@alexispetrov - if you are actually smart, you can actually fake your name and your email in the "survey". Thank you.

@Will.spencer - It isn't any propaganda crap. It is is just a homework. The only Islamic term used in this survey is Jihad and something about the war in Iraq.

Just for your information, the world Islam actually means "peace" in the first place in the Arabic language but right now a lot of "nutjob Muslims" are showing a wrong part of Islam. Out of a billion Muslims or so, only a fraction are really taking Islam in a different meaning. I come from Malaysia, which is a multi-racial country with a lot of different religion. If you could come here and see how things are, you will see that it is a lot different than what you think. Not all of us are bad.

To everyone else, thank you to those who has filled up the survey. I will release the result of this survey later so that everyone can see.

Thank you and have a good day

 

I'm about ten miles from Malaysia at this very moment.

"Islam" doesn't mean "peace", it means "submission" -- and some of are not interested in submitting.

If you were serious about a survey, you would not have used such dishonest weasel wording in your supposed "questions."

Winston Churchill understood Islam perfectly:

How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.

A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.

Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyzes the social development of those who follow it.

No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.​

If you don't want to be a "bad" person, outgrow your culture and leave your primitive religious beliefs behind. At 17 you are almost an adult. Fantasies about invisible friends are a thing for children.

 

Bingo ! Helvetii you are good !

 

influence of the islamic religion paralyzes the social development of those who follow it.

this is so totally true , islamism has tranformed every country that follows it into a disaster zone, the slum-zone of this planet... look at lawless anarchic pakistan, look at defeated castrated Iraq, look at bomb-zone afghanistan.... you would be extinct by the year 2050, except that you force your enslaved women to breed like factories..

 

And none of you have the guts to stand up to the bloody mullahs... the world is only one step away from going into a 'final solution for the islamic question' mode...

 

@grandislandne - I've answered that question. Countries such as UAE, Malaysia and a few others aren't disastrous in any way.

@Will.spencer -

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the German writer said: "Us, Europeans, with all our concepts could not reach what Muhammad has reached, and no one will be able to precede him. I have looked in the history of humanity for an example and found that it was Muhammad, as the truth must be revealed. Indeed, Muhammad succeeded to subdue the entire world to monotheism".

George Bernard Shaw, the British playwright said: "The world is in dire need of a man with the mind of Muhammad; religious people in the Middle Ages, due to their ignorance and prejudice, had pictured him in a very dark way as they used to consider him the enemy of Christianity. But after looking into the story of this man I found it to be an amazing and a miraculous one, and I came to the conclusion that he was never an enemy of Christianity, and must be called instead the savior of humanity. In my opinion, if he was to be given control over the world today, he would solve our problems and secure the peace and happiness which the world is longing for."

Michael Hart , author of `The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History' said: "My choice of Muhammad to lead the list of the world's most influential persons may surprise some readers and may be questioned by others, but he was the only man in history who was supremely successful on both the religious and secular level."


Please, I just want to do my homework and I have nothing against anyone else here. Believe what you want to believe but if you want to hate something, at least learn about it first. There are always two sides in a story. As to anyone that have answered the survey, I once again thank you.

 

Muhammad was a caravan robber, a child molester, and a murderer. That's not the kind of person I want to see as an example of proper behavior.

 

mfashraf, I am sure you would never be able to have this kind of debate, this kind of free expression of disagreement with a muslim mullah.. after the fourth sentence in the conversation he will pull out his dagger or cut your throat, just like they did to that poor Jewish journalist whose only crime was to care for people.

i dont agree with the description of Muhammad as a child molester. Since time immemorial, all over Europe and Asia, marriages were conducted at a very early age, as young as 10 or 12, because those days the average life expectancy was only 30 years.

It is important not to muddle up history and some wacky messages from your local 'child protection agency' . It is mislabelling and misnaming of a very dangerous kind, and if your argument is true, 99% of the population of the earth is the progeny of 'child molesters as defined by american pseudoethics'

Will.Spencer WTF do you know about child molestation? do you know who the real child molesters are? The governmental agencies of the united states that kick in the doors of good Christian American families at will and take their kids away from them. Your American government has taken away from American families the most fundamental of God-given and Biblical rights. A parent who slaps a child's rear for throwing rocks at the cat is declared a dangerous criminal and locked up for years, and that destroys that entire family and grinds it into the mud. But at the same time, any bastard with a badge and a gun and zap your little child with 50,000 volts and there is no one in America who has the guts or the Godliness to fight against this evil that surpasses the evil of Sodom. The American government is the biggest child abuser in human history, destroying human freedoms and Christian rights in a way unprecedented in history.. the taliban bastards are just poorer and less sophisticated versions of the same.

 

Your education was obviously at a boondocks public school where you learnt fussball and how to get pregnant and where to get beer and marijuana. You know nothing about history, and worse than that, you know nothing about your country or the world. Early Islam was the most secular of all religions, and in fact one of the Popes complained that the muslims were "too secular" !

The insane Islamists who want to bomb the world and cut everyone's throat was the creation of Ronald Reagan who trained, armed and brainwashed these bastards in afghanisthan and send them to bomb schools and shoot down civilian airlines flying out of Kabull.. he called them 'freedom fighters'.... he can be forgiven, because he had Alzhimers disease and no clue WTF he was doing. Perhaps you also have the same disease my dear 'Will spencer'

 

Muhammad masturbated by rubbing his penis on Aisha's thighs when she was six years old. If you don't see that as child molestation, there is something seriously wrong with you.

The U.S. government has grown far too large and far too unconcerned about the rights of ordinary citizens -- or even about the contents of it's own founding document. This is a big part of why I left the United States.

However, it is intellectually dishonest to attempt to equate the United States government with the Taliban. The last few sentences of your rant simply do not reflect the reality of the situation.

You are ridiculously ignorant regarding the history of Afghanistan. Ronald Reagan helped fund some groups of Afghan resistance fighters. The Taliban did not exist at the time -- it was not formed until after the Soviets left Afghanistan -- and it was formed by a different group of Afghans. To equate the Mujahadeen who were supported by Reagan and the Taliban is the same as equating a Union and a Confederate soldier in the American Civil War. The two were on opposite sides of the conflict. In fact, the Taliban murdered our main ally in Afghanistan on the eve of the 9/11 attack.

Quit speaking out of your ass. If you have no clue what you are talking about, don't bother posting.

 

I find it interesting you use quotes. Are you agreeing in your use of "survey" that it is, in fact, not a real survey? If not, why use the quotes?

Also, naturally I would use a fake name - it is the fact that you are requesting a name and email that troubles me.

 

@alexispetrov - I was merely mimicking your usage of the quotes. It is a real survey on which I will release the report once I am done and my lecturer approves of it.

@grandislandne - Thank you as I could not have said it better with my lack of knowledge. I have nothing against Christianity as I do believe in Jesus Christ as he is one of the many prophets of the Almighty. Muslims referred to him as Isa/Esa but I am sure you are well aware of that.

@Will.spencer- I do not know anything about him being a murderer but the United States murdered a lot more people in such a short time. Hiroshima/Nagasaki was an example of one and the war in Iraq/Afghanistan is another.

The survey has managed to grab 15 people so far and I thank you for all the valuable information given. Names, emails will not be disclosed in any way although the age range will be specified later in the final report. Once again, I can't help but thank everyone that has helped