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__**Introduction**__

====**In almost every religion you have your fundamentalist and your extremist. How is it that people can read the same text and get two totally different meanings? All religions think they are the way to a peaceful and perfect life when actually their preachings are corrupting the world. These radical beliefs result in wars and the killing of innocent people. This brochure explores the different outcomes of Extreme religious beliefs.**====

These short excerpts from the Qur'an show how they preach violence to their followers. It's plain to see how someone could take this text and use it as a reason to harm people who don't have the same religious beliefs. It was once said, "Islam is the perfect religion." How can that be when they condone violence. It is said that Islam is the religion that teaches peace but from these quotes people have committed heinous crimes. When has peace been found in war? It's no real shocker that Islam teaches violence. Everyone knows about the Taliban and the Bombing of the Twin Towers (9/11) performed by these radical Muslims. Since these words are coming from the religion they believe in they believe killing will get them into heaven and was away all of their impurities.



These quotes from the Bible support my general question. All religions have the thought that they are the way to purity. Christians believe in repenting and being forgiven for sins. In the first quote form the bible it talks about putting homosexuals to their death. How is it acceptable to kill someone and think it is alright? The bible preaches to it's followers to 'Love one another'. When did love become war? These quotes have made people go out and kill people who don't believe the same things they do, or don't interpret the message the same way. People who do these things believe that God is happy with their ways of going about their beliefs.

Their is a man in Africa who used to be a Catholic Alter boy believes committing these malicious crimes is an adequate way to go about his beliefs. He uses children as sex slaves and cuts off their limbs. He goes after people who don't agree with his understandings of the Bible. He explains how you go about killing/harming a person saying, "You must also take oil and draw a cross on your chest, your forehead, and each shoulder, and you must make a cross in oil on your gun. They say the oil is the power of the Holy spirit." Another reason he has for doing what he does is in this next quote, he says, "Go and read in Matthew, chapter what and what, it is stated that if your right hand causes trouble, cut it off! It is there in the Bible!" This man really believes what he's doing is right and he has followers succeeding in his footsteps. When has God said it was alright to kill one another?

__**Final Thoughts**__ Every religion is the perfect religion. They all have teachings that will lead you to the ideal, faultless life. It's followers corrupt it. People are also the reasons religions aren't as perfect as they should be. Almost all religions want to enhance Love and peace, not fighting and war. People see things and take one small part and think it is substantially more important than anything else in their religion and it isn't. There are many examples of religious extremist and the most famous has to be 9/11. Throughout time the crimes have gotten worse and worse. We all know the Religion itself isn't the cause of this it's the people. Once people stop reconstructing and abusing the religion to fit their own convictions the world would be a better place without extremist.

Cited Works: Website of Islamic quotes about killing: "Muhammad's Own Words." //Prophet of Doom//. Web. 27 Oct 2009. .