Lihat sumber Agama damai

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Setelah [[serangan 11 September]] pada 2001, beberapa orang menyebut [[Islam]] sebagai '''agama damai'''

== Penggunaan istilah ==

Pada masa lalu, panggilan "agama damai" ditujukan kepada Kristen.<ref>''Defensive War not Inconsistent with a Religion of Peace'', a cermon, Seeley, Jackson, & Halliday, 1860, [https://books.google.com/books?id=al1u2i6q5aQC&pg=PA11 p. 11] Quote: "While however it is manifest and unquestionable that Christianity is emphatically a religion of peace and good will towards men — men of all countries and of all climes — it is assuredly not a religion of absolute and passive non-resistance."</ref>

Pada September 2001, saat [[serangan 11 September]], Presiden AS [[George W. Bush]] berkata: "Wajah teror bukanlah kepercayaan Islam yang sebenarnya. Itu semua bukanlah mengenai Islam. Islam itu damai. Para teroris itu tidak mewakili damai. Mereka mewakili kejahatan dan perang."<ref>{{cite press release| title = "Islam is Peace" Says President | publisher = Office of the Press Secretary| date = 2001-09-17| url =http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010917-11.html| accessdate =2007-11-22  }}</ref> Hal ini mendatangkan kritikan dari beberapa pihak<ref name=SkepReview>{{cite web | last = Till | first = Farrell | title = The Real Culprit | publisher = The Skeptical Review | date = November 2001 | url = http://www.infidels.org/library/magazines/tsr/2001/6/016front.html | accessdate = 2007-11-22 | archive-date = 2012-03-18 | archive-url = https://www.webcitation.org/66GYIvd3A?url=http://www.theskepticalreview.com/tsrmag/016front.html | dead-url = yes }}</ref> dan jajak pendapat para pemimpin [[Protestan]] [[Evangelikal]] Amerika Serikat yang dilakukan pada 2002 menyatakan bahwa hanya 10% yang sepakat dengan perkataan Bush bahwa Islam itu damai.<ref>{{cite web| last = Green | first =John | title =Evangelical Views of Islam  | publisher = EPPC and beliefnet| date = 2003-04-07| url =http://www.beliefnet.com/story/124/story_12447_1.html | accessdate = 2007-11-22 }}</ref>

[[Mahathir bin Mohamad]], mantan Perdana Menteri [[Malaysia]] berkata pada 2002, "Islam, seperti yang kukatakan, adalah sebuah agama damai. Namun sepanjang berabad-abad, tantangan-tantangan dari pengajaran Islam yang sebenarnya terjadi. Sehingga [orang-orang yang menyebut diri mereka sendiri] "Muslim" membunuh disamping melukai agama mereka yang menentang pembunuhan khususnya orang-orang tak bersalah.<ref name=MALAY>{{cite web |url=http://asiasociety.org/islam-terrorism-and-malaysias-response?page=0,1 |title=Islam, Terrorism, and Malaysia's Response (page 2) |website=Asia Society |date=4 February 2002}}</ref>

[[Dalil Boubakeur]], ''[[mufti]]'' [[Masjid Paris]], berkata pada 2006, "[[Muhammad|Nabi]] tidak mendirikan sebuah agama teroris, namun agama damai."<ref>{{cite web |title=Prophet cartoons enraging Muslims |publisher=[[International Herald Tribune]] |date=2 February 2006 |url=http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/02/02/news/toon.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060204165912/http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/02/02/news/toon.php |archive-date=2006-02-04 |accessdate=2007-11-22 |dead-url=no }}</ref>

== Kritikan ==
[[Berkas:2012 Sydney protest.jpg|jmpl|Para pengunjuk rasa Muslim membawa tanda-tanda yang bertuliskan "Memenggal semua orang yang menghina Nabi" dan "Orang-orang kita yang telah mati berada di Firdaus. Mati Anda ada di NERAKA!"]]
[[Sherman Jackson]] meyakini bahwa komentar-komentar para politikus Barat tentang Islam adalah agama damai adalah sebuah upaya [[pembenaran politik]]. Namun, Jackson menyatakan bahwa pernyataan tersebut tidak menyangkal [[Islam dan kekerasan|kekerasan dari Islam]], tetapi lebih kepada [[keberadaan damai]] dengan non-Muslim.
<ref>{{cite journal | last = Jackson | first = Sherman | title = Jihad and the Modern World | journal = Journal of Islamic Law and Culture | date = Spring–Summer 2002 | url = http://users.tpg.com.au/dezhen/jihad_and_the_modern_world.html | accessdate = 2007-11-22 | quote = "Religion of peace" does not imply that Islam is a paciﬁst religion, that it rejects the use of violence altogether, as either a moral or a metaphysical evil. "Religion of peace" connotes, rather, that Islam can countenance a state of permanent, peaceful coexistence with other nations and peoples who are not Muslims...This position, I shall argue, is no more than the result of an objective application of principles of [[Islamic jurisprudence]] which no jurist or activist, medieval or modern, has claimed to reject. | archive-date = 2007-12-17 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071217162911/http://users.tpg.com.au/dezhen/jihad_and_the_modern_world.html | dead-url = yes }}</ref>

Istilah "Agama Damai" digunakan sebagai ejekan oleh [[kritikan terhadap Islam|para kritikus Islam]], seperti komentator sayap kanan [[Ann Coulter]].<ref name=counterp>{{cite web |last=Siddiqi |first=Imraan |title =Ann Coulter's Foul Mouth: The Blond Hate Machine |publisher=Counterpunch |date=5 June 2003 |url=http://www.counterpunch.org/siddiqi06052003.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030613090741/http://counterpunch.org/siddiqi06052003.html |archive-date=13 June 2003 |accessdate=2007-11-22 |quote=Ann on the other hand, apparently missed this Sunday school lesson, and continues to ridicule Islam sarcastically as the "religion of peace" whenever a negative story arises within the Muslim world.}}</ref> Filsuf dan penulis [[Ateisme Baru|Ateis Baru]] [[Sam Harris]] menyatakan, "Posisi komunitas Muslim dalam menghadapi seluruh provokasi terlihat jelas: Islam adalah agama damai, dan jika kamu berkata tidak, mereka akan membunuhmu."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sam-harris/losing-our-spines-to-save_b_100132.html |first=Sam |last=Harris |title=Losing Our Spines to Save Our Necks |website=Huffingtonpost.com |access-date=19 March 2011 |date=5 May 2008}} (updated 25 May 2011)</ref>

Saat ditanyai oleh para wartawan pada 2005 jika Islam adalah agama damai [[Paus Benediktus XVI]] menyatakan bahwa beberapa unsur Islam dapat dikatakan damai, namun juga memiliki unsur lainnya.
<ref>
{{cite news 
| title = Pope says terror attacks cannot be defined as anti-Christian
| work = Catholic News Agency | date =2005-07-25 
| url =http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/pope_says_terror_attacks_cannot_be_defined_as_antichristian/
| accessdate =  2016-02-25 |quote=I would not like to use big words to apply generic labels. It certainly contains elements that can favor peace, it also has other elements: we must always seek the best elements.}}
</ref>

[[Islamis]] berpengaruh [[Sayyid Qutb]] menyatakan bahwa Islam adalah agama damai dalam esensi yang mewakili seluruh umat manusia kepada [[Allah]].<ref>{{cite book| last =Qutb | first =Sayyid| authorlink =Sayyid Qutb | title = Fiqh al-Da’wah | work =Fiqh al-Da’wah | publisher = [[IslamQA]]| url =http://www.islamqa.com/index.php?ref=43087&ln=eng| pages =217–222 | accessdate = 2007-11-22 | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20061017053855/http://www.islamqa.com/index.php?ref=43087&ln=eng | archivedate = 2006-10-17|quote=The defeatists should fear Allah lest they distort this religion and cause it to become weak on the basis of the claim that it is a religion of peace. Yes, it is the religion of peace but in the sense of saving all of mankind from worshiping anything other than Allah and submitting all of mankind to the rule of Allah. }}</ref>

Pada 13 Mei 2015, [[Negara Islam Irak dan Syam]] mengeluarkan sebuah pesan audio dari [[Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi]], yang menyatakan bahwa Islam bukanlah agama damai, namun agama perang.
<ref>{{cite news | title =ISIS Caliph Baghdadi in New Audio Message: 'Islam Was Never a Religion of Peace,' Our Jihad Is 'The War of All Muslims' | work=The Christian Post | date =2015-05-15 | url =http://www.christianpost.com/news/isis-caliph-baghdadi-in-new-audio-message-islam-was-never-a-religion-of-peace-our-jihad-is-the-war-of-all-muslims-139166/ | accessdate =  2015-05-16 |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20150517001734/http://www.christianpost.com/news/isis-caliph-baghdadi-in-new-audio-message-islam-was-never-a-religion-of-peace-our-jihad-is-the-war-of-all-muslims-139166/ |archivedate = 2015-05-17|quote=Islam was never a religion of peace. Islam is the religion of fighting. No one should believe that the war that we are waging is the war of the Islamic State. It is the war of all Muslims, but the Islamic State is spearheading it. It is the war of Muslims against infidels. O Muslims, go to war everywhere. It is the duty of every Muslim.}}</ref>

== Lihat pula ==
{{portal|Islam}}
* [[Islam dan agama lainnya]]
* [[Pemisahan dunia dalam Islam]]
* [[Perdamaian dalam filsafat Islam]]
* [[Islam dan kekerasan]]
* [[Pasifisme dalam Islam]]

== Referensi ==
{{Reflist}}

== Buku ==
* ''Religion of Peace?: Islam's War Against the World'' by Gregory M. Davis ( ISBN 0-9778984-4-X )
* ''Islam: Religion of Peace and Justice'' by Muhammad Nawaz ( ISBN 1-4107-6786-8 )

== Pranala luar ==
* {{cite web |url=http://p4h.humanists.net/Islam%20peace/QuranPeace.html |title=Islam ‘A Religion of Peace’? |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060306043807/http://p4h.humanists.net/Islam%20peace/QuranPeace.html |archive-date=6 March 2006}} at [http://www.humanists.freeserve.co.uk/ Humanists realm] {{Webarchive|url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20020914061943/http://www.humanists.freeserve.co.uk/ |date=2002-09-14 }}, a UK humanist site
* {{cite web |url=http://www.al-islami.com/islam/religion_of_peace.php |title=Islam: The Religion of Peace |website=al-Islami.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040823202819/http://www.al-islami.com/islam/religion_of_peace.php |archive-date=23 August 2004}}, argues Islam to be a peaceful religion.

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