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God's Muslim Warriors

August 21st, 2012
02:29 PM ET

God's Warriors: God's Muslim Warriors. CNN chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour travels to six countries on four continents to examine the intersection between religion and politics and the effects of Christianity, Islam and Judaism on politics, culture and public life.  Click here to visit the original website that accompanied the documentary or watch the report 'God's Muslim Warriors' on the videos below:

God's Muslim Warriors Part 1: Iran

God's Muslim Warriors Part 2: Sayyid Qutb

God's Muslim Warriors Part 3: Women's rights in Islam


Watch the rest of the reports here.

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  1. George Pieterson

    Does Muslim god(allah) ever instruct his followers to kill(children, women & men) & end up in their own heaven ?

    August 21, 2012 at 11:25 pm | Reply
    • ALI ASAD

      peace of allah on u !!!
      first of all let me tell u that in quran it is writen if a single human die(not only muslims) then it means that the whole humanity has been killed and go and see the history and our teachings its only us that say killing innocent people women olds and children are haram in islam and it is strikly warned to us okay

      August 22, 2012 at 6:00 am | Reply
    • Jamal Al Shalabi

      Your misunderstanding of Islam, does not give you the right to pass judgment.
      There is a huge difference between Islam and the act of a Muslim.
      The same applies for other faiths. 
      Hitler & Mussolini are not Muslims, can we say this Christianity ? Of course no.
      Who killed Jesus Christ, Caiaphas; can we say this Judaism, of course no.

      It the human ignorance who killed humans.

      August 23, 2012 at 5:02 pm | Reply
      • NeoCeon

        Religion IS nothing but human ignorance.

        Ignorance collected through the ages in books like the bible and the quran, and spread through the ignorant words of "holy men" who think they have a special authority to do so(or at least see other benefits of portraying themselves as holyer than others).

        I would go so far as to categorise religious "belief" as a chronic mental error, a psychological problem that should be cured.

        * NeoCeon *

        August 25, 2012 at 8:30 am |
      • deserthermit

        And it is human ignorance that kills today by belief in the supernatural.

        September 6, 2012 at 10:20 pm |
    • Fauzia

      There is only one God and Allah is the name used by Muslims for God. So if their is only One God then, how can there be my God and Your God and Muslim God and Christian God and Jewish God???? Isn't belief in One God the basis for all Monotheist religions?

      August 23, 2012 at 6:22 pm | Reply
      • deserthermit

        yes, and all are delusional. There is nothing that poisons the world more than these antiquated beliefs.

        September 6, 2012 at 10:17 pm |
    • Abi

      lets see what the Quran says:
      "Say: "Come, let me convey unto you what God has [really] forbidden to you: "Do not ascribe divinity, in any way, to aught beside Him; and [do not offend against but, rather,] do good unto your parents; and do not kill your children for fear of poverty – [for] it is We who shall provide sustenance for you as well as for them; and do not commit any shameful deeds, be they open or secret; and do not take any human being's life-[the life] which God has declared to be sacred -otherwise than in [the pursuit of] justice: this has He enjoined upon you so that you might use your reason" (6:151)

      August 25, 2012 at 6:50 am | Reply
      • deserthermit

        And I shall use my reason to discover that all biblical texts of all types are written by uninformed, uneducated,barbarians. Nothing poisons the world more than belief in this non sense.

        September 6, 2012 at 10:27 pm |
    • Uzair Chaudhary

      No George. My Islam, the religion I follow and the book i read (The Quran) does not instruct the followers of Islam to kill "innocent" women and children or men anywhere in the world. It doesn't matter if they're Muslims, Jews, Christians or Hindus. It is wrong to kill innocent people that is why we are not in favour of terrorism and all matters should be solved on the table. But it is also really unfortunate that the western world portrays all Muslims as bad people and the media always highlights the negatives.

      August 25, 2012 at 8:25 am | Reply
      • deserthermit

        A horrible view of who is not innocent. Blasphemy is a victimless crime.

        September 6, 2012 at 10:29 pm |
  2. Ali Yawar

    I call on the entire Human Kind for Unity,And nuclear disarmement. No matter what religion you believe or practice for the peaceful restoration of the world without the Nuclear Mafia, IMF, WTO, World Bank, UN, the Illuminati, Oil and Banking Cartels & Global War Lords. Let us create a world for Peace, Love, Joy & Harmony. I AM WARNING FOR ETHNIC AND RELIGION CLASHES. From; Ali A Yawar

    August 22, 2012 at 6:47 am | Reply
  3. Agbodji. Désiré

    God never and i said never ask anybody that the only way to get to heaven is to wage a war that is called a Holy war. we want our muslim brothers to shine a little lite on dat for us

    August 22, 2012 at 2:51 pm | Reply
    • Jamal Al Shalabi

      "Holy War" is a concept used by the crusaders, and never being mentioned in the Islamic teaching.
       In recent history and after the collapse of the USSR, Islam phobia was created as an artificial enemy for political an economic reasons.
      This way everyone is passing judgment about Islam without even reading a single world of Quran.
      If you look at the death statistics of the first world war and the second world war, millions of life's have been killed. Can you say this Christianity? No, it is the misunderstanding of christianity.
      I hope you understand the logic

      August 23, 2012 at 5:15 pm | Reply
  4. olaseni

    Pls ma muslims frnds, what's d meanin of holy war, cuz I see som pple killin oda pples yet dey say its holy war $ dat dey r fightin for GOD(allah)

    August 22, 2012 at 6:02 pm | Reply
  5. eusebio manuel vestias pecurto

    Todos somos guerreiros de deus agora cada religioso tem a sua maneira de ver a realidade do mundo actual eu não concordo com muitas religiões porque sabém incentivar as pessoas para o fanatismo onde se constrói os conflitos étnicos e muitas outras coisas

    August 23, 2012 at 1:21 pm | Reply
  6. muhammed

    i think all wars and fightings which happens on earth in the name of God are all must be in the name of humin being because only good things comes from God >>God is pure 100% ...God doesn't in need to human to fight for Him >He can do every thing in a glance >>..

    August 23, 2012 at 1:23 pm | Reply
    • Habib

      I agree with you Mohamed.When the religion becomes a tool or instrument,it becomes very very dangerous.

      August 24, 2012 at 4:34 am | Reply
  7. Muhammed Hassan Raheem-kurdistan

    i think all wars and fightings which happens on earth in the name of God are all must be in the name of humin being because only good things comes from God >>God is pure 100% ...God doesn't in need to human to fight for Him >He can do every thing in a glance >>.

    August 23, 2012 at 1:26 pm | Reply
    • hari

      God came and told you that ? how he looks like ?

      August 25, 2012 at 7:45 am | Reply
  8. Jamal Al Shalabi

    In spite the fact that I do not agree with the concept of "God's Warriors", but in Islam, Christianty, Jewdism, we believe of after life!. We will die one way or another, as Martin Luther siad "Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying" .

    We all believe;
    And this be our motto: "In God is our trust":
    And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
    O'er the land of the free and the home of the Brave.

    August 23, 2012 at 4:14 pm | Reply
  9. mustafa mohi

    how come most of cnn's programs about islam is all about iran ???!! iran isn't the only islamic country . iran is a Shi'a majority and shi'a muslims are 10-20% of the world's Muslims , meaning most muslims are sunni try to get there view for a change " no offence to anyone" .

    August 23, 2012 at 5:54 pm | Reply
  10. Habib

    three religions means three Gods,and that can't be right.
    To my opinion,God is mixture of microscopic and macroscopic.God is that the same one who has within very tiny elements of an atom,and also God is throughout this infinite universe.
    But let's not get to far from the topic here.Unfortunately religions have become tools for some people,and when the religions get kind of tools,that's when they're really dangerous.That's exactly what we're seeing from the Islamic conservatives for instance Taliban,and from the Judaic conservatives for instance Zionists.

    August 24, 2012 at 4:48 am | Reply
  11. hari

    God is not proved by Science. It is just a Faith. We call a positive belief as Faith and a negative belief as a doubt.
    When God is just a Faith, is it not laughable to say only my Faith is right ? People who are born in a family with a particular faith follows it and believes it. If the same person is born in a family of another faith ,his Faith and beliefs will be different. Thatz all.
    Time for everbody to get some peace and not kill and get killed in the name of Mr.God who seems to sit in a some far away land in a cushy seat in every Faith.

    August 25, 2012 at 7:43 am | Reply
  12. Uzair Chaudhary

    It is a sad fact that even a prestigious organisation like The CNN only emphasises on the negatives of a society rather than showing modern Islamic cultures and countries. We the Muslims do not agree too all the things that Iran does.

    August 25, 2012 at 8:20 am | Reply
  13. muslim

    @ mustafa mohi : you are right, cause the father of Ms. Amanpour is an iranian... and also why she choose Sayyid Qutb but not Hasan al-Banna (best known for founding the Muslim Brotherhood, one of the largest and most influential 20th century Muslim revivalist organizations,) ??... cause also Sayyid Qutb is one of the preferred personalities to the Iranian leaders...

    August 25, 2012 at 8:25 am | Reply
  14. Abdullahi

    Radicalisation of Some Christian and Islamic followers by the conspirators is deliberate. Among the three eastern religions, which one is racial and does not accept new converts from other races?

    August 25, 2012 at 1:01 pm | Reply
  15. Nikki Bahl

    This is an interesting piece on Islam in the western world AND in Iran and Iraq. It was new for me to see that Muslims are still misunderstood in the western world. I knew that a lot of them were stereotyped after 9/11 (twin towers incident), but I didn't realize that they are still discriminated against even now. It was interesting to learn about Sayyid Qutb and look at America and the western world from his perspective, and see how thriving materialism is making it waste away. I think I agree that the West is becoming too materialistic.
    I learnt why normal Muslims might want to turn radical. For some, it was because they didn't have guidance from their parents. I realized that radicals aren't always bad people. Sometimes, things go wrong and they don't exactly tell the people about their religion in the way they wanted to. I think that Muslims are just trying to be understood and make people understand their religion, rather than terrorize people like America is thinking that they do. I think that it must have been hard for Muslims to adjust to living in a Christian-dominated area and that Westerners should give them some credit for achieving that.
    Overall, I think this was a very informative clip about current events and I learnt a lot about Islam, a religion I didn't know much about before, and what it means to be a Muslim.

    – Nikki Bahl

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