This audio is brought to you by Muslim Central.com. Why don't we take a little time to actually tackle some of these perceptions?

Right. Right. And go into some specifics of what it is that sometimes we hear about in either mainstream media or

from politicians or pundits or other folks or just perceptions that honest good people have who haven't heard

counter perspectives.

So there's definitely this sensibility that sometimes

toss around in American culture, that Islam is a violent religion, or that Muhammad himself was particularly

violent. And so what's your response to that if someone were asking in the Walmart parking lot?

I bring them to a studio and sit them down in time.

No, what I would say to a person, number one, statistically that's not true.

So that's factually an incorrect statement.

So there's actually a recent article that came out which took the verses of violence

from the

old testament the new testament so the new testament and and and the

Quran I think the Quran is 2.2% they actually statistically put it out

2.8% in the new testament and then 5.3% in the Old Testament. So the Quran is not particularly

more violent as a scripture, right? But any verse taken out of context, we know that the Old Testament has a context, right?

So you're talking about a lot of the Hebrew prophets, you know, King Saul and

Joshua and even Moses and so on and so forth. So there's obviously a lot of

military context to it when you're talking

about some of the old prophets that come up in the Old Testament and the stories.

Obviously the New Testament was written in a context right So it was it's a different feel altogether.

The Quran does not is not particularly more violent and in fact as a social

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