If Islam is a religion that opposes murder, then what's with all the killings?

What I struggle to understand about the religion is that ISIS claim to be creating an Islamic state across Syria and Turkey and other countries in that region, they are doing so by killing and slaughtering innocent people and anyone that stands up to them. They say they do this in the name of Allah, yet the Quran states that murder is wrong.

It sounds odd to me because I know about these extremists trying to radicalise all these good and normal Muslims, yet somehow, even with all the praying they do and reading of the Quran they do, some will still become terrorists knowing full well that murder in their religion is wrong.

Sorry if this didn't make too much sense, I just don't have enough time to write everything I felt like saying on this topic so I had to compact it all.

I should probably apologise in advance if anything I have said turns out to be wrong and also in case anyone of the Islam religion is offended by this as from reading it back, it sounds a bit blunt to me.

Sunni and Shia divisions. You get Christians and catholics but you don't see them shooting down each other.

Isis are not true muslims

What makes you say that? And what is a 'true Muslim?'

What Isis seem to do is try to force people to become muslims. However in the Qur'an it actually states that there shall be no compulsion in religion. Only God can judge but in my opinion a true muslim is someone who follows the Qur'an and the teachings of the prophet muhammed pbuh.

So it's your opinion, then? They tend to follow the Koran quite well in my view. The teachings of Muhammad too. After all, it is the teachings of Muhammad which prescribe punishment for apostasy and blasphemy, which is what Shias and other people are often charged with before they're killed.

It appears your prophet contradicts the Koran: The Koran apparently says there's no compulsion in religion. The prophet says that anybody who leaves Islam should be killed. Which is it? In this instance it's not possible to follow both the Koran and the prophet.

Killing innocent people is a grave sin in Islam. It is as if they have killed the whole of mankind. When the muslims had to go to war during Muhammed's time, Muhammed never wanted to fight unless there was absolutely no other choice.

There is an oft-quoted verse from the Koran that a lot of Muslims and apologists for Muslims like to wave around in defence of their claim that Islam is a religion of peace. This is what it says:

'Because of that, We decreed upon the Children of Israel that whoever kills a soul unless for a soul or for corruption [done] in the land - it is as if he had slain mankind entirely. And whoever saves one - it is as if he had saved mankind entirely. And our messengers had certainly come to them with clear proofs. Then indeed many of them, [even] after that, throughout the land, were transgressors.' - Koran 5:32

What they often forget to mention is what is commonly thought of in the Muslim world as 'corruption [done] in the land', a list which could go on forever but almost always includes: homosexuals, apostates, adulterers, people of non-Abrahamic faith who don't pay the Jizya tax, Shia people and followers of other sects (at least in the majority-Sunni countries) and so on.

Of course, ISIS also feels the imperative to establish an Islamic state, hence why they continue to try to expand. They believe that Islam is the complete guide to life, delivered courtesy of Muhammad, for all times and for all people, so it's hardly a surprise that they're trying to impose it on as many people as they can.

The brutality, at least that which isn't directly inspired by their religious beliefs (e.g. burning people alive), is mostly for effect, I think. This is how they scare people. They've also mastered the art of propaganda via social media so that they can make Hollywood-quality films about their atrocities to reach people who aren't obviously endangered by them.

#RantOver.

Sunni and Shia divisions. You get Christians and catholics but you don't see them shooting down each other.

What I struggle to understand about the religion is that ISIS claim to be creating an Islamic state across Syria and Turkey and other countries in that region, they are doing so by killing and slaughtering innocent people and anyone that stands up to them. They say they do this in the name of Allah, yet the Quran states that murder is wrong.

It sounds odd to me because I know about these extremists trying to radicalise all these good and normal Muslims, yet somehow, even with all the praying they do and reading of the Quran they do, some will still become terrorists knowing full well that murder in their religion is wrong.

Sorry if this didn't make too much sense, I just don't have enough time to write everything I felt like saying on this topic so I had to compact it all.

I should probably apologise in advance if anything I have said turns out to be wrong and also in case anyone of the Islam religion is offended by this as from reading it back, it sounds a bit blunt to me.

Killing innocent people is a grave sin in Islam. It is as if they have killed the whole of mankind. When the muslims had to go to war during Muhammed's time, Muhammed never wanted to fight unless there was absolutely no other choice.

who told you islam opposses murder ?
islams final prophet had numerous people killed in order to establish islam and all the next caliphates murdered perhaps millions in order to establish islamic states - these men are revered in islam