Marziyeh Amirizadeh’s Perspective on Islam and Religious Identity

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0:00 Let me be clear about Islam. I lived Islam. I know the teachings of Islam. I read Quran. It's not just that I'm saying. I can quote a lot of verses of Quran to you. Uh Islam is evil. Period. And I always say if anyone say that Islam is religion of peace is just for deceiving people. And that really make me upset when I hear this from our politicians because they say it because of political power and money behind that. Um but that's not the truth. The truth is that Islam is religion is not religion of peace is evil. But that

0:41 doesn't mean that all Muslims are terrorists. Because you know for example in my country uh um 90 million Muslims live but majority of these people are born as a Muslim. They do not practice Islam. They do not know even what true Islam is and they wrongly think that the wrong the true Islam is them. They are true Muslims because they are not they are against violence but uh those who are in power those terrorists are not true Muslim but they are mistaken. I and I always when I was talking to Iranians evangelizing them I would encourage them

1:22 please with your book study the Islamic book because uh radical Muslims those terrorists they are true Muslims they are doing exactly based on their teachings and what is written in the book of Quran.