Hello.
Today I made my first (not first but at least since I am visiting this web page first) serious discussion about Islam. I was absolutely unsuccessful. My friends main thesis is that Islam is the danger for the world. Mine was that Islam is good religion to follow (I said I am OK to be muslim). I was completely unable to win with my arguments over his arguments against. So Im gona tell about it. All of his arguments were pretty known for me and I though I know the answer for them, but I see its not so.
1. Koran is written by God, Bible by human. Its said that Muhammad had been writing Koran with the help of Allah. In fact, that there are words of Allah, not Muhammeds words. But he told to me that its the same with Bible. There are words of God written by hands of those, who were writing Bible.
2. He told me that he can not accept Islam cause muslims refuse to modify the religion to the new age. Its religion created for the 6th century and now its 21th century so it must be moddified to fit the correct age. I told to him that words in Koran and Muhammads life are historical fact and to follow those examples is correct in every age. No matter what century we have. His answer was that sometimes this is not possible cause the situation has changed.
3. He can not accept religion without human rights. I told to him there is strong idea of human rights in Islam. But he said it can be, but the praxis is different. I had no answer for this. He said that he can not accept religion where woman is raped and than the government stone her to death because she had sex with other man than her husband. You all know this is happening in islamic countries. I know its often agaist the rules of Islam, but when we follow sharia, its really so. One man and two women are equal in the court. When one man rape one woman without other withnesses, he will win the court cause he will say that she is liar. Its really unacceptable.
I know you may say that she was not supposed to be here alone, or you may give me some links, but its not enough I think, maybe we should really think if this idea is correct or not.
In fact the discussion with my friend was not very correct. We both did not know certain facts and we had no exact quotations of holly books or of authorities who study Islam. We talked only as a two friends with opposite opinions. I wrote it in here only to tell you my experience, but if you have somethings to say about it (I hope you do), you are wellcommed.
Today I made my first (not first but at least since I am visiting this web page first) serious discussion about Islam. I was absolutely unsuccessful. My friends main thesis is that Islam is the danger for the world. Mine was that Islam is good religion to follow (I said I am OK to be muslim). I was completely unable to win with my arguments over his arguments against. So Im gona tell about it. All of his arguments were pretty known for me and I though I know the answer for them, but I see its not so.
1. Koran is written by God, Bible by human. Its said that Muhammad had been writing Koran with the help of Allah. In fact, that there are words of Allah, not Muhammeds words. But he told to me that its the same with Bible. There are words of God written by hands of those, who were writing Bible.
2. He told me that he can not accept Islam cause muslims refuse to modify the religion to the new age. Its religion created for the 6th century and now its 21th century so it must be moddified to fit the correct age. I told to him that words in Koran and Muhammads life are historical fact and to follow those examples is correct in every age. No matter what century we have. His answer was that sometimes this is not possible cause the situation has changed.
3. He can not accept religion without human rights. I told to him there is strong idea of human rights in Islam. But he said it can be, but the praxis is different. I had no answer for this. He said that he can not accept religion where woman is raped and than the government stone her to death because she had sex with other man than her husband. You all know this is happening in islamic countries. I know its often agaist the rules of Islam, but when we follow sharia, its really so. One man and two women are equal in the court. When one man rape one woman without other withnesses, he will win the court cause he will say that she is liar. Its really unacceptable.
I know you may say that she was not supposed to be here alone, or you may give me some links, but its not enough I think, maybe we should really think if this idea is correct or not.
In fact the discussion with my friend was not very correct. We both did not know certain facts and we had no exact quotations of holly books or of authorities who study Islam. We talked only as a two friends with opposite opinions. I wrote it in here only to tell you my experience, but if you have somethings to say about it (I hope you do), you are wellcommed.
