Hello everyone. I should probably start by telling you a bit about myself. I am a thirty year old American non-muslim female. I have been lurking reading this board for sometime now, as I mentioned since I am not of the muslim faith myself I thought it inappropriate to just barge in on you all.
But I decided to join finally when looking at some past threads I saw a few others who, like me, were not muslim but respect the religion and are curious about it, and were accepted, so I thought I'd give it a try as well.
I hope I am welcome here even being non-muslim. The reasons for my curiosity are many, it is a very long and boring story so I won't go fully into it. But I will say that I am half Saudi Arabian, on my fathers side, my mother is American, and I've never met my father, so studying and reading everything I can about the country, including its religion, has always been very important to me. It gives me a small sense of knowing who he was as a person, since Islam seems to be such a huge part of what makes up ones character, if that makes sense. I have been looking around many places, including Yahoo answers, to find as much information as I can, but the opinions expressed there are always so cynical, I wanted to find somewhere that I could get my information in a positive manner, rather than tinged with prejudice or fear. This place has called to me because everyone here seems very happy, and peace filled, so I hope that I will be welcome here and that I can learn from you all. Thank you for having me here.
But I decided to join finally when looking at some past threads I saw a few others who, like me, were not muslim but respect the religion and are curious about it, and were accepted, so I thought I'd give it a try as well.
I hope I am welcome here even being non-muslim. The reasons for my curiosity are many, it is a very long and boring story so I won't go fully into it. But I will say that I am half Saudi Arabian, on my fathers side, my mother is American, and I've never met my father, so studying and reading everything I can about the country, including its religion, has always been very important to me. It gives me a small sense of knowing who he was as a person, since Islam seems to be such a huge part of what makes up ones character, if that makes sense. I have been looking around many places, including Yahoo answers, to find as much information as I can, but the opinions expressed there are always so cynical, I wanted to find somewhere that I could get my information in a positive manner, rather than tinged with prejudice or fear. This place has called to me because everyone here seems very happy, and peace filled, so I hope that I will be welcome here and that I can learn from you all. Thank you for having me here. 
to TTI and ISLAM. The best place to study Islam is the muslim websites. turst you won't find anything at the yahoo answers other than hate. And i have seen it in their. So of course we will Welcome you and we hope that you benefit from here. 