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Myself and English protestant, I find it hard to watch video's of my people turning to islam. I watched a documentry of kid's in bradford who claimed they were muslim.
I would generally not refer to other muslims as "our people" as that will be categorizing God's creatures superficially. All of us are nothing else but creatures of God that he had chosen to be placed here where we are, and we only know as much as what had been revelaved to us. For God is All Knowing. Every man is born a muslim (free of sins) and it is his duty (through God's gift - our logic) to remain a muslim, or return to the right path before he dies.
Every sane mind, at any one time is his life, would have questioned of his very existence and whether there is a superbeing that created him. That itself is a mercy and blessing from God on us to initiate a search for the truth. For those who sincerely seek, God will guide you in the right direction, Insya'Allah.
Stealing our kids right from under our noses. If I took a muslim child and made them believe islam was lie, the muslim community would go crazy!
If you took a muslim child and made him believe islam was lie, yes, the muslim community would perhaps go crazy. But not because you "took" the child, but more because on what you lied to him about Islam that is not true.
Why don't you share with us why you think Islam is a lie? God has challenged non-believers 1400 years ago and the offer still stands. Does it not interest you at all to challenge the beliefs of 1.2 billion people and be credited for it? Numerous muslim clerics has reached out for inter faith discussions on religion, in particular with christians, but none has been accepted. why? can't afford the publicity?
Surely, the words "Do not ask questions, just believe in what God has said and do not stray away from the truth" does not constitute to a religion of reason. That is contradictory to Islam where there is freedom of choice and logic.
There is no compulsion in Islam and we are not taught by our prophet to entice non-believers into Islam, but instead show them our religion through good deeds, respect for freedom of choice and peace. It is forbidden to discriminate, criticize, lie or hold grudges (however true) as they are unfavourable social ethics that embed hatred and distrust, which violates our pillar of faith of promoting peace. And you can be sure that our practice of bringing up our kids as muslims is not to bad mouth other religions but instead focus on Islam's beauty, reason, logic and complete way of life. And we are not taught to refrain our kids from mingling with other kids of different faiths. We promote tolerance and respect for other religions. Having a islamic state is not a requirement as Islam can be practiced anywhere however remote.
You may think i'm being racist here i'm really not, I respect your religion, but locally when my town puts up christmas decorations, the council ask us to call them seasonal decorations because they have received complaints, it's just beyond a joke.
As you would have read the report of what actually happened, I am yet again disappointed at the hostility muslims get from the media and general public in the West and get blamed without evidence, through skewed misinterpretations and blatant lies. I find it uneasy that you said that you respected our religion but did blame the anonymous complaints on muslims by default and say "it's just beyond a joke".
Only time will reveal the truth and over the last decade, millions of people now have excess to information at the click of a button. As in the past where people have been misguided by what Islam was being mispresented, now people can actually see and read about Islam and it is no suprise that converts to Islam start flowing through the 21st century when the barrier is lifted. This could had been sooner but muslims are neither missionaries nor train missionaries. God would rather for the most of us "not to preach but guide" those who seek, and discover through logic and learning.
Regards
(I hope for brother and sisters in this forum not to post aggressive or criticizing replies but instead discuss these issues productively with tolerance. Wassalam.)
Myself and English protestant, I find it hard to watch video's of my people turning to islam. I watched a documentry of kid's in bradford who claimed they were muslim.
I would generally not refer to other muslims as "our people" as that will be categorizing God's creatures superficially. All of us are nothing else but creatures of God that he had chosen to be placed here where we are, and we only know as much as what had been revelaved to us. For God is All Knowing. Every man is born a muslim (free of sins) and it is his duty (through God's gift - our logic) to remain a muslim, or return to the right path before he dies.
Every sane mind, at any one time is his life, would have questioned of his very existence and whether there is a superbeing that created him. That itself is a mercy and blessing from God on us to initiate a search for the truth. For those who sincerely seek, God will guide you in the right direction, Insya'Allah.
Stealing our kids right from under our noses. If I took a muslim child and made them believe islam was lie, the muslim community would go crazy!
If you took a muslim child and made him believe islam was lie, yes, the muslim community would perhaps go crazy. But not because you "took" the child, but more because on what you lied to him about Islam that is not true.
Why don't you share with us why you think Islam is a lie? God has challenged non-believers 1400 years ago and the offer still stands. Does it not interest you at all to challenge the beliefs of 1.2 billion people and be credited for it? Numerous muslim clerics has reached out for inter faith discussions on religion, in particular with christians, but none has been accepted. why? can't afford the publicity?
Surely, the words "Do not ask questions, just believe in what God has said and do not stray away from the truth" does not constitute to a religion of reason. That is contradictory to Islam where there is freedom of choice and logic.
There is no compulsion in Islam and we are not taught by our prophet to entice non-believers into Islam, but instead show them our religion through good deeds, respect for freedom of choice and peace. It is forbidden to discriminate, criticize, lie or hold grudges (however true) as they are unfavourable social ethics that embed hatred and distrust, which violates our pillar of faith of promoting peace. And you can be sure that our practice of bringing up our kids as muslims is not to bad mouth other religions but instead focus on Islam's beauty, reason, logic and complete way of life. And we are not taught to refrain our kids from mingling with other kids of different faiths. We promote tolerance and respect for other religions. Having a islamic state is not a requirement as Islam can be practiced anywhere however remote.
You may think i'm being racist here i'm really not, I respect your religion, but locally when my town puts up christmas decorations, the council ask us to call them seasonal decorations because they have received complaints, it's just beyond a joke.
As you would have read the report of what actually happened, I am yet again disappointed at the hostility muslims get from the media and general public in the West and get blamed without evidence, through skewed misinterpretations and blatant lies. I find it uneasy that you said that you respected our religion but did blame the anonymous complaints on muslims by default and say "it's just beyond a joke".
Only time will reveal the truth and over the last decade, millions of people now have excess to information at the click of a button. As in the past where people have been misguided by what Islam was being mispresented, now people can actually see and read about Islam and it is no suprise that converts to Islam start flowing through the 21st century when the barrier is lifted. This could had been sooner but muslims are neither missionaries nor train missionaries. God would rather for the most of us "not to preach but guide" those who seek, and discover through logic and learning.
Regards
(I hope for brother and sisters in this forum not to post aggressive or criticizing replies but instead discuss these issues productively with tolerance. Wassalam.)
