i adressed not only this post but your recent posts in general.you are not claiming to be a muslim anymore(am i wrong?) which is ok.
yes,this news is ridiculous to me as well,so what.every muslim loves(should love) every creature of Allah(s.w.t.) whether it is a dog,pig,spider etc.you can not say muslims have a problem with dogs becouse of their belief.dog's saliva,as far as i know,is considered unclean according to islam and before you perform your prayer you should clean your body and dress.while in this case complaining about a picture because it has a dog on it is simply nonesense,but it does not mean that we should not voice our concerns without being violent when we have a valid case.
and you say that minorities on this planet should not have any rights.excuse me but i do not agree with you.
FINALLY someone has said what I wanted to say all along. THANK YOU!!!
I've been looking in on this forum for a while now and finally after seeing the same nonsense over and over again I felt the need to finally register so that I can say something before I explode.
As a Muslim...it is our duty to try to educate and also to represent Islam in the best possible light, which often does not happen here, and recently it seems many people are just so quick to jump down someone's throat.
You see it over and over again...I am not sure if there is a handbook of some sort or what? But most of you tend to answer someone's questions or threads with the ever so popular "well in your country you do this...or that" "well what about Iraq?" "well what about all the murders and killings in your country"
PUUHLEASE????!!!!!!! Is that all you got? Because it's played out and old and it gets you nowhere. Those typical repsonses from Muslims when faced with anger or confusion from a non Muslim do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to help Islam and do absolutely NOTHING to show a different side of Islam.
Just because someone sparks a nerve inside of you, offends you, or angers you does not mean you have to counter argue by pointing out something equally disgusting or wrong from their country, race, religion..or whatever.
Is that Islamic? NOPE!!!!
I think that the above post and Mirajmom's was exactly what the person who started this thread needs to hear and read.
You see, often times people who are not educated enough in Islam or for whatever reason choose NOT to educate themsleves just wants a Muslim to explain to them...to tell them it's not right...to affirm to them that the majority opinion of the general public is not at all what Muslims as a whole believe in.
When I am faced with someone saying "look...look what you Muslims are doing over here or there ...how can you be apart of such hatefulness and terror" I have to stop and compose myself. I don't immediately shout back that ever so popular line "well what if it were your brother or child or mother" blah blah blah...they will not hear that, they will not understand that. Listen up people...what they are really doing is crying out for someone, anyone, especially a MUSLIM to comfort them and tell them, to show them that this is NOT ISLAM!
When I am posed with those questions and comments that anger me, I try really hard to listen to the person beneath all the words and I usually see someone who just wants me to assure them that this is not what it's all about.
Just exactly what this above post did. Instead of pouncing back and insulting and trying to play the game of who is more evil and who is more ignorant(which makes everyone look ignorant and intolerant and evil) they explained to her what a Muslims stance is as far as dogs and they showed the original poster that this is not their opinion. They do not agree with however many people got upset over a picture of a dog. That;s what she wanted to hear...that is what she is crying out for.
For YOU as a MUslim to show her, to assure her that some of this nonsense is not what Islam is all about. To show her compassion and patience and understanding instead of the ever so typical responses that you see here which is that of ...let me throw it back in your face lady.
How ridiculous the state of the Ummah is when you have Muslims no longer representing the real Islam and just throwing equally digusting accusations, and instances back in the face of the person who is lost.
How does this help Islam? How does it help Islam when someone or such a thread like this is started and you become angry and start throwing things right back at the poster? Start searching feverishly on the internet for anything and everything in the Bible that could be equally if not more heinous than something someone percieves to be the message in the Quran???? How does this help???
I will tell you it does NOTHING. It will do 1 of 2 things...it will either arouse more anger in the person posing the question or passing the comment and nothing comes of this. They learn nothing. OR you just showed them that "hey..not only is the Quran filled with "evil" but so is the Bible?" Essentially confusing that person even more. Now they have lost faith in both religions.
Tell me people...HOW DO YOU REPRESENT ISLAM??????????????
How can you sleep at night knowing you just got into an argument or insulted someone online???? Doesn't matter if they did the same...doesn't matter that they have a bad impression of Islam..maybe...JUST MAYBE if you would not respond with emotion and ignorance and show the TRUE MUSLIM then you would change peoples perception of Islam.
The only accomplished in this thread is the confirmation she has of Muslims with the exception of three posters. Insha'Allah she will only read those three and only take from them. InshaAllah she will ignore the insults and Insha'Allah she will see her own errors in the process. Insha'Allah she will learn a different side of Islam from those SELECT few Muslims who truly are good servants of Allah subana wa tala. InshaAllah InshaAllah!!!!