(January 31, 2011 at 6:19 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: I wonder if American Muslims would be more likely to consider Alevists to be fellow Muslims than those in majority Muslim countries?
I think the American Muslims would be just as likely to not consider them as Muslims.
We can't always tell if a Muslim is a "true" Muslim or not, of course, because we can't read their intentions or look into their hearts to see if they truly believe or not. If they say that they are Muslims, then we should believe them unless there is a strong evidence for the contrary. Nevertheless, we can certainly say that the Alevis are not the "right" type of Muslims as opposed to saying that they are not "true" Muslims. The same goes for Christians and the followers of any other religion.
