(January 16, 2016 at 7:47 am)marssims Wrote: What confuses is not the definition of Islam. They'll always be people who follow it one way and those who follow it another. I'm confused how so many young people hold strong beliefs on it. Is it lack of education?The (definition of) word '"Islam" does confuse me though; which is why I prefer to use the word "Muhammadan". There could be an entire thread on the etymology. But, basically, it comes down to the common understanding of the word 'Islam'.
I always thought that every new generation would become more and more agnostic. But it seems it's going the other way round in the Muslim community.
What is it Islam has that other religions don't? In the UK, I think it would be a serious struggle to find more young Christians that agnostics in the street.
"Islam" means "submission to god" in Arabic. Christians, and indeed all religious people, submit to a god(s) so why isn't their religion referred to as "Islam"? Many Arab speaking Christians even use the word "Allah". A "Muslim" is one who submits but, perhaps oddly, nobody called modern Christians "Muslims". So I use the term Muhammadan to differentiate the people of the Ummah from other those of other religions.
