Ask Your Favorite Muslim

[Rayaan]

First question: How do you manage to always look so cheerful in your photos?

Well, we know that question is sarcastic, so let's move on.

Second: (I think Rob already touched it a bit) why are you a Muslim? (it's okay to say "indoctrination"...)

Refer to my answer to Rob.

Third: Why do Muslims (most remarkably, non-Arabic ones) often speak with Arabic words?

Because there are certain Arabic words that carry more blessings if you say them (especially words like "masha'Allah," "insha'Allah," "subhan'Allah," etc). On the other hand, I think some Muslims say Arabic words in front of non-Arabic people just because they want to show off that they know how to speak Arabic, or maybe they think that it's cool or something.

For me, the usage of Arabic words depends on who I speak to. I almost never use them when I'm speaking to an audience like you guys. But, when I speak to a group of Muslims, I do use Arabic words a little bit because they understand me.

Fourth: Why do Muslims so often quote from the Qur'an or some Hadith? Feels like the Evangelicals learned from Muslims... or vice-versa...

Because those are the texts that they adhere to?

I feel like you're just trying to bait me with such a self-explanatory question. Maybe I should stop responding to you. 

Fifth: How does it feel to belong to the last religion to sprout from the Middle-East? I mean... the last! not the first... not the one that set it off... the last... the one most contaminated by human folly.

I'm not going to answer if you keep inserting your own loaded opinions into the questions (e.g. "the one most contaminated by human folly").

Sixth: What was wrong with the Sumerian religion? It is, as far as we can tell, the oldest Middle-Eastern religion... shouldn't it be the one closest to the source?

I don't believe in multiple gods. And there are other reasons as well.