Disturbing/discouraging video about Islam.

[Catholic_Lady]

Yeah the video is real. Broadly speaking, there are two types of Muslims:

1 - Superficial/cultural Muslims who pray, eat halal, cover their heads, and fast. They may well be serious believers, and take these duties seriously, but they're not interested in a deeper/intellectual level of religion. These are probably your friends. Generally they avoid intellectual discussion and are sensitive about the topic.

2 - Devout Muslims who want a deeper knowledge of exactly the right way to follow their god. Alas, when you look into the ideology/doctrine/history of Islam and the prophet Mohammed, the rabbit hole goes very deep, and very ugly. Islam is a religion of evil. It has been since the prophet Mohammed head-chopped his way over Arabia. These devout Muslims are typically those that go to conferences, and take on leadership roles.

The bottom line is: when you encounter an intellectual/deeper Muslim, don't be surprised if you get a rude acquaintance with unreformed 7th Century barbarism.

There are many Christians who are experts about true Islam, and you can find their videos on YouTube e.g. Robert Spencer, David Wood, Nabeel Qureshi, Brother Rachid, Usama Dakdok.

#1 describes my friends to a tea. The few times I have asked him a question about an Islamic teaching, he had no idea what the answer was. The most recent example was a couple weeks ago when he was telling me about how he and his wife haven't had sex all week because she was on her period and that is considered immoral in his religion. I asked him why it was immoral and he had no idea. He also didn't know why men are allowed to marry multiple women, but a woman can't marry multiple men. Things that seem like they'd be pretty basic. He believes those moral teachings but doesn't know why they are what they are.