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RE: Ask Your Favorite Muslim
October 1, 2016 at 8:59 pm
(This post was last modified: October 1, 2016 at 9:21 pm by Rayaan.)
(October 1, 2016 at 7:08 pm)Jesster Wrote: How does it feel to be wrong? (kidding, kidding  )
But more seriously, how do you feel about hanging out with atheists?
Since you live in America, what are your views on the Christian majority here?
It's alright, although I enjoy hanging out with Muslims more than atheists. I come here mainly to have a little fun, and from time to time I also take pleasure in having focused, intellectual discussions on certain topics that interest me. There are a few other forums that I go to, which are religious forums.
As for your other question, I don't have any issues with the Christian majority. Most of them are tolerant and decent people, IMO.
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RE: Ask Your Favorite Muslim
October 1, 2016 at 8:59 pm
LOL< EP, he doesn't see it, you're having an outsider moment. Those were examples of islamic forbearance and tolerance.........
(I'm giggling like a little girl right now....)
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RE: Ask Your Favorite Muslim
October 1, 2016 at 9:01 pm
(This post was last modified: October 1, 2016 at 9:07 pm by Rayaan.)
Edit: Never mind.
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RE: Ask Your Favorite Muslim
October 1, 2016 at 9:07 pm
(October 1, 2016 at 4:50 pm)Rayaan Wrote: (October 1, 2016 at 4:41 pm)Aegon Wrote: Do you feel offended or even threatened by his anti-Islam rhetoric? (I'm not sure if you're American, I haven't read many of your posts)
I live in America, but as strange as it may sound to you, I'm not really offended nor threatened by his anti-Islamic rhetoric.
Actually, to be precise, I feel that Trump's rhetoric is just anti-extremist, not anti-Islamic.
I don't see how requiring Muslims to register in a database isn't anti-Islamic.
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RE: Ask Your Favorite Muslim
October 1, 2016 at 9:22 pm
(October 1, 2016 at 8:59 pm)Rhythm Wrote: LOL< EP, he doesn't see it, you're having an outsider moment. Those were examples of islamic forbearance and tolerance.........
(I'm giggling like a little girl right now....)
I'm not having any kind of moment. Don't insult my intelligence like that. Maybe you should look at those statements more carefully.
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RE: Ask Your Favorite Muslim
October 1, 2016 at 11:30 pm
Do you think a quote from Koran such as 8:12 : "When your Lord revealed to the angels: I am with you, therefore make firm those who believe. I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them” is influential in the bloody heinous murder of James Foley.
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RE: Ask Your Favorite Muslim
October 2, 2016 at 5:16 am
(October 1, 2016 at 7:20 pm)Minimalist Wrote: How can you live without bacon?
Or alcohol?
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RE: Ask Your Favorite Muslim
October 2, 2016 at 5:27 am
What was your upbringing like? What did your parents or teachers tell you about homosexuals, sex education, women and so on? Were you ever hit?
Do you ever have doubts about all this? Any doubts about God talking to some dust to get it to be alive, the stars being missiles to fight off devils, god telling people to write books and angels in general.
Do you at least objectively see SOME similarities between other religious cults and Islam. The messenger gives himself higher importance than his followers and different rules to follow. The way cults tend to expand, and split, and expand some more, and fight and so on.
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RE: Ask Your Favorite Muslim
October 2, 2016 at 6:14 am
(This post was last modified: October 2, 2016 at 6:14 am by robvalue.)
Why do you choose to be a Muslim?
(I'm not asking about why you think Islam is "true").
Sorry if this already got asked.
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RE: Ask Your Favorite Muslim
October 2, 2016 at 6:34 am
Hy Rayaan.
Great thread!
First question: How do you manage to always look so cheerful in your photos?
Second: (I think Rob already touched it a bit) why are you a Muslim? (it's okay to say "indoctrination"...)
Third: Why do Muslims (most remarkably, non-Arabic ones) often speak with Arabic words?
Fourth: Why do Muslims so often quote from the Qur'an or some Hadith? Feels like the Evangelicals learned from Muslims... or vice-versa...
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.
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?
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