Muslim and Christian threads deleted in religion forums

[Anonymous]

This morning, two separate threads were deleted in the religious forum. The first was by a Muslim poster, offering to answer questions about Islam. The second by a Christian poster, who said to learn about Christianity, read the New Testament.

Why were those two threads deleted?

[jsteele]

Let's see. So far this morning you have:

1) submitted a report telling me to delete a thread about Atheism;

2) started a thread about finding your faith; and

3) started this thread.

Such a busy little beaver. But, despite all that energy you have, you must not have read either of the threads that I removed. The Islam thread was started by a poster who immediately got upset by the negative replies and abandoned DCUM. The last several posts were all anti-Islam. Do you really want me to leave a thread so that a religion can be bashed?

The thread about Christianity was either a joke or a troll. The entire thing was about fake Christians. The very first sentence was, "I cannot answer your questions." Again, is that the type of thread that you want me to leave?

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

I posted on the islam thread asking about Islam's violent start and about teachings of personal love from Allah. Are those considered anti islamic to you? I am genuinely curious about those questions, and I don't see how we can ever have a good dialogue on islam without addressing its less savory aspects.

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:I posted on the islam thread asking about Islam's violent start and about teachings of personal love from Allah. Are those considered anti islamic to you? I am genuinely curious about those questions, and I don't see how we can ever have a good dialogue on islam without addressing its less savory aspects.

Your post in isolation might not have been too bad but it wasn't in isolation. There were a bunch of worse messages as well. Moreover, even before this morning I had removed a half-doze or so posts.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I posted on the islam thread asking about Islam's violent start and about teachings of personal love from Allah. Are those considered anti islamic to you? I am genuinely curious about those questions, and I don't see how we can ever have a good dialogue on islam without addressing its less savory aspects.

Your post in isolation might not have been too bad but it wasn't in isolation. There were a bunch of worse messages as well. Moreover, even before this morning I had removed a half-doze or so posts.

I see. Thanks for responding.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I posted on the islam thread asking about Islam's violent start and about teachings of personal love from Allah. Are those considered anti islamic to you? I am genuinely curious about those questions, and I don't see how we can ever have a good dialogue on islam without addressing its less savory aspects.

Why do we need a "good dialogue" on Islam? Why right now on DCUM?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I posted on the islam thread asking about Islam's violent start and about teachings of personal love from Allah. Are those considered anti islamic to you? I am genuinely curious about those questions, and I don't see how we can ever have a good dialogue on islam without addressing its less savory aspects.

Why do we need a "good dialogue" on Islam? Why right now on DCUM?
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Why not? I just really want to understand the appeal of islam. How is that different from all the posters asking about the appeal of Christianity? I feel like islam is the one religion I can never ask critical questions about, which is really annoying.