I'm a Muslim. Ask me anything!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One of my favorite quotes from OP is on her thread on "Why Muslims Don't Believe in the Trinity" at 9/12/2014 @ 1:29. Referring to Harvard seminarians who allegedly viewed 7 lines with 3rd-hand info about an obscure 2nd-century group called the Ebionites, OP wrote,

"Yes, these documents are persuasive to some who see them, but if they do not convert it doesn't becessarily mean they weren't compelling. It would take a kind of fortitude not common to most people to actually leave Christianity because of what they've seen. If every seminarian converts, it would certainly shake up the Christianity (sic) faith and thats (sic) a monumental burden few people have shoulders broad enough to bear."

To me, this encapsulates OP's desperation to feel that Islam is taking over the world, especially by conversion, and that this vindicates eveeything OP has said here. And perhaps OP thinks it vindicates her own lack of talent on the conversion/dawwah front. It's also another example of OP's lack of substance - the 3rd-hand quotes about the Ebionites don't actually prove much of anything, plus OP linked to the website of psychologist Dirks but that didn't even mention the Ebionites. Oops.

Of course, where sheer fantasy is concerned, it's hard to argue with OP's insistence over a dozen pages that 25,000 converts > 100,000 immigrants. Another PP says she takes pleasure from OP's claim that not viewing OP's videos makes one an Islsmophobe.

So much ridiculousness to choose from.

I never brought up Ebionites. There you go again with your literal interpretation. Moreover, you have neither read the original scriptures nor know anything about them. Your knowledge on that is the same as your knowledge on Leila Ahmed's book. Remember, that is when you published a paragraph you pulled from a google preview without even reading the book. ?

The truth is, when you see or hear conflicting information, and you wish to know more, you owe it to yourself to learn more. You criticize from afar, but fail to do your own research.

As for dawah, I have never done dawah. However, if I see someone misrepresenting Islam, I will correct them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One of my favorite quotes from OP is on her thread on "Why Muslims Don't Believe in the Trinity" at 9/12/2014 @ 1:29. Referring to Harvard seminarians who allegedly viewed 7 lines with 3rd-hand info about an obscure 2nd-century group called the Ebionites, OP wrote,

"Yes, these documents are persuasive to some who see them, but if they do not convert it doesn't becessarily mean they weren't compelling. It would take a kind of fortitude not common to most people to actually leave Christianity because of what they've seen. If every seminarian converts, it would certainly shake up the Christianity (sic) faith and thats (sic) a monumental burden few people have shoulders broad enough to bear."

To me, this encapsulates OP's desperation to feel that Islam is taking over the world, especially by conversion, and that this vindicates eveeything OP has said here. And perhaps OP thinks it vindicates her own lack of talent on the conversion/dawwah front. It's also another example of OP's lack of substance - the 3rd-hand quotes about the Ebionites don't actually prove much of anything, plus OP linked to the website of psychologist Dirks but that didn't even mention the Ebionites. Oops.

Of course, where sheer fantasy is concerned, it's hard to argue with OP's insistence over a dozen pages that 25,000 converts > 100,000 immigrants. Another PP says she takes pleasure from OP's claim that not viewing OP's videos makes one an Islsmophobe.

So much ridiculousness to choose from.

I never brought up Ebionites. There you go again with your literal interpretation. Moreover, you have neither read the original scriptures nor know anything about them. Your knowledge on that is the same as your knowledge on Leila Ahmed's book. Remember, that is when you published a paragraph you pulled from a google preview without even reading the book. ?

The truth is, when you see or hear conflicting information, and you wish to know more, you owe it to yourself to learn more. You criticize from afar, but fail to do your own research.

As for dawah, I have never done dawah. However, if I see someone misrepresenting Islam, I will correct them.

Liar. In that quote you make some of the same grammatical mistakes you always make.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My BIL is on the spectrum and a cousin's son has severe autism.

The asperger's comment is the mark of somebody who has the maturity of a ten-year-old.

Your cousin's son? Well then you are the expert, aren't you?

Ask yourself why it is an insult to say Aspergers individuals tend toward literal comprehension.

Because you're obviously using Aspergers to argue that if that PP doesn't agree with you, then there's something "off" about her. It's merely the latest in your string of insults of Christian-crusader-evangelical-Islamophobie grannies in miniskirts with STDs and delinquent kids.

How absolutely babyish of you. I'll ask again: are you 10 years old?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One of my favorite quotes from OP is on her thread on "Why Muslims Don't Believe in the Trinity" at 9/12/2014 @ 1:29. Referring to Harvard seminarians who allegedly viewed 7 lines with 3rd-hand info about an obscure 2nd-century group called the Ebionites, OP wrote,

"Yes, these documents are persuasive to some who see them, but if they do not convert it doesn't becessarily mean they weren't compelling. It would take a kind of fortitude not common to most people to actually leave Christianity because of what they've seen. If every seminarian converts, it would certainly shake up the Christianity (sic) faith and thats (sic) a monumental burden few people have shoulders broad enough to bear."

To me, this encapsulates OP's desperation to feel that Islam is taking over the world, especially by conversion, and that this vindicates eveeything OP has said here. And perhaps OP thinks it vindicates her own lack of talent on the conversion/dawwah front. It's also another example of OP's lack of substance - the 3rd-hand quotes about the Ebionites don't actually prove much of anything, plus OP linked to the website of psychologist Dirks but that didn't even mention the Ebionites. Oops.

Of course, where sheer fantasy is concerned, it's hard to argue with OP's insistence over a dozen pages that 25,000 converts > 100,000 immigrants. Another PP says she takes pleasure from OP's claim that not viewing OP's videos makes one an Islsmophobe.

So much ridiculousness to choose from.

I never brought up Ebionites. There you go again with your literal interpretation. Moreover, you have neither read the original scriptures nor know anything about them. Your knowledge on that is the same as your knowledge on Leila Ahmed's book. Remember, that is when you published a paragraph you pulled from a google preview without even reading the book. ?

The truth is, when you see or hear conflicting information, and you wish to know more, you owe it to yourself to learn more. You criticize from afar, but fail to do your own research.

As for dawah, I have never done dawah. However, if I see someone misrepresenting Islam, I will correct them.

Liar. In that quote you make some of the same grammatical mistakes you always make.

PS. You're talking to a different poster than the one you accused of having Aspergers. Who's got the problem with social cues?

If you've proven nothing else with these threads, it's that readers should definitely do their own research rather than trust you.

Liar.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
I am the Muslim poster who said she was glad the Islamophobe's husband found her useful for something. I did not write the derogatory post about Catholics. Despite anything said in retaliation in any other thread or in previous posts, I actually have great respect for all Abrahamic faiths and would never refer to Catholics as weird. It is, however, in line with the Islamophobe's manner of communication, which is precisely why Muslims were offended by her.

You do? Except for when you use christianevangelicalcrusader as an insult?

You aren't fooling anyone, you know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
I am the Muslim poster who said she was glad the Islamophobe's husband found her useful for something. I did not write the derogatory post about Catholics. Despite anything said in retaliation in any other thread or in previous posts, I actually have great respect for all Abrahamic faiths and would never refer to Catholics as weird. It is, however, in line with the Islamophobe's manner of communication, which is precisely why Muslims were offended by her.

You do? Except for when you use christianevangelicalcrusader as an insult?

You aren't fooling anyone, you know.

Don't get how one can have great respect for the Abrahamic religions and then start a thread like why Muslims don't believe in the trinity and bring up obscure groups (Ebionites) or writings (Gospel of Thomas) to undermine mainstream Christian beliefs.

Apart from that, don't get the focus on Abrahamic religions, as the Quran refers to people of the book, which includes followers of Zorastrianism, of which the Yazidi religion is an offshoot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
I am the Muslim poster who said she was glad the Islamophobe's husband found her useful for something. I did not write the derogatory post about Catholics. Despite anything said in retaliation in any other thread or in previous posts, I actually have great respect for all Abrahamic faiths and would never refer to Catholics as weird. It is, however, in line with the Islamophobe's manner of communication, which is precisely why Muslims were offended by her.

You do? Except for when you use christianevangelicalcrusader as an insult?

You aren't fooling anyone, you know.

Don't get how one can have great respect for the Abrahamic religions and then start a thread like why Muslims don't believe in the trinity and bring up obscure groups (Ebionites) or writings (Gospel of Thomas) to undermine mainstream Christian beliefs.

Apart from that, don't get the focus on Abrahamic religions, as the Quran refers to people of the book, which includes followers of Zorastrianism, of which the Yazidi religion is an offshoot.

Don't forget the church-farm guy, with a flock of maybe 20 members, who OP said represented Christians with his literal take on the Old Testament.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
I just can not reason with you. There is a distinct mental block in your mind. If I said you probably had negative experiences with Muslims, which probably gave birth to your hatefulness toward Islam, it does not equate to saying you must have had negative experiences with ALL or EVERY Muslim on earth. And this is why I asked you previously if you had Aspergers. People with Aspergers tend toward literal comprehension. I can't figure out if you have this challenge or if it's a cultural.

You cannot reason with me because you lack reasoning abilities, and you can't figure out things about me because you lack the ability to do so.

Anonymous wrote:As for your husband, you have described him as entirely secular.

I haven't, actually.

Anonymous wrote: As is the case with many, many Muslim husbands who marry non-Muslim women, as they age and when their mortality becomes evident to them, they silently nurse their sorrow and regret for the decision to marry a non-Muslim. This is usually true if their children grow up to be non practicing Muslims. Your husband will never tell you this when he realizes his regret. But in all likelihood, he will feel it when he is older, much the same way his family probably feels regret at him having married you.

You don't know anything about Muslim husbands of non-Muslim women, and about my husband in particular. You are just spinning stories - just like the poor, downtrodden women with two or four children in tow. This particular one, like many of yours, isn't entirely original - there is a strong resentment in certain Muslim circles, particularly among some (not all) educated American-Muslim women, a degree of discontent toward Muslim men who opt to marry outside of Islam, or to bring a young bride from back home, thus reducing the pool of marrigeable men (since Muslim men can marry outside the faith, and Muslim women can't). http://muslimmatters.org/2013/09/27/muslim-marriage-crisis/ They all end up with shaking their fists and "but..but... he'll regret it later!! but...but...the family hates you!", or, when all else fails, "but...you will burn in hell!" Yawn.

Anonymous wrote:
I can not fathom that you can be any kind of an Islam-neutral figure in your children's lives. Hundreds of posts twisting the truth about Islamic history or Islamic principles by confusing it with Muslim practice does not make you Islam-neutral.

That's because you lack fathoming abilities.

Anonymous wrote:
But the lovely irony here is how Allah managed to use you, a hate mongering Islamophobe, and will possibly turn your descendants for generations to come into Muslims. It may be that despite your hateful stance on Islam, your children will grow up to become leaders in Islam, paving the path for others to follow Islam. Oh the irony.

Actually, the much lovelier irony is how Allah managed to use you, a presumed Islamophile, to bring so much embarrassment and ill feeling toward Islam among the DCUM readership. Not one person reading this and other threads you started felt an iota of sympathy toward your arguments. Why do you think that is?

As for my children, no one really knows what the future holds for them. Even you, the all-knowing one, seem to be of two minds - they may grow up as non-practicing Muslims, you say, and a paragraph later you say they become leaders. Oh well. If you think they are destined to rule, I won't disagree. After all, look at all the assets they will inherit from mommy dearest, not including their father's considerable gifts - beauty, intellect, eloquence, penmanship - those can't possibly go to waste completely. But there isn't any way to tell just yet.

There are only two things I feel comfortable predicting about them. One, like all good Muslim sons they will worship their mother. And two, they will know enough math to answer the question "Which one is greater, twenty-five or a hundred?"

[Anonymous]

I think we've come a bit closer to understanding why Muslim PP is so antagonistic to PP who is leader of little merry band.

It's because she's had the chutzpa to snap up an eligible Muslim man, diminishing the pool for Muslim PP's sisters in faith. Just something a woman has to live with when she belongs to a religion that forbids Muslim women from marrying nonMuslims.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Well, I'm glad your husband finds you useful for something then, thanks for sharing, witty one.

You seem weirdly Catholic on the subject of marital sex. Are you quite sure you are Muslim?

Different PP. I'm not Catholic, but I think your attitude towards Catholcs ("weirdly Catholic") is pretty insulting, although it's pretty consistent with other statements you've made about Christians.

I'm sure you'd go nuclear about Islamophobia if somebody described a practice as "weirdly Muslim."

I don't think you know who I am, so let's not talk about consistency with "other statements you've made about Christians." This is an anonymous board. You have no idea who said what. My statement was made with a big dollop of sarcasm. I also don't think it's a secret to anyone how Catholic church viewed marital sex until perhaps very recently.

So you deny that you'd go nuclear if somebody called something "weirdly Muslim"? Because you've called people Islamophobes for much less, like not watching your videos.

I'm not the Muslim poster. Ergo, I haven't called people Islamophobes for much less, or much more, or even for that exact thing.

I am the Muslim poster who said she was glad the Islamophobe's husband found her useful for something. I did not write the derogatory post about Catholics. Despite anything said in retaliation in any other thread or in previous posts, I actually have great respect for all Abrahamic faiths and would never refer to Catholics as weird. It is, however, in line with the Islamophobe's manner of communication, which is precisely why Muslims were offended by her.

OP- How much respect do you have towards non-Abrahamic faiths? Hindus? Buddhists? Yazidis?

Still waiting on an answer for this one OP. Did you conveniently 'not even see it'?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

As for dawah, I have never done dawah. However, if I see someone misrepresenting Islam, I will correct them.

You started all these threads. Also the threads challenging Christianity. What was that all about?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

As for dawah, I have never done dawah. However, if I see someone misrepresenting Islam, I will correct them.

You started all these threads. Also the threads challenging Christianity. What was that all about?

Sounds like dawah to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I never brought up Ebionites. There you go again with your literal interpretation. Moreover, you have neither read the original scriptures nor know anything about them. Your knowledge on that is the same as your knowledge on Leila Ahmed's book. Remember, that is when you published a paragraph you pulled from a google preview without even reading the book. ?

The truth is, when you see or hear conflicting information, and you wish to know more, you owe it to yourself to learn more. You criticize from afar, but fail to do your own research.

As for dawah, I have never done dawah. However, if I see someone misrepresenting Islam, I will correct them.

Ahem. There is no extant Ebionite "original scripture" as you claim above. There is a fragment consisting of seven passages from a letter written by a guy who disliked the Ebionites and may not have had an accurate knowledge of them. That's all anybody knows about the Ebionites.

Also, I refuted your claim that Leila Ahmed "changed her mind" about pre-Islamic Arabia, based on my actually owning her book. You keep misrepresenting Dr. Ahmed's book--in fact you're apparently still misrepresenting it--so I reposted several times. Namely, that Dr. Ahmed discussed ore-Islamic Arabia at the start of her book and several topics in modern Islam at the end of her book, but this natural historic progression had nothing to do with a "change of mind" about pre-Islamic Arabia. Remember that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
I just can not reason with you. There is a distinct mental block in your mind. If I said you probably had negative experiences with Muslims, which probably gave birth to your hatefulness toward Islam, it does not equate to saying you must have had negative experiences with ALL or EVERY Muslim on earth. And this is why I asked you previously if you had Aspergers. People with Aspergers tend toward literal comprehension. I can't figure out if you have this challenge or if it's a cultural.

You cannot reason with me because you lack reasoning abilities, and you can't figure out things about me because you lack the ability to do so.

Anonymous wrote:As for your husband, you have described him as entirely secular.

I haven't, actually.

Anonymous wrote: As is the case with many, many Muslim husbands who marry non-Muslim women, as they age and when their mortality becomes evident to them, they silently nurse their sorrow and regret for the decision to marry a non-Muslim. This is usually true if their children grow up to be non practicing Muslims. Your husband will never tell you this when he realizes his regret. But in all likelihood, he will feel it when he is older, much the same way his family probably feels regret at him having married you.

You don't know anything about Muslim husbands of non-Muslim women, and about my husband in particular. You are just spinning stories - just like the poor, downtrodden women with two or four children in tow. This particular one, like many of yours, isn't entirely original - there is a strong resentment in certain Muslim circles, particularly among some (not all) educated American-Muslim women, a degree of discontent toward Muslim men who opt to marry outside of Islam, or to bring a young bride from back home, thus reducing the pool of marrigeable men (since Muslim men can marry outside the faith, and Muslim women can't). http://muslimmatters.org/2013/09/27/muslim-marriage-crisis/ They all end up with shaking their fists and "but..but... he'll regret it later!! but...but...the family hates you!", or, when all else fails, "but...you will burn in hell!" Yawn.

Anonymous wrote:
I can not fathom that you can be any kind of an Islam-neutral figure in your children's lives. Hundreds of posts twisting the truth about Islamic history or Islamic principles by confusing it with Muslim practice does not make you Islam-neutral.

That's because you lack fathoming abilities.

Anonymous wrote:
But the lovely irony here is how Allah managed to use you, a hate mongering Islamophobe, and will possibly turn your descendants for generations to come into Muslims. It may be that despite your hateful stance on Islam, your children will grow up to become leaders in Islam, paving the path for others to follow Islam. Oh the irony.

Actually, the much lovelier irony is how Allah managed to use you, a presumed Islamophile, to bring so much embarrassment and ill feeling toward Islam among the DCUM readership. Not one person reading this and other threads you started felt an iota of sympathy toward your arguments. Why do you think that is?

As for my children, no one really knows what the future holds for them. Even you, the all-knowing one, seem to be of two minds - they may grow up as non-practicing Muslims, you say, and a paragraph later you say they become leaders. Oh well. If you think they are destined to rule, I won't disagree. After all, look at all the assets they will inherit from mommy dearest, not including their father's considerable gifts - beauty, intellect, eloquence, penmanship - those can't possibly go to waste completely. But there isn't any way to tell just yet.

There are only two things I feel comfortable predicting about them. One, like all good Muslim sons they will worship their mother. And two, they will know enough math to answer the question "Which one is greater, twenty-five or a hundred?"

I think you and I both know you are as desi as they come. It's easy to spot someone who isn't American. It's the lack of American colloquialism. It's referring to "Kool Aid" as "Cool Aid." I did get a good chuckle with that, by the way. I got you figured out.

I enjoyed this post so much. I just don't know where to begin. Lets see…Eeny, meeny, miny, moe..I think I'll start with your children.

If your children turn out to be good Muslims, then woe on you as that would be your worst nightmare. If your children turn out to be bad Muslim, then your husband will bemoan his marriage to you silently and quietly. So either way, you lose.

What should I address next? Oh, right. The jealousy of Muslim women toward nonMuslim women who "steal" Muslim men and leave fewer men to us. Yes, some may be jealous. I am not one of them. I wholeheartedly embrace the idea of Muslim men marrying nonMuslim women. This is a significant way that Islam can increase in number worldwide. In fact, my mother-in-law is a convert so had it not been for her marrying a Muslim man, my father-in-law, I might never have met my own husband. Besides, Muslim women are marrying converting men in increasing numbers or returning to their homeland to find a husband. No need for them to panic.

I have to address this before I leave you. "Fathoming"??? Is that a Pakistani word? Not finding it in the American dictionary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
I did not say I did not know what takfir is; I said I did not see the immigrant poster's posts to agree with you that he committed this sin. You can dismiss it as a petty spelling error, but it is not. I generally do not pay attention to misspellings. This was no misspelling, it was a revelation that shed light on your identity and supports my theory that you are an angry Pakistani out for revenge against Muslims. You don't know much about that expression. Word of advice, don't use expressions to try to sound "cool" or American if you can't use them properly. You had no issue mocking the immigrant poster for speaking poor English...if you dish it out, you better be able to take it.

How did you not see it if you replied to it? Did you respond without seeing it? It's not the immigrant poster, it's someone entirely different.

You are so endearingly provincial in your insistence that anyone one say or write can peg them to a particular place. It's as if you have no awareness of the way knowledge travels. It's as if anyone non-American HAS to be Pakistani. Actually, even though I'm lily-white, your continued characterization of Pakistanis as subhuman paints a a picture that isn't pretty.

What do I care what you think about my spelling? Mock away. I'll use whatever expressions I see fit. I don't care about your misspellings - and it's not like there's a shortage of material there, you know. Spelling mistakes or not, you've failed to make a single ally on DCUM - I wonder why that is?

Provincial? Not really. I have lived in other countries and come from a family that is very diverse. That is how I know these are not terms commonly used in published work, even scholarly work, unless they are defined for readers. Between the Islamophobes "Cool-Aid" and her terms such as "Dawah wallah" I can guess she is likely someone who is of a minority faith from a Muslim country. She is angry and looking for revenge and used DCUM as her soap box.

x2