These are the major tenants, The Five Pillars Shahadah: declaring there is no god except God, and Muhammad is God's Messenger Salat: ritual prayer five times a day Zakat: giving 2.5% of one’s savings to the poor and needy Sawm: fasting and self-control during the holy month of Ramadan Hajj: pilgrimage to Mecca at least once in a lifetime if one is able After that, I would think, beliefs vary depending on which sect you follow. Just as Christianity has many different sects. |
Oh puhhhhhleassseeee. And for anybody who really wants a laugh, a summary of this thread and the genuine "challenges" Muslim posters faced: Muslim: Children are taught the Quran in 7th century Arabic and taught the meaning of some suras. IslamHater: okay, but do they know the translation for every single word in the Quran? Muslim: how can they when they are children and the Quran is hundreds of pages long? Learning it is a life long endeavor. IslamHater: AHA! See! They don't know what they are reciting! Muslim: the majority of Muslims learn the Quran in its original language. Devout ones learn Quranic Arabic. IslamHater: 95% of Muslims don't know what they are reciting. Muslim: if most all children are taught the meaning of the suras they learn in schools, and its been this way for hundreds of years, how can 95% not have any idea of what they recite? IslamHater: proof: Afghanistan has a 23% literacy rate Muslim: but why use Afghanistan as representative of the world when it has one one of the lowest literacy rates? IslamHater: Arab superiority is a big problem in Islam! Muslim: not really. Muslims care only about being able to practice Islam and Arabs don't hinder nonmuslims from practicing. IslamHater: oh yes it IS a big problem! They dictate dress code to all other Muslims. Muslim: not really. African women dress like Muslim African women, Bosnian Muslims dress like Bosnian Muslims, Lebanese Muslim women dress like Lebanese women. Different head covering styles. Arabs dictate only how Arabs should dress. Muslim: islam established voting rights for women 1400 yrs ago IslamHater: no, it didn't. Prove it. Muslim: sura Ash Shurra used plural language when it asked people to settle all matters requiring collective opinion by hearing people's choices. God was talking to both men and women. IslamHater: <silence> IslamHater: <silence> IslamHater: But look at how far behind Muslim countries lagged in granting women voting rights. Muslim: Thats because after the Prophet died, the treatment and condition of women deteriorated and eventually went back to pre islamic times. IslamHater: But that sura Muslima quoted doesn't prove Muslima voting rights! <note the subtle deflection> Muslim: the sura Muslima quoted showed that Islam made women politically relevant IslamHater: No, it was an admission for membership into the Prophets tribe. Muslim: yes, and that an oath was administered for entry into his tribe makes her politically relevant because more oaths= more power IslamHater: okay, but then its at least discriminatory because the same oath was not administered to men. <note the deflection again> Muslim: ummm, yes it was. A group of men took the oath in the treaty under the tree, to become members of his tribe and pledge allegiance to the Prophet. IslamHater: <silence> IslamHater: I am such a highly intelligent woman, so well educated about Islam that these Muslim women can't handle my exceptional intelligence. Muslim: no, not really. You can't even understand a word of the actual Quran. So your hatred comes from not being able to decipher the Quranic text and thus your misunderstanding. Go talk to a scholar. IslamHater: never! He'll try to convert me!!!! <frightened little girl voice> And there you have it folks. These are not challenges. They are pitiful misunderstandings based on her google ability, TV shows about Indonesian children, radio shows airing uneducated listener comments who she likes to mock, and reliance on unreliable, literal English translations of the holy Quran. |
Still looking for the relevance of this post.....? |
So true. Thank you for your gentle reminder. I think its time for me to refer this thread & others over to a few anti defamation and Islamic relations groups and bow out, especially now that I see this posters unwillingness to learn Quranic Arabic or talk to any scholar. I have been replying but trying to keep my cool. But I did read in the Quran the other day that Allah wants us to leave such people to Him to deal with. I shall do both. Please say a dua for me. |
Ahhhhhhh, looks like we cracked this case, Muslima. She IS indeed afraid to be proved wrong. This explains why she refuses to discuss what she believes and why she refuses to learn Quranic Arabic. Also explains why she won't speak with a scholar. |
You just can't stop yourself from spinning threads to make it look like you were even remotely persuasive.
Here's what you actually said, right in the middle of the debate on whether women had the vote 1400 years ago, on page 35 if anybody wants to go back and see for themselves: 10/10/2014 01:20
10/10/2014 01:07
And then your "apology" took the form of faking regret for insulting all American women, instead of just insulting your nemesis (not me). FWIW, I've been watching this thread, and I agree with the PP who says that you failed to prove that satisfying a demand to promise you will behave yourself is a form of "voting." It's more like when the INS used to turn away people with tuberculosis, because no host country wants to allow people to enter who will contaminate the home population, either physically (tuberculosis) or morally (the Muslim woman's pledge of good behavior). Your error above is in the fourth line, where you claim your nemesis says "okay" to your claim that this makes women "politically relevant." No, she never said that. Nobody else ever said that, either. You're making that up. |
Reading between the lines, since you've been called out for your gross insults, now you're going with threats. |
Have you spent any time in KSA? Your easy hand with takfir reminds me of a certain population. |
Did you really think you could motivate anyone to learn the Quranic Arabic? Most Muslims don't know Quranic Arabic. Go pick on them. |
But we do now have a definition of an Islam hater: Someone who refuses to learn Quranic Arabic or talk to an Islamic scholar. |
"Now that I have failed to make a remotely persuasive argument, keep my cool, or refrain from insulting people who disagree with me, it's time for me pretend there are groups out there who are capable of doing anything about the fact that a group of anonymous posters on an Internet forum found some tenets of Islam unattractive." Go cry on Ibrahim Hooper's chest. I have quote Monty Python: "What are you gonna do? Bleed on me?" |
I see. Might they also be a christianevangelicalcrusader with STDs and no teeth? That would narrow the pool a little. Otherwise that description fits pretty much anyone non-Muslim, and a big old chunk of Muslims. |
Just to clarify - the immaculate conceptions refers to the conception of Mary, not the conception of Jesus. This is a Roman Catholic belief. The Orthodox (who greatly venerate Mary) and Protestants do not have this belief.
The Blessed Mother of Our Lord Jesus Christ is so full of love that she is praying for all of you - Muslim, atheist, Christian, etc. She is not deterred by hate or disbelief. Neither is her Son. |
^^^^^^conceptions should be conception |
You are being purposely obtuse again. Islamic law does not permit people born Muslims who don't practice and don't care--those you would considered to not be true Muslims--to change their civil status to nonMuslim. Islamic law says such Muslims are indeed Muslims and cannot change that without risking apostasy charges. You are stuck with it all your life, as are your children and their children, at least for all matters dealing with civil status. I am quite sure you know this--you just choose to attack PP and her husband instead of addressing the fact that Islam really doesn't envision freedom of religion. |