Jummah Mubarak my dear! I think by this time you know what the other posters' agenda is. Trying to have an intelligent conversation with them is pointless. Just like, Allah said in the Quran "And if you invite them to guidance, they hear not; and thou seest them looking towards thee, yet they see not. Hold fast to forgiveness and enjoin goodness and turn away from the ignorant." (7:198-199) and also "When you hear Allah's messages disbelieved in and mocked at, sit not with them until they enter into some other discourse." (4:140). This directs us that when we have to deal with people who are blindly prejudiced and ignorant, , we must not give vent to anger against them. We should do our duty of enjoining simple goodness, and then turn away from them, leaving the matter in the hands of Allah. Any criticism underlying the abuse must, of course, be answered. But the response to any ridicule or mockery is withdrawal of oneself from the company, that's primarily why I recused myself from that discussion. Hope you have a beautiful and blessed day today! |
That's a lie..... |
The whole purity test thing is almost identical to what INS asked my grandmother. INS asked my Cambridge-educated grandmother whether she had ever run a house of prostitution. When she said "no," they let her into the US.
This had nothing to do with voting or other rights, which are granted, or not, via completely separate processes (in the US, the Constitution). Sounds like the exact same "we don't want that kind" thing was going on in Arabia 1400 years ago, although for women not for men. |
I would love to be a fly on the wall when CAIR staff read this thread, particularly the parts where Muslim PP calls Western women gap-toothed sluts with STDs. Chances that PP will forward this thread to CAIR: zero. |
Of course I apologized to you and all nonMuslim women. If you did not understand that, here's clarification- I am sorry for saying that. I lost my cool after seeing very unreasonable arguments and mocking of Islam. For ex, the most recent mockery was when you spoke of the radio station caller who asked an imam if its ok for her to undress when she thought jinn may be in the room. I have a Doctorate degree and worked in IT and law before retirement. If I heard the same caller, I would not have thought to mock her, but would realize she simply needs help in understanding the concept of intent in Islam. You chose to mock her. You like to point out your exceptional intelligence, but exceptionally intelligent people know less intelligent people should not be mocked. Their lack of intelligence may be due to genetic factors, culture, upbringing, and why on earth would anyone hold them accountable for that which they can not control? It's a mean girl tactic and shows your character. Another example is how differently you and I handle curiosity about different faiths. I read the Bible and then sought two knowledgeable priests to better understand Christianity. You, on the other hand, refuse to seek a scholar or learn Quranic Arabic to clarify your own misunderstanding about Islam. Instead, you spout off on DCUM falsities offending the religion of 1.6 billion people. Again, it shows Jeff and Muslima were correct about you all along, you had an agenda. So I do apologize for my comment about nonMuslim women. I do. But if your motivation is to understand real Islam, you would engage in the serious study of it the right way. |
This doesn't even make sense to me. I lost my cool with the posters who vilified Islam. I'm not beyond admitting that. I know an executive at CAIR and have no qualms about showing her the entire thread. No fears at all. But I think they can call other organizations who may help Muslims here using the media. |
How is this a lie? A Muslim who converts is said to have committed apostasy. This is ok if you are in the West where no one cares what your personal faith is, but in a number of Arab countries you risk death under Islamic law. And in others, the conversion simply isn't recognized; your civil status remains Muslim. And further under Islamic law the child of a Muslim man--however nominal his religion may be--is automatically a Muslim. A woman marrying a nonMuslim--which means her children would not be Muslim as her children are not automatically Muslim under Islam--also risks death. This is not so unlike Judaism where the child of a Jewish woman is automatically Jewish. Just that as far as I know death isn't called for if she commits apostasy by converting to another religion or if a Jewish man marries a nonJew. |
Again?? Are you kidding me?? Read Sura Ash Shurra on collective decision making then. Oh, but wait. Thats right, I forgot you can't read the Quran. And you don't know Quranic Arabic either. Maybe you shouldn't be the person interpreting the Quran then. Just a thought. |
We were not mocking the woman with the jinn in her house, but the Islamic "scholar" who told her she could not undress in front of the jinn. I also mocked the Saudi cleric who issued a fatwa saying it was permissible for a man to have sex with his wife up to six hours after her death. Mocking probably isn't the right attitude here but rather sadness that these kinds of midget-minded "scholars" have overrun today's Islam, which has produced such theological giants in the past. |
It sure as heck is. Muslima, I wish I knew you offline. We could work together to dispel myths and contact organizations to correct these misunderstandings. Do you believe the absolute nonsense published here? |
So you listen to uneducated scholars to mock them but refuse to meet with educated ones. Hmmmmm... |
You're confusing me with your nemesis. Yes, we know that: 1. One poster several threads ago called Mohammed a pedophile. That was wrong, and I too am glad that nobody has insulted him in the last several weeks. 2. Someone, not me but maybe your nemesis, referred to the djinn in the bathroom. You're taking that out of context. As I recall, that was in the context of whether Islam is really monotheistic, if little semi-divine creatures like djinn exist in our lives. Otherwise, I can't recall other examples that might be taken as "mocking Islam." Please provide additional examples. I agree that a TON of posts criticized you and Muslima for various shady debating techniques you used. I hope you can see the difference here. If it's "mocking Islam" to point out that your bald statements like "Islam gives equality to women" need to be clarified with detail on women's unequal inheritance, divorce and witness rights, then you have much bigger problems. If it's "mocking Islam" to point out that your statement that "Islam gives women divorce rights" needs to be clarified with detail on how men have free and easy divorce rights compared to women (who have limited divorce rights, only get alimony for three months, and lose their children if they remarry), then you have much bigger problems. If asking you to prove your assertion that converts are growing faster than immigrants is tantamount to "mocking Islam," then you have much bigger problems. I can go back and find where you made each one of these misleading assertions. Why don't you show us how clarifying all the things you "neglected" to mention in connection with your assertions is tantamount to "mocking Islam." |
Who do you think you're talking to? I'm not the poster you've been fighting with. |
This is an anonymous forum. How would I know? |
The bolded part is actually not true. Such marriage simply will not be officiated under Islamic law. The woman won't be killed; she and her non-Muslim fiance will simply not be allowed to contract marriage. |