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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]Who's fault is it that we think they're passing off their personal views as being shared by all Islam?[/quote]

I don't think anyone can be blamed for what you think other than you. If someone presents their view about Islam as being shared by all Islam, [b]I think an appropriate reply is "that may be your view, but certainly you agree many other professed Muslims believe differently...[/b]" But, when someone agrees that there is no "one" Islam, I think it is implied that they do not think their personal beliefs are shared by all Muslims.

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Do you think the 2nd Muslim poster, who apparently started many of the Islam threads, agrees that her views may be unrepresentative? Because I haven't heard her speak to this. 
 
Do you think everybody here, plus the new posters, remembers that exchange between you and Muslima?

Maybe you need a sticky at the top: "None of the Muslim posters speaks for all of Islam."

Meanwhile, we've been respectfully (most of us) challenging them all along, like you just suggested above, yet you've accused us of having agendas. It's not our fault non-Muslima PP puts out 50 dubious posts an hour. Did you bother to look at the thread about the standing of the turbans' deen vs. PP's personal take on things?

(Also, did you really just argue that a thread title of "What Does Islam Say About Concubines?" shouldn't be taken at face value? Especially if it didn't come from Muslima?)
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I understand that it is important to you to demonstrate that you are the victim of my abuse. However, some posters have openly stated that they have an agenda. In other cases, I indicated that specific posts demonstrated an agenda. I've never made a wholesale accusation of posters having agendas.

I don't know what you mean by taking the thread titled, "What Does Islam Say About Concubines?", at face value. My first question for that poster would be "what do you consider Islam?" Do you mean just the Quran, or the Quran and hadeeth? Or, Muslims scholars and religious leaders? If some self-professed Muslims believe that concubines are acceptable in Islam, what sources do they use for justification and how does the OP view though sources? What has been the historical practice and what is the practice today? I wasn't interested in that topic so I didn't ask those questions. But, that's they way I would have approached it.

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