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Actually I do believe thats a generic picture. But the comment was meant to insult her for wearing it. In this society, even Muslims have great respect for nuns who also wear head coverings. I can not understand why any Muslim should be insulted or mocked for wearing hers.

All of these threads have similar insults or mockery, though. Disagreement is totally fine, insults are a different matter, such as when the poster said inheritance laws treat muslim women like children or tries to show that apostasy punishment laws are barbaric (all the while ignoring that Islam does not punish apostasy with death). The hundreds of posts are designed to malign, portray Islam as a truly evil religion. Even a simple comment saying Muslims believe in Jesus is met with a hostile reaction that we are misleading people.

I think I'll leave it up to the media now.[/quote]
I don't think it's an insult to say that Muslim inheritance laws or divorce laws treat women like children.

Muslims do not believe in the same Jesus. It's misleading to say that they do.

As I said, you may think you're getting major points for your gheera toward Islam, but it ain't here. [/quote]

I'm not sure I agree.  I am one of the nonMuslim posters.

I think saying Islam's inheritance laws treat women as children is a bit inflammatory.  I also give Islam a lot of credit for actually treating women much better in inheritance than other legal systems for centuries.  I regret, however, that times have moved on and Islam has not found a way to move with them on this issue.

I also think saying Muslims do not believe in the same Jesus is perhaps a bit simplistic.  I think they believe in the same historical Jesus, as do many Jews (although not all as some don't think there was a historical Jesus).  The Islamic view of the roles of Jesus and the meaning of his life here on earth, however, is quite different.[/quote]

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