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[quote=Muslima][quote=Anonymous][quote=Muslima][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And Joseph married her, yes, but AFTER Mary got pregnant. [/quote]

Wow, Muslima! I thought you told us that Muslims revere Mary. Yet here you are, trashing Mary's reputation in order to score points on DCUM.[/quote]

Again, I'm not Muslima. But whatever…

Yes, Muslims do have tremendous respect for Mary. I personally believe in the immaculate conception. Muslims are required to believe in it. But I'm using this as a point to show the lunacy of calling Muhammad a pedophile. Muhammad is no more a pedophile for marrying Aisha than Mary was a disgraced woman for having an immaculate conception. Get it?[/quote]

Dear fellow Muslim brother, Assalamualeikum wa Rahmatullah wa barakatuhu You & I both know that Islam does not support Pedophilia or child molestation under any circumstances.  We have both shared points, showing what the age of marriage used to be in the past, something history agrees with, but at the end of the day I have come to realize one thing, I can't keep arguing with islamophobes who are blinded by their hate of Islam, logic and reason is least likely to influence people like that. They have no idea of the love that 1.6 billion Muslims have for Allah and his messenger saw, so how can we blame them and hold them responsible for their ignorance? Sadly, they have not tasted the sweetness of Iman![/quote]

Salaam Muslima,

When I first joined this discussion, I truly thought it was an intellectual discourse. I truly thought the handful of people inquiring about Islam were interested in understanding Islam. They are not. I have answers their questions numerous times and, yet, it does not seem to be to their satisfaction. They are a dodging target. Their first accusation was that Muhammad was a pedophile. Then they take issue with Islam's inheritance laws. Then divorce laws are an injustice to women. Then it was testimony. Now it's custody. Nearly ever question has been answered except for the child custody one and that' s an easy to answer as well. I plan to explain that soon too. 
I'm beginning to realize that their antagonism is an expression of their fear about the spread of Islam. Islam is the fastest growing religion, not only in the world but also in the US. Moreover, it is growing in the US, not by immigration, but instead by conversion. They know this. They feel terribly threatened by this because they fear Muslims will take over the US and want to convert it to a Sharia state. They fear it will give birth to grops like ISIS.
I wish I could reassure them that this will not happen. The beauty of America is that it is a multi religious, muli cultural land. Even if immigrants arrive here, clinging to their old customs and ways, by the second or third generation, American Muslims assimilate. They may not give up their religious principles completely but they learn the valuable lesson of tolerance of other religions and cultures. It gives birth to a new and better kind of Islam, an Islam free of cultural influences, and this is pure Islam.
Regardless of the vile accusations they make against Prophet Muhammad, I still hold that Christians and Jews are my brethren. Christianity and Judaism are simply other avenues to the same God we worship. I condemn ISIS and will always condemn any extremist group that denies the right of any Christian or Jew to practice his faith freely. This is real Islam.
It's very sad that rather than asking, "Why did Muhammad marry a girl so young?" or "Did Muhammad in fact marry a girl that young?" the word pedophile was used. It's just terribly insulting to the billions of Muslims that respect him so much. 
No one can learn about Islam just google searching and reading just one or two books or relying on Hollywood movies like "Not Without My Daughter." To learn about Islam they have to be willing to call a few Imams or scholars in the US such as Hamza Yusuf, Ahmad Sakr, Muhammad Joban, etc…Historians do not know Islam as well as an imam or scholar would. 
My own mother in law converted to Islam from Christianity over 40 yrs ago and she has never regretted her decision. She is of European descent. I am of mixed race. My children have very caucasian features and are not likely to be thought of as "Muslim" by other Americans. They will blend in American society almost completely, with the exception of their religion. This is the new American Muslim. They better get used to it.[/quote]

I agree with this. Most people are not interested in learning about Islam but just copy/paste random verses that they do not understand, don't know the context and don't even know what the verses are referring to, to justify their own biases and prejudices against Islam.  Besides the fact that due to their ignorance they believe Islam is unjust to women,  women are converting to Islam at such rapid rates that they outnumber men 4 to 1.Considering the intense anti-Islamic and hostile media propaganda these past few years, some with a particularly strong emphasis on the 'supposed' degrading position of women in Islam, I feel that those women are exceptional who accept Islam and who were able to separate the negative stereotyping and nonsense from the reality of faith(kudos to your MIL). Muslim women, born and converts, are by no means the empty-headed, submissive, rejects of western society that some would have us believe. These critics fail miserably to understand or relate the true underlying reasons for so many Muslim women's acceptance of and adherence to Islam. This stems from their inability to face the reality of the true motivations of intelligent, thoughtful, western women, both young and old, for accepting Islam. Biased, slanted, and incomplete reporting is often due to plain old ignorance and significant doses of arrogance and pride.  But hey, we are not going anywhere, Islam and Muslims are here to stay! [/quote]

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