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[quote=Anonymous]The topic here is why some people convert to Islam.  There may be many reasons.

But I really, really doubt that anyone has ever been convinced in the rightness of Islam because some obscure lines from the Koran could be read, with a lot of imagination, to predict the stages of embryo development.

Just give that one up already.  You sound like someone who believes Nostradamus predicted every catastrophe since his time.

And here are some tips:  You will not convince anyone of the truth of Islam by long quotes from the Koran, Hadith, Muslim scholars, etc. written in out dated English.  Nor by posting 56 minute You Tube videos of converts.  (Haven't any of these people heard of an elevator speech?)

Backing up what you say by quotes from someone or other from this Council or that is also extremely unconvincing, and attacking other posters because they are not Islamic scholars (or descendents of Mohammed or members of the Saudi royal family) wins you no friends.

I would say similar things to a Christian who is trying to defend his faith as well.

Attempts to prove the veracity of Islam by debunking Christianity is also a poor strategy.  All that shows is that you can't defend Islam on its own terms.  It is also offensive to use Allah instead of God, the translation of Allah in English, when writing in English.  Islam believes in monotheism and that the God it worships is the same as the God the Jews and Christians worship.  Using Allah instead of God implies another god, which is heretical to Islam.

What would be interesting: Your personal views, informed by Islam but without all the tedious scripture quotes, on the nature of God and man, the concept of sin and the soul, attitudes to the poor and oppressed,  etc. Let us see some of your personal religious thought here, not what you've been taught to regurgitate.[/quote]

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