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It's so silly to be against a particular religion, just because extremism fueled by economic inequality is threatening Western obliviousness.

I always remind my kids that in the Middle Ages, Islam was an enlightened, tolerant and scientific-minded religion. Arts, mathematics and medicine flourished.

All the while, Christianity was in the throes of the Inquisition and medical and scientific research were crushed as witchcraft.

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Why do you teach your children this? Just curious. Are you Muslim?[/quote]

No, my mother was raised in a very Catholic country, was father was raised in a Buddhist country, and I went to a Protestant school. Living in a country particularly rife with anti-Muslim sentiment since 9/11, the most important thing to teach is perspective!

I am a big proponent of religious education - as in, learn the basic tenets of faiths of major religions, to eliminate gross mis-characterizations such as Muslima is currently responding to.

We need more culture in this country.

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I agree 100% with you that facts and education are important, and I have posted at least twice over the past few days that non-Muslins should read the Quran. I, a non-Muslim, have read the Quran front to back.

I don't want to speak for others who seem frustrated with Muslima and the other PP. My personal concern is that Muslima and the other PP are misrepresenting facts. As a researcher, I live for facts, and since I know many of the facts they're misrepresenting, I have come on these threads to argue. So for example, Muslima claimed that "Islam offers asylum to captives" and this led to dozens of pages about how Muslim soldiers are often given female captives to rape, per the Quran. There is the other Muslim PP's continuing insistence that there are more Muslim converts than immigrants to the US, and when she produced her own numbers for 100,000 immigrants/year and 25,000 converts/year and still continues to insist that converts outpace immigrants, I think what you're seeing is massive frustration for what are perceived to be dishonest debating tactics. I could go on, for example about Muslima's broad statements that "Islam offers new rights to women," which seems to beg for elaboration, but maybe you get the point.

Here's an important distinction. Muslima and the other PP make their statements as if they're representing all Islam. They are absolutely entitled to their own versions of Islam.  In fact, one of the Muslim posters rejects shariah. That's fine! But to claim "Islam does this" when millions of Muslims across the world [i]don't[/i] do that, and thousand of respected Muslim jurists around the world take a different view, seems problematic.[/quote]

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