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[quote=Anonymous]To the Muslim poster:

It is fine to say something like all orthodox Muslims believe that Mohammed is the messenger of God.  This is an essential belief in Islam and is undisputed.

Where you go off track is making blanket qualitative statements about believers of your religion and what they think it teaches:  All Muslim women believe that Islam grants them equal rights to men.

Am example of the former for Christians is:  All mainstream Christians believe Jesus is the Son of God.

An example of the latter is:  Christians believe that those who do not believe in Christ will not be saved.

You will boost your credibility if you keep straight basic Islamic beliefs from qualitative assessments of other more diffuse areas of your religion.

I understand the temptation to fight a categorical statement that is qualitative with another qualitative categorical statement, but it does not help your case:  Islam condones the killing of innocents.  No Islam is a religion of peace. This accomplishes nothing and should be avoided.

By the way, it would be nice if you avoided categorical statements about Christianity.  More than once on these threads I have seen statements like: Islam, unlike Christianity, does not associate others with God.  The trinity is subtle, but Christianity, indiisputably, is a monotheistic religion.

Thank you.

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