Who says I have to respect Islam?

Submitted by Don (Pakistan), May 22, 2008 at 21:17

That's just one of ther myriad of problems with Islam: You expect everyone elses respect but don't respect others. You can try to give me all the mamby-pamby BS you want, but the words are right there in your Koran and the actions of Muslims all around the world are there for us to consider. And although I do respect nearly all religions as valid, peaceful, helpful and good for the followers, and benevolent, I see Islam in a very different light. And you say I don't really know Islam if I think and feel they way I do. How wrong you are. I know it very well, have lived in it, surrounded by it, immersed in in it, studied it. I think of it as so many ex-Muslims who have risked their lives to remove themselves from it.

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