To Barbara: Am I a Muslim who lives in another planet ?

Submitted by Nuray (Portugal), Dec 7, 2005 at 15:55

Dear Barbara,

I am a little bit serious and like theological discussions. That's why I have chosen this discussion group (Is Allah God?) Perhaps, I should have advised him to visit other discussion groups who has similar fears or views, as I did so to some people before . No one complained about my request. They did so. It is a matter of common sense. By the way, It was a personal request to say not to write. It is ridiculous to generalize someones view or action to whole religion. I think only in N. Korea the crime is not individual. When a member of a family commits a crime whole family are punished. Any kind of generalization is worse than the one in on N. Korea. Because It is not good especially during religious discussion because it discourages people like me who gives importance to the understanding between the religions. It gives opportunity to aggressive people to abuse religious feelings of genuine believers. There should be no room for aggression, all information to any religion is public therefore anyone can choose any religion, which suits to herself/himself. This is what Quran says and Muslims think.

I don't think that the internet is controlled by any Islamic country, As far as I know China does it for political reasons. Both Islam, Christianity and Judaism are coming from the same area, Middle East. They are not much different from than each other. What will Muslims learn new from non-Islamic websites for the God sake? They translate Ouran, books of Arabian historians and old allegations. I've never seen any challenging allegation yet.

If I say "no one will read your post" means that the message itself is either contradictory to common sense and general Islamic knowledge or anyone who had untrustworthy behaviours before says it. Isn't it obvious? If Muslims don't read those things which keep non-Muslim minds busy about Islam how do I answer them? Am I from other Planet ?

Nuray

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