The Real Islam

Submitted by N.K. (United States), Nov 5, 2002 at 12:02

This is to comment on posting by Aaliyah on 10/30.
The very sad and unfortunate truth is that a very big majority of Muslims think like Aaliyah does and I was one of them. They are ignorant of what is in their scriptures and what is in their history books. Critical anaysis of scriptures and history was never allowed in Islam, and attempts by the intellectuals were crushed by executions.

Critical books by Muslims like "Why I am not a Muslim" by Ibn Warraq , and "23 Years of Prophethood" by Ali Dashti , now openly available to public on on-line book stores, are the first in history. A critical website like Ali Sina's "faithfreedom.org" is at the finger tips of a common man which never happened before.

Hopefully, educated and open minded Muslims will take advantege of this new situation, and realize what real Islam is, a very dangerous cult.

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