Let's get this straight...

Submitted by Unbiased Muslim (Bahrain), Jul 29, 2006 at 20:20

There is a lot of confusion in this article and in the comments. I'm not a religious man, and so my opinions are not biased. I was born Muslim and know much about it, as you naturally would if you lived in a muslim country. Firstly, the Islam that you speak of is not mainstream Islam it is MILITANT Islam.

I'm fond of the term "Islamist" it is too easy to confuse with "Muslim" but that is the interpretation of Islam the majority of people here have. Am I to assume that you are all racists like the KKK? Are you all skinhead Neo-Nazis? No! Of course not! But look at the news in St. Petersburg where these neo-Nazis are murdering anyone with a darker complexion- for having a darker complexion! They even record it on video and you hear them laughing shrilly, it was on the BBC. These people are Christians.

he Crusaders were Christians, they not only destroyed and pillaged Muslim areas but Christian ones too. However, most clearminded mainstream Muslims (the overwhelming majority) don't regard the people of your faith as bloodthirsty or terrorists. Now, my mother's side is liberal, my father's a bit more conservative Muslim. There are no women on my mothers side who wear the now marked headscarf, on my father's side the women do, we're not all robots who follow the exact same principles. Like you have your millions of Christian denominations, we have ours- the main ones being Shiite and Sunni. Within those two denominations there are millions of splits in thinking and practice and principle, but no one branches out because it is taboo.

Naturally, the terrorist come from different ways of thinking- KKK doesnt = Christianity does it?? Like all religions decay (the Catholic church sold atonement at one point), the Muslim religion has. Female circumcision is a tribal AFRICAN tradition, it influenced some North African muslims (who had converted) and some of those North Africans crossed the Red Sea into Western Saudi Arabia. That ritual is one that most of my friends and collegues have never heard of and are disgusted by it, they are even more so disgusted when I tell them that during my time in the States I was asked if female circumcision was practiced. Forced marriages and honor killings? Show me a verse in the Quran that condones them! These are again in certain societies, like neo-Nazism, the Bible never said the white man rules, Jesus was Middle Eastern for heaven's sake! If you look up purdah by the way you'll see it says that CERTAIN Hindu and Muslim societies practice it, it is enforced by Islam but is not implemented for the most part. Sexual apertheid is practiced by many but again it is not part of Islam. I can criticize my religion, but most Muslim like most Christians dont criticize their relgion, so that is a ridiculous statement. If you have any questions about mainstream muslim culture go ahead and email me on absolutbashizzle@hotmail.com, I'd be happy to answer your questions.

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