to: dhimmi no more

Submitted by 'Abdullah (United States), Aug 22, 2006 at 14:21

dhimmi no more,

I've read through many of your arguments...I've read through many debates you have had with people, and the fact is that you are ignorant. the vast majority of your arguments ridicule people for their difficulty in the Arabic language, when that person made no statement saying that they knew it! All you do is take things literally...All you do is tell people "you don't know Arabic" or "I know Arabic better than you do", or the like.

the fact is that you know nothing about Islam as a religion and as a belief. the fact is that you find no argument against the essence of Islam. If you want to talk about Islam as a belief, then feel free to approach me. if you want to just sit in your arrogance and talk about "roots of arabic words" and the origin of Arabic and how you know it so well (which I believe you do), then do so with someone who cares. whatever the word means, Islam gives it a new meaning. for example, the word "salat (or salah, or whatever the hell the transliteration is)" existed before islam, and it meant supplication or du'a (and don't get into details with me...that was the basic meaning). Islamically, the word has been given a new meaning, which are the obligatory prayers done by the Muslim, unless used in a ma'jaz (again, forgive the transliteration mr. Arabic King) sense. simple.

moral of the story: if you want to talk about Arabic, then go somewhere else because no one here cares. If you want to talk about ISLAM, then we'll talk. my regards.

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