Peace Salaam, and Shalom

Aliya (convinced there IS common ground, we just have to be willing to see it.)

Shy Guy, Islam, as it was revealed, has been corrupted after the death of Prophet Muhammad

Is the Quran, as it exists today, corrupt? Yes or no?

Peace, Salaam, and Shalom.

Aliya

sorry for not replying to the e-mail, last time I checked it (not my main e-mail) I didn’t have any e-mails from you. It wasn’t a rejection.

Second, I do oppose such so called Muslims, but don’t call for their killing, etc. I make it a point to point out what Islam truly teaches, and back up my stance with proof. ALL religions are subject to dangerous and/or misguided ideologies. Mocking them doesn’t do as much good as refuting their claims with proof. I am very active in such ‘intra-faith’ dialogues, and know it doesn’t serve any good to lower myself to their level.

as for the name calling, I commented on the particular podcast, I seem to recall it was in response to an article, although the exact topic I can’t quite recall (I listened to all the podcast in the span of less than a week, the topics tend to blur a little in my memory). I do recall the gist of my commentary was your lack of actual rebuttal, but rather your replies were all along the line of ‘no we don’t (insert name called), well maybe we do… ok yeah, we do, but the Jews have it worse’. It smacked of people complaining about dhimmi status when it applies to them in so called Muslim countries (no country in the world practices Islam as it’s written, and was practiced by Prophet Muhammad (PBUH&HP) so I dislike the term in relation to today’s societies, because NONE are TRULY Islamic, but rather the leaders’ interpretation, and culture), and yet enforcing that dhimmi status on others.

Shy Guy, Islam, as it was revealed, has been corrupted after the death of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH&HP). and while I believe, with reason, that one school of thought (not the majority) is closer to true Islam, I would not look to history much after the death of the prophet Muhammad (PBUH&HP) as an example of what Islam is. Just as I don’t believe christianity is represented by the crusades, the inquisition, or the evangelists of today.

If you have SPECIFIC questions, I would be more than willing to do my best to answer them.

Peace, Salaam, and Shalom

Aliya

when it’s clear that you know next to nothing about islam other than what you read in the papers.

Enlighten us. More and more of us read the Quran, ahaddiths and teachings of historic Islam’s major spiritual schools, as well as re-studying world history, particulalry the 350-400 year period just prior to the Crusades.

‘the thuggery of Islam’, is an offensive generalization.

Good. It should be.

Regarding calling people names, please provide some examples. I can remember “Gorilla Boy” off the top of my head, and I stand by that name! It is the least Ahmadinejad deserves. What other names were there?

The Jews for Jesus song came from a CD sent to me by the musicians. Playing the song was the least I could do, and I did not find it offensive (not nearly as offensive as I find Jews for Jesus). I wonder how you would feel about a group who called themselves Muslims but believed things that were entirely against the fundamentals of Islam, and involved adherents trying to “missionize” Muslims.

I do appreciate you visiting and looking for common ground; I just interpreted your other comment, and choice to make it on here and not respond directly to my email to you, as a rejection of such dialog.

And I wasn’t only addressing you, as comments such as ‘the thuggery of Islam’, is an offensive generalization.

I don’t expect us to agree on many things, but one would think most of us can agree on the ‘golden rule’ concept. Thus, I am here, not calling names, or making sweeping generalizations, but trying to open a dialogue, and look for common ground.

Peace, salaam, and shalom

Aliya

For the record, I have regular Muslim readers and listeners who assure me they are not offended by my comments in the slightest, and in fact appreciate my sense of humor and efforts not to paint all Muslims with the same brush.

If the comments made here about islam were instead made about Judaism, you’d be shouting anti-semitism from the roof tops.

thankfully I know many wonderful Jewish people, so I know that you guys don’t represent Judaism, any more than the terrorist represent Islam… I hope you see that someday.

peace, salaam, and shalom

Aliya