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How's your relationship with Islam nowadays? I know you've struggled with your faith. Do you still consider yourself to be a Muslim?
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Where I perhaps differ from other Muslims is I always consider the right and wrong rather than blindly following the religion. Texts are open to interpretation and people with hidden agendas attempt to influence 'sheeple'. My motto is live and let live and when in Rome...
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Difficult and yes I'll always consider myself muslim, I'm brown and of Pakistani origin.
Where I perhaps differ from other Muslims is I always consider the right and wrong rather than blindly following the religion. Texts are open to interpretation and people with hidden agendas attempt to influence 'sheeple'. My motto is live and let live and when in Rome...
Where I perhaps differ from other Muslims is I always consider the right and wrong rather than blindly following the religion. Texts are open to interpretation and people with hidden agendas attempt to influence 'sheeple'. My motto is live and let live and when in Rome...
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I use the word "enemy" because Christ used it in Matthew 5:43-44 where He spoke these words: “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbour and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you." It was these verses that inspired the likes of Gandhi and Martin Luther King to embark on a policy of passive resistance. I'm still trying to get the hang of it.
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yes, language is so important, it is the gateway to the mind
and this sort of language is used to perpetuate power, control and privilege
things look so much clearer when not seen through the blinkers of religion
and this sort of language is used to perpetuate power, control and privilege
things look so much clearer when not seen through the blinkers of religion
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Do you accept the declaration in the shahada? I'd say that's the acid test as to whether one is or is not a Muslim. Doing "the right thing as a human being" is besides the point. There are innumerable atheists who are pukka human beings.
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But do you think that summons for the 'first place' person's very personal anguish to be broadcast publicly; in order to win an argument? I don't think the good-hearted people (religious or not) would do that; the ones sitting in the 'second place'.
Also, when someone is trying to highlight a valid point by pulling up old threads, why is this person being labelled as a lithium consuming mentalist? Good-hearted and non-blinkered people won't do that, would they? They would understand his question he posits, and answer it in the most reasonable way. Even of he doesn't understand, good-hearted people won't call him names of all sorts under the sun and blame his unresolved issues with his deceased father on a public forum. No need.
Poor, very poor show.
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Also, when someone is trying to highlight a valid point by pulling up old threads, why is this person being labelled as a lithium consuming mentalist? Good-hearted and non-blinkered people won't do that, would they? They would understand his question he posits, and answer it in the most reasonable way. Even of he doesn't understand, good-hearted people won't call him names of all sorts under the sun and blame his unresolved issues with his deceased father on a public forum. No need.
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Yes, they shouldn't.
But do you think that summons for the 'first place' person's very personal anguish to be broadcast publicly; in order to win an argument? I don't think the good-hearted people (religious or not) would do that; the ones sitting in the 'second place'.
Also, when someone is trying to highlight a valid point by pulling up old threads, why is this person being labelled as a lithium consuming mentalist? Good-hearted and non-blinkered people won't do that, would they? They would understand his question he posits, and answer it in the most reasonable way. Even of he doesn't understand, good-hearted people won't call him names of all sorts under the sun and blame his unresolved issues with his deceased father on a public forum. No need.
Poor, very poor show.
But do you think that summons for the 'first place' person's very personal anguish to be broadcast publicly; in order to win an argument? I don't think the good-hearted people (religious or not) would do that; the ones sitting in the 'second place'.
Also, when someone is trying to highlight a valid point by pulling up old threads, why is this person being labelled as a lithium consuming mentalist? Good-hearted and non-blinkered people won't do that, would they? They would understand his question he posits, and answer it in the most reasonable way. Even of he doesn't understand, good-hearted people won't call him names of all sorts under the sun and blame his unresolved issues with his deceased father on a public forum. No need.
Poor, very poor show.
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I don't blindly follow texts or instructions from allegedly more knowledgeable people. I have a brain, it gives me clear and succinct distinction between right and wrong. I base my actions on that reasoning first and foremost then I'll consider other factors. If that makes me a pseud so be it.
Furthermore I'm not looking for inner enlightenment or peace. People use religion to attain this, it should already be there. Why should I refer to a book to realise it's wrong to hate or lie. My moral compass is set by my brain not a book (or a revised book).
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Perhaps I don't care for your attempt at pigeon holing. Why must I be one or the other? Why can't I choose to live my life as I see fit instead of subscribing to particular school of thought?
I don't blindly follow texts or instructions from allegedly more knowledgeable people. I have a brain, it gives me clear and succinct distinction between right and wrong. I base my actions on that reasoning first and foremost then I'll consider other factors. If that makes me a pseud so be it.
Furthermore I'm not looking for inner enlightenment or peace. People use religion to attain this, it should already be there. Why should I refer to a book to realise it's wrong to hate or lie. My moral compass is set by my brain not a book (or a revised book).
I don't blindly follow texts or instructions from allegedly more knowledgeable people. I have a brain, it gives me clear and succinct distinction between right and wrong. I base my actions on that reasoning first and foremost then I'll consider other factors. If that makes me a pseud so be it.
Furthermore I'm not looking for inner enlightenment or peace. People use religion to attain this, it should already be there. Why should I refer to a book to realise it's wrong to hate or lie. My moral compass is set by my brain not a book (or a revised book).
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You want me to tell you in what sense you're a Muslim, Maz? Well you're not, according to your own measure, either spiritually or ethnically Muslim, so I can only assume that you have some vague, almost ineffable loyalty to Islam that perhaps stems from that innate, mammalian tribalism that resides somewhere deep in all of our subconsciouses. A nagging loyalty. Somehow, you can't quite backslide far enough to snip the thread that's interwoven with the double helix of your DNA. Is it that that final, brave leap of faith made by the apostate is one that your constitution simply won't allow you to make? Fear? These things plus simple socialisation and cultural responsibility, perhaps? I dunno, you tell me.
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