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you don't have to live under our laws, you have your laws we have ours. We simply draw border lines and keep the distance between us. ... But you want to rule the world under your laws? Trump is good president in a sense he's conservative and doesn't impose western lifestyle on others. ... Well apa...

Islam has indeed become politicised in dictatorial regimes in the ME and Indonesia. You have not commented upon ijtihad but have parroted a polemical formula in which you confuse history and faith. There was a time long ago when Islam was intellectually honest. Some Muslims still are intellectually...

But Islam is not democratic. Because it's not democratic Islam , with its insistence upon the infallibility of the Holy Book, can be hi-jacked by dictators in countries where Islam is the only permitted creed. How can a man be free to love God if he is forced to submit? Submission to God is absolut...

I suppose that Muhammad was clever enough to claim 'Spiritual' authority for his modernisation programme against the old Arabian paganism with its primitive vendetta system of justice. I wonder if Boca knows much about Islamic theory and history. Muhammad was a real person, you know. He was not som...

Sure but if we're not interested in you ruling the world and living under your laws, what then? you don't have to live under our laws, you have your laws we have ours. We simply draw border lines and keep the distance between us. Trump is good president in a sense he's conservative and doesn't impo...

It's apparent that national borders don't stop ideas .Muslims don't want a North Korean degree of isolation from the modern world. The Gates of Ijtihad can open and so benefit Muslims and infidels. Most groups of people will object to oppression by the sword. Why are Muslims so afraid of oppression...

So what you are saying is that we are right to believe that we are at war with Islam and that it would be prudent of us to attack and kill as many Muslims as we can before you get into a position to come and kill us? [/quote] You and us are different worlds, we can coexist understanding our differe...

I'm sorry, but the only divinely inspired book is Revelation , and I refer you to the following: "For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled." - Revelation 17:17, a description of the ...

In that case as you are not yourself the Holy Prophet ,and are not even a seventh century Arab, you are no wiser than any infidel. Moreover you lack the scepticism that might protect you from power -seeking charlatans. I didn't ask to obey me. Obey God and His Human Representative, to do that, you ...

Human sympathy and rational justice as demonstrated in the social welfare laws of Islam is also shown to be characteristic of Jesus. Islam is better in that it is more specific. It's unfortunate that it's so difficult to separate the social welfare enshrined in the great religions from the authorit...

Boca wrote: if you're right, then explain what are the economic principles of Christianity ? Among modern, liberal, Christians the economic principles are welfare socialist principles. Among modern, right-wing , Christians the economic principles are capitalist principles that those believers legit...

Atheists are usually well aware of the power and beauty of the natural world. This is why I can sympathise with God-believers, that it is nice to be able to be thankful . Does there have to be a supernatural object of worship? if there's Beauty, Order, Symmetry there must be a Creator and Designer ...

We still eat during Ramadan, I always suspected as much. Don't worry, I won't tell anybody. :wink: God has created Earth to accommodate Humankind, and has created all sorts of provisions to feed Humans. Maybe he did but you must have done something wrong to piss him off enough for him to ban you fr...

You are talking bollocks. When I visited the local mosque, the young Muslim man who showed us round explained that Muslims believe that the world was made by Allah, and so it is reverence towards Allah's works that makes science appealing to Muslims. (Like the proof according to design). By contras...

Belinda wrote: ↑Mon Sep 25, 2017 10:26 am

Islam was once a light to the known world but has since become the religious focus of warring political groups.

Islam is still light to the known world, but muslims are not in an ideal shape today.