Islam is GOOD!!!

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When Islam was presented to me, I was presented a religion of worshiping One God alone and as a practical solution for mankind’s social ills. It was a road map for improving our lives. I was told about an Islam that is about togetherness, sharing, caring and strengthening familial bonds. An Islam that was about creating communities, doing business together and uplifting people.
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I was told about an Islam that promoted the equality of all men and no person is superior to the other except by his righteousness. An Islam that eschewed racism. I was told about an Islam that was about kindness to neighbors regardless of religion. Islam and Muslims were known as a force for good in the community and a sign that things are going to be cleaned up. This is the Islam that I know and love. An Islam of hope, love, kindness, concern and mercy. An Islam that promoted a mosque that affected the community around it in a positive manner and met the needs of a broken people. An Islam that was PART of the community and not apart from it. An Islam that provided a place for outsiders

A Muslim was a symbol in many neighborhoods - AMERICAN NEIGHBORHOODS - of standing for justice and making improvement in one’s life. A Muslim man was the personification of manly pride and responsibility to his family and his community…
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Now I am told that I never understood Islam and that the things I mentioned above represent an “American” Islam and hence bidah (rejected innovation) and that I should accept this “real Islam”…I just don’t recognize this “Islam” of hate, murder, rape, stealing, explosions and chaos and I hate this “Islam” passionately. This is why I am so vehemenently opposed to this “Islam” of Bin Laden and the other creeps…
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This is why I reject this “Islam” of carnage, irrationality, social disorder and murder. I accepted an Islam of problem solving, love and rational thought. That is an Islam that people can accept and live with. That IS Islam…
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An Iraqi Chaledean came to our parish a couple of years ago to talk about the Iraq he knew and loved as a child. Though Jews and Christians were greatly outnumbered by Muslims in his neighborhood and town, there was no strife between religions or races. Kids played soccer in the street, side by side. Neighbors were helpful and friendly - no one was rejected because of their background. Many of his best and closest friends were Muslim. This was all before Saddam Hussein took power…

This was the Iraq that he knew and loved. Let’s hope and pray that those who are still left there remember this Iraq and they strive to bring it back to its glory again.
 
It can offer no salvation, however, because there is no other name given under heaven by Whom we may be saved.

It might be as good as a polygamous pedophile can come up with. (And anyone who has sex with a 9 year old child is by definition a pedophile.)
 
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It can offer no salvation, however, because there is no other name given under heaven by Whom we may be saved.

It might be as good as a polygamous pedophile can come up with. (And anyone who has sex with a 9 year old child is by definition a pedophile.)
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Perhaps, but its not very charitable to mention it.
 
It might be as good as a polygamous pedophile can come up with. (And anyone who has sex with a 9 year old child is by definition a pedophile.)
Perhaps, but its not very charitable to mention it.

**I would not have known it had I not read it here first and found it confirmed elsewhere.

A rotten root can only produce a rotten fruit.**
 
We must still try and recognize goodness, despite the source, in the hopes that it may lead them towards the Truth.
 
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