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Excellent post! Muslims do indeed need to GROW UP and stop acting like spoiled brats who either claim victimhood or resort to violence at the slightest criticism of their religion or when their egos are deflated.Hahaha. Christians who can’t eat or sleep without bashing Islam? Wow…that’s quite an ego you must have, Muslim Woman! Outside of this board and occasionally Arabic class (where we learn some Islamic greetings and other words, since Arabic is the language of Islam, since Muhammad’s Allah is an Arab), I spend about as much time thinking about Islam as I do thinking about Mormons, Zoroastrians, or Jains…that is, none at all. It is only because Islam is now seen (rightly or wrongly) as a security threat by much of the world that it is in such focus. That’s not a good thing, so I wouldn’t get too excited by it if I were you. If it were instead Hare Krishnas or Baha’is posting videos of themselves blowing up hotels or beheading “infidels”, you wouldn’t have a reason to start these threads in which you play up your victimhood.
Where’s your thread decrying the poor treatment of the Berbers, who were forcibly converted to Islam? Their primary religions prior to the coming of Islam were Christianity and Judaism. St. Augustine was a Berber, as was his mother, St. Monica. Queen Kahina (647-702), a Jewish Berber, is remembered among her people for her fight against the Muslim invasion of North Africa. You probably don’t talk about such things because it doesn’t make someone else’s religion look bad.
And I would start a “Christianity & Christians bashing” thread, but a) I realize how incredibly tacky that is, and b) that’s what nearly every thread in which Muslims are asked direct questions turns into anyway. So…why did you feel a need to add to it?
I’ll reiterate the point of my original post in this thread (lest you start wagging your finger at me, “You too! You added to it by posting that! GRRR! You hate Muslims SOOOO much!”), which is that individual Muslims are just as great or not great as individual Christians. False victimhood is a real turn-off, though. It’s almost as if you’re asking for people to not take you seriously. Why bother posting here at all if you’re so upset that not everyone in the world agrees with you? Welcome to life outside of the Allahosphere, where most of the time, people don’t care what you believe in one way or another. That’s not bashing…that’s equal-opportunity not caring, like I alluded to in the first paragraph of this post.
So what is it really about Christians here that makes you so upset? Is that we care enough about our own religion to try to correct your mistaken impressions of it that are given to you in your Qur’an and by your scholars, or is it that we don’t care enough about your religion to give you special privledges (i.e., never talking about it even in threads where it is the topic, never disagreeing with it even when our own religion demands that we do so, etc) because of your belief in it?
Either way: Grow up.
Vickie