Questions about "Answering Islam" website and its team

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Greetings everyone,

My name is Alex and I’m 21 years old and my ethnicity is Romanian-Arab. My religion and branch is Sunni Islam. I hope you guys have no problem for what I am.

As a Sunni Muslim, I was really wondering why do Christians generally have resentinents towards Islam and Muslims and I believe that I have notived something which no other Muslim have noticed before me. What do I know? I have realised that the main reason Sam Shamoun attacks Islam and Muslims, is mainly because some Muslims have made speech which may seem to be antisemite for Christians like for example, Ahmad Deedat who said 10 reasons why Jesus is not God and now I begin to understand why Sam Shamoun wants to critize Islam and David Wood as well which is why I wanna clarify the misunderstandingsx because I believe that this kind of attack is just huge misunderstanding and I wanna clarify to them the misunderstandings.

My questions about David Wood are:
  1. Are there ways how can I contanct him and have a private talk?
  2. Does David Wood have a personal email? If yes, may I have it? Because, I wanna talk with him about the root cause of his attacks so that I can clarify the misunderstanding
My questions about Sam Shamoun are:
  1. Does he have an email address? If yes, may I have his email as well? So that I can answer his questions about Islam and also to clarify the misunderstandings without debating.
  2. Are there ways of how can I contact Sam Shamoun?
Questions about “answering-islam.org”
  1. I tried myself to email that website with intention of clarifying the misunderstandings, but I did not got any response from anyone from that team. So, how can I contact that website?
P.S. The reason I emailed that website is because I believed that this is the only way of how to clarify the misunderstandings, but I have not got any reply from that team. That is why, I asked you concerning Sam Shamoun and David, because maybe like this I will be able to answer their questions about Islam and to clarify the misunderstanding. Because personally, I really wanna end this fighting between Christians and Muslims, because this is just a crazy fight and I just wanna end it, because I cannot support it anymore, because it has gone far too long and I believe that it is the time for fighting to come to an end permanently, because I really want for us to coexist with Christians without having anymore religious problems.

Thank you
 
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I’ve never heard of any of those people that you’ve mentioned.

I’m sure the Quran has much to say about wisdom and peace. Focus on those elements of your faith and forget the quibbles and distractions.

This forum gets a lot of these types of questions like, “How to win the argument against so and so”. The responses are usually along the lines of ‘don’t lose any of your peace over it’

It’s noble and good to want an end to fighting. And try to do what you can. But some of this is just a distraction not worth your time. I hope that we can all have the wisdom to know the difference.
 
I had no idea who David Wood or Sam Shamoun were so I looked them up.

You’re on a Catholic forum. David Wood is a Protestant Evangelical. Sam Shamoun is also a Protestant (Lutheran) .

Catholics and Protestants are both Christian, but Protestants split off from the Catholic Church hundreds of years ago. The vast majority of Catholics do not bother with Protestant “apologists” unless the Protestants are saying bad/ wrong things about Catholicism, in which case we would point out the many errors they no doubt would be committing.

If a couple of Protestants are criticizing Islam, that’s not really my problem as a Catholic, nor do I have any idea how to get in touch with a couple of Protestant apologists.

I would suggest maybe you want to have this discussion on some Protestant forum where people actually know or care who Wood and Shamoun are.
 
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Do you know if there are Protestant forums? If yes, can you please name a Protestant forum? Because, I doubt that there is such thing. All what I see is Catholic forums.
 
Well, I didn’t know what forum to chose.

I thought that Sam Shamoun and David Wood were Catholics mainly because I have seen that you had on awhat forum about what that website have done. I don’t remember exactly, but I guess it was about women in Islam or something like this and that lead me to believe that Sam Shamoun and David Wood are Catholics and I make this forum because I wanna ask you how I can contact those two, because I understand that people are criticizing Islam based on the violence that happens in Middle East and I wanna ask them to stop criticizing Islam, because it is just terrible missunderstanding. Because Islam is not the fault for the violence that Muslim countries are doing such as Pakistan, Iran and Saudi Arabia. Because, those countries uses Islam as an excuse for their deeds, this is something which Ottoman Empire have done exactly the same . . . stuff . . . which is why I wanna ask those two to stop judging and interpretate Islam based on what is happening in Middle East. Because, this is just not faire way of thinking…
 
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I make this forum because I wanna ask you how I can contact those two
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I don’t think anyone here is going to have contact information for those people. As people have mentioned, this is a Catholic forum and they aren’t Catholics. I myself have never heard of these two individuals and wouldn’t know what to suggest besides Google.
 
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I believe that this kind of attack is just huge misunderstanding and I wanna clarify to them the misunderstandings.
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You’ve received wonderful replies so far. I will also add that many Protestant Christians have at least as many major misunderstandings about Catholic Christianity as they do about Islam. It would never occur to me to expend energy contacting them personally because, if I ever even receive a reply, it likely won’t change their minds, hearts, or deeply set prejudices.

One idea for you would be to start a blog, (free to do on sites like Word Press), and address the misunderstandings that you see. You could even link to the web pages with the misinformation and then email Wood and Shamoun encouraging them to read what you’ve publicly posted. If you do, please share the link to your blog. A number of us on CAF are interested in comparative religion. Blessings!
 
I wonder, do theu know that Islam has many branches such as Shia Islam, Wahhabi Islam and so forth? Because, also we as Muslims have problems within us. For example, as we have problems with Wahhabi Muslims(the official branch of Saudi Arabia) and these people are very bad and oppressive and the Protestants don’t see that there are good Muslims and bad Muslims, like for example, Wahhabi and Shia Muslims are bad people, not all of them, but some do preach good others preach bad. I wonder if those people know this stuff which I know
 
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You’ve received wonderful replies so far. I will also add that many Protestant Christians have at least as many major misunderstandings about Catholic Christianity as they do about Islam. It would never occur to me to expend energy contacting them personally because, if I ever even receive a reply, it likely won’t change their minds, hearts, or deeply set prejudices.
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Exactly; except, perhaps, I would chose the word ‘beliefs’ rather that ‘prejudices’ (at least, on a good day 😉).
 
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I wonder, do theu know that Islam has many branches such as Shia Islam, Wahhabi Islam and so forth? Because, also we as Muslims have problems within us. For example, as we have problems with Wahhabi Muslims(the official branch of Saudi Arabia) and these people are very bad and oppressive and the Protestants don’t see that there are good Muslims and bad Muslims, like for example, Wahhabi and Shia Muslims are bad people, not all of them, but some do preach good others preach bad. I wonder if those people know this stuff which I know
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I don’t know. You’d have to ask them. Keep in mind these are just two individuals. They don’t represent all Protestants everywhere.
 
Cannot speak for those people, I have found that many Americans do not understand that Islam is more akin to protestantism with the various, diverse branches than like Catholicism all united under the magisterium.
 
I think you’ll find that Protestants are all over the map on how much of Islam they understand. Many know little about it except when there are terrorist attacks that have them assuming Islam is all terrorists. However, many people are more knowledgeable and do know there are various sects with different levels of extremism and peaceable intententions.

I’ve known several Muslims, none of whom were extremists. They were all peace loving people and wonderful friends. Everyone has some prejudices and biases. Most try to educate themselves and overcome it. We all can do better. There are extremists in every religion and yet there is beauty in every religion as well. People tend to pick and choose what they want to emphasize.

I, too, recommend starting a blog to explain what you want to say. Any forum that doesn’t want to listen to you will probably ban you at some point. Many would be pleased to hear what you have to say.
 
Pattylt said:
I think you’ll find that Protestants are all over the map on how much of Islam they understand. Many know little about it except when there are terrorist attacks that have them assuming Islam is all terrorists.
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Right, and the same applies to many Catholics.
The Catholics who are more tolerant or think more deeply will try to build bridges with Muslims. They might even read books like the one by Peter Kreeft that Little Lady recommended.
The Muslims I have met personally have been very nice. I had two of them at my Catholic wedding. I admire the Muslims’ commitments to prayer and fasting, it is an inspiration to me.

But many Catholics don’t know much about Muslims and only hear about those who commit terrorist acts like 9/11 or killing an elderly Catholic priest during Mass. I do not just assume all Muslims are like that though.
 
The sad reality is that Islam got a bad image because of those khawarijites who do suicide bombing and do death threats and also because of Protestants. Now it is difficult to correct the image of Islam which was distored by khawarijites and protestants and that would probably would take years to correct the image of Islam which was distored for many years. This is all because of Al Qaida who had mindset and used Islam as an excuse for their suicide attacks… I don’t like that my religion is beej used for bad purposes like this. Unfortunately, Islam has been misused for unjust stuff. The first one to misuse it, is Ottoman Empire.
 
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