Quote:All forms of Islam and interpretations are equally valid? Cool. I guess that means that those Saudi dudes killing those gays are just being good Muslims after all.
Imperium - that's what you came up with after all that thinking? I'm disappointed.
Quote:Annie, doesn't it worry you, that the holy book that Sharia Law ( and a lot of other stuff ) is based on , is 'open' to interpretation???
Gizmo - Abu answered you well, but I'll add that no, it doesn't worry me at all. Almost everything in our lives is a mirror. We bring our own context to what we read and learn.
Quote:Some passages from the Koran were posted recently that proved to me that Muhammed supported full on wife beating - nasty green bruises and all - ao long as the woman 'deserved' it of course.
Really? I must have missed that. Can you please provide a link to a
Quran passage that mentions bruising and Muhammad's support for "full on wife beating?"
Quote:I have no itnerest in telling Muslims what the 'real' Islam is. My interest is in what Muslims believe. As far as I can tell, that does not include you.
I was a Muslim for over a decade and I've lived with one for almost two. If you want to write that off that's fine, but at least be honest about your reasons for doing so. My version of Islam doesn't fit with the view you're determined to hold on to. I doubt Abu's does either, which is why you have to twist what he says.
It's understandable that you find it confronting.