https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ie2-12sSyKI

Joshthefirst: ok, here's my first question:
what's your relationship with Allah? Since this thread is between mankind and God. What are you to him?
I am a slave of the Most Gracious(Allah).He is my Lord and my purpose on earth is to worship Him and obey his orders and if I do so,he would not punish me.....Peace

I find it sad that we as black people have come so far and freed ourselves from slavery, and have had the practice outlawed worldwide, after 400 years of the international slave trade.
That now you will wilfully call yourself a slave, trying to obey your masters orders so that he would not punish you is very upsetting to me. Can you not see that slavery is immoral. Slave owners are immoral, punishing slaves is immoral and cruel. You are not a slave, you deserve to be treated with kindness and respect, just like everyone else on this little planet.
You need to emancipate yourself from the mental slavery that keeps you in fear of punishment. It is not real.

Just because slavery was condoned in the bible and the Quran doesn't mean that it's ok to call yourself a slave. The practice was abolished hundreds of years ago as humans eventually realised that it is cruel and wrong.
Sorry, i find a human being willingly calling himself a slave afraid of his masters punishment so offensive, I just had to get that off my chest.

Thanks for taking the time to reply. Please watch the video. It seems like it is very much their faith that is driving them to kill or be killed for the cause. For example, I too am not happy with the civil war going on in Syria, but cannot understand why young British women feel the need to choose a side, fly hundreds of miles, take up arms and kill other Muslims.
I'm not happy with the political systems in many countries around the world, but don't feel the need to fly there, get an ak47 automatic machine gun and shoot people.
Please help me understand by watching the video then explaining what it is I'm missing. And what do you think would be the solution to the problem? Apparently, there are thousands of young British Muslims who have travelled abroad to fight in war zones.

I can foresee big problems when they return.

For all lifelong atheists, ex-christians, and christians its important to know the history of the christian belief and to look at the facts. This excellent film by an ex fundamentalist christian does just that. If you are a Christian, please dont be afraid to watch it, even if just to highlight its failings. Your opinions are very welcome.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE4qzFDCyCE





Below is the extended interview with neuroscientist Sam Harris from the movie.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpHcrcrXAbw

Happy new year! I hope this year is a much more peaceful one and believers and non believers can have a more respectful dialogue in understanding each others perspectives. War and murder is not the answer.

Peace and love for all muslims, christians, atheists, and all human beings is the only way we can move forward and build a better planet for our children and our children's children.

In answer to your questions,
All the animals were teleported to the ark location just before the flood and then teleported back to their original locations around the globe after the event.

To fit on the ark, all the animals were debigulated to a tiny fraction of their size, then re-bigulated when the flood was over, including some of the less sinful dinosaurs.

To account for the food and waste issues, all the animals were put in a state of suspended animation, this included all the salt water / fresh water fishes, whales, cretaceans, turtles and dolphins.

To account for the altitude and lack of oxygen, god created more oxygen for the planet so they could breathe and stay alive.

When the flood subsided, god siphened the water off the planet into space, creating the frozen ice asteroid belt and kuiper belt in the solar system.

Then he fixed the soil and hyper accelerated the growth of plants so that a dove will find a tree to indicate that land was nearby.

Remember that Yahweh is omnipotent, there is nothing he cannot do to make his ingenious and omniscient plan work.

I found this video quite sad, and would sincerely like to hear a true muslim's perspective on this. Surely someone must have an opinion, good or bad, please give yours.

The above article is taken from Critical Islam. A website run by muslims for muslims.

This is their about page.

Critical Muslim is a quarterly magazine of ideas and issues showcasing ground breaking thinking on Islam and what it means to be a Muslim in a rapidly changing, interconnected world.

Critical Muslim is a project of Muslim Institute, London, which is a learned society of Fellows. It is published by Hurst and Co., a highly respectable publisher of books on Islam and the Muslim World, as a paperback book; and co-published by Oxford University Press (Pakistan), Westland Books (India), and distributed in the United States by Oxford University Press (USA). Each issue is devoted to a single theme, which also serves as the title of the individual book.

Critical Muslim is devoted to examining issues within Islam and Muslim societies, providing a Muslim perspective on the great debates of contemporary times, and promoting dialogue, cooperation and collaboration between 'Islam' and other cultures, including 'the West.' We aim to be innovative, thought provoking and forward looking, a space for debate between Muslims, between Muslims and others, on religious, social, cultural and political issues concerning the Muslim world and Muslims in the world.

What does 'Critical Muslim' mean? We are proud of our strong Muslim identity, but we do not see 'Islam' as a set of pieties and taboos. We aim to challenge traditionalist, modernist, fundamentalist and apologetic versions of Islam, and attempt to set out new readings of religion and culture with the potential for social, cultural and political transformation of the Muslim world. Our writers may define their Muslim belonging religiously, culturally or civilisationally, and some do not 'belong' to Islam at all. Critical Muslim often invites writers of opposing viewpoints to debate controversial issues.

We aim to appeal to both academic and non-academic readerships; and emphasise intellectual rigour, the challenge of ideas, and original thinking.

In these times of accelerating change, complexity and revolutions, we choose not be a lake or a meandering river. But to be an ocean. We embrace the world with all its diversity and pluralism, complexity and chaos. We aim to explore everything on our interconnected, shrinking planet - from religion and politics, to science, technology and culture, art and literature, philosophy and ethics, and histories and futures - and seek to move forward despite deep uncertainty and contradictions. We stand for open and critical engagement in the best tradition of Muslim intellectual inquiry.

I would like to know from a Muslims perspective if these young British women are considered brave freedom fighters or not? Or Are they dangerously deluded potential murderers?

The young couple even have his and her Kalashnikovs and she expects her new husband to soon die leaving her with two young children to raise. To me this seems not just crazy but also very sad. Such a waste of young lives with so much more to live for. Am I missing something here that only a true Muslim can understand? Please explain!

Also, Who exactly are they fighting against? Are they on the same side as the west fighting against the Assad regime? Is the Syrian government not a Muslim government or just not Islamic enough?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hAlKlQ2g1Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hAlKlQ2g1Q

Ten Species of Angry Muslim Men
You are sitting comfortably in an assembly of Muslim men. Women are, as usual, segregated and safely secluded in a different room – as far as possible. Conversation is flowing with endless cups of chai as you begin to listen carefully to this fairly representative sample of Muslim masculinities. What are you going to hear? The discussion would inevitably focus on Islam with, as in any human gathering, a host of different views and positions. But there will be a certain variety, Little Big Men Little Overblown, who will be jostling each other to claim that they are the only true representative of God on earth. So here is a list of the type of Muslim men you may encounter in a typical gathering anywhere on the planet.





1. Preacher Man

Harbouring an unhealthy obsession with ‘infidels’ and all things kafir, products of grimy unbelievers, the excruciating agony of the hellfire dominates the fire and brimstone televangelist preacher’s every thought. In an effort to save souls he rails against the decay and degradation of Western society and can often be found regaling simple fellows of the joys and superiority of a certain kind of Islam, while attacking other faiths and denouncing women. His every sentence is punctuated with quotations from the Qur’an and the traditions of the Prophet. Although physically a mess, he is also quite imprudent. He will not rest until Shari’a is implemented on the planet, for which incidentally he needs to become a citizen of the US or Europe with attendant social housing and state benefits.





2. Rocky, the Fighter

Rocky, the Fighter (henceforth known as a Salafi) constitutes a subset of Preacher Man. He imbibes all of the latter’s (un)qualities with the addition that he would dearly like us all to return to the purity of an imagined formative period of Islam, exemplified by the first generation of Muslims, the Salaf. The Salaf, we are told, were clones of the Prophet, copying how he dressed, ate, slept, and so on. Today’s Salafis go to great lengths at such imitation and are savvy users of technology. Laser-scanners can ensure beard-lengths are accurate to the nano-metre, and music, sorry, MP3 players can recite the Qur’an on a continuous loop. Strangely, the Prophet’s other virtues (compassion and kindness, for example), are absent from the Salafi playbook. The Salafi male’s main habitat is likely to be a Saudi-sponsored mosque, where Salafis of the senior species can be identified by the numbers of wars they have fought in. There is also a lesser form of Salafi who wakes up all set to fight the jihad, but, upon landing at Kabul airport, misses the creature comforts of home so much that he becomes an aid worker-cum piety policeman, chasing after the sisters with the intention of ‘educating’ them as to appropriate Islamic behaviour such as the correct length of skirt.





3. Tambourine Man

Islam’s ‘happy clappy’ tradition has roots in a north Indian town called Bareilly in the nineteenth century and its followers are known by their enemies as Barelvis. Tambourine Men need no excuse for a song, or a dance at the mosque. If you’re lucky you might even witness spontaneous performances of the Harlem shake as worshippers jive in rapture to devotional music. Tambourine Man’s copy of the Qur’an is to be found on a high shelf in his home and wrapped in a silk, gold scarf. It is kissed before and after recitation. He also has a fondness for graveyards and a Goth-like reverence for all things death-related. The demise of a near and dear, twice-removed cousin-in-law requires him to drop everything that instant and travel 250 miles across the country to express his condolence (afsos, as he calls it) to the bereaved. If you, too, can weep uncontrollably at the mere mention of the Prophet’s name then do consider membership of this large and expanding club.





4. The Orthodox Man

As Newton pointed out, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. In the case of the Barelvis, it comes in the form of Deobandis, the followers of the Deoband seminary in Uttar Pradesh, India. In some circles, he is also known as Wahhabi; either way, he is an ultra-conservative orthodox man who hates women, secularism, and Salman Rushdie. But most of all he hates the Barelvis, and lives in constant feigned horror at the activities of his Barelvi neighbours. He promotes campaigns such as ‘No to Graveyard Worship’ and his favourite term of abuse is to call something shirk (idolatry) or biddah (innovation). But he is not against all innovations – he is happy to divorce his wife via a text, use television for dawa (literally ‘inviting to all that is good’, but in his case good is not a moral but an instrumental concept) and issue truly dumb on-line fatwas. The highlight of his calendar is the anniversary of the Prophet’s death, not to celebrate it but to make a big point of NOT celebrating it. He has a prurient interest in the personal lives of others and wants to dictate everything from personal hygiene habits to the rules of the marital bedroom. Anything remotely fun is strictly forbidden and having a sense of humour is a sure-fire way to be consigned to the depths of Hell. He would prefer that women stay at home. In fact he would prefer if women did not exist at all but life is not perfect and that is Allah’s will.





5. The Puritan

We have our Puritans, and none more so than the tablighis, the Jehovah’s Witnesses of the Muslim world. An off-shoot of the Deobandi school, the movement was started in 1926 in India to invite people to ‘the way of Muhammad’. If you are a Muslim, sooner or later you will find a tablighi knocking on your door to ask if you are familiar with the basics of Islam and know how to pray properly. Tablighis are obsessed with the minutia of rituals: is your beard the correct length, how far you must wash your elbow during ablution, which direction you should face during sex – that sort of thing. Prayers must be performed at the appointed time, regardless of where you might be or what else you might be doing. Driving on a motorway? Then pray on the hard-shoulder. Playing an important international cricket match? No matter. Mecca cannot wait. The tablighi’s idea of a spiritual retreat involves abandoning his family for months at a time to do God’s work. This all-male affair involves going from mosque to mosque, to eat, pray, and invite Muslim men to do the same. It is, in effect, an extended alcohol-free stag-do. One of the six tablighi principles includes ‘honouring other Muslims’ but this does not include women, presumably because they do not have beards.





6. The Exceptionalist

Islam is a broad church, encompassing many sects and nationalities. That is in effect a licence for males of any nationality to assume that their Islam is superior to any other. The Exceptionalist Arab never fails to remind you that he speaks ‘the language of the Qur’an’, has an innate and superior understanding of the Sacred Text, and his Islam is superior to all others. Urdu-speaking males from Pakistan will insist that theirs is the language of Heaven. It’s the same when it comes to clothing, food, and national cultures. The Shalwar Kameez, according to its wearers, is more ‘Islamic’ than the jalabiyya of the Arab world – and both are infinitely preferable to anything emanating from the Western world, except men’s shoes, which seem to have transcended both religion and nationality.





7. Movement Man

Movement Man exists solely for the purpose of achieving a utopian Islamic state under Shari’a. Islamic movements include the Jamaat-e-Islami of Pakistan, the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt and possibly Turkey’s Justice and Development party, too. Movement Man believes in slogans such as ‘the Qur’an is our constitution’ and ‘Islam is the Answer’ Even though he has no idea what question ‘Islam’ is in fact responding to. Feminists, secularists, nationalists, modernists and all other ists (except Islamists) are abhorred equally. Governments led by men from Islamic movements tend towards a kind of totalitarianism à la Iran, with its infallible Supreme Leader and an Impeccably Pious ‘Council of Guardians’ at the helm. Mercifully, not many Muslims want to vote for the Movement Man.





8. The Zealous Convert

‘Convert’, ‘revert’, or, simply ‘New Muslims’ – more and more men seem to want to adopt Islam by choice. Scientists have been unable to work out a reason or formula, except that converts are as likely to be rich bankers as they are likely to be guests at Her Majesty’s Pleasure (possibly both). Male converts do have one thing in common though: a healthy scepticism of their brothers and sisters who take the lazy road to ‘choosing’ belief because it runs in the family. A male convert’s first goal after conversion is often to find a nice, uncomplicated, passive and obedient Muslim wife. But he soon discovers that such a person exists only in Orientalist fantasies. His second objective is to convert more men to the cause, including lazy ‘born’ Muslims. He feels he is a far better Muslim than them, indeed he is more Muslim than the Muslims themselves, and hence in a natural position to be a leader.



9. The Conspiracy Theorist

By means of intuition and with the aid of esoteric knowledge, our Conspiracy Theorist Muslim man has access to truth at a level far beyond the merely factual. So, for example, where others see hapless and incompetent politicians failing to run national and global affairs, the Conspiracy Theorist sees the work of phantoms menacing and controlling the world. His most prized possession is a well-thumbed copy of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Beyond that he cannot get enough of Internet searches for The Bilderberg Group and the Illuminati. In the world of the Conspiracy Theorist, there is no such thing as responsibility: everything is always someone else’s fault.





10. The Pious Package Holiday-maker

He regularly forgoes family holidays in order to top up his savings in the piety bank to go for pilgrimage (hajj), or lesser pilgrimage (umrah), to Mecca. Or rather, the pilgrimage is a holiday trip where the highlight is the family bucket meal at the KFC in Mecca. He is thrilled with the construction of five-star facilities in the Holy City and thinks that the Clock Tower in Mecca is the epitome of style and taste. After all, we have to move with the times and pilgrims, like other consumers, need a little luxury when performing their religious duty. His twenty-something daughter who would have baulked at a hole in the toilet floor can now be persuaded to join him and his wife next year. Some years, he will perform hajj or umrah on behalf of a deceased relative or a member of a family unable to afford the trip. But it never occurs to him to lend them a financial hand to make the trip themselves.

http://criticalmuslim.com/issues/08-men-islam/ten-species-angry-muslim-men

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ND8XLDHPAk

Watch this woman from Barbados talking the truth and please wake up. You know she is talking the truth. The time has come to break the mental chains of 400 years of christianity and emancipate yourself. We are much much better than the 'masters' religion. Wake Up!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2NX2MPzvH4

It's not possible. It's just a fictional story made up by people who where unaware of the size of the planet and it's different animals that they had never seen before. Could you imagine trying to get two kangaroos and koalas from Australia to the Middle East and then back again when the flood is over.

If humans are so complex and intelligent that they must have had a more complex and intelligent designer / creator, who or what designed and created the designer?
After centuries of humans pondering this deeply profound question. Do we now have the answer?
Please watch this enjoyable 10 minute video to the end to find out.
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/ODetOE6cbbc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODetOE6cbbc

I pray that Allah wul cure you from this destructive sickness

I pray that Sango will cure you from your destructive sickness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvKX16Eygs0

Great speech by President Obama just before he was elected.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJK9HPrAOLc

As you can see from the video above, this is an example of someone using the bible codes to 'predict' president Obama's second term in office.
Ask yourself why is the prediction always found after the event? And notice how much mental gymnastics he has to go through to to come to his desired outcome.
People have been doing this for centuries and it can be done with any fictional book. For example, have you heard of the Quran code? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quran_code

I would be more impressed if you could show me a few bible code predictions for this month, August 2013, things like natural disasters, assassinations, political upheavals, financial crashes, or anything else you can find. Good luck!

It seems clear that science came out of the curiosity to investigate the world without including god in the equation. This method was always very risky with the threat of being branded a heretic and tortured and killed by the religious authority.
However, the scientific method has proved much more successful in understanding the world and universe that we live in.

Scientists have looked at the air we breathe and discovered it is made of different gasses like hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen etc.
They have investigated light and discovered the electromagnetic spectrum, the colours of the rainbow and the real reason why it forms.
They have discovered electricity and the real reason why lightning forms,
the reason why the sun burns thought nuclear fusion,
the reason why the wind blows,
plate tectonics and earthquakes,
DNA, natural selection and evolution etc. the list goes on and on.

And in all cases no supernatural gods have been found to be involved even though for centuries people thought that these were acts of god.
Religions have held back progress by imposing harsh punishments on those who dared to question. Now that the influence of religious believers is dropping, human understanding of the universe has increased immensely.
If there really are gods out there somewhere, the evidence should lead us there. So far all the evidence is indicating there are no gods.
Allah, Yahweh, Krishna, Jesus, Mohammed, Buddha, Sango, Oduduwa, Zeus, Thor, etc, are all man made gods and prophets of gods.

This is where the evidence is taking us, and millions are finally waking up to the fact that you can be good, ethical and moral without believing in ancient supernatural fairytales. (And you won't be burned at the stake as a heretic by man, or condemned to everlasting torture in hell by a god for the 'crime' of thinking rationally).

The fact that this fictional story is so horrific is bad enough. It is even worse that you think it is true and actually happened and are justifying an act of mass murder (including the murder of innocent children) only makes it worse. This evil, jealous, vindictive fictional god you worship is a genocidal maniac worse than hitler. You must know that genocide is wrong no matter what. An omniscient, all powerful god must know this too.
What a bad example to set

I have read about the bible codes and they are all just fictional codes taken from a fictional book. There is absolutely no truth to any of it. We are the creators of our own destiny and the sooner we all realise that the better. Instead of wallowing in a self inflicted pessimistic quagmire based on the predictions of ancient texts forced on us by European slave masters, you should be trying to help build a better future for yourself and your children.
I know it's hard to free yourself from years of religious indoctrination, but it can be done. It takes some people years of thinking critically about religions before they realise that it's all man made.
Think about it. The bible was first thought up thousands of years ago by brutal, ignorant, racist, sexist, Bronze Age, tribal, desert dwelling goat herders. It's been translated by word of mouth and rewritten hundreds of times down the ages. It's like a fairy story, none of it is true. Just like all the other religions in the world that people follow.

Respects

Not believing in a god is not evil or bad. There are thousands of different gods that people have worshipped and tens of thousands of different religions. What makes you so sure you were lucky enough to be born in a country where they worship the right one? You did not choose where you were born and you know that people in other counties with different beliefs are not evil and destined for hell. In fact, the concept of hell is a very cruel and evil concept that keeps people afraid to question their belief system even though it is full of contradictions, horrific stories of genocide, r.ape, infanticide, and talking animals.
You must know deep down that its all a myth and you can be good without god. Science is finding more and more natural answers to things we used to think we're evidence of god at work. There is still so much more to learn, so lets open our minds and not be afraid to go where the evidence leads us.
Religions hold us back and divide us, whereas science has discovered that we are all evolved from Africa millions of years ago. We are all related. we are all AFRICANS.

You're so wrong, the world is not getting better, actually the earth is dying. The mistake you and many make is that they think violence is the sign for the end. No the number one sign is man disregard to God and concentrate more on himself. 15 year ago u there not talk abt gays now the UN has a gay ambassador, know u seen atheism and other false religion proliferate at high rates, 11 & 12 yrs waking up deciding they're gay and either get gay partners or have a sex change. As per physical, hmm a lot of disasters, just this week in US, one region is experience heat way while another flooding! I can go on n on, but no the earth is getting better, dnt be deceived.
Thoughts: for those who guy our bible well, its astonishing our end time prophecies are being fulfilled.

There really is no need to be so pessimistic about the future. I find it telling how atheists seem to be more optimistic about the future than the religious.
This planet like a paradise in the harsh, cold darkness of space. It's up to us to live together in harmony and make it into the heaven you so much desire.
As for gays, they have been around since recorded history, and it's biological just like some men are born with female organs and females with male organs. Some are born with opposite characteristics as well. DNA coding (gods design) is not perfect which is why you get conjoined twins and other physical and mental deformities. We are just beginning to understand how DNA works now which is why we are becoming more tolerant of people who are different to the majority.
You mentioned natural disasters like its a new thing or they are getting worse. Again you are wrong, natural disasters have been happening throughout all of recorded history and pre history. There have been ice ages, floods, tornados, hurricanes, meteorite strikes, volcano eruptions, earthquakes happening for millions of years. This is a dynamic planet made up of a thin moving crust on top of molten rock, with an even thinner atmosphere spinning at 1000mph on its axis, orbiting a star at 10000mph. Natural disasters will always happen. At least now we can understand what causes them and through science, predict and protect ourselves from them.

Actually, the world is getting better, there is less wars in the world then ever, no major nations are at war with each other, people are living longer because of the advance of science and understanding about germs and diseases. It is religions that is holding back progress. In countries with the most religion you will find the most intolerance, death rates, violence etc. In modern countries with the most atheists you will find the most peace and unity. Google it if you don't believe me.

Just think about the quality of life and how many major nations were at war fifty years ago compared to now (google it), then compare that to 100 years ago when the whole of Europe was at war. Then compare that to 200 years ago when we were in the horrific Middle Ages and Africans were being exported like cattle to work as slaves. Now compare that to 500 years ago when Mayans were cutting out the hearts of living sacrifices and Africa was full of thousands of different tribes mostly at war with each other. If you go back further it gets worse with the brutal Roman Empire, Greek empire, and biblical Old Testament accounts of mass racial genocide, infanticide, rape and slaughter. Back then, they had to build massive walls around cities and fortresses just to try to keep safe! Can you Imagine if you were living in Jericho when god's favourite people surrounded it with the divine intention of killing every man, woman, child, and baby inside the city with swords and cutlasses?

Salaam Alaikum my Muslim brothers and sisters. Please watch this short video by Professor Jim Al-Khalili, then share your thoughts on him as an ex Muslim atheist. I mean, he seems like a nice, peacefull, respectful, intelligent man. Do you honestly believe he will be tortured and burn forever in fire, because he rejects Islam and all other religions and concepts of god? I sincerely hope not.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSmYoJrQjUI

Respects

Salaam Alaikum my Muslim brothers and sisters. Please watch this short video. Listen to what she has to say, then share your opinions about her. Thank you


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7ICc9HA7Nk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1FOoDs0Fbc

Excellent presentation about how the scientific method is much more accurate for determining truth than the religious method.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyrKMIDSVYE

Dear Mom and Dad,

When I was a child I couldn't tell you this. I would never have even imagined saying it. I was never given the chance to object.

You took a 4 year old little boy and willingly taught him that he was a worthless sinner and could never be good without your religion. Then you didn’t just teach me that I was worthless, you told me that if I ever disagreed with what you were teaching me, I would burn forever in hell. Thanks for those adulthood nightmares, by the way.

The toughest part in saying all of this is that I know what you did, you did out of love, but all you left me with was guilt and fear, and you sent me out into the world to spread your message of Machiavellian love and fear.

The thing is, what you did to me was wrong. It was child abuse. It bleeped me up and left me not knowing who I really was at the age of thirty because I had never been allowed to find my own identity as a person and instead had been manipulated through fear tactics and psychological terror sold in a loving package delivered by the two people I trusted most.

How can I express this without hurting you? I doubt I can. I just wish you could see that despite all of this I still love you because I know that in spite of the negative results you were only doing what you had been programmed to do by your parents.

That cycle ends here. My children will be who they are and I will love them for it. They will be free to choose their own beliefs even if they are different than my own. Because a parent shouldn't conform a child to the dictates of some ancient book written by sadistic sociopaths in the desert thousands of years ago, they should set them on the path to self discovery so that they can grow up without the oppression of guilt for the crime of being born.

I’m sorry no one learned this lesson for you, and that hurts most of all.

Your son,

Timothy

http://mentalbrushfire..co.uk/2013/07/the-toughest-letter-ive-ever-written.html

As a non believer, I'm very interested in learning about the very fascinating religion of Islam. I must admit that the more I learn about it, the more scary it seems. Especially it's sharia law and the punishments for atheists, apostates, gays, adulterers, thieves, blasphemers etc.
I know Muslims say that Islam is a religion of peace and I really want to believe that, but is that peace only attained when the whole world is ruled by Islam and non believers, like myself, gays, apostates, blasphemers etc are totally eradicated or allowed to live if they pay a jizya?
Peace and love.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgsrnmzxEUY

As-salamu alaykum my Muslim brothers and sisters. Can I have your honest opinion about the sentiments and aspirations of the speaker in the video.
Do you agree or disagree with his views?
Do you condone or condemn his views?
Does he represent the viewpoints of you as a Muslim? , or are his views unislamic and misguided?
I'm very interested to hear your views from a Muslim perspective.
Respects