While Christian answers your questions on Baha’i, we switch gears to Islam. If you’ve been reading the comments lately, then you definitely have come across Mohamed. He is a faithful Muslim and eagerly shares his interesting, albeit controversial views…
Islam freed the world from slavery, and Islam is the reason for all the technology and the advances in this world, when the west in dark ages. –Mohamed
a touch of sarcasm…
Nuclear attack on Japan, I don’t think it’s terrorist attack, killing 200 thousands people of civilians wasn’t terrorist attack, putting African in slavery was so civilized, USA killing, raping and torturing Iraqi and secret prisons all over the world not terrorism. –Mohamed
Love him or hate him, I decided to contact Mohamed. He agreed to answer your questions about Islam and religion in general. Mohamed, a self described moderate Muslim, was born and raised in Egypt. He lived in North Carolina for 2 years, and now resides in Utah where he has spent the last 3 years. He has a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and in his spare time he enjoys watching the NBA, NFL, and college football.
PLEASE, ONLY POST QUESTIONS TO MOHAMED. Save your comments for when he answers.
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September 25th, 2006 at 10:05 am
Islam freed the world of slavery?
http://www.gvnet.com/humantrafficking/SaudiArabia.htm
While it is true that we owe a lot to muslim scholars centuries back, it is unfortunate that the islamic world seems to have progressed little since. Also, pointing out the hypocrisy in the USA doesn’t work as an excuse for religious violence stemming from Islam.
September 25th, 2006 at 12:30 pm
Give me your honest view of atheism, or better, the people who claim to be atheistic.
September 25th, 2006 at 12:52 pm
Mohammad:
You say that “Islam is the reason for all the technology and the advances in this world.” How is that? It seems to me that people are responsible for these things, not religions. People who may have happened to be Muslims may have contributed to advances in technology a thousand years ago, but what have they done lately?
September 25th, 2006 at 1:29 pm
Islam ensures the need for body armor advances. I’m sorry I’m such an @$$. Religion is the antithesis of technology, unless there’s some techno-religion I’m unaware of. Religion, western religion, says god will provide so why bother splitting atoms or genes?
September 25th, 2006 at 2:50 pm
Islam freed the world from slavery…. –Mohamed
Oh, that’s a riot! Islam IS slavery, because if you try to leave the religion, you sign your death warrant. Give me the Dark Ages any day.
September 25th, 2006 at 3:12 pm
SJ has hit gold, don’t you are a slave to allah.
So you come out of slavery and then go straight back with a new master! It all makes sense to mohammed though because there are good things in his book, I think we’ll put that hadith under the carpet for safe keeping later yeah
September 25th, 2006 at 3:19 pm
A couple years ago, hot on the news, some islamic dude sprayed acid on his wife’s face and tied her to the bed for a week, claiming it was his right and priviledge as a husband under the islamic law.
We often hear women are mistreated (or at least depicted as lesser than men) in the islamic religion; is it only a socio-cultural thing, mostly seen in certain countries (even to the point of including most muslims), or is it really part of the ‘core’ islam?
I mean women are not exactly lesser than men in the christian bible, but it’s REAL easy to interpret it that way.
Enlighten me! :)
September 25th, 2006 at 3:35 pm
Are the virgins I get in heaven cute? Or are they women who just couldn’t get laid before dying?
September 25th, 2006 at 4:11 pm
Enough is enough. I stated that I’d like only questions placed in this thread. While Mohamed’s opinions may be out-of-line to most, please show him the respect for coming forward to answer your questions.
This thread has turned in to a circus and will be cleaned up tonight. Unless you have a genuine question for Mohamed, please remain silent until I post his answers. Then its open-season.
And to those that kicked and screamed about me deleting your comments, I’ll continue to do so as I have explicitly stated that this thread is for questions.
Sincerely,
gasmonso
September 25th, 2006 at 4:51 pm
Ok, gas we’re sorry. You know some of us are naturally contrary. Your board, your rules.
My question is,
Why does islam still have restrictions on eating certain foods? I can understand in the days of trichinosis and whatnot but now that people understand germs and bacteria these types of strictures serve no (obvious) purpose?
September 25th, 2006 at 5:15 pm
haaaa haa…I am sorry please have mercy mohammed….
One question, if we are unbelievers who will put us straight on the path we must follow to rightousness, will it be god or the threat of terriorism.
What happens to good decent people who harm no one, and those who people who live a actual life of not sinning against god.
I’m sure there are a lot of decent people out there with their own set of morals, ok choose not to believe in god. Even the christians out there, ok its may seem annoying when they keeping on about their faith and the fact that we shouldn’t sin or we will go to hell. But thats not the issue providing you live a life that someone could meet and call a friend and decent person, regardless of what colour of skin or own beliefs. I have many muslem friends it don’t matter as long a your a good person, Its the difference between calling me a friend rather than a mate.
If god exists or not is not a reason to hate someone, you must relise that its the character, not whether they believe in god or not. This shouldn’t be a reason to impose this upon, with threating words in a religion, I got a extremists islam website that quote from the quran, (I’m guessing hes extremist, it looks sick to say the least)
“I WILL CAST TERROR INTO THE HEARTS OF THOSE WHO DISBELIEVE. THEREFORE STRIKE OFF THEIR HEADS AND STRIKE OFF EVERY FINGERTIP OF THEM. THIS IS BECAUSE THEY ACTED ADVERSELY TO ALLAH AND HIS MESSENGER; AND WHOEVER ACTS ADVERSELY TO ALLAH AND HIS MESSENGER - THEN SURELY ALLAH IS SEVERE IN REQUITING (EVIL). THIS - TASTE IT, AND (KNOW) THAT FOR THE UNBELIEVERS IS THE PUNISHMENT OF FIRE”. O you who believe! When you meet those who disbelieve marching for war, then turn not your backs to them. And whoever shall turn his back to them on that day - unless he turn aside for the sake of fighting or withdraws to a company - then he, indeed, becomes deserving of Allah’s wrath, and his abode is hell; and an evil destination shall it be. So you did not slay them, but it was Allah Who slew them and you did not smite when you smote (the enemy) but it was Allah Who smote, and that He might confer upon the believers a good gift from Himself; (8:12-17)
SO, mohammed if allah is god, then how can this believer possiably end up like this bloke and his crazy website, do you think god is with this person. Your supposed to be a kind and decent person and live a perfect life if you are with god, (its the inner peace stuff to non-believers) ha ha
Gods not with those people yeah….thats my question!!!
September 25th, 2006 at 5:20 pm
sorry gasmonso, you might need another forum for the length of my comments ha ha
September 25th, 2006 at 5:27 pm
Mohamed,
In seeing one of your quotes that gasmonso included in the summary above, “Islam freed the world from slavery, and Islam is the reason for all the technology and the advances in this world, when the west in dark ages.” I have to ask the following question…
Is it purely Islam that has made those things happen or is there something more general at work? Could it not be said that it was really the work of the scholars, artists, progressives, and others that were just willing to think outside the box?
September 25th, 2006 at 5:29 pm
Elliot,
This is responding to your last comment. I’m not going to answer for Mohamed, but this is kinda related and amusing (to me at least)…
My mother, who is Jewish, asked my brother why he is okay with eating trafe (pork, shellfish, etc) even though he used to observe kosher laws. His response? “Because it’s easy to not eat something when you don’t know how good it is”. ;)
September 25th, 2006 at 6:01 pm
:) that’s a good one. I was in my literal mode and expecting something serious. That was much better. lol.
September 25th, 2006 at 7:52 pm
I will just one thing, the way you all act amazingly the same way extremist in Egypt talked to me when I tell them something the don’t like.
Any way I will try hard to answer your questions, just for every one to know, that what I’m going to say it’s my personal opinion, and based what I heard and red before, it could be right and it could wrong.
I hope you will be patient with me for answering the question, so when I give you the answer, I will try to get you the most correct answer I know, and god knows better.
September 25th, 2006 at 8:09 pm
flaky,
To answer your first question, and it’s not related to Islam, it’s related to logic.
How many years take USA to be advanced, it took them 400, to be from cowboys to be civilized people, I’m not really sure how many years exactly.
I’m from Egypt and I had my father and he died, when he died, his Christian co-worker cired him, you know why? because he understood Islam, and he didn’t follow the culture. The culture in ME taking controll of them, not Islam and that’s why Muslims people this way, and it’s not just Muslims, even Christian in ME, they follow the culture and they don’t any of jesus teaching.
It seems like every one in the world waiting for 9/11 to happen to jump on Islam.
If you want to really what all of this happening, read the history and know how many occuption go through, and how the west did to our society and left them poor and with no education.
I don’t think in my opinion is the problem, in my humble opinion it’s illteracy, you got two things to create extremis and they are illiteracy and unjust.
So please think deeply beyond Islam, if you want to find the answer.
September 25th, 2006 at 8:22 pm
Give me your honest view of atheism, or better, the people who claim to be atheistic.
Ok here is my honest opinion and which a lot of Muslims might don’e tell you, Islam against atheisim.
God create all the world and he gave us a lot of things, he asked the Angels and the devils to kneel down for Adam which is you too. He made tha Angels and they are made of light and the devils which they are made of fire to kneel down to the Adam which is made of clay and mud.
So now everybody in this blog believe in evolution, and the human-being came from Gurilla or monky, so god make Angels and devils(which he didn’t do it) kneel down for us, and here we are you are telling me we came from monkey.
I’m not monkey for sorry, I’m human-being came from Adam and Eve and better than monkey.
So atheism came from devil to undermine who you are and make you monkey and get what he promise god, that he will misguide you.
I just have my invitaion to all of the Atheist here to beleive in god, I don’t kill people, I just have my word, and you have the freedom to choose.
September 25th, 2006 at 8:29 pm
Mohammad:
You say that “Islam is the reason for all the technology and the advances in this world.†How is that? It seems to me that people are responsible for these things, not religions. People who may have happened to be Muslims may have contributed to advances in technology a thousand years ago, but what have they done lately?
I follow my prophet Mohamed and I’m going to quote him” ask for the knowledge even if it was in China”, which was the furthest place at the time, having said that, look who invented Elgabra and invented a lot of things, and I’m not expert to tell the details, but even westerner said that in front of me.
Some people will say, but it’s not enough, for the time it was enough, they were the only one who think and try to discover things and the west take over when Muslims conquer Spain and they got all this knowledge to Europe, which brings good point that when Islam conqure country, it didn’t was on greed, they taught the people and devolope them contrary to any other country who occipied different country.
September 26th, 2006 at 2:34 am
Thanks for the answers mohammed(i’ll be waiting for the Just Ask section to comment)
I have another one:
Falling stars were made to smite Jins and Devils who ascend to the heaven in order to hear what gods plans for the future are. You can always evade something if you’re faster than it, so the Jins/Devils highest speed could be the speed to the comet itself. Suppose that all our observations of the universe is wrong, and the universe has only a 1 lightyear radius(earth being the center) it would still take a jin way longer than a year to reach heaven and come back with the news about what WAS future back then. Isn’t that a contradiction in the Quran?
Just a small comment: the people here are replying like egyptian extremists because what you said about peace and technology contradicts pretty much everything we know about islam, and believe me we(or at least i) read quite a bit about it.
September 26th, 2006 at 2:58 am
Another one:
Mohammed had 9 wives, normal muslims can have max 4 wives(only if he is just and deals with each like he deals with the others). the justification for that is that mohammed wanted to show people whom they was allowed to marry and who not. Mohammed married A’aisha when she was 9 years old. does that make marrying 9 years old girls accepted in islam or even a sunna?
September 26th, 2006 at 6:23 am
“It seems like every one in the world waiting for 9/11 to happen to jump on Islam.
If you want to really what all of this happening, read the history.”
I’m not jumping on Islam for 9/11, i’m jumping on Islam because it’s a religion, and it’s my personal opinion that all religious people are either ignoring the world, or plain idiots (not meaning to flame, just can’t think of the right word right now. so sorry for being blunt)
I find religion as a phenomenon extremely intersting, so i ask this:
Why is it that, in this modern day, now that nearly everything can be explained, so still believe it is Allah guiding your way and how is it that you know the Quran (sp?) is the thruth instead of, for example, the Baghawat githa (again sp?)
September 26th, 2006 at 6:24 am
“If you want to really why all of this happening, read the history.”
I know this is not a question, but Quoted for Thruth
September 26th, 2006 at 6:26 am
@inri says.
You cannot make a building without a foundation. Another example is that a nursery or primary teacher is the foundation of your beautiful life. do you get that
September 26th, 2006 at 12:26 pm
Thanks for your attempts, Mohammed. But, to be honest, they’re not very convincing. I find your and most of the people on the planet’s inability to think rationally pretty damn frightening. And pathetic. Your understanding of history is very limited. The Arabs did not conquer Spain out of goodwill plan to spread knowledge. They did it to increase the size and wealth of their empire. Greed, in other words.
September 26th, 2006 at 12:48 pm
Answer to #25.
Well said Inri (didn’t I see you on the cross?) I couldn’t have written it better myself. If mohammed has a bachelor’s degree, with his knowledge of the english language, then I must be the king of England!!!
September 26th, 2006 at 6:57 pm
@eccles, inri, gaskiya
Guys, i think we should really wait till these answers get their section, or else it’ll be a nightmare to sort out the questions that need to be answered from this thread.
You can wait another week, and then argue about it to your heart’s content(i am waiting eagerly for that day.) But for now give the guy a break and let him answer the questions. A human being can only do so much at once, even if allah is helping him with the paperwork
September 26th, 2006 at 7:13 pm
Yea Agony, part of this was my fault for not making it clear. Everyone gets excited and wants to jump in, including Mohamed.
I’ll try to start sorting things out this evening. I’ve just been swamped with work, family, etc.
gasmonso
September 26th, 2006 at 7:21 pm
Gasmonso,
I didn’t want to jump, I thought I had to answer here, I’m not familiar with the rules, I think I’m going to wait for you to tell me where the questions are going to be.
It’s really a lot of questions, and I really don’t know who to answer first.
I’m sorry for this mis-understanding.
September 27th, 2006 at 1:08 am
I have one more question: (hopefully the last one)
If you could ask god a single question and get an answer for it, what would it be?
The rules are that you get your section in Just Ask, along with the other Mohammed. Once you finish answering Gasmonso will post everything there for the rest of us to comment on. For now it would be good if you answer them on your computer and later send the answers to Gasmonso.
September 27th, 2006 at 9:28 am
Ok, I’m in the process of organizing this mess to better accomodate Mohamed and everyone else. I will temporarily disable this thread so I can move the questions over to the appropriate section. Once complete I will open it back up for any other question. Once Mohamed is done answering the question, I will post them for all to comment on in the appropriate space.
Once again, I am sorry for the confusion, but Mohamed has become quite popular and we had a large response :)
Hang in there while I sort this out :)
gasmonso