It’s entertaining to poke fun at our religious freak friends. But now it’s time for a little positivity in the religious arena. This put a smile on my face and my hope is that it will do the same for you :)
One Nation, an American Muslim community website, held a contest called One Nation, Many Voices. The purpose was to educate people about the American Muslim experience. Online voters at LinkTv determined the winner.
The prize-winning entry belongs to a 23-year-old Lena Khan. She asked 2,000 American Muslims what they wished to say to the rest of the world. Khan pieced together a 5-minute video with some of the responses to the song “A Land Called Paradise” by Kareem Salama.
The result was quite enjoyable. Enjoy!
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Thank you, Gasmonso; that was “uplifting.” I hate to sound smarmy, but the word that keeps rolling through my mind after seeing that is, overall, “sweet.” But I am a romantic, at heart, and wish well to people in general. It’s why one of my favorite movies is “A Christmas Story,” even though I don’t celebrate it.
LOL, A Christmas Story is one the the BEST movies ever made! I watch it every year and it just gets better with age :) A true classic!
My guess is that this thread will be sidetracked now thanks to you ;)
Sorry about that . . .
IF THEy suppose to be good peoplese howcome they aints christshuns?!?!? an culter say them mueslims must turn to Jesus becuase they always suicider bomb places.Aint no Jesus loving Chirstuns EVAR blew up themselfs or fly 911planes!!1!!1! The Good Book nevar says you must blow up but mueslim bible corin say allah mouhammed make bomb and blow up
GOP bless Ya’ll!1!1!
– Prod Texan
This was nicely done. I do wish stuff like this came a little more often on mainstream media as opposed to the usual stuff they like to show about Muslims.
[...] I wish more videos and articles that portray the Muslim community’s diversity become popular as opposed to the kind of thing which you usually see on TV. via Religious Freaks [...]
Golden Wingnut:
You are awesome.
I can’t tell, is wingnut being sarcastic?
Golden Wingnut is from Finland… at least his IP address is. Looks like he’s just being goofy. Not a very good impression of a redneck from Texas though ;)
Howdy all,
Not a bad video at all. Hopefully it will help some see the other side a little. It does seem to demonstrate the sort of understanding we need so that we can all stand together against those will not tollerate diversity.
Cheers
Simon Bond
To the broccoli jihadist: Give peas a chance.
To the andrew: LOL.
That was wonderful.. I often wish people realized how much all people are the same; we love. we live, we want more for our children.. We are all the same and yet we are all different..
TO ANDREW : that was so funny!
to those who posted the video and the crew of the video… great job.
to Golden Wingnut & Snurp:
there are good people who are not Christians and there are bad people who are Christians. there’s the good and the bad everywhere. God is the judge not you not me.
Golden Wingnut:
the Oklahoma bombings of 1995, was he a muslim?
the man who microwaved his daughter, is he a muslim?
the parents who watched their diabetic daughter die for a whole month because they chose to pray to the lord rather than pray and take her to the doctor, are they muslims?
Jesus couldn’t have permitted drinks if he’s divine and he knows that people will be alcoholics, people will get killed, raped, beaten or robbed because of drinks, the Christians who drink and do all these things… would they be considered good or bad in your opinion?
again there are good and bad people everywhere.
it’s not you who decide. God is the judge.
I saw this video a month ago when our local paper mentioned it and I looked it up. I guess that heidi is a theist because she ends her post with “God is the judge,” but from the perspective of an atheist — which i am — god is most definitely NOT the judge, and people have every right and reason to distrust those who think differently than they do. I have had several female muslim acquaintances and all of them have been friendly and warm to me, but they also — 100% — hate Jews and considered the killing of them by bombers to be something holy. They all refuse to come to my house because I have dogs, which are unclean in their religion. They believe that their period makes them so unclean they cannot touch a quran without gloves on. They believe that women who show their hair go to hell. I like these women but I think they are crazy and I mean that in the literal sense – Disassociated from reality. It really is people who decide and judge these things, not a god.
Jennifer, you seem to be missing the point.
you see, by saying “god is the judge” religious people gain carte blanche to press whatever issue they want, without ever having to claim responsibiliy. After all, it’s not what they want, it’s what ‘god wants’.
It’s very convenient, because there is still to much of a social taboo to ask for proof of their god first.
A very interesting point, Alcari. But beyond asking for “proof of god,” I think the larger issue is the idea that some want the rules of *their* god practiced by everyone — usually by force of law with all the penalties that can be applied — and that it is their mission to force everyone to bow to their “god’s will.” In other words — and I think this is implied by your “responsibility” comment — they are saying, “Of course you must follow these rules without question; god tells you to in this book right here.”
This is, of course, at complete odds with a secular ideal of religious tolerance and freedom. The primary difference between secular government and theocracy is that one must demonstrate the moral, economic, and cohabibility value of any policy on a secular level. On the theocratic level, none of that matters: the rules are the rules, and you *will* follow them . . . or else.
Of course, the fact that there are so many condradictory rules in every religion (“thou shall not murder” vs. “suffer not a witch to live” is a great example) forces the theocrats to pick and choose between the rules they want to force the rest of us to follow . . . which puts human judgement back into the equation (which is what I think Jennifer was trying to say).
Well, It wouldn’t be to much of a problem if people chose a fixed set of non-contradictory dogma.
The problem is that these things, like your example, allow for picking and choosing whenever you want, combined with the utter lack of having to take responsibility for your actions, both to your own concience and to society makes for a pretty foundation for a civilisation.
don’t like your neighbor? “suffer not the witch to live”
Someone wants to kill you “thou shalt not kill”
Someone hurt you? “Eye for an eye”
You hurt someone, and they want revenge? “Turn the other cheek”
Wow. They seem just like real people!! :-p
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