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Muslimwoman & Abdullah, Thank you for your responses. I know what you're speaking of and I should have been more clear. The values of free speech I expressed were the 'traditional' values on which modern Western government were based, and which still exist in the United States. It is true that...

Pseudonymous, I am a Humanist (and therefore also an atheist). I prefer 'Humanist' instead of atheist because I prefer to focus on what I DO believe rather than what I DON'T. I can relate to your frustration. I am president of my local Humanist group and we definitely try to provide a positive...

Could you please define the words I've bolded above Blue?

Faithfulservant, It has been my experience that people often 'remember the hits' and 'forget the misses'. Many people have reported the sorts of experiences you describe. Yet, when someone actually observes them and records the data, they find that such guesses do not actually come out to being...

Thank you for your reply Zaim187. It has been a long time since I've visited these forums. Please forgive the delay in my response. I will compare this with a Western perspective - not so as to argue, but merely to compare for purposes of communication... The above seems to assume that...

Indeed Leaf, you have hit the nail on the head. We live in an amazing magical world and our mages can harness incredible powers to hurl people at enormous speeds, heal the sick, allow communication at a distance, and more. However, people are so used to this magic we call science that they take...

Humanists believe that we each have the right and ability to define our own meaning in life. The meaning of life for me may be different from the meaning of life for you - and this is far superior to having your life’s meaning handed to you on a platter. As naturalists, Humanists believe that...

Welcome to Buddhism JosephM :)

Thanks James, If there were Muslims before the writing of the Quran, why did it need to be written? Did this act open up Islam to more people and make it more available for more people to become Muslims? If so, then weren't the people of the earth who lived before the writing of the Quran at a...

Allah and Islam are two different things aren't they? Allah is an entity and Islam is a body of thought, belief, and lifestyle. I've read that the basis of Islam is "There is one God and Muhammad is his messenger". How can Islam then predate the birth of Muhammad? Also, how can it predate the...

It used to be, in the West, that women had to wear long dresses. When a woman would lift her dress slightly to cross the street, men would gaze at the exposed ankle. Now, ankles are exposed and no one thinks it's a big deal. Similarly, most Westerners today who grow up looking at women in shorts...

Thank you Abdullah for your kind help :) However, I was hoping to get more of a sense of what, at least, folks here think of him. It's my impression that most Muslims are unaware of Taha, but if they were, do you think they would think him a heretic? It seems to me what little I've read of his...

Hello :) Could I please ask, 1) What is YOUR opinion of Mahmoud Muhammad Taha, and 2) What is your estimation of the OVERALL opinion of Mahmoud Muhammad Taha among the Muslim population? I do not know very much about this person, other than basic information, and I have only recently heard...

Thank you Abdullah, for your very detailed response to my questions. They were most appreciated.

Out of curiosity, how many Muslims would agree with the following?: 1) There is nothing that a person could ever say, write, or draw about their personal opinions which would ever justify their death or even calling for their death. 2) There is no atrocity, oppression, offense, religious...

Thanks for the info Abdullah. Do you really believe it is wrong for laymen to decide their own laws? Do most Muslims believe this?

Since Buddhists worship neither Siddhartha (the Buddha) nor his teachings as dogma, it doesn't really matter. What is important is whether or not the practices and teachings in Buddhism are true and work. The best way of determining that is to learn, explore, and practice them so you can see for...

Hello :) I have not heard of Ijma before today, but was wondering what you all thought of this article from Wikipedia - especially the notion that this makes Democracy compatible with Islam. Is this what many Muslims believe? Your comments are appreciated... (thanks)...

By the way, that is an excellent list of golden rules DrFree. I hope you don't mind if I present it on my blog (with links and credit back to here of course).

Thanks for the comments Farhan, I can see that oppression causes people to fight. I can also see that losing ones family and life could cause a person not to want to live anymore. I can imagine not wanting to go on living, and I can imagine wanting to fight the forces oppressing me. I can...