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POPSZoroastrianism & Islam This made me sit up and take notice. One of the more hellish Islamic tales that did the rounds while I grew up featured the person having to cross a razor–sharp bridge. Of course, a true mu’min (believer) would cross it safely. The kafir would plunge to their doom into eternal Hell. Now I see it, like quite a few elements, could possibly come from Zoroastrianism. I must look into this further…
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POPSJihad and Religious Tolerance I have discovered a wonderful site, a website called Religious Tolerance, and I happed upon it by accident while looking for interpretations of and commentary on the book of Vayyiqra (Leviticus). It had an extremely thorough exposition of the section regarding homosexuality. Then I saw its studies on Islam, and this remarkably open–minded explanation of Jihad . I have bookmarked the site now.
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POPSSetting The Record Straight Over at Creation Versus Evolution forum. An indepth discussion of the barbarity of early(–ish) Christianity, something a lot of people skimp over in their haste to denounce Islam.
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POPSSeek to write your way out of everything From an authentic, recorded tradition of the Prophet. I love the phrase ‘tie down knowledge’ in its sense of anchoring knowledge. That really appeals to someone such as I, who can express himself more eloquently in a written format than face–to–face. Tying down knowledge.
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POPSShahadah from a Jewish Perspective The Muslim declaration of faith (Shahadah = testimony, and from the same root as ‘shaheed’ which you can roughly translate as ‘martyr’) runs thus: “There is no divinity but Allah, Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah”. At one time I used to wonder about this — question why we took the name of the Prophet alongside that of God. Why, if we submitted to God, did we have to declare our allegiance to a man chosen by God to spread the word? Eventually I came to accept this as the best summation of our religion of Islam. We submitted wholly to Allah in the latest format as preached by Muhammad. It made sense to me. Then I read this and some of the old thoughts (…and doubts) came flooding back:
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POPSBoxing & Chess vs Islam = FIGHT! So it turns out that edicts issued by scholars of my religion, Islam, condemn my twin interests, that of boxing and chess, as ‘haraam’ (forbidden). After long discussion on one particular forum, someone concluded that the Prophet himself condemned any ‘sport’ which involved hitting the face, but endorsed wrestling. My comments asking for further clarification re: the rules of and reasons behind wrestling have received no response. Almost a week later. Hmmm… (“Things that make you go—”)
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POPSAllahu Akbar Hoody New hoody available from Ilmwear. It takes Turkish style Islamic calligraphy and applies it to a hoody in English. It looks stunning, though may run into some difficulties with those who interpret Islam more strictly: “wearing the name of God on your BACK?”, etc.
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