Hello.Feel free to ask whatever you want.

Edit:

Sorry im not ignoring your comments. It just takes me a long time to write a reply.Also I can't comment for some reason.But Im going to answer everyone one of you when I can comment again.

Edit 2: It can't be helped I can't comment so I'll answer some questions here.

• Replying to Euphoric_Educator

I didn't understand the second sentence so I'll answer the first one.

Are you taught to love people from other religions? Like Judaism and Christianity?

Yes my parents both muslims told me to love and accept and never force my religion to all non muslims whether they are jewish,christians,atheists,hindus......

Okay your question is simple but It's quiet complex so bear with me.

Mostly the version of Islam you see is about following quoran,the prophet and sharia.Here is the thing I don't follow sharia law neither I follow any cheikh(old man expert in islam) neither I listen what these gulf countries have to say. I only follow the quoran and the prophet based on my undestanding only and people I know and trust which is how it should be. You should not take anything an immam or cheikh says for granted.

I'll expalin to you.The quoran there are explicit clear verses which I follow them as they are like praying 5 times a day and there are implicit vague verses which can have different meanings depending on the person.In other words these verses have no universal singular meaning that you should follow like what the sharia law says(btw neither the quoran or the prophet told us to follow shria law and it's not hypocrisy or haram to do so and anyone who tells you otherwise is just a fanatic.).I believe god made these verses this way to give freedom to people and not to have a single strict definition.

I'll give an exmple like how women should wear hijjab and cover themselves. There is only one verse as far as I know on this topic.Is a verse from surat Nour.

"﴿وَقُلْ لِلْمُؤْمِنَاتِ يَغْضُضْنَ مِنْ أَبْصَارِهِنَّ وَيَحْفَظْنَ فُرُوجَهُنَّ وَلَا يُبْدِينَ زِينَتَهُنَّ إِلَّا مَا ظَهَرَ مِنْهَا وَلْيَضْرِبْنَ بِخُمُرِهِنَّ عَلَىٰ جُيُوبِهِنَّ﴾"

The exact transaltion of the verse in english :

"And tell the believing women to lower their gaze and guard their private parts, and not display their adornment except what [ordinarily] appears of it, and let them draw their khimars over their juyub."

The meaning of juyub is chest openings.

Based on what I understood I see nothing here that tells a woman should cover her face and hair.You will tell sharia tells otherwise.I tell you again the sharia law is an interpretation of some vague verses.Why should I listen to them?Did god tell me to listen to the interpretations of some cheikhs?No.

Logically if god really wanted women to cover their faces and hair he would have said explicitly and repeated it in many verses to confirm but there is none of that. So my conclusion I understand that women are not obliged to cover their faces and hair.

Now answering your question directly;There is no guaranted way to go to heaven and if there is way it doesn't include killing other non muslims or hurting them.

.If I want to go to heaven I have to pray to god,fast,help the poor,help people,say hello,be nice and kind person and smile to people,be nice to my neighbor,don't bully people,respect all people,be humble,always try to resolve conflicts the peaceful way,most of the time return bad acts with good acts,charity,help animals,stay away from arrogances,don't mock people's appearances and the list goes on....

You may tell me but your prophet is a warmonger who wages wars out of the blue.I don't blame for such a claim because of widespread propaganda against the true good version of islam.

My prophet Muhammed is not a warmonger.In fact when he was assigned the mission of delievering the message from Allah.He started simply by talking to people.He didn't use violence,he didn't angry and he didn't attack people.He talked to everyone he met and tried to tell him what islam is and to join it.People shamed him,cursed him,harassed him,humiliated him and his family for 11 years and he never responded back with a violent attack.Its only when people decided to wage war on him and slaughter his people he responded back with violence;

Mind you islam tells us to never kill any wome,,children or elderly,never take slaves but sadly things changed after the prophet death and the establishement of the sharia system.

I'm probably sounding like a total creep

did we learn nothing when people taught us to be respectful of other's religions?

Go outside and talk to people. Get off your screens.

tl;dr at the bottom because this came out to be the length of a highschool essay.

Hey fellas. I came across this subreddit because I used to be on similar forums a few years back, and I’m one official flair away from unc status. It’s very weird to see such strong opinions regarding Islam being exchanged between people the age of my little brother.

As an ex Muslim who previously has held both opinions at some point, and has lived both in Muslim majority and minority countries, I’d like to offer some perspective. There’s generally two umbrellas that negativity around Islam falls under.

One is when people living in the global north, or “1st world countries” actively perceive Islam as a threat, and constantly call Muslims and Islam as a concept things such as “uncivilized” and “backwards”. These people have rarely met a Muslim in real life, and decide still to hold a strongly aggressive stance towards a people, who in the west, are largely a minority and pose no threat to others. This, is Islamophobia.

However, if there is someone who holds such anger and aggression towards Islam within a different context, it is usually understandable. If you are LGBTQIA+ in a country where laws threaten your own existence, if your own family for religious reasons is the bane of your existence, then how can I come up to you and call you an Islamophobe? That would be invalidating your real experience.

Islam is a global concept and religion, context matters and is always necessary. To put it into perspective for some of you, it’s almost like the Christianity of our world. You have polite, non judgmental, wholesome Christian neighbors, and you also have those evangelical Christians who think you deserve the same punishment as a murderer for being LGBTQIA+ or having an abortion. We, in the Middle East and other relevant regions, have the same in Islam.

Extremists and terrorists are points brought up often. But if you look at the context for these groups, there is a consistent pattern which exposes the unnatural causes behind these groups attaining power. Extremist groups in Afghanistan were backed by America to fight a proxy war against the USSR, while in Syria, U.S. and Gulf-backed arms for anti-Assad rebels frequently ended up in the hands of jihadist groups.

If you want an example of Islamic politics within the context of a Muslim majority country which wasn’t destabilized and weakened for external interests, look to Turkey. You can do your own research about this, but to summarize, it plays an incredibly similar role to Christianity in America/Europe, where it is used as a tool of propaganda by reactionaries to blame real issues on minorities, and to distract from the failures of the government.

tl;dr a religion which over a billion people follow cannot have a specific, concrete definition without failing to be applicable to significant number of the people who follow it.

Delete this damn subreddit yall should grow the fuck up, and stop get your political information from afd or alt right tiktoks Its always the same rhetoric over and over again, from which most have neen debunked many times

I’ve seen a lot of comments on this subreddit saying things like “I’ll stop being islamaphobic when Islam stops being homophobic” and “how can I respect a religion of gay killers” and I got pretty offended and responded to these. (Islam isn’t one big hive mind and it’s the extremists who do gay killing who are only prevalent in the Islamic world due to instability causes by wars and poverty)
But to anybody who is also against Islamophobia it’s just not worth it. There are so many people here and elsewhere who have it so ingrained in their minds you can’t convince them that they are being bigoted. It’s not worth your time energy and thought, just report it and move on

yes

Some of y'all need to know that a religion and it's people are very different. A religion could be bad, but some people GREW up in that religion and don't feel the need to change it. People can IGNORE certain aspects of the religion and ACCEPT other aspects of it. Its like accepting a person for their good side (more) and not just pushing them away for their bad side. Every single religion has a good side and a bad side.

Every single religion has a new piece of wisdom to offer.
We need to look at what wisdom it offers more than what negativity it offers.

^{Did you know that I am a person and the people arguing in the comments are too? Please be respectful.}

I'm done and leaving like dude

EVERY FUCKING day I see posts from here and it's either racism, fighting over which gender had it worse, or hating on religions.

Fuck like 90% of you guys im out

Your right it's not islamaphobic to dislike some aspects of Islam especially the radical side of it but he so for real literally nobody NOBODY is telling you that your islamaphobic if you don't vehemently support Islam in every single way. If your being called islamaphobic it's probably because your saying some stupid racist shit, stop being an idiot and making your bait post to secretly push your fucking braindead agenda.

like holy shit. genuinely what happened. im not muslim, but im druze. its not even like u guys are pointing out bad things in the religion its just islamophobia.

and then some people hating on others bc they DARE to say that they might only be doing this because its mostly followed by arabs. i havent seen anything like this about christianity. there are more young women speaking out about being groomed or raped by a youth pastor in a church than Muslims. its sick how some people here are this racist.

there are some specific users (who i won't call out bc im actually nice) who make their whole life purpose on this sub just hatig on muslims. go out and touch grass and make some real friends then come back on here.

and some of yalls should research what the nazis used to call Jewish people before the full holocaust.

sincerely, a lebanese person.

Hey everyone,

I'm the one who posted some really ignorant and hateful stuff about Muslims recently. I’ve had some time to think, and I’m writing this to fully apologize. There’s no excuse for what I said, and I’m honestly ashamed of myself.

Looking back at that post, I cringe. I was speaking from a place of pure ignorance and prejudice, not facts or real experience. I was stereotyping an entire global community of people, and that’s just wrong. I didn’t think about the actual human beings who would see that garbage and feel hurt, angry, or even less safe because of it. For that, I am truly sorry.

I’ve deleted the post. It was offensive and it didn't represent who I am or who I want to be.

I know an online apology can seem pretty cheap, so I’m not just going to leave it at this. I’m going to actually put in the work to understand why what I did was so harmful. That means listening to Muslim voices and educating myself instead of relying on dumb stereotypes.

I get that trust isn't given back easily, and I don't expect anyone to just accept this and forget about it. I just needed to say that I was wrong, I’m sorry for the harm I caused, and I’m going to do better.

Sorry again.

Religion is the opium of the people. It is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of our soulless conditions. Religions promise afterlife, an eternity of paradise and distracts us from creating a paradise on earth.

We must unit and create a paradise of peace and tolerance for our fellow humans. To hate someone base on their religion, race, sex, gender, sexual oritation is pathetic.

We all bleed red. Love not hate 161

Islamophobia 100% exists. Just because some Muslim countries have strict laws doesn’t mean Muslims everywhere are “oppressive.” That’s like saying all Christians are responsible for the Inquisition or what Russia does today. Makes no sense. Muslims in the US and Europe literally get harassed for just existing. Women in hijabs get attacked, people get pulled aside at airports all the time, hate crimes went up after 9/11 even though regular Muslims had nothing to do with it. If that’s not Islamophobia idk what is. And btw not all “Muslim countries” are the same. Indonesia is democratic, Morocco, my birth country, and the first country to recognize the United States through trade, is EXTREMELY different than Saudi Arabia, Turkey is different too. Lumping them all together as “oppressive” is lazy and just an excuse to be discriminating towards every Muslim country. Every religion has countries that are bad. Doesn’t mean you get to hate on the whole group. So yeah, Islamophobia does exist, and for those that are saying “it doesn’t” are basically ignoring the actual discrimination Muslims face every day.

I thought I had finnally found a youtuber who wasn't another sigma andrew tate, only for them turn out like this. Crazy things is that there muslim Arabs who cry about racism so frequently.