robtex said:This might be a bold statment but this would include women being able to attend mosque, and research the religion including the writing of the hadiths.
Are you talking about islam or Muslims in specific areas?
2) understanding of christianty.
Tell that to the Pope of the Vatican.
3) understand judiasm. For the same reasons as #2
Who doesn't.
4) re-examing sufism. I think sufism is a golden egg of Islam. Unfortuntly so few practice it. The most interesting fact about sufism is it is a branch of Islam that does not produce suicide bombers or "warriors of the prophet". I am not asking ****es and Sunnis to convert to sufism but rather to explore it and gain an appreciation for the pacifistic expression of the Islamic religion.
We don't need sufism to lead us because most of them went astray and they might only hold "islam" just as a name, nothing more.
5) openly renounce acts of violence in the name of Allah. This is most important one to me. The acts of violence, suicide bombings, assassinations, holy wars, are done in the name of Allah.
You don't know how frustrating it's, robtex, when you try to tell people somthing and they keep ignoring it and believe what they have been told through media and some websites. Since i came here i tried to tell people about things i see which they don't, living in the places where they don't. Governments, scholars, organizations and even the expert and well educated individuals are doing their best to guide the young muslims, and to teach those who went astray about the real teaching of islam.
Snowbear said:Is that the same so-called Israel the early Muslims took by force?
There was no such a thing called "israel" abck then except in your imagination.
Snowbear said:I didn't say it was.
Are you justifying the actions of the terrorists of today by what's written about a people that lived many centuries before Muhammed was even born?
hehehehe always the so called preachers of peace deny their bloody history which STILL in their very core sciptures. It's so obvious now.