Right, but you give off that image constantly for a set amount of time.
This will be the last time I repeat myself. Any other response is just going to be met with hostility. No disrespect but I'm a 36 year-old man having to repeat myself to online strangers as if I owe these strangers an explanation. Look, I believe what I believe and I have a healthy amount of criticism for the Abrahamic faiths. All three, Islam included. I defend Muslims for several reasons one of which is I've had positive encounters with Muslims. Don't get me wrong, like any of people I've had negative encounters but more importantly my interactions lead me to be more knowledgeable about the (Islamic) faith. Second, my mother back during Malcolm X days used to be in the nation of Islam before she became Christian, so as a child I became familiar with the tenants of Islam even as a small child. Three, I wrote that in the religious part to be cryptic. If I were Muslim I would have clearly wrote Islam or Sunni or Shia. If anyone knows anything about me I've very direct-blunt if you know. God is the source of my being and although at times I struggle with understanding God the Creator, I say with conviction God is the source of my existence and my faith is only with God.
You've got a cryptic religious label "One that which the Creator made" that reads exactly like something a Muslim would describe Islam.
But why not a Jew? Why not a Sikh? Why not a Christian? Isn't God not the source of their faith?
If you use Islamic apologist arguments to defend the Quran and the religion, I don't think you've got much right to complain if people think you are Muslim.
"Islamic apologist arguments?"
There are a lot of people that are really badgering Islam on RF. I'm not talking about a simple academic critique, I'm talking about individual's that specifically seek out to badger Islam. One person who is tasked to "watch" discussion knows what I'm talking about. There are a lot of judgmental people here because of what they see on the news and a lot of people do armchair research to cherry pick verses for confirmation bias. That is not discussion that is "hey I dislike this religion because when I flip and scan through its pages I find X, Y, and Z. you know, how Islam spread and how Islam came to this land or that or how extremism developed needs to be looked at from a complex sociological lens. Like any popular religion even Buddhism where Japanese samurais were butchering each other even though Buddhism, a so-called peaceful faith was their mantra at the time, can and cannot influence people to kill each other. Looking at complex events and extraneous factors need to be considered when critiquing a faith, not watching CNN or Fox news.
People forget there is a lot of PO'd people in the world and the west had an influence in that. If you mix poverty, lack of education and hatred fueled by religion you will create an extremist. So I'm not apologizing just explaining how things are. I'm not a doctrinal type guy so I try not to get into the battle of the verses type discussion which is why I leave it up to Muslims to defend themselves in that regard but because there are few Muslims and considering that this website is not very hospitable to Muslims these Muslims do not sit here to defend their faith. so yes, I'll defend Muslims as if I were defending a disabled kid in the street. That is not to say Muslims have some sort of disability but when I see a bunch of grow a** people badgering Islam I'm coming for everyone. that's just my nature.
@The Emperor of Mankind
I'm sure if you was getting the crap beat out of you and I was coming down the sidewalk I'm sure you want some 6'0 235 black dude that takes no crap to help you right? that's my attitude here. That's how I feel when I see people talk about Islam. A bunch of uneducated armchair scholars.
If you use Islamic apologist arguments to defend the Quran and the religion, I don't think you've got much right to complain if people think you are Muslim.
I don't do much defending the doctrinal aspect because I don't get into verse by verse arguments. I may quote a verse here and there in respect to answering a question or in an attempt to make something clear. But when I clearly type "hey I like alcohol and pre-marital sex, clear sins in Islam" and I say this over and over and over yes I have an issue. Are there Muslims that drink alcohol and pre-marital sex? Yes. I know of one that owns a liquor store by my house. But as for my no I have never taken Shahada or anything of that sort. I still question religion itself but these are my own personal battles.
It also doesn't help that you don't seem to play devil's advocate for any other religion.
Don't get me wrong, I know better than this;
You really don't know anything about me. I suggest read this thread starting from the beginning.
"Violence Erupts Over Israeli Museum’s Sculpture of a Crucified Ronald McDonald"
No offense to you cause I'm sure you just now reading the thread so I'm giving you a pass on this one. but for future reference I'm done explaining myself again, and again, and again. Any future questions will be met with hostility because all I'm getting now is a bunch of nobodies who have no significance in my real life asking me stuff I've answered damn near ad infinitum. Just let me be and that's it. But it seems like I'm a 36 year-old man answering to a bunch of nobody strangers online about my religion.
If people don't like the answers then ya'll don't like it then leave it alone. No sense in continuing with it. I don't owe nobody here nothing just like you all don't owe me anything.
