GUIDELINES???? what guidelines?

Assalamu Alaikum,

Brother Sawtul Khilafa, I will try to reply to your queries:

"on that thread I did NOT criticize SHIISM, but only IRAN."

You can discuss theological issues of sectarian nature in Intra faith section. And entire nation such as Iran should not be held responsible for the actions of those in the leadership position.

This is another fallacious reasoning. I asked you in my last post why you started posting on Iran�s relations with Sunnis in the thread that was basically about the freedom enjoyed by Jews in Iran. You are incorrectly mingling issues of two different threads.

Speaking against ANY country by spreading lies and rumour is not allowed; why to even utter such terms as Shia country, Sunni country etc.? You can speak against any injustice committed by any leadership while supporting it with reliable sources; one should, however, do so in the relevant threads.

"Im not asking you to spend a lot of time responding, I asked for one straight answer and instead you went on talking about many different things without being specific."

I appreciate your gesture towards understanding my time. In fact, I felt necessary to make some clarifications because you had made some speculations without evidence. I also preferred to highlight few points . . . as you appeared to me unaware of them.

"All I did was post 3 posts in one thread, that as far as I know is not spamming because the Guideline says it is spamming if you continuously post while you havent answered other peoples questions."

Please read rule # 12: "Spamming of any kind is not allowed. . . ." It is a discussion forum. If others don�t reply to you, it doesn�t mean that you keep posting the same or different messages repeatedly. Furthermore, if you keep targeting just one nation on a regular basis, that means, knowingly or unknowingly, you serve an agenda against that country especially when, seeing the prevailing climate, an opportune moment is being sought by the war-mongers to attack her.

"Since I had answered every question and my posts were 100% appropriate and relevant, I was not spamming."

Why do you think that you cannot make even a single mistake there? Every human being can be fallible, at times, isn�t it?

"So the thread "USA benefits Iran" is neither "inflammatory" nor "spamming". Until you re-open at least that thread, I would continue to seriously doubt your neutrality."

I am sorry that I don�t agree with this line of thinking, brother. I think that we should strive to prove our actions as just and fair to Allah in order to win His pleasure for ultimate success.

"You also closed the "is Bush Jewish" thread. I respect your decision there because the thread was going way off topic (though I can show you more than a 100 other threads that have gone even more off topic and have not been closed for some reason...)"

Last but not least, If you see that something is wrong somewhere, please report. Due to the large number of active threads at any time, it may not be possible for moderation to see each of them. Your active participation in this respect to report unwanted posts/threads would help the system, insha Allah.

May Allah guide us all.

Peace

Assalmau Alaikum,

Brother Sawtul Khilafa,

I hope that you would respect my time because I really feel short of it at times, and wish that I had more of it. Moreover, it is a blessing of Allah, and I don�t want to waste it in any way. . . .

With that said, I would address some issues here, insha Allah, and hope that you would take part in that attentively and intuitively:

Many times we tend to say or do things thinking that that is right, but that is not. I asked you in my first post in this thread as to how you knew that I had deleted that. Your response was:

"you also closed the sawtulvswhisper thread which I had started to Prevent other threads from going off topic (since u Never delete Whisper's off topic posts on my threads)."

Look at your response, brother. You are creating more problems now by saying that no action is ever taken on Whisper�s violating posts. How do you know that again? Now, you failed to answer my query and created more problems along the lines. The best thing for you was to say that you were sorry that you did that; you see, I politely admitted anyway that I had deleted.

The message is simple: don�t speak anything about anyone without evidence; a baseless canard or malicious misrepresentation of any entity is not acceptable here.

You are a senior member, who has been here for more than a year, with more than 450 posts; therefore, you should be aware of guidelines that are in easy-to-understand mode. Anyone with a basic English language proficiency should understand that. If you are not sure about any rules after going through them, please ask one of the moderators to explain to you.

There have been many violations in your posts�spam is one of them. You keep coming at Shia-Sunni divide very often in spite of warning thread in Politics section that any inflammatory post will be deleted. See, for example, in the thread where posts were deleted, original topic was posted about freedom enjoyed by Jews in Iran. You get in there, and start posting on how Iran discriminates Sunnis there. What is the relevance? What do you want to achieve with such posts in that thread?

I cannot comment on your intention, but such posts, posted frequently, are likely to cause anarchy here. Shia-Sunni divide requires bridge-building by interaction and dialogue�please take part in intra faith section in order to achieve that noble objective.

Once again, the warning thread in the Politics section should always be kept in mind while posting there. Just because you don�t see that a moderator takes action on someone�s post somewhere doesn�t mean that moderator is not doing the job. And it is best not to speculate on such matters since you don�t know what is going on behind the screen. Actions are routinely taken on wide ranging issues, and you may not know them.

Issues of personal nature should be discussed and resolved by PMs, and please avoid using the public space to address those private matters.

Threads are closed for variety of reasons: diversions from the main topic, slander and misrepresentation of a fellow member, personal attack, unnecessary argument, discussion going in circles, spam etc. The threads may be closed for one or more reasons where a topic starter may or may not be involved.

In any case, if you have any concern, you are allowed to report respectfully or post in this section appropriately.

Brother, it is in our best interest to comply with guidelines.

May Allah guide us all.

Peace