Sharia: Coerced Conversion Binding?

Servetus wrote: Yo! DJ, er, I mean, EJDavid!  It�s, like, who�s Steve? Serv

lol!, I was woondering about that too

Sign*Reader wrote: Andalus: IM disappointed in your mod'ship, you violated your own rule on this section that " Non-Muslims can ask questions about Islam, but discussion can not take place here".

It is not my rule. If I were to dot every i and cross every t, the forum simply would not have any serious dialogue. Personally, I allow a thread to run its own course until it gets too agressive, or mods recieve too many complaints, or modes make an collective opinion, or adim does not like it.

Here ejdavid threw a bait and you and others bit that; were taken on a wild goose chase which ended up like the comic strip non sequitur or rather I would say a Special Olympics.

Actually, you are correct that it was a bait, and the original question used a rhetorical trick that clearly shoed bad intention.

But I was not taken on any wild goose chase.

What some fail to see is the forest beyond the treeline. When a post enters the forum like that, I have several rational choices:

1) close the thread

2) delete the thread and close it

3) directly respond to the thread's points

3) is the most rational. My reply is not necessarily to the contributor, but to those who come here to observe and investigate. After the contributor failed to seriously reply and make a solid case for the original claims, it will be apparent to anyone who reads as an observer what the stance of Islam actually is, and the masterful obfuscation that was attempted in return. I have no other claim to the thread beyond my participation. If you feel the thread is causing problems, then please do bring this to light and I will be happy to close it.

I ask you not to wish for such exacting adherence to the rules, as then more people will complain that the forum is overly moderated. The rules are there to protect and provide a bases from which to bring about some kind of order. I am not a machine and will not cling to them as Moses did with the ten commandments. They are a guide. I invite you to bring up any problems you find to any of the mods, and I promise to hear you out if you bring something up to me.

Kindest Regards