Can most muslims tolerate atheists?
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Topic: Can most muslims tolerate atheists?
Posted By: Happy Atheist
Subject: Can most muslims tolerate atheists?
Date Posted: 24 November 2006 at 5:45pm
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I see that I should have posted this question elsewhere on this site. Let me say that I think this site is very well run and I feel more comfortable with the muslim community in light of what I see here.
------------- Happy Free Thinker |
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Posted By: herjihad
Date Posted: 24 November 2006 at 5:56pm
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Maybe your user name should be The Happy Atheists as you seem to be speaking for a group of people. It is highly annoying when atheists deluge our Islaamic site with their atheistic beliefs when we are not here for that purpose and people are free to develop their own sites for discussion of their happy atheistic principles. In practice, and I speak only for myself, my atheistic colleagues and neighbors and I get along quite well, as well as I do with the Christians and Muslims and Hindus and Budhists. Indeed, in practice, the habits that truly annoy me are public drunkeness, lewd behavior, and above all else cruelty in any form. ------------- Al-Hamdulillah (From a Married Muslimah) La Howla Wa La Quwata Illa BiLLah - There is no Effort or Power except with Allah's Will. |
Happy Atheist wrote:Posted By: Happy Atheist
Date Posted: 24 November 2006 at 6:04pm
Thank you. I trust that your tolerance may be representative of most members here.
------------- Happy Free Thinker |
Posted By: Andalus
Date Posted: 24 November 2006 at 10:33pm
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You are welcome here. All views are respected and we try hard to apply the rules with fairness across the board regardless of faith. Even Muslims get banned here. I hope you find the forum to be a place for learning and exchanging ideas. You might want to review the rules here http://www.islamicity.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4589&PN=1 - http://www.islamicity.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4589& ;PN=1 we try to follow this as a guide. Welcome.
------------- A feeling of discouragement when you slip up is a sure sign that you put your faith in deeds. -Ibn 'Ata'llah http://www.sunnipath.com http://www.sunniforum.com/forum/ http://www.pt-go.com/ |
Posted By: mariyah
Date Posted: 24 November 2006 at 11:01pm
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Just be warned, the troll patrol is active...I love lurking under bridges, ask my peers here. Wecome to the forum. ------------- "Every good deed is charity whether you come to your brother's assistance or just greet him with a smile. |
peace to You "happy"
Posted By: amah
Date Posted: 25 November 2006 at 12:02am
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Happy Atheist, Greetings, You are welcome to IC. I pray that you benefit from this forum and learn about Islam. Feel free to ask questions. Peace. ------------- Allah is Sufficient as a Walee (Protector) and Allah is Sufficient as a Naseer (Helper). (Surah An-Nisa, Chapter #4, Verse #45) |
Posted By: BMZ
Date Posted: 25 November 2006 at 3:26am
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Greetings & Welcome. Please feel at ease. I am living in a place where more than 50% of the population is Atheist but they have a nicer word for that, known as Free-Thinkers. All of us get along fine because they never discuss religion or God at all. The moment an evangelist or a preacher greets them, they say smilingly,"We are Free-Thinkers." BMZ |
Posted By: Happy Atheist
Date Posted: 25 November 2006 at 4:43am
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I like that Free Thinker name. It is a nicer label. Thank you, maybe I will change my identity name to go along with that. The feeling I get here is so different from the feeling I get when listening to the mass media which I think is terrible. I really don't understand why so many of my fellow Americans are so fixated on such subjects as terrorism, sex, sports, and goods. The people on this board seem to have a much healther handle on things. When the subject of terrorism comes up with my friends, I tell them that there is more danger in their own house and that we are letting our government take advantage of our fears. Thanks to all for your thoughts. Happy Free Thinker |
Posted By: Hayfa
Date Posted: 25 November 2006 at 2:28pm
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Welcome to the Board. Actually the nice thing about many Moslems i have met is that they just let things go more then maybe other groups. Partly as in Islam there is the beleif that Allah calls who he wants. Moslems actually seem to not want to think they know everything. I think there are more unexplained mysteries then explained about life. In an odd way havinhg grown up challenging many thoughts and ideas from Catholicism I have no problems with people questioning things. I had big problems with the official doctrines and the Church and its concepts then anythig else. I first started when I had to "confess" my sins to the priest in a small room to the priest. Not my cup of tea. For me I was very negative towards organized religion (still I am very cautious to say the least). But being a spiritual person and a thinking person I believe that there is something greater then I. There is something truly devine. Most people are great on this board with some diverse people with differing anlges to take on subjects. It helps me from thinking I am always right..lol
------------- When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy. Rumi |
Posted By: Angel
Date Posted: 26 November 2006 at 5:16pm
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Welcome aboard Happy Atheist
bmzsp....
well.....the term free thinkers is applied to most people who also believe in God  -------------  ~ Our feet are earthbound, but our hearts and our minds have wings ~
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. I like to refer myself as a free thinker Posted By: BMZ
Date Posted: 27 November 2006 at 2:31am
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Angel,
Yes, you may be right in the sense that Muslims "are" free-thinkers as they have been given the freedom to think freely!
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Posted By: Israfil
Date Posted: 28 November 2006 at 6:21pm
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Happy Atheist Welcome! To answer your question in short: Can most muslims tolerate atheist? My answer: Most "Open-minded" Muslims can tolerate atheist since tolerance does not entail acceptance most open-minded some Muslims (of this breed lol) accept a person professing an atheistic belief. |
Posted By: hat2010
Date Posted: 02 December 2006 at 3:14pm
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Peace,
Yes. Atheism confuses alot of Muslims here in Morocco. But we get all kinds coming through and there is a great deal of respect, interest and tolerance of all sorts. Honestly, atheism doesn't quite register with more than a few folks. "Kafir" while implying that one is ungrateful or turning from the Divine never suggests that God doesn't exist, that there is no God, etc. On the other hand, we have some big time Nietzsche fans here - my first Quranic teacher was one of them - living right here in conservative Muslim Fes. Pleased to meet you, H.A., Peace, Jamal Morelli |