Roger J wrote:

tell me their view on it?

When the pagans of Mecca sent a man to the Jews to seek advice on things to ask the Messenger of Allah about, they were given three matters: one of those matters was regarding the soul… And they ask you concerning the Ruh (spirit/soul), Say: "The Ruh (the spirit/soul) is of the command of (also: knowledge restricted to) my Lord. And of knowledge, you (mankind) have been given only a little." Quran: Al-Israa|85 Islam describes several situations where the soul will find itself such as how the soul is extracted from the body at the time of death, the life in the grave, and the resurrection etc… Though from an Islamic perspective, trying to find out the nature of the soul is a fruitless endeavor.

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Mike Gaskey wrote:

the agency should have surmised that coalition forces threw the cartridges against her house, because the "pointy end" was still attached to the "non-pointy end" of both.

Either that or the rounds were ejected from a jammed gun by people who were battling outside the elderly women’s house. But then again I doubt the 'outrage' is about whether elderly women’s house was actually hit by weapons fire or not, as what is happening daily in Iraq is far worse.

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Fred_Smith wrote:

If your next door neightbour was torturing / abusing / about to kill his wife/child, would you not think you had a moral duty to intervene? Why is it any different just because these people hide behind an artificial boundary on a map? They are torturing / abusing / murdering millions of living breathing people every day, and we smile and trade with them and sell them our weapons....

...and the replacement has made this a reality that the average citizen can experience.

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Fred_Smith wrote:

Chances are she'd have died of torture or starvation anyway, or grown up into a life of slavery.

Besides the possibility of starvation due to crippling sanctions I would say the chances were nil.

Fred_Smith wrote:

But there is a huge difference for those that do get saved.

It seems getting saved means millions of people are displaced outside the country and millions more internally. The people saved now (and are still alive) live in a place where water and electricity are not accessible for weeks at a time. Where having a curfew in place is a normal event, and even if there was no curfew venturing outside is a risk. Where being on a land that has one of largest reserves of oil, won’t stop severe oil shortages...

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Possible questions that you may want to ask yourself:

• Do you believe the religion you are studying/following is truly from your creator, and if so does the original message remain unchanged
• Does the religion you are studying/following call to the worship of other than the Creator
• What proof/sign/evidence do you have that it is true

Things that should NOT be a criteria:

• There is no contradiction between the religion in question and your current lifestyle
• It provides you total seclusion from the materialistic world (often times people in the West choose this route not out of sincere conviction of what they are following is ‘true’, rather it provides them an escape from materialism)
• It is what your parents followed

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Mike Gaskey wrote:

Note that the lady had to flee a European country because her life was at risk.

Ayan Magan lied on her application to get into Europe, and is promoted by people with an agenda. What she says, like a lot of other links that have been posted here, contain a mix of truth (you may not like some of it) and lies (both directly or suggestive) about Islam. If you really want to get an understanding of Islam, and possibly get an understanding of global events, I would definitely suggest that you change your reading list. One suggestion would be to go directly to the original sources, that way things that you might consider to be either 'good' or 'bad' is clearly there for you to see.

And they will say, 'Had we listened or comprehended we would not have been among the inhabitants of the Blaze'. So they acknowledge their sins; but banished are the inhabitants of the Blaze. (Quran 67:10-11)

For the average Iraqi, this does not even register on their list of concerns when survival itself is a struggle. Having said that I do hope that this vice does not get a hold in a society that shuns these things, considering that in some areas doors are wide for these types of things to be introduced (i.e. no authority to regulate and some people going back see this as a ‘business opportunity’).

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If by that you mean human, then yes Muslims believe that he is human.

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jason_lakewhitney wrote:

Then who is sitting on the moon?

According to the signpost, it is supposed to represent AlQaeda.

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jason_lakewhitney wrote:

Then what you are saying is that Mohammad crashed the shuttle. If so, why? Is it because there was an Israeli on broad? So are we to presume that it was Mohammad's will for the shuttle to crash and not a structural failure.

Unlike you, I as a Muslim do not attribute divinity to the Messenger of God.

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K(arl) wrote:

Yeah, I'm sure you can draw conclusions about hundreds of millions of people from one cartoon.

It probably escapes most people here, it is from Aljazeera's website (apparently some here are starting to read the news in Arabic)... look at the date in the URL and try to remember what the frenzy was at time...

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Richard A. Abbott wrote:

Does the world of Islam have a view on this?

A discussion of this goes to about 7 minutes (video)[^]

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ToddHileHoffer wrote:

So you use your brain to make a conclusin and then never question that conclusion?

I don't think the point I was making came across. To put it differently if you are convinced you have found the true message that is revealed by God you do not choose what pieces to accept to suit your preference and desires. These include the matters of the unseen, such as what happens after death and the details of the afterlife. This is different from say, growing up on a particular religion than finding not only elements of truth but also element of falsehood. If one grew up on a false or corrupted religion finding the message of the religion itself to be confused and contradictory, then one has a duty to search for the truth.

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ToddHileHoffer wrote:

Simple. Because if you look at religion outside of the context of the religion itself you can see how it has been molded / modified by man and not by an omnipotent being.

For arguments sake, assume that God exists and revealed a message to humankind would you be able to see that (using your reasoning and criteria for truth) from where you are standing and if so would you follow that path?

ToddHileHoffer wrote:

Why would God give people the ability to reason only to ask them to disregard their reason in favor of blind faith.

From an Islamic perspective, you reason so that you may discern the true message from falsehood. Once you are convinced of that, you do not go on questioning every detail (especially in the matters of the unseen) because you are already convinced it is from the creator. That is not to say you do not try to understand it.

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Red Stateler wrote:

at which executives admitted they would broadcast images of the Bible being thrown away but not the Koran, in case Muslims were offended.

I would like to know if the executives themselves are Christians or Atheists and if they believe Christians in general take offence to these types of actions.

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leckey wrote:

as common as we say 'work' or 'car.'

don't you mean 'Hitler' or 'the Holocaust'

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Interesting, she seems to have found a big following amongst the Christians/Zionists when she had practically none amongst the original audience of that show. Ofcourse this clip (a repost), like many clips from that organization is edited for effect[^]. All praise is due to Allah, secularism is on its last breath in that part of the world, as for California that is a different story...

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Christian Graus wrote:

no Protestant believes it ( which means, all other Christian churches )

Oh I am aware of their differences on this issue.

Christian Graus wrote:

At a minimum, you need to say Catholic, not Christian, they are very different things.

I didn't say either...

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Christian Graus wrote:

I can't speak for everyone, I am saying that you're making a generalisation that is not the case in at least 95% of cases.

Just to make sure I understand you correctly, are you saying this is not a belief of the Catholic church? Or that this belief morphed into something else? If so than many references need to be changed and someone needs to get the word out, as I ran into a several who explained their beliefs to me.

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Christian Graus wrote:

Even this Wikipedia entry doesn't quite claim that.

From article:

According to the Roman Catholic Church, when the bread and wine are consecrated in the Eucharist, they cease to be bread and wine, and become instead the body and blood of Christ. The empirical appearances are not changed, but the reality is.

Christian Graus wrote:

but even Catholics don't literally believe that nowadays

I've seen otherwise...

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