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I wouldn't worry, to be honest. I feel like, in your hypothetical situation, if they had bad intentions, they wouldn't be drawing attention to themselves by praying in a highly visible spot. I've seen people of all faiths pray in airports.
Prayer should, in general, be a private matter between a person and his or her personal maker, or G-d. I believe that the radical Muslims, by insisting on public prayer, are setting themselves apart from the mainstream society, as well as making a spectacle of themselves.
Religion can and should be a beautiful thing. This cheapens and profanes religion.
that verse was related to the Battle of Badr during their time and doesnt apply to today.
Tell that to the 19 th year old ISIS recruit. Those nuances are lost on them. Besides how do you know they were for just one battle? It says no such thing. For the past 1000 years there have been many Islamic movements and governments. Every one of them has come to interpret Koran in a violent way. Iran is doing many of the things ISIS is doing, and they started 40 years ago. Lashing, stoning, rooftop executions. They all find something in the Koran to justify them Believe me, it is not a misunderstanding. How can they all read the Koran wrong the same way?
..would you be worried, afraid, upset, or not care? not too long ago i saw a row of muslims praying in the waiting area at an airport. at first i thought, man those guys are going to have a hard time. then i thought, its a free country, they can practice as they please. i found it inspiring to see them put their beliefs before what people think. that takes a lot courage these days.
so what would your initial reaction have been?
What's sad is that this is really a topic of discussion.
..would you be worried, afraid, upset, or not care? not too long ago i saw a row of muslims praying in the waiting area at an airport. at first i thought, man those guys are going to have a hard time. then i thought, its a free country, they can practice as they please. i found it inspiring to see them put their beliefs before what people think. that takes a lot courage these days.
so what would your initial reaction have been?
Totally stupid....
I WOULDNT GIVE A RATS TAIL!!!!!!!!!! (People pray in public ALL THE TIME)
Prayer should, in general, be a private matter between a person and his or her personal maker, or G-d. I believe that the radical Muslims, by insisting on public prayer, are setting themselves apart from the mainstream society, as well as making a spectacle of themselves.
Religion can and should be a beautiful thing. This cheapens and profanes religion.
Some faiths fell that way but mainstream, not radical Islam has a set schedule of when their faithful turns towards Mecca to pray. Should they be in public, where the faith assumes most of those around will also be in submission to God's will, or soon will be, then so be it
We learned all we needed to know abotu that kind of open-mindedness on September 11, 2001. And April 15, 2013.
The friends I normally go to the Boston Marathon with were standing in between the two bombs (I had to work that day). I was one of the last people to see Sgt. Collier alive as I left an event at MIT.
You know what I saw in the weeks following April 15? Muslim solidarity in the Boston area. And many Muslims (including my student worker) and even Sikhs receiving horrible treatment because they are visually different.
There are more than a billion Muslims. The Tsarnaevs and the terrorists who flew planes into buildings are not representative of the whole and more than very visible radicals of any religious belief are representative.
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