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Originally Posted by AREQUIPA
Thank you. While we unbelievers understand that, for many muslim posters, English (in which we post here) is not their first language, we do expect respect. Respect for our intelligence.
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Intelligence should
ALWAYS be respected.
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Biblical prophecy is pretty much demolished on the boards and that is generally way better than the attempts at prophecy from the Quran.
Attempts to 'discover' advanced scientific knowledge in the Bible have been pretty much shown up to be without foundation, yet they are way far better than the attempts at 'discovering' advanced scientific knowledge in the Quran.
And the crude hi -jacked Creationism we get from muslims makes Ray Comfort look positively intelligent.
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I think much of it has to do with what you said above in the first quoted section. For many brothers and sisters English is the second language and therein a lot of the time detail, mastery in explanation, etc, and so on, cannot be brought to it's full extent.
I personally would suggest - if you are looking for an in depth conversation with English as a first language regards the subject above go to... Ummah Forums. There's a tremendous amount of knowledge and knowledgeable English speaking Muslims there.
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Preaching and posting chunks of text is unconvincing
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It's unconvincing AND uncreative, unoriginal, etc.
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So I only want to say that your message is a good one. The quality of Muslim posting badly needs to be improved. The present impression we are getting only confirms out prejudices about Islam as a mindless fanatical creed which turns intelligent people into brainless robots shouting religious slogans as though as a threat.
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I understand. Sometimes, given the barriers of communication and even further too the frustrated emotions behind those barriers can really leave people getting carried away.
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That is very unfair to Muslims, and I would love to see some more intelligent posting and discussion from your sisters and brothers.
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I'll post every now and then and i'll also throw this link around to some good people I know. Perhaps we can get some more communication in here.