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Originally Posted by stevo
How about looking somewhere other than wikpedia...like dictionary.com
Um. so should I call The American Heritage Dictionary and Princton University and tell them they are wrong? or will you?
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OMG, if you guys spent half as much time researching things rather than just doing google searches in attempts to prove me wrong you'd quit wasting all of our time...
Before you make any calls, research the difference between Nation of Islam, Black muslims, and followers of Islam (all part of the definition you cited). THEN get back to me on whether you think muslism are only adherents to the theology of Islam. This has now become a case of RTFM or STFU.
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Maybe I misread the post on the blog you linked to...but the way I read the last paragraph, I understood it to say that it is pointless to have Islam as only a cultural identity not tied to religion. correct me if I'm wrong.
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No, you read it correctly. One group of muslims are concerned that other muslims aren't adherents to the Islam theology. That's because non-Islam muslims exist...
...even more thought provoking is the notion that atheist muslims exist...which interestingly mirrors the existence of atheist Jews. Or even atheist Rabbis...giving rise to the claim that century old religions also work as ethnic identities for people.