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Originally Posted by lionrock
Thanks for an informed and civil discussion. I don't know any Muslims personally, and don't care for the sensational fear mongering. I am interested in potential cultural conflict based on beliefs. I think women should be free to wear the hijab wherever they want in America. I can think of few exceptions (in hospitals where infection may be an issue, or if someone were a paid entertainer like the recent case at Disney). I started looking at websites about Islam and found two concepts about Islam that precipitated the thoughts of integration in my head.
1) Al-taqiyya- as I understand it (as a non-Muslim outsider) is a concept that allows Muslims to lie to non believers. In fact some places showed that this was a "good" deed.
2) Death sentence to heretics and former Muslims. This comes up again and again on websites. If you were once Muslim and change your mind, you are sentenced to death.
3) Images of the prophet or criticizing the religion being the cause for death threats.
These three concepts which I kept finding again and again on websites both anti-Islam and even websites that try to explain Islam in positive light are what caused me to start this discussion in hopes for a calm explanation for an individual instead of a group. Dlish can you shed some light here?
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Are those websites actually by Muslim leaders, saying what can and cannot go on in their Muslim communities in the United States?
My wife's best friends are a Muslim couple here in the US. You know that the only difference I have ever noticed between them and us in all our interactions? The wife always discreetly covers hear hair, and the husband doesn't drink beer.
And I am talking about full practicing, praying 5 times a day, Muslims.
Other than the husband not drinking beer and the wife always having a scarf or something similar covering her hair, nothing is different. We sit down together, order a bunch of wings and watch NBA, the wife went to see Sex and the City with my wife, etc. Just like with everyone else.
So my bet is that these websites you are seeing are the fearmongering types of website.
Which could be easily done for Christians and Jews too. Leviticus says that anyone who disrespects their parents should be put to death, anyone who commits adultery should be put to death, that anyone who has sex while the woman is having her period should be cast off from society, that daughters of priests who are promiscuous should be put to death, and that those who are blasphemous should be put to death.
And not the "lethal injection" kind of death either. We are talking about stoning or being burned to death.