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Originally Posted by Slayden
As I said before, it depends on how closely Muslims follow their own religion. A Moderate Muslim who discounts whole chunks of the Qur'an and ignores it may be a cool person, but they'd have to be acting pretty much like an atheist under the title of Islam (which is common among all religions) for this to work. There is no "intolerance" or "skewed vision" on my part. The facts speak for themselves; they don't need me to do so for them.
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Oh, I never meant to call you intolerant. I simply wished to imply that any commentary coming from that website should be taken with a grain of salt. They're comments, not to be mistaken for truths. But I doubt I need to tell you that. I'm just stringent about such matters, it's my job after all (literally).
But, I should have worded it in a way less open to interpretation (my bad).
In regards to your comments about the adherence of Muslims to religious dogma: that is quite true. My first comments in my original post relate to that, actually. Like I said before, the Islam is in need of an evolution. The Muslims themselves also need a better understanding of their faith as most of them barely know the actual contents of the holy scriptures. Many just accept whatever their Imams tell them as truth.
But, it is sad indeed to see that most of the worlds religions have teachings of violence and even sadder to see people then use this to excuse their cruelty and violence, for whatever purpose it may be (religious fervour or a different agenda).
There mustn't be a lot of Muslims on this forum. Usually questioning their faith or tradition, even slightly, is enough to provoke a torrent of aggravated protest.
Though I can understand that ... from a certain point of view. I'll put things in perspective. To devout Muslims, faith makes up an enormous part of their identity, much more so than even pious Christians. Faith is at the very top of a Muslims list of priorities, closely followed by honor.
Furthermore, everything faith tells them is absolutely true even if absurd. Combine this with all of this being everything you have ever known and constantly being told that this is how things should be, and you get an extremely rigid and inflexible mindset where no questions are asked and no doubt exists.
Now imagine someone whom you view as corrupt and immoral to come into your house, watch over your shoulders and scream "You can't do that, that's wrong!" at the top of his lungs at just about everything you do. Wouldn't anyone get pissed after a while?
This should make it a little easier to understand how zealous Muslims handle (or rather, don't) criticism.
Anime must be Haraam (Arabic term signifying all that is forbidden by God).