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I recently came across this website:
https://www.mosque.com/

It purports to be the largets Muslim website, and is opposed to the "Wahab" cult of Islam. I have only started to read it, but it does look quite interesting so far.

I hope to learn a bit more about Sufi, which is a sect of Islam, and appears to be more focused on the mystical and peaceful aspects of the religion.

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Well, here is another little bit of information about how the culture of Islam appears in Western countries. This time it is England.

The author of this article makes some extremely good points, writing from inside the culture.

Personally, I think that if the type of activity and philosophy that the author describes isn't nipped in the bud by the Muslims that it will lead to open cultural warfare within the West.

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But doesn't this applies with all religions?. If somebody chats with a guy who call himself an LDS active member and the guys smokes, drinks and talks evil about the Prophet and other religions, isn't it possible for somebody to think that ALL LDS members are like him?. So what I'm saying is that maybe some muslims feel happy about the killing of 'non-believers' but it doesn't necessarily shown the majority opinion of muslims.

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The author of the article is Muslim. That is why he wrote it the way he did, and he was very concerned about the attitudes that he was seeing. He referenced many conversations that he had, the particular one that I quoted was just the most graphic.

It wasn't an isolated conversation.

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So do you think most Muslims feel the same way?. Some of them are very direct in their views and others seem not to agree with those views, in my opinion, as any other religion it would be an 'official' position.

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I think that for the most part the only Muslims I have seen not openly admit to believing in Jihad and also acknowledging that western civilization is considered the enemy come from the US. It makes me wonder if they aren't fooling themselves about what it really means to be Muslim.

In fact, there was a lot of reporting shortly after 9/11 in the states about how the Muslim leaders in the US never fully came out against what had happened in an "official" statement as a religious leader of the Muslim community. Individually people were shocked and opposed to what had happened, but as leader in the Muslim community, no one would come right out and condemn the acts.

I think one of the issues is that there is some kind of unwritten rule that says you don't criticize other Muslims openly. We used to have a poster here on this thread who seemed to believe that herself as a Muslim.

Edited: tenaheff on 17th Apr, 2004 - 11:12am

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Perhaps one of the problems, looking at it from outside, is that there doesn't seem to be any "authorities" to make things official.

Therefore you have conflicting "fatwas" coming from various authorities.

One interesting thing I have noticed is that many, many of the fatwas appear to call for violence in one form or another. Perhaps that is because the media only reports the violent ones.

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Excellent point. I have noticed that often the press seems to choose a side and then report the facts to back up their position. Not exactly false reporting, but certainly less than unbiased. I know this is true in the US, and quite likely around the world general.