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Drawn to Islam: Straightforward message, strict morals attracting American believers
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Posted on 11/03/2001 1:56:53 PM PST by KQQL
Drawn to Islam: Straightforward message, strict morals attracting American believers
11/03/2001
By SUSAN HOGAN/ALBACH / The Dallas Morning News
He was an upstate New Yorker and an officer in the U.S. Army. In 1991, he gladly served his nation during the Persian Gulf War.
The next year, he was sent to Pakistan, where the piety of the people made a strong impression. "They were good, humble people trying to practice their religion," he said. He started studying Islam, first out of curiosity, then out of conviction. By year's end, he'd become a Muslim.
"My father was Jewish, my mother was Christian," said Abdal Malik Rezeski of Dallas, who adopted an Arabic first name. "Islam is the first religion that made sense to me."
( 72 virgins !)
Islam is among the fastest-growing religions in America. Most growth is due to immigrants, and the high birth rate among them. But more and more, Americans are converting.
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It's long article, if you are interested in the 72 virgins, you can read the article at the link.
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posted on
11/03/2001 1:56:53 PM PST
by
KQQL
To: KQQL
It's long article, if you are interested in the 72 virgins,Do you suppose there are enough virgins in hell for all that are coming?
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posted on
11/03/2001 2:00:25 PM PST
by
RnMomof7
To: KQQL
Oh well, if the Catholic church wants to have queers against virgins, who am I to argue?
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posted on
11/03/2001 2:03:59 PM PST
by
Bogie
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To: KQQL
I'm not interested in the virgins, so I'm not going to read the article.
But, re Abdal . . . did his *converters* know that one of his parents is Jewish?
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posted on
11/03/2001 2:09:57 PM PST
by
Mitzi
To: KQQL
The more I hear about Islam in the West, the more I come to think of it as a subversive totalitarian political movement dressed up in the trappings of religion.
I can't help but think of Western converts to Islam as having the same sort of unthinking, self-hating love affair with totalitarianism that lured so many of the best and brightest to embrace Communism in the 1920's and 30's.
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posted on
11/03/2001 2:12:24 PM PST
by
Loyalist
To: KQQL
Strict morals? That is the funniest thing I have ever heard.
To: KQQL
To: KQQL
( 72 virgins !) ...LOL
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posted on
11/03/2001 2:13:19 PM PST
by
vrwc54
To: Bogie
"Oh well, if the Catholic church wants to have queers against virgins, who am I to argue?"
And what is the point of your remark, aside from demonstrating your ignorance and bigotry?
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posted on
11/03/2001 2:16:48 PM PST
by
KJMorgan
To: KQQL
I suspect that the majority of the converts are incarcerated.
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posted on
11/03/2001 2:17:21 PM PST
by
onyx
To ALL:
Ops I forgot the 4 wives.
Islam = 72 Virgins in paradise and 4 wives at a time on earth.
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posted on
11/03/2001 2:20:02 PM PST
by
KQQL
To: KQQL
"For Muslims, it's between you and God," said Dr. Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, a sociologist of religion at Georgia State University. "With Jews and Christians, you have formal rituals."That may be "religion", but it's not "faith". God doesn't require any "ritual" to turn to Him... only a sincere heart. A friend in college accepted Christ during a world religion class. Another during a weekend retreat we were on. I accepted Christ into my own life in one of our college's cafeterias during lunch. Had spaghetti.
That was five years ago today, too :-)
To: KJMorgan
Like hell, my mother raised me as a Catholic, you jirk! I got a first hand look at all the "bull shit!"
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posted on
11/03/2001 2:26:33 PM PST
by
Bogie
To: RnMomof7
"It's long article, if you are interested in the 72 virgins"
It would be a sin on earth to be,"interested",in 72 virgins. This tells me, God would'nt approve of it in heaven.Islam is a bunch of baloney.
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posted on
11/03/2001 2:29:08 PM PST
by
auggy
To: Darth Sidious
no meat balls?
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posted on
11/03/2001 2:29:48 PM PST
by
KQQL
To: KQQL
Straightforward message, strict moralsMight I suggest they look at boot camp. A good DI can give them A, B, and C, the fear of G*d.
To: KQQL
Those "strict morals" are only observed when the Mullahs and Poobahs are watching. I observed those moral mooslums going to India to marry virgins for two weeks and then divorcing them. I observed those moral mooslums drinking alcohol as soon as their airplane left Saudi airspace. I observed those moral mooslums drinking and whoring in the USA and their excuse was that they were only adapting to our customs. I bought Jack Daniels whiskey for $100.00 a bottle in Saudi Arabia after it had been shipped into the country in containers stamped with the royal seal.
To: KQQL
You want a religion with strict moral codes which won't drag you into a cycle of violence like Islam? We have plenty right here in the U.S.A. Talk to an Amish, Mennonite, Moravian, Mormon, traditional Catholic, Orthodox Jew, fundamentalist Protestant . . . or just about anything outside the politically correct lamestream.
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