ElizabethKane
Team Owner
If you are a muslim now what made you convert? What drew you to Islam?
I converted but once I started going to Jumah on Fridays and seeing them praying with prayer beads I stopped going. Prayer beads is straight out of Catholicism. Plus I didn't like the strict regimen. Men in front, women in back. Covered up like Catholic nuns. I was attracted to the faith due to their solidarity but once I got in I just got the feel of Catholic copy cat. Although I did appreciate and liked the speaking of the Iman.
This is what is was for "Me." I really don't need any Muslims attacking Me in regard to the faith. It just was not for Me. Now I am just "Spiritual."
I'm Christian, but my husband is Muslim and my father in law is an imam. We've been together a decade, so I've had quite some time to learn about the religion and go to jumah. I will say respectfully, it is a very interesting religion and I love to study it, but it is not the religion for me (I kind of feel the same about Christianity as I get older). I'm more at a place where my belief and faith in God is more important than organized religion. We have two daughters and I try to expose them to both faiths equally a) so they don't feel like we're pressuring them to choose and b) because both religions are apart of who they are. I don't care what religion they choose ultimately, I just want them to believe in a higher power.
I haven't and wouldn't.
I remember when I was in undergraduate school, one of my [white, twenty-something] classmates came back from a break wearing a hood or burqua or rag on her head or whatever they're called, talking about she'd married a muslim guy and converted.
We looked at her like she was a goddamn fool.
I haven't and wouldn't.
I remember when I was in undergraduate school, one of my [white, twenty-something] classmates came back from a break wearing a hood or burqua or rag on her head or whatever they're called, talking about she'd married a muslim guy and converted.
We looked at her like she was a goddamn fool.
You sound ignorant as sh!t. I wouldn't convert either but I'm not about I clown peoples religion.
What do you find interesting about Islam?
Why is it not for you?
You dont have to answer. I am just curious.
I'm supposed to care how you think I sound?
Interesting. I never knew I was supposed to give a good goddamn about the opinion of a complete stranger on the internet.
So yeah, that's new.
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fµck how you think I sound. I don't fµck!ng know you.
my fiancée wanted me, and in her heart I know she still wants me to convert to Islam, but its not for me. I don't like organized religion to begin with and Islam is even more strict than being an evangelical Christian per how I was raised (I do not identify with religion). Islam has some good principles but its very old school in traditional thinking of men and women's roles, as well as having some very focked up ideas about what you can and can't do (as for normal for organized religion), not to mention having the traditional religious mind set that only they are right in their belief system and everyone else is going to hell. the truth is Islam is just another religion that split off from the core Christian beliefs just like Judism, Catholicism, and modern day Christianity. the core value system is the same, the belief in the same God is the same, its just some changing of rules and creating some different profits to separate your religion from another one, and arguing over if Jesus is the son of God (Islam beliefs him to not be the son of God), and or whether or not he has come back to earth already.
however, if Islam is for you, then more power to you. just like my love, I support. its just not for me.
What is the purpose of prayer beads?
Something about praying a certain amount of times one prayer. I think. Not sure. I really don't recall what he said to be honest with you.
Yeah, they are called subha and are used to help count recitations and to concentrate during personal prayer. You touch one bead per word you recite.
I converted but once I started going to Jumah on Fridays and seeing them praying with prayer beads I stopped going. Prayer beads is straight out of Catholicism. Plus I didn't like the strict regimen. Men in front, women in back. Covered up like Catholic nuns. I was attracted to the faith due to their solidarity but once I got in I just got the feel of Catholic copy cat. Although I did appreciate and liked the speaking of the Iman.
This is what is was for "Me." I really don't need any Muslims attacking Me in regard to the faith. It just was not for Me. Now I am just "Spiritual."
That is how "I" perceived it. I didn't say that is how it was.
Yes, I understood what you mean, but I did want illustrate that your perception was off in case someone else read what you said and believed it to be true.