Hi, I am a muslim, they call us terrorist. If You trust me, hug me!"

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While it's true that I've only personally known a handful of Muslims, that I've become friends with and shared threads of commonality with, not one is a terrorist.

What percentage of the world's population practice the Muslim faith - what percentage of them are terrorists?
 
SmoothSeas said:
While it's true that I've only personally known a handful of Muslims, that I've become friends with and shared threads of commonality with, not one is a terrorist.

What percentage of the world's population practice the Muslim faith - what percentage of them are terrorists?
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Guessing that final question is rhetorical and you have a clue. Meanwhile if certain organizations in the USA were more accurately labeled as 'Domestic Terrorist', we see there is a sizeable number of those terrorists aligned with the Christian faith.
One of my oldest and dearest cyberfriends is Muslim, she is fairly typical of the handful of Muslims i've known personally over the decades: Intelligent, compassionate and kind.
Comedian Hasan Minhaj is a Muslim. One my favorite interview exchanges from his time on the Daily Show i've seen was a talk he had with a Sikh when there were incidents of Sikh's being harassed because they were mistaken for Muslim. And i was particularly touched by the Sikhs' answer to 'Why don't you just tell people you're not Muslim'? ( minute 3:51 with group, and 4:24 with the individual).

 
hollydolly said:
Who in their right mind is going to trust a Stranger, much less one who says his religion (rightly or wrongly) is described as terrorist ...and ESPECIALLY...during a Pandemic.

I'd think he was a nutcase...never mind Terrorist
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1) This video experiment goes back a few years., pre-pandemic.
2) He is blindfolded which means someone could come at him with a bat, a knife or a gun and he would not know till too late, which means HE is trusting random strangers on the street. Personally i'd reward that, i also might if in any way possible sit there and observe ready to call for help if someone did attack him.
3) Me, i trust my gut, when it tells me 'not this person' i listen, learned the hard way. i practice random acts of kindness fairly frequently which means i am often trusting a stranger actually needed my help. i'm aware it could 'go wrong', but the weird thing is except for hubbies my gut has never been wrong, my only (and usually worst) problems have been when i let my brain talk me out of not trusting someone.
 
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feywon said:
...if certain organizations in the USA were more accurately labeled as 'Domestic Terrorist', we see there is a sizeable number of those terrorists aligned with the Christian faith.
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Sizeable? What percentage? I'm a Christian. I'm not trying to be confrontational when I ask...if you say they are terrorists then how do you know they are truly Christians? Your source is mainstream media? I'm just interested in how you know. In the Christian faith there's no one that knows for sure except the One...the Creator...that knows who is a Christian and who isn't.

The Bible states, "Many will call me Lord, Lord, but they know me not". It also says "Beware of wolves in sheeps clothing". My point is that if someone says they're a Christian, but are "Domestic Terrorists" then they are likely not Christians. Christians aren't perfect, they sin just like everyone else...but if they make a habit of doing the same sin over and over then they are likely not Christians ("by their fruits ye shall know them").

feywon said:
One of my oldest and dearest cyberfriends is Muslim, she is fairly typical of the handful of Muslims i've known personally over the decades: Intelligent, compassionate and kind.
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I've also had dear friends from various faiths when I lived 12 years in CA who were all intelligent, compassionate, and kind...and I've known more than "a sizable number" of Christians who are also intelligent, compassionate, and kind. We just have to be careful about culturally and religiously stereotyping...or profiling anyone.
 

Hi, I am a muslim, they call us terrorist. If You trust me, hug me!"​


I'm not in the habit of hugging fellas, whatever their religion, but if it was a woman, I might risk it. :)
 
I have known a friend of my sons for eight years. He is a Sunni Muslim, descended from Pakistan. He is a hard-working man. He knows that I'm a follower of Jesus. One time when He saw that I was struggling with my faith, he gently offered his faith to me. I declined and he has never mentioned it again. He respects me because I'm his elder. He reveres Allah, the God of Abraham. He is a good man. I do, however, get hated by some "Christians" when I talk like this. He is not a mass-murdering, pedophile, psychopath. Nor are any of the other Muslims that I have met. Someone is not telling us the truth.
 
Lara said:
Sizeable? What percentage? I'm a Christian. I'm not trying to be confrontational when I ask...if you say they are terrorists then how do you know they are truly Christians? Your source is mainstream media? I'm just interested in how you know. In the Christian faith there's no one that knows for sure except the One...the Creator...that knows who is a Christian and who isn't.

The Bible states, "Many will call me Lord, Lord, but they know me not". It also says "Beware of wolves in sheeps clothing". My point is that if someone says they're a Christian, but are "Domestic Terrorists" then they are likely not Christians. Christians aren't perfect, they sin just like everyone else...but if they make a habit of doing the same sin over and over then they are likely not Christians ("by their fruits ye shall know them").


I've also had dear friends from various faiths when I lived 12 years in CA who were all intelligent, compassionate, and kind...and I've known more than "a sizable number" of Christians who are also intelligent, compassionate, and kind. We just have to be careful about culturally and religiously stereotyping...or profiling anyone.
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Yes, it's true that not everyone who identifies as belonging to a religion actually follows their own scriptures fully. There are extremists and hypocrites claiming faiths they do not live by across the theist board. That was my point.

I left organized religion decades ago, but have friends from various faiths as well as agnostic and athiest friends, some of whom live more moral lives than people who claim to be devout in their religion.

I respect peoples right to choose, but i respect them more if they really practice their Chosen faith. I have known some incredible Christians including the Nam vet i met in the late 70's who was seminary student and is the person who alerted me to the fact that there are some 2,000 translation errors in the King James Bible. (I'd known of only a handful and would not have imagined there were that many.)

But KKK uses cross symbols of the Christian Crusaders on their outfits. And i believe if you can stomach listening to their rhetoric you will find a members of other organizations involved in events of 1/6/21 claim Christian values. "Claim" being the key word, as you pointed out claiming and being are two different things. Some of those people display anti semitic things on their clothes.
 
feywon said:
I have known some incredible Christians including the Nam vet i met in the late 70's who was seminary student and is the person who alerted me to the fact that there are some 2,000 translation errors in the King James Bible. (I'd known of only a handful and would not have imagined there were that many.)

But KKK uses cross symbols of the Christian Crusaders on their outfits. And i believe if you can stomach listening to their rhetoric you will find a members of other organizations involved in events of 1/6/21 claim Christian values...Some of those people display anti semitic things on their clothes.
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I know there are some misinterpretations from one translation to another but the KJV seems to be recognized by most experts to be the closest. No one can possibly come up with an accurate number of "errors" since...words of different languages have multiple meanings and not necessarily considered to be an error but rather the word each individual resonates with through the Holy Spirit.

And it's also personal...what speaks one way to one reader will speak differently to someone else. That's intentional. It's meant to be personally interpreted between us and Jesus through the Holy Spirit. Also, what some may call an error, others may call "taken out of context". That happens a lot as well. That's why it's best to pray before reading the scripture for clarity.
 
I'm not a hugger unless forced on me. I wouldn't hug my nephew or my uncle. I might give him or them an elbow or
a closed fist tap or knuckles tap. This guy out in public with a scarf around his eyes (somebody said), saying what he said,
I wouldn't give the time of day unless he unwrapped himself and asked politely. But I suppose that's the difference in people.
 
Lara said:
I know there are some misinterpretations from one translation to another but the KJV seems to be recognized by most experts to be the closest. No one can possibly come up with an accurate number of "errors" since...words of different languages have multiple meanings and not necessarily considered to be an error but rather the word each individual resonates with through the Holy Spirit.

And it's also personal...what speaks one way to one reader will speak differently to someone else. That's intentional. It's meant to be personally interpreted between us and Jesus through the Holy Spirit. Also, what some may call an error, others may call "taken out of context". That happens a lot as well. That's why it's best to pray before reading the scripture for clarity.
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If every word was perfect, there would still be the matter of interpretation. I ask God to help me understand it.
 
Forerunner said:
I have known a friend of my sons for eight years. He is a Sunni Muslim, descended from Pakistan. He is a hard-working man. He knows that I'm a follower of Jesus. One time when He saw that I was struggling with my faith, he gently offered his faith to me. I declined and he has never mentioned it again. He respects me because I'm his elder. He reveres Allah, the God of Abraham. He is a good man. I do, however, get hated by some "Christians" when I talk like this. He is not a mass-murdering, pedophile, psychopath. Nor are any of the other Muslims that I have met. Someone is not telling us the truth.
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You just have to go on your own instincts forerunner
 

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