A Zionist visitor

[AlexB]

@psyah

Peace AlexB

Nice to meet you.

Peace, and nice to meet you too.

@psyah

I have been reading your thread, and I believe you are here to disagree with us as much as possible. Is this true? Be careful because if you disagree with me you will prove me right.

Well, disagreeing was not my purpose. As I’ve mentioned, I found this forum accidentally and after reading a little bit, I was shocked by the level of anti-Zionist bias expressed here. I mean I saw a variety of opinions here, but everybody seemed to agree about hating Zionists. I could think of only 2 reasons for it - malice or misunderstanding. I assumed the second and decided to join for the sake of improving mutual understanding.

Since my identity and beliefs are so much different from most people on this forum, I’ve decided to identify myself the way I did. I did not want to be accused of hiding my true identity or pretending to be something I was not. …I got accused of it anyway, but well… C’est la vie.

@psyah

Now a more serious question. Those Arabs are they followers of the Jewish faith? Also, they enjoy a full set of civil rights, but is that full set the same as your own?

No, they are not followers of the Jewish faith. In this case, they would be considered Jews, not Arabs. They are mostly Muslims. About 10% of the Israeli Arabs are Christians. And yes, the same rights. Their situation is not ideal, of course. After all, their state and their people are at war with each other. It brings some trust and loyalty issues which lead to certain level of tension. But, in terms of the civil rights it is the same set as I have.

@psyah

Also, being an atheist do you realise that Muslims are obliged to consider those people who believe in one God as their brothers in monotheism, yes, by calling yourself atheist we are not going to warm to you nor does it represent any sense of impartiality… you are but a person who represents yourself. You have disowned yourself to any affiliation. It is but your word against everybody elses.

As I’ve wrote above, I don’t want a special or a better treatment because of my affiliation. Definitely, I’m not going to pretend to be something I am not to get one. This would be dishonest.

@psyah

That is that we assume you are telling the truth about yourself. Com’on you are believer and that is all we need to know don’t be embarrased of your faith, it is not pious to be like that.

I do have certain convictions. It would be foolish to deny this. I believe in freedom of religion. I believe people should treat each other first of all as human beings, based on certain universal moral values. I believe that people are free to believe whatever make them happy. No subjective belief is better than any other. However, nobody has the right to impose their religious beliefs on others. I don’t care whether people are Muslims, Christians, Judaists, Bahai, Hindu, or Wiccan as long they go by the rule “live and let live” and don’t try to impose their religious rules and beliefs on others. Be first of all human, and only then Muslim, Christian, Judaist, Bahai, Hindu, Buddhist, Pagan, or whatever.

In this sense you can call me a believer. But I don’t believe in gods, demons, ghosts, vampires, invisible pink unicorns and other mythical creatures.