Muslim teen fears for life after changing religion

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@fasaadi

Yeah, this story is really infuriating for me because I’m from a southern state in the U.S. where I’ve seen lots of big, powerful churches like this (many of them were more like money-making schemes) and they would prey on younger people from different religions. A close group of friends I had from a church like this tried to convert me and one of the girls later admitted to me that they used to have meetings in church specifically about ME and what tactics to use. Thats just wierd.

I think that this COULD potentially be a problem in other families, but in this case, I just can’t believe this girl. Her interviews simply spew rhetoric and use common misconceptions about Islam to appeal to the mass public (she uses wierd phrases like “my blood is halal for my parents” and “its about honor”)

I just find it hard to believe that her parents would threaten to kill her…she was a cheerleader for God’s sake! no fundamentalist father i could imagine would allow his daughter to be a cheerleader.

1. This type of conversion should not “infuriate” anyone. Religion and faith is a personal decision and everyone has a choice to live his/her life they way they see fit.

2. You can’t even force your blood brother and sister to follow a specific faith.

3. Muslims are ignorant of Christian faith (just like Christians are ignorant of Muslim faith).

4. Muslims in particular already believe in Jesus and the Bible. Thus we don’t need to “convert” to believe in something we already do as part of our faith.

5. Muslims are ignorant in one big way when they start arguing with Christians about the birth of Christ and status of Christ in Islam. We say holy birth (means God sent a seed to virgin Mary), they say son of God. In both the cases, the miracle of virgin conception happened and Jesus AH was born.

6. Muslims need to practice and show on daily basis that based on our book, Christians and Jews will go to heaven just like us, because they believe in the unity of Allah, His angels, and His books.

So it is time to quit getting angry and get infuriated, and start using our heads. Otherwise, our youth will one day abandon us either to become Jihadis or to become non-Muslims.

It is time that Muslim community in the USA clarified their position that they support personal choice of faith and do not subscribe to the head chopping punishment for anyone just because he/she said Jesus is the savior.

If we learn from this incident, and teach the future generations accordingly, there is no need to fear.