Re: Muslims converting to other religouns?
Ok.. Biggest problem I have is this… That god authorizes man to judge and to punish people they consider to be apostates etc. If god is all he’s supposed to be, then why does he not realize that the religion is open to interpretation and that there will come a time when people will interpret the religon in a different way. These people with their different interpretation will come into conflict and fighting will be inevitable because god has authorized the people to use force!
Its like a giving a ten year old a gn and telling them to shoot anyone they see breaking the rules! Its just irresponsible.
Islam emphasizes on reforming society, it gives us details on how a society should function etc. Why does it not realize that a society is made up of individuals and its not about reforming the society but the individuals in the society, which is very dangerous. I find that Muslims tend to be very shallow because of this, for them its not about what the individuals are doing but that the society is doing. So you have the birth of groups like the Taliban, which forced the society to conform to strict religous guidlines without realizing that many of the indviduals in that society were miserable within that society. You also have the example of the MMA in NWFP, which would rather see as a very pious society without paying any attention to the plight or needs of individuals in the society, so you saw the closure of music shops and harrasment of artists because they as individuals are no longer relevent. The Hasba bill may seem on the surface to be trying to reform individuals, but in reality the aim of the Hasba bill is to force every individual to conform to the society and not to the spiritual needs of the individual himself.
The Burka for example, itself is not a way to help women spiritualy but to reform society in general at the expense of the women as individuals.
God says he will judge us as individuals on the day of judgement but then at the same time, he autorizes our own fellow men to judge us and punish us even before that… Its irresponsible if you ask me…
And then I dont understand why if we will be judged as individuals, we have to live and conform to the rules of society. If I as an individual will be judged for my deed individualy, why do I need to be involved in conforming to the society, Ishould be my own person, I should follow Islam as I see it and as I interpret it. But no, god would never allow such things, infact God would want his followers to actually punish me for being and individual..