What Islamic Ummah?

[SaeedinPakistan]

Re: What Islamic Ummah?

@Mystique

So you’re an athiest. If you were honest in your quest of knowledge or in the existance of God, you would have found it. Your insensitivity for Islam and for other religions and towards God clearly says you were not sincere in your search.

And the ideas you stated related to Islam are again based on wrong interpretation of the verses by the ignorant ones. I try to educate those Islamic followers who are misguided by the wrong interpretations whereever I can. But those who dont believe in the existance of God are insensitive and I cannot make anyone to become sensitive. Thats their own job to work on. And once you do then try studying & interpreting the book yourself instead of studying the people with wrong islamic concepts. If/when you are sincere to yourself and to gain in knowledge & get to the truth, you will be blessed with & guided to it. It’s all upto you.

I’m an agnostic. I can’t prove god\gods exist and I can’t prove they don’t. The thought that anyone who does not believe in a supreme being has not been honest or sincere in their search for knowledge is arrogant IMO. You know nothing about me or my journey and you make these sweeping, baseless generalization.

Question Islam, questioning what had been my truth for most of life was extremely difficult. The easy thing would have been to just reject all doubt and maintain the status quo. I tried to find ways to justify my religion but couldn’t.

I don’t want to debate whether Islamic ideas are wrong or right or how they have been interpreted. At this point in my life I don’t really care about it. The only time I do care is when a religion is used to govern a country of 200 million people. A country I grew up in, a country where I hope to move back to one day, a country where I still have family. I can’t begin to imagine how horrible life would be, here in the US, if Christianity was made the state religion. Bless our founding fathers, for the first thing they talk about in the Bill of Rights is religion. “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”

Can you please state my ideas about Islam you think are wrong and refute them please.

And if it’s all up to me why does the government enforce Islamic laws on me.