Another religion co-opted by fundamentalist crazies (see also Christianity, Judaism).
I slam, you slam, we all slam for Islam.
Every. Freaking. Time.
Now, let’s be fair; Texans won’t kill you for worshiping the wrong way. You gotta do something drastic, like look at 'em funny.
Screw off. And I’m not even going to bother clicking your link.
The first thing I think of when I hear “islam” is terrorism.
Deal with it.
Terrorism. Sorry. I don’t in any way think that Islam is a more violent religion than, say, Christianity, but I don’t know any Muslims personally so most of what I hear about that religion is in some way related to violence or terrorism. Sucks, but true.
Nation of
Neither a Nation nor Islamic
Interesting offshoots of Islam: Sufism, Ba’Ha’I
Also, Islam brings to mind Karen Armstrong, a great author and scholar of the Abrahamic religions.
Pretty much this.
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Ignorance, intolerance and oppression, especially of women. A culture that time has passed by.
Women, head to toe in black.
The first thing that pops into my mind is religon.
Turbans.
Yeah, I know.
Baghdad
Yusef
Who might that be? It’s sure not me.
My friends, Sharif and Jay, who are Sunni and Shi’a respectively and taught me the difference.
Babysitting Sharif’s little boys, with Yusef Islam’s kid’s record on, so the sounds of “A is for Allah” and “Bismillah”.
Saladin.
All pretty quickly, and in that order.
9/11 and the weekly headlines that followed since then.
There’s a such thing as too much Medieval 2?
Yep. I specifically flash back to a National Geographic photo-essay on Mecca, and the Hajj.