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Comment on Cheap Grace by Julie C

Julie C — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:17:28 +0000

Asalam alaikum….I just found your page this morning, ALhamdulillah! I find all your writings so comforting, and feel a kinship with your path as it seems similar to mine. May Allah bless you with the continuing knowledge to mentor and help those who need the guidence. asalam alaikum sister.

Comment on Is It Shirk to Wish a Non-Muslim Merry Christmas? by Ellen Keim

Ellen Keim — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:25:06 +0000

I’ve been getting pretty evenly divided feed-back to this issue: people either think it’s forbidden or they think it’s no big deal. As you can tell from my post, I’m in the latter camp.

This illustrates one of the problems I have with some Muslims (but not with Islam) who are so quick to find ways to separate Islam from the rest of the world. While I don’t see anything wrong with having a “Muslim” identity (I wear the hijab after all), I have trouble understanding why even scholars teach that we should not be friends with non-Muslims, etc.

I wouldn’t have become a Muslim if some Muslims hadn’t befriended me!

Comment on Is It Shirk to Wish a Non-Muslim Merry Christmas? by jnana

jnana — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 17:13:48 +0000

I was thinking about this today. There’s a popular radio show that is not even religious-oriented but culture-oriented, where a guest is brought to speak about the Emarati culture. Today while I was listening to the show, a question came in asking whether it was permissible for a Muslim to greet Christians on Christmas day. I found it absurd that somebody was actually posing this as a question and was even more shocked when she replied with a definite yes, saying most scholars considered it forbidden since it would be acknowledging the beliefs related to that day, and that scholars recommended using a general “Season’s greetings” instead. If this is really true, as you said, I don’t think it really needs great knowledge to conclude there should be nothing wrong with being friendly to people of different religions as long as you’re not giving them the impression you follow the same beliefs. I find it very polite of non-muslims greeting me on muslim festivals and I’m sure non-muslims would appreciate the same treatment too.

Comment on “All-American Muslim” Reality Show and the Lowe’s Controversy by Ellen Keim

Ellen Keim — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 19:37:34 +0000

didn’t think it WAS a good way to reach the public–Sorry.

Comment on “All-American Muslim” Reality Show and the Lowe’s Controversy by Ellen Keim

Ellen Keim — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 19:36:17 +0000

As usual, Stewart gets it. Did you also see The Daily Show’s “Muslim Correspondent” and his comments about how we should shut down Lowe’s in order to break jihadists’ supply chain?
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-december-13-2011/kabulvision—a-new-lowe

I love it when a Lowe’s VP says that they didn’t think that advertising on a controversial show wasn’t a way to reach the public. Huh?

Comment on “All-American Muslim” Reality Show and the Lowe’s Controversy by jnana

jnana — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 13:22:04 +0000

I agree, they should’ve stayed on as a sponsor, it might’ve turned in their favour!

Jon Stewart’s reaction to FFA’s objections is hilarious though! See here: http://gawker.com/5867902/jon-stewart-on-tlcs-disappointingly-terror+free-all-american-muslim

Comment on Christmas for Converts by Asma (Kelly) Soule

Asma (Kelly) Soule — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 21:34:54 +0000

severing your ties with family just because of a holiday is against islam as far as i have found, i celebrate christmas and thingsd with my family because its a family time. not because of the “birth of jesus” especially since this was originally a pagan holiday and Jesus was not born on Dec @5th. i enjoy the lights and tree and my daughter loves it too. I see nothing wrong with just having a reason to celebrate family. alhamdulilah, thank you for your postings, i am enjoying your site very much.

Comment on Taking Care of Converts by Asma (Kelly) Soule

Asma (Kelly) Soule — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 21:26:09 +0000

thank you

Comment on Speak to Me in Words I Can Understand by Asma (Kelly) Soule

Asma (Kelly) Soule — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 21:24:01 +0000

one of the reasons i dont go to masjid,.. no one is willing to speak to me in plain english… things i dont know and cant possibly understand because i didnt grow up muslim, and i am still an “infant” in islam people think that i am not as good or pure as they since i dont have a clue what they are saying… sad really…