Posted on 03/22/2015 12:37:18 PM PDT by wtd
First step:
So, you are a Muslim or are from a Muslim country; sorry, no visa for you.
Islam is as Islam does.
I’m with her! About time someone said it.
The average muzzie lives in such dismal conditions, he has to believe in a better afterlife.
Imagine a world without Islam.
The Ismailis come close -- they reject points 3 and 4 (as the Aga Khan is their "sharia law") but not quite jihad (though the Aga Khan rejected this) and they hold to point 1a (infal of Mo) but not to 1b (as the Aga Khan interprets the esoteric meaning) and I don't know their view on point 2
Druze hold only to point 1a and their religion is probably not Islam while from what I know of Alawis, they also hold only to point 1a and 2
Rather a political system that acts like a religion.
Druze don’t even really consider themselves to be Muslim. Certainly Muslims don’t.
From my limited knowledge of Alawis, they’ve always considered themselves to be Muslim, but almost all Muslims disagreed. Kind of like Christians and Mormons, only more so.
In recent decades, I believe they’ve moved closer to mainstream Islam.
The Five Pillars of Islam are:
• Faith or belief in the Oneness of God and the finality of the prophethood of Muhammad;
• Establishment of the daily prayers;
• Concern for and almsgiving to the needy;
• Self-purification through fasting; and.
• The pilgrimage to Makkah for those who are able.
Accepting her prescription would require Muslims to abandon only part of #1.
It’s interesting, I think, that neither jihad nor sharia are listed in the Five Pillars. Though possibly sharia is implied in #1.
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