Hi, I don't know wether you'd be able to answer this, since I don't know if you know spanish, but I have never ever met a muslim, so the little I know about Islam I read it here: http://yaelfarache.com/islam-101/ it puts in in a very bad light, and I wanted to know how much of it is true.
I think the main thing you should take away from that article is that there are 1.6 billion muslims around the world, or about 23% of this planet's population. If Islam truly was a religion of war, we'd be fighting World War 3 right now.
That does not mean the religion is free from bigoted or regressive views, or that the Quran is free from violent passages. But one thing about Islam that is important is that even the Quran itself says that no human should take it as an absolute, for its true meaning is known to Allah only. More problematic content exists in the human written content that is part of the culture in Islamic countries nowadays, which includes the Sunnah and Sharia. For me, Islam is based on the Quran, and as said, the Quran explicitely states that no human knows its true meaning.
The phrase that muslims use to communicate that idea is الله اعلم, pronounced "Allahu a'alam". It translates to "Allah knows best". If any muslim ever says something absolute, or communicates an absolute judgement based on the Quran, a wiser muslim will retort with that phrase. The wiser the muslim, the less likely they are to want to judge another human based on religious texts - instead they'll leave judgement up to Allah.
That does not mean the religion is free from bigoted or regressive views, or that the Quran is free from violent passages. But one thing about Islam that is important is that even the Quran itself says that no human should take it as an absolute, for its true meaning is known to Allah only. More problematic content exists in the human written content that is part of the culture in Islamic countries nowadays, which includes the Sunnah and Sharia. For me, Islam is based on the Quran, and as said, the Quran explicitely states that no human knows its true meaning.
The phrase that muslims use to communicate that idea is الله اعلم, pronounced "Allahu a'alam". It translates to "Allah knows best". If any muslim ever says something absolute, or communicates an absolute judgement based on the Quran, a wiser muslim will retort with that phrase. The wiser the muslim, the less likely they are to want to judge another human based on religious texts - instead they'll leave judgement up to Allah.
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