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Level The Praying Field
I have mentioned and posted the complete transcript in English and Arabic of the interview broadcast by the pan Arab Islamic network Al Jazeera, in which it rallies the Islamic hierarchy to do something to stem the tide of about six million Muslim conversions to the Christian faith each year.
Their concern of coarse is predictable and understandable - I would too If I were a Muslim, especially an imam, sheikh or ayatollah... who would want to remain on a sinking ship!
But it is not really as hopeless as they make it sound. I think their cry is a distress call to awaken the base and push the Islamic agenda.
But just in case I am wrong I have a few suggestions to my Muslim brothers that will help them salvage the ship.
First and foremost listen to what the 'heretics' are saying. Search for the reason or reasons that is causing them to abandon their faith.
To help you out the best I can I took the liberty of posting some videos of a few 'apostates' if you promise not to issue any fatwas against them:
The ultimate challenge to Islam's survival in the age of the internet - the medium that uncovers all.
On a more serious note:
Revisit the Qu'ran, Sunan and Alhadith.
You can do a few things right almost immediately and without much effort.
Start by being transparent. be perceptive. Hone in on their basic human rights and aspirations not fears.
Allow open debate on the Qu'raan just as Christians do with the bible.
Expose what is hidden and what you know to be contradictory and debate it... if not remember in this day and age nothing can remain hid for much longer i.e you know Muhammad on his night Journey never stepped foot on a mosque at the Temple mount. Your own books tell you that the mosque at the Temple mount was built six years after the alleged trip by ........... Jerusalem is not even mentioned once in the Qu'raan. It is refered to and rightly so as 'beit ..." house of the Temple (Solomon's Temple. By contrast the Torah refers to Jerusalem by name x amount of times.
Islam's survival for over thirteen centuries has been due to the fact that adherents accepted everything the imams told them. They neither had the means or permission to research or ask.
Today things have changed especially with the youth who refuse to settle for the status quo - Ask Egypt's disgraced president; not only did they 'dethrone' him they put him and the rest of his corrupt regime in jail. Ask Libya's Qaddafi...oops can't do that they found him hiding in a sewer pipe and killed him. Syria's Assad's days are numbered. The handwriting is on the wall! I am sure you get the point.
As the old guard is being replaced by the new storms will turn to hurricanes. The young generation's demands are diametrically opposed to the very essence of fundamental Islam. They want democracy. freedom of speech, freedom to worship... these demands are anathema to Islam. True fundamental Islam can only thrive in a theocracy.
While yoiu are at it might as well address the boisterous trip itself. And you made a mess of the Satanic Verses. You conveniently removed them from the Qu'ran but left the references to them in your concordances...Dah!
And who gave Muhammad the 'resita' in the Cave. Why the sweating and convulsions. Why did he attribute his 'revelations' to the devil. It took his wife to convince him otherwise. I for one, as an ex Muslim, believe that Muhammad's intentions were noble. He took a stand at first (but reneged later by admonishing the three godesses Alat, Al uzza ans Manat that he adamantly rebuked) against his own clan when he destroyed the 345? deities in the Kaba, and called a heathen nation to the worship of one God