Can someone tell me about the muslims beliefs and traditions? How do they deal with death and marriage and birth? Do they go to church? Can they celebrate the same thing that a Christian celebrates? If not then what can they celebrate?
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Islam means peace but terrorists spell it piece. Their moto is kill everybody into thousand pieces if they are not muslims.
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I have many christian friends who married muslim men.  It is true that we revere Jesus and believe his birth to be a miracle of God.  If you want to stay Christian make sure you make that point very clear.  You can maintain your religion and your love for this man and have a wonderful family.  Please be warned: A muslim man can marry a christian or jewish woman- but his children must be Muslim.  These are things to think about, but if you love him and love God, then it can work. You just have to really sit down and talk to him about all of these things. Good luck to you! God bless.
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Because Muslims do not have a love relationship with God the way Christians do. He is not their loving father, but instead he is a judge. Don't lynch me just yet... my best friend was Muslim when I lived in AL and we'd talk about this a lot.  I went to her temple, read any book she wanted, I ever read the whole Qu'ran, but I am a Christian because I need someone to love and I need someone who will love me back.\n\nIn her temple, I heard a "sermon" (I know i'm using Christian terminology here- my apologies) and the guy told this story: One very pious woman who prayed daily and faithfully did everything she was supposed to, let her cat outside on a leash.  She did not feed the cat or give it water and it died.  This woman was damned to hell.  Another woman who was living loosely saw a thirsty dog and had compassion on it and gave it a drink- and she went to heaven.  His point was that Muslims never know which actions will damn them to hell, so they must be good all the time.  It is fear based. You could do the right things your whole life, then mess up once and God can damn you and not even let you know!  \n\nLook at their heaven.  A christian sees heaven as a final oppertunity to recieve the fullness of God, we get to spend all the time we want with Him, fellowshipping with Him at banquets, worshipping Him.  Muslims think that heaven is full of virgins waiting for them, among other things- why get excited about this?  Think about it.  Why would you need something other than the presence of God to get you excited about heaven?  It's interesting to think about at any rate.\n\nBasically if you do more good than bad- you're OK.  The problem arises when some actions hold more weight than others.  Sadly their God has not clearly written out which actions these are and how much they cost- like "if I feed the homeless this week will it make up for the fact that I kicked the dog on Tuesday?"  They don't know!  No one knows how much each sin and each merit costs.  Their salvation is not secure- it's a constant state of proving your worth to a Being who finds you unworthy anyway.\n\nThe difference is, Christians do it backwards.  Instead of working to get to God so we can try and be near Him like they do; we are given God freely (the Holy Spirit) when we accept Christ's sacrifice.  So we're given God at the get-go, and then we get to spend time with Him because we love Him, not because we're trying to prove something or get into heaven.  Our salvation is secure when we accept that we'll never be good enough to get to heaven, so a sacrifice is needed.
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Wow! I thought I was going to get away with a short answer! I may still try!! Yes, Muslims can live with those who do not share their beliefs. I am Christian, my husband is Muslim. Both religions are learned and respected.
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If anyone has a phone number to an Arabic Christian Church here in the United States..., this woman would like to have it and the name of the church.\n\nShe wants to talk to a Muslim woman who has converted to Christianity. If anyone can help it would be a blessing.
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i look at it this way...for Muslims, the year is somewhere in the 1400's. look at Christianity in the 1400's- inquisitions, mass burnings of people, church rule of the state, etc. \n\nislam has a way to go yet, perhaps, as far as flexibility, human rights, and so on. heck, christians *still* have their share of violent nuts running around, issuing "jesus fatwas" against people they don't like (think pat robertson) in this day and age. give it a while, and give Muslims room to talk openly with non-Muslims about their faith and their experiences with Islam.  \n\nperhaps there's a middle way to be found in the future, one which everyone can agree upon.
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Are you muslim, catholic or what?\n\nAs a muslim who fasts for a month every year, I can tell you that we certainly do see visions and neither do we talk to God (SWT). We talk to God (SWT) through prayer, but that's with nearly all religions.\n\nMaybe your religion requires you to fast in the extremes and that is why people have hallucinations?\n\nMuslims eat heartily before dawn and then fast until the sun sets, at which time they eat heartily again. So we're not really starving the whole day since we already ate so much. \n\nWhen Ramadan (The month we fast, it's in the lunar/Islamic  calendar) is in the winter, it's a breeze to do it, but during the summer, which I haven't experienced yet in Canada, it does get quite long. We can break our fast, of course, if we are about to die or something. \n\nFasting is meant to make you appreciate the things that you have in life and to feel sympathy for the poor. It is a time to reflect upon the many evils other people have to go through. It is a time to to be thankful to Allah (SWT) for giving you what you have.\n\nFasting is not meant to give you medical problems. If you're pregnant, sick, or travelling (there are more reaons than this), then you don't need to fast in Islam, but you have to make-up for it if you were travelling or if you had your period.\n\nSo yeah, you should have directed your question to the religion you are talking about becuase a lot of religions require followers to fast.
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you are right. Muslim is follower of Islam.\nbut then there are Shia muslims and Sunni Muslims. Shias are Iranian Muslims and Sunnis are Saudi muslims. Then there are Ahmedias and Deobandis and so on. Shias follow calender and Sunnis follow moon. hence they celebrate their new years on different days. \nDeobandis do not like music and sufis have their own theory but they all pray allah. which is one god.and they praise Mohammed, as messenger of the God, and say that all previous messenger's like Jesus and others should not be followed, and they also say that Muhammed was the last messenger. After Muhammed there will not be any body worth praying or praising.\nThey are allowed to keep four wives (vow) and their wives do not have any rights. their holy book is quran. read it, if you like.
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The guy should not be shoving the religion down your throat.  It is up to you to convert when and if you ever are ready. It's not a requirement because Muslim men are able to marry women of the book (ie, Christian, Jew, etc), but if you want to have children in the future, it will become an issue because Muslims who marry outside the religion want their children to be raised Muslim.  I will tell you that being married to a Muslim is difficult, just as it may be with any man of any race or religion, but there are so many more rules and a lot of jealousy and insecurity for no apparent reason.  Best of luck to you. :)
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I converted to Islam, so I still go to my family's house for Christmas, just to see relitives I don't normally get to see. Muslims don't celebrate Christmas, we beleive in Jesus, but not as Christians do. To Muslims, Jesus was a prophet, but not a god or son of God.\n\nHere are some good websites if you want to learn more about Islam.\nhttp://www.islamicfinder.com\nhttp://www.beautifulislam.com
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Hey frist of all give us the meaning of freedom and liberal\nthen talk about Islam and other religion \nIn what sense are you using this word? I really want all to read your last questions\n here is some of your questions\nHave you ever had sex with a famous person?\nWhat is the polite way to ask a girl to flash you? How much should you pay?\nshould I tell My Wife?\nHow much do I pay a girl to make out with me?\nDo women think about sex?\nWhats the going rate to have a girl flash you?\nWho would you like to have sex with?\nWhy don't married women like oral ?\nWhy dose my wife like Dog Style?\nWhats the worst part about having an affair?\n\nGood so this is a fine way for liberal !do you afraid of shirea law of Islam as it doesnt let to capricious like you to capriciousness ?\n Whats your religion ?It have a polite way to ask a girl to make out with you with pay?!! Let s know \nmay be thats a very nice way for life as it let to a married person like you to do whatever he wish \n\nDont you feel shame to talk so about any religion when you are such a person!
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I am Muslim, a convert from christianity. I understand fully, I have had the same problem. My mom is a christian and very pro-Israel. She knows that I am Muslim but she forbids me to wear a Hijab or openly practice my religion. She had threatened to kick me out of the house other times for how I vote in elections so, I don't debate my religion with her. I agree with what the others said here that it is those radicals that give us a bad name. But I also think it is because of just pure ignorance of the truth mostly this ignorance is spread by the media.  It even extends to just being Arab or supporting the Arabs. I am originally American but I think of myself as an Arabist. I was in 10th grade english and the teacher announced to the whole class that I was with the Arabs. I didn't expect that but maybe it was because the teacher was Jewish but the whole class looked at me and I thought that I was going to be beaten up by how some of the kids were looking at me. This was shortly after 9/11 too. But above it all, I found happiness, I am happily married to an Egyptian Muslim, and will be making the Hajj in November, Inshallah. Those cartoons were overly offensive and shows why there is still the whole rift between East and West. Regardless of what those people say or do, keep your head up high and never allow them to get to you. Their fate like everything else is in Allah's hands.
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in turkey, when somebody dies, men of the family take care of all formalities (morgue, graveyard, ceremony bureacracies) meanwhile, women run to the dead person's house and take care of everything around the house (cooking, cleaning, serving guests, washing dishes...etc) \nin terms of ceremony, first the family anounces which mosque will the dead person's prayer will be made. the dead body is brought there too. everybody(relatives, friends, colleagues) shows up at that mosque and pray to Allah to forgive his/her sins and except him/her in heaven.\nthen everybody rides to the graveyard area. more prayers are made and the body is buried.\nafter the burial, next gathering place is the home of the deceased. closest family members & friends spend the whole day there. others make short (15 min) visits later during the day. as mentioned earlier, all women take care of all the chores so the mourning immediate family doesn't have to worry about them.\nit's understandable if any relatives or friends can not make it to some of those 3 gatherings (mosque, graveyard, house visit) especially if they're not in perfect health. however it is a MUST to attend at least one of them. otherwise its a big statement against the family. \nold generation says it's bad manners to cry out loud in a graveyard. in practice, many people throw screamy cries and no one has the gutts to preach him/her on manners, you know what i mean. \ni hope these were the points you were trying to ask. the rest is universal. if you have lost a friend recently, i wish you patience & i pray he/she will be accepted in heaven.
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Firstly Muslim Man can marry only Muslim , Christian or Jewish Woman, because all of them beliave in God.\n\nSecondly the steps of marriage are simple in Islam, only the couple need 3 conditions:\n\n1- He have to ask her (Do you accept me as a Husband, treating you in the best way as God order us, she have to aswer Yes I accept - if she want that).\n2- At least 3 persons should attend this protocol as a witnesses.\n3- Both of them should intend to Continual life.
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Read about the religion first! Convert if you want to. Meaning you agree to everything islam is about. Dont convert if you feel pressured. Do what you feel is right in your heart.
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Christians by and large do not punish people for converting to another religion; they just become disheartened and realize that the person probably wasn't really a born-again Christian. In Muslim societies however, people are brutally punished and sometimes even murdered from converting to Christianity. One of the greatest sins in Islam is denouncing Allah and changing their religion.\n\n Islam is a religion of wickedness.
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Dear Sara, I'm from the same country, so I know what you are talking about.\nI don't think your personal religion is something related to others, as you know there is a rule in Islam which says "La Ekraah Fi Din" or "there is no force in accepting Islam".\nAnd you shouldn't tattoo your religion on your forehead, so you can buy a bible and read it if you are interested and talk to a pastor or a priest(There are some churches in your country, I can give you the adresses)\nNo one will kill you or your family, as you may know killing part is only for becoming Pagan 'Mortad' and becoming a christian doesn't mean you are 'Mortad', the only one who I know that being announced to be 'Mortad' is "Salman Roshdi" who has published a book agianst Islam and even he is still alive.\nAnyways don't be that strict, we have freedom of speech, we have transexual sergury, we can change our religions...\nI know many people who became Buhdist and no one killed them or their families.\nI have seen some real anti regim people but they are not as afraid as you and no one have ever harmed their families,  don't worry and try to broaden your political view.