Re: Ibn warraq - why I am not a muslim
Reply #39 - March 02, 2010, 04:02 AM
The last story in "Leaving Islam" is written by a budding comedian or at least it seems like it. In the notes section here were some gems.
allahu 'Alim - Allah knows (best). Corollary: people don't know jack shit
Shaytan- Allah's fall guy, Satan
Some believermobile out there probably has "Islam is the solution" plastered on the bumper. If there were greater honesty it would also append " Or else."
shirk- in Islam the sin of worshipping anything other than Allah, who still has his cosmic self- interest issues to work out
Da'wa- the call to Islam. Just picture a vendor at a game " Get your faith here, faith here, good in there here and the hereafter! Just like Christianity but better! Red hots! Avoid the red hots! Malcom X, the slugger against injustice endorses our 100 percent pure product. Along with the millions rushing to revert to the fastest growing belief, you can too!" The vendor always waxes over the no-returns policy
aqeedah- set of beliefs. What must be swallowed to join club Islam.The books. The prophets. The angels. The Day of Judgment. Burraq the flying horse.
Ashhaduanlailahaillallahwa-muhammad-rashulullah - Arabic for"Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious". Polytheism is simply quite atrocious
jahiliyya- the pre Islamic days of ignorance eg. the ignorant American disbelievers going to the moon, curing polio, synthesizing antibiotics