Have you been to Ummah.com ?
Reply #1 - June 27, 2013, 06:17 AM
I went in there for about three days when I was trying to be a bit more Muslim due to wifey pressures. I found most of the people on there to be quite nice and they had the same fears, hopes, insecurities and the need to belong to a group as any people on any forum do I suppose. Many of the guys on there seemed to be trying to reconcile some of their more modern and liberal views with some of the crazy ones purported by their religion. But unfortunately, their voice was crowded out by a brash, loud minority that seemed intent on policing the site with their very conservative views. These crazy misogynist, racist, homophobic, and paranoid bigots managed to constantly remind me how shit, backward and archaic Islam can be when in the wrong hands, so I realised that I was never going to find any renewed respect for Islam by being there, so I left.
Funny story from being in there? I can't do funny, but one guy used to put me down by saying, 'Why should we listen to you, you like music.' Which was just about as cutting and as devastating a put-down as any I've ever encountered. I cried for weeks. Even now, it hurts me to talk about it.
Anyways, it feels like this thread shouldn't die so suddenly Miss Wisely. Belated welcome to the forum btw
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