Yus
Well said and i agree with you.
I remember when i was a teacher in the gambia, a christian colleague of mine
lost his father. During assembly, the head teacher asked the Ustass to pray
for the deceased and he said no categorically and when asked why not he said
because he was not a muslim.
I was very pist with the ustass because on several occassions it was the
very non-muslim teacher who use to give him money to buy food for his
family,Then he was good to be a christian.
Talking of religious extremism, you take Saudi Arabia as an example wwhere
women are not allowed to drive cars and that is nowhere in the Koran.

Anyway, I am often met with questions like why muslims are not allowed to
drink alcohol or eat pork and to be very honest i dont know. I have heard
different explanations and i dont know which is right.
If there is someone out there who can help explain this to me then i would
be very grateful

God bless you all
Matarr



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>Subject: Re: Celebrating or Participating in Holidays of the Disbelievers
>Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 17:56:06 EST
>
>Brother Malamin:
>I would like to start by wishing you a happy New Year.
>
>I simply cannot accept the rigid fundamentalist stance of these learned
>mean
>of the Islam.  I celebrate most holidays.  Christians and Muslims in The
>Gambia have always enjoyed all religious holidays.  We received awesome
>helpings of 'Nan Mburu" from our Christian relatives and friends and during
>Tobaski we returned the favor with nice portions of the sheep we
>slaughtered.
>
>I have grown up to be very tolerant of all religions, including obscure
>ones
>such as Rastafarianism, Buddhism, Shintoism etc etc.  I make sure that on
>Christmas day, we have a good meal on the table in my house.
>
>I seriously believe that Islam needs a facelift.  We need more progressive
>thinking religious scholars and leaders to lead us out of these dark times
>
>Yus
>
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