How can there be an event called a "Muslim Day of Prayer" when Muslims pray 5 times (minimum!) every single day? Even Friday, the day of Jumu'ah, is a day of congregational prayer. So what does it mean to have a "Muslim Day of Prayer?"
I saw the flyers for the event at my masjid, though I've never heard any Muslims refer to the prayer on capitol hill as a "Day of Prayer," a title I've seen only from non-Muslims. Trying to make it sound... I dunno, evil? What's evil about prayer? Or public prayer?
I don't know how the event went overall, but when I found this article in my Google Reader I was just a little confused about the legitimacy of the criticism.
Conservative Christians need to learn be taught the values that they in fact share with Muslims. Don't they know that Muslims value the same things they value? I don't say this to capitulate to non-Muslims, but just as a simple statement. What's our excuse as Muslims (and on a personal level, my own excuse) for non-Muslims being ignorant about our beliefs?
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This is absurd.
Well, I think more and more needs to be done to make Muslims visible in the positive light in the USA.
when Muslims can get together and decide exactly what it is they believe in and what that would look like, MAYBE then they can let the rest of us know.
Please keep blogging :-)
Good idea, anonymous! :-)
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