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Why do American evangelicals hate Muslims and constantly fear and hate-monger against Muslims in America?

You see this a lot on social media, and they always claim Muslims are here to bring Sharia law, which I think is hypocritical since these evangelicals also want to bring biblical/Christian law and influence into American politics.

If you dont already know, subliminals are audios and affirmations that you can listen to that can make you manifest results and things like nice jawline, slim waist, more money etc.

They work in weird ways (at least thats what people that listen to them say).

Subliminals are becoming very common nowadays especially with muslims as well.

I've seem comments about Muslims openly admitting they listen and enjoy them and defend them.

What do you guys think about them?

They always say things like:

"islam is incompatible with Western civilization",

"Islam is a violent religion",

"you don't see christians behead and stone people",

etc.

They don't want to listen to you, some of them I talked to even said they knew muslims who were kind and friendly, and still think we have ulterior goals of taking over Western countries(what the f*ck?!)

It isn't muslim countries who started 2 world wars

It isn't muslim countries who invaded iraq

And it wasn't muslim countries who put people in human zoos.

And the worst part...it is the Western world funding and supporting Saudi terrorism.

Governments and KSA are making the hajj an impossible dream for normal and poor income people plus ksa is doing alot of sinful events in mecaa

this is a short question so there is nothing alot to talk about

Basically what title says.

I am new here, never was chatting here before, and I am tired from all of the folks who keep saying shit like "If youre transgender, you cant be Muslim, etc.".

Want to know what peoples here think about LGBT members.

I am not some activist, etc., just want to find Muslim friends who will support me, and won't be saying bad words to me only because of who I am.

What happened to just believing in الله, in the Prophets He sent, in the hereafter and in the Quran without labelling yourself with whatever people like to call themselves.

I just want to believe in God, feel Him everywhere i go, love Him, ask Him for forgiveness and do things with my heart.

Maybe i’ve misunderstood something in Islam but in my opinion being muslim shouldn’t be that much complicated.

Asalamwalaikum everyone! This is my first post, so please forgive me for any formatting errors/if this isn't the right sub for this kind of question.

I'm a 22F Pakistani American, and I've come to the age where my parents want to arrange a marriage for me. I have decided to turn down a suitor because he wants children, and I have never been interested in having children. When my parents asked why, I provided the following reasons:

1. I don't want to pass on health issues (heart problems, diabetes, cancer) that run in my family
2. I don't want to bring children into the world due to political/environmental issues
3. I have 0 interest in most forms of physical intimacy, and (I assume) that will extend to those involving the creation of children

Unfortunately, my parents don't see not wanting kids as "real" and think I'm simply coming from a place of fear. They don't see this as a valid reason to turn down a possible suitor. Let me be clear: maybe my perspective on having kids will change in the future, and that's perfectly ok, but where I am NOW, I don't see myself ever having children. I don't think it is fair to marry someone who wants kids simply on the off chance that my perspective MIGHT change someday.

I would appreciate any advice, particularly that which approaches this from an Islamic perspective, that I could use to better help my parents understand my side.

Jazakallah khair!

A/N: This not about purity culture in terms of sex and sexuality.

I myself picked up humanities for my university course after abandoning STEM. And it taught me a lot of gender, identity, sexuality, religion, culture and philosophy. So a lot of online discourse make me want to pull my hair hair.

Recently I stumbled onto Arab colonialism discourse and Islamisation across the world. Arabisation was a very real thing that happened in Middle East and North Africa. But Islam did not spread every where the same way through imperialism. Especially South East Asia where Islam was introduced mainly via trade,

Words mean things.

Colonialism is not just one thing replacing another. Syncretism is not the same thing as cultural genocide.

Culture evolves and changes through trade, exchange, marriage and so on. There is no such thing as a "pure", "true" culture. There never was.

The reason why we treat European colonialism so differently was because it enacted active genocides against native people. It wasn't just that they introduced English and everyone just adapted it. They enforced programs to "breed out" native population. They excavated resources from colonies to enrich themselves which left the native people disenfranchised.

Someone said: "...sometimes I feel so sad that as a Malay I will never know who I truly am and how our people were REALLY like. Our traditions are literally gone and forgotten."

No they still exist and evolved. As all cultures do. You just need to look for them

South East Asia was not a victim Persianate or Arab conquest, so there wasn't really a body of foreign force Arabising the culture. South East Asians not only adopted Islam but shaped it. In some Javanese cultures they syncretised Islam with local spiritualities and that is how you have Salametan.

My ancestors were conquered by Persianates but even then, Islam was not a top-down imposition that took place en masse. The culture evolved. And even then, South Asia never had a singular "pure culture".

The Punjabi-Sikh culture is vastly different to Tamilian-Hindu culture.

That is not a bug but a feature of cultures.

But most modern Muslim societies can feel like it's losing folk cultures and religion. That is because of petro-dollar funded salafi reforms where the "pure" version of Islam is Arab by default. And folk interpretations are bi'dah.

Anyway, my point is, I need people to start taking at least one unit in anthropology. And stop adopting other people's trauma as our own then making revisionist history.

We will never know what your people were "really" like cause they were humans not static caricatures. They were dynamic and sometimes those changes would take place within less than a hundred years.

Having your "true" self being tied to a pure version of your ancestors is a wild goose chase. I mean if you really want to commit then start painting the caves.

Also the concept of a "true" and "pure" culture is how you get tribalism. Its how we got Zionism too.

But this was over 1000 years ago. Now not a single scholar dares to bring back these rulings.