Response to 24seven0216

As a Muslim, I am also excited to see the movie “Allah made me funny”. The concern you have regarding Muslims and perceiving this movie as offensive or immoral is something that I was wondering about as well. I would think that all depends on the individual and the way they percieve information. Some people just don’t get jokes and take everything literally and very seriously. Such people should refrain from watching such movies because then they make a big deal out of nothing. Comedians sometimes say certain things purposely for people to think about and at the same time make their audience have a great time. I completely agree with you that comedy is for people to sit back, relax and enjoy their time laughing. Sometimes people do learn to see from a wider perspective and learn to laugh at the silliest things they themselves believe in deeply. Now, I actually am curious how the Muslims as well as the non-Muslims would react to this film.

homosexuality response

In response to funfun and to the person that asked the question:  I don’t care what some people may say about there not being interpretation in Islam, I believe that is a load of crap.  I am a Muslim, and I don’t believe that God would create people who are homosexuals just so that the rest may discriminate against them and kill them off.  The girl stated her interpretation.  Yes, there is the story of Lot but I did not see specifically that it refers to homosexuality.  In the Qur’an, the crimes that were being comitted by the people of Lot were “lewedness” which can mean all sorts of sexual crimes (incest, sex out of wedlock, God knows). In addition, my professor claims that, ” the reason why in the Qur’an it always states that you need 4 whitnesses to the act is because it wants to make it hard for people to report such crimes.”  In other words, Islam has a don’t ask don’t tell policy about homosexuality.  When various people came to the prophet to tell on themselves he refuted them 3 times before taking action. (He discouraged them from talking about sins they have comited (this is in general for all sins).  This is because it is believed that if you have a hard time on earth because of things you have done, you will not have to deal with things later.  Therefore, simplistic statements like Islam doesn’t allow for homosexuality are just interpratational like anything else.  Islam doesn’t encourage homosexuality, but it doesn’t want it promoted nor exposed either.

Response to Equality Law

In response to mne21’s most recent post concerning a proposed piece of English legislation which would seek to ban discrimination based upon an individual’s religious beliefs, I must say that I am not surprised that it has taken the United Kingdom this long to both propose and hopefully pass this type of bill.  I say this because, unlike the United States, religion has never been a major point of contention in England the way it has been in America (other than the short Calvinist revolution).  In fact, religion has often been incorporated into the British government and way of life.  Meaning nearly all of the population has shared either the monarch or prime minister’s religious views (which have almost always been the same) at any given time.  It has really only been in this last half century that a sizeable religious minority has materialized in Great Britain, so the need for such legislation, though quickly growing, was not present until around fifty to sixty years ago.  Regardless of this, I do hope that Parliament passes this bill.  This move could be a great gesture for improved religious freedoms throughout Europe.

Equality Law

British Muslim minister Sadiq Khan, is pushing for a new discrimination law that legally requires public bodies to promote equality between faiths in the European country. He is proposing provisions against religious discrimination to be included in the Equality Bill. He believes that the bill, besides having discrimination based on sex, gender, and race, should include religion too. He believes that this bill would prevent Muslims from being treated as second class citizens. I am kind of shock that the British don’t have discrimination based on the religion included in their constitution, and that it’s in 2008 that they are actually pushing for this Bill. It’s quite shocking that Britain, having about 2 million Muslims, is only now contriving this law only because there is a growing anti-islamic sentiment in England.