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Islam According to Gallup - 11/14/2008 3:20:49 PM
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TheosCentric
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Islam According to Gallup
Dalia Mogahed spoke at July's Common Word Conference at Yale University, where hundreds of moderate Muslims and evangelical Christian scholars met seeking better understanding. As senior analyst and executive director of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies, Mogahed travels widely, engaging audiences on what Muslims think. Her analysis has appeared in The Economist, The Financial Times, and The Wall Street Journal. Mogahed, a Muslim, lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband and two sons. Also attending the conference was Warren Larson, director of the Zwemer Center for Muslim Studies at Columbia International University and author of Islamic Ideology and Fundamentalism in Pakistan: Climate for Conversion to Christianity?
Here, Larson interviews Mogahed about the book she coauthored with John Esposito, Who Speaks For Islam? What a Billion Muslims Really Think (Gallup Press, 2008). The idea for the book was born shortly after 9/11, when Donald Rumsfeld was asked how Muslims felt about the attacks on the U.S. He replied, "I don't know; it's not like you can take a Gallup poll." The survey covered 90 percent of the global Muslim population on, among other things, Muslims' views of democracy, extremism, jihad, and women's rights, and Americans' views of Islam.
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RE: Islam According to Gallup - 11/14/2008 7:16:55 PM
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I think I'll reserve comment until I read the book. The article doesn't really provide enough information.
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RE: Islam According to Gallup - 11/14/2008 8:01:34 PM
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Interesting. The article makes one wonder why there are not many Muslims speaking out in protest against the extremists. But then, they do still believe that Islam is the only way....so I guess they don't find anything to speak against.
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RE: Islam According to Gallup - 11/14/2008 8:05:14 PM
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Interesting. The article makes one wonder why there are not many Muslims speaking out in protest against the extremists.
Because doing so is akin to saying that the Qu'ran and the Hadith are incorrect.
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RE: Islam According to Gallup - 11/15/2008 7:12:07 AM
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It does say the survey covered 90% of the Muslim population.
Much of the population is in areas where if they did speak out, they would be persecuted.
The tide has changed in places like Iraq where they were able to get the local people to rise up against insurgents.
In fact Muslims are speaking out, but we refuse to listen, because it takes away our causes.
I'm interested in reading the book myself.
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RE: Islam According to Gallup - 11/15/2008 9:21:22 AM
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A huge chunk of the Muslim population is in Indonesia, which is way the heck different from the Middle East and Northern Africa.
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RE: Islam According to Gallup - 11/15/2008 10:24:11 AM
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A huge chunk of the Muslim population is in Indonesia, which is way the heck different from the Middle East and Northern Africa.
Different how? They still persecute Christians violentl there. I know this for a fact because missionaries at our church have told us this.
Can anyone come up with a way for muslims to stop killing people just because they are are not muslim? That is one question I would like to see answered on a survey.
Also, I may know a lot but I do still want to learn.
Can somebody help me with these terms from that article?
"moderate muslim"
as opposed to what? conservative or liberal muslim?
"seeking better understanding"
is there a stated objective goal somewhere in this? Or just an Oprah talk show like event to help everybody tolerate everything universally?
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RE: Islam According to Gallup - 11/15/2008 10:56:47 AM
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Again.......
The so-called Islamic "extremists" and terrorists are simply individuals faithfully adhering to the Qu'ran and the Hadith.
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RE: Islam According to Gallup - 11/15/2008 2:37:35 PM
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Does anyone ever get sick of 'Christian leaders' getting together with people of other faiths so that they can better understand each other? What does an unbeliever have to contribute to the understanding of truth seeing as how the Bible teaches that they are slaves of darkness? How is it that 'Christian leaders' can't come to an understanding of what is going on from the Word? What's the matter? Isn't the word sufficient enough for them? Whatever happened to God's method of imparting understanding - preaching Jesus Christ and Him crucified?
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RE: Islam According to Gallup - 11/16/2008 5:38:43 AM
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Again.......
The so-called Islamic "extremists" and terrorists are simply individuals faithfully adhering to the Qu'ran and the Hadith.
Not always. There are also normal, everyday people who faithfully adhere to the Qur'an and the Hadith.
It's all in the interpretation.
We have the same in Christianity.
In fact, we're more splintered in Christianity than the Muslims are splintered.
We could faithfully adhere to the Old Testament and be stoning people who sinned, right?
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RE: Islam According to Gallup - 11/16/2008 8:26:31 AM
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ORIGINAL: earthless
Again.......
The so-called Islamic "extremists" and terrorists are simply individuals faithfully adhering to the Qu'ran and the Hadith.
Not always. There are also normal, everyday people who faithfully adhere to the Qur'an and the Hadith.
It's all in the interpretation.
We have the same in Christianity.
In fact, we're more splintered in Christianity than the Muslims are splintered.
We could faithfully adhere to the Old Testament and be stoning people who sinned, right?
Sorry, but that is not true.
I spent 9 years studying the Qu'ran and the Hadith in the most respected Masjids in Chicago, NYC and Saudi Arabia - with the most respected Imams. I completed Hajj in 1996.
If one faithfully adheres to the full context of the Qu'ran and the Hadith - then one has to admire those that come against all non-Muslims and want to enforce Islamic law all over the world.
Are there nice, sincere and law abiding self-professing Muslims? Yes! An astounding yes! They are some of the most beautiful people and neighbors in this world. But they are what we in Christiandom would term "lukewarm" when it comes to complete Islamic orthodoxy.
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RE: Islam According to Gallup - 11/16/2008 8:28:31 AM
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Also, the Old Testament comparison does not fit.
Those things were countermanded by the full context of Scripture (Jesus, New Testament, etc..). But the context of Islam that promotes violence, taxation, control against non-Muslims is never countermanded, absolved, etc.. in the Qu'ran/Hadith.
So the example does not work, sorry.
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