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• Saturday, June 21, 2008 07:31 AM

  nacazo's Disinformation

  nacazo: "From a Muslim/Islamic perspective, things are not so easy.

  Who is a muslim?

  1- Someone who recites the shahada. ... The Islamic call to prayer is the sahada and by reciting it, muslims would consider him a muslim."

  The Islamic call to prayer is NOT the Shahada - the Islamic call to prayer is the Adhan, which is not the same thing. And the recitation of the Adhan does not make one a Muslim, from an Islamic perspective or otherwise. (Nor does the recitation of the Shahada, unless it is stated with belief and conviction.)

  nacazo: "2- Someone who's father was muslim (even if only nominally)."

  More disinformation from nacazo.

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  Sherman A. Jackson, a professor of Arabic and Islamic studies at the University of Michigan, cited an ancient Islamic jurist, Ibn al-Qasim, who said, "If you divorce a Christian woman and ignore your child from her to the point that the child grows up to be a Christian, the child is to be left," meaning left to make his own choice. Jackson said that there was not total agreement among Islamic jurists on the point, but Luttwak’s assertion to the contrary was wrong.

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