What do you say?

Yesterday I was asked a question that took me completely by surprise.

"Why in all the time I have known you have you never asked what I know about your faith?"

I didn't know how to respond. I asked "Have you ever asked me what I know about your faith?"

"No, but Methodist aren't under attack."

This is what it has come to the responsibility for the people gaining knowledge is now being placed on Muslims. No longer are people expected to educate themselves before they speak and make assumptions. Muslims are now supposed to throw ourselves under the bus of public dislike, we are supposed to engage people who have no desire to be educated so that we do not lose our rights as United States citizens?

It is becoming the theme all over the United States from capital hill to classrooms.

Muslim live in a constant state of unease about the media. When any fool does something violently stupid the first thought that comes in my head "Please don't let it be a Muslim".

Why has it gotten to that point? Some fool flies a plane into an IRS office and no group gets blamed and beyond that you can still say "I hate the IRS" and no one is going to think you plan to fly a plane into anything. Can you imagine that reaction if a Muslim said anything against the government when they were in company that didn't know them?

I choose to be Muslim because I love Allah, my family, science, animals, feminism and environmentalism. Only in Islam did I find all of those things in one place. But somehow my faith has been perverted so that people think I am oppressed by my husband, don't care about my family because they are not Muslim, hate dogs and pigs, and can't possibly have a sound scientific mind.

When is England only oldest sons got to inherit, Islam had long had laws by which women inherited a fair portion of their parents wealth and got to keep that which was theirs when they got married. In Islam paradise is said to lay under the feet of your mother. Prophet Mohammad (SAW) was once ask who should I listen to after Allah and his prophet and he said "Your mother" "Who next?" "Your mother" "Who next?" "Your mother" "Who next?" "Your father".

Henry the Eight disposed of many wives in the search for a son. In Islam a man is still responsible for the care of a wife he divorces till she remarries, or if she can't have children and her husband loves her but wants children he may choose to marry a second wife providing he can afford to equal homes and any children he may have. Tell me which a women would prefer, to be beheaded, imprisoned or left destitute OR to live a comfortable well cared for life in which she only has to deal with her husband part of the time?

I have more to say on all this but I have to go to work and it is the middle of finals study time.

Just some food for thought.