Hey charmed,

Islam in my openion is much easier than it sometimes it is made to sound..

i think mulsims are very wrong is using muslim/arabic terms in explaining islam, seeing how these terms are totallay alien and ununderstandable 2 somoene with no arabic language background..

for example, Allah is not a DIFFERENT GOD than that of the jews and the christians..

Allah is GOd in arabic...

There is no fundemntal different in the tennants of islam and christianity and juadism, they all call for basically the same things..

the worship of God and the leading of a moral life on earth in pursuit of eternal happiness in the after life..

In my view, what distinicts islam from christianity( and christianity for juadism) is the amount of DETAIL ..

Juadism is summed up in 10 commandments...
Christianity built on these 10 commandments and elaborated on a huge range of issues..

Islam is the most detailed , discussing EVERYTHING, from what to eat to having sex to inheritance to how to conduct war and peace...

if u are intrested , you can bring together a few of your frineds who are also intrested in learning about islam, and may be we can all meet somewhere and i can try and adress some basic issues and have u ask whatever u might want to ask...

let me stress that i m in no way a scholar of islam, i m merely a muslim who happens to know a little about the religion, and i believe i m also capable of explaing it in a way that is understandable to english speaking people given my education and travels...

Take care and have a gr8 day

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