Good thread Gypsy! In my opinion it is offensive as well to post all this Islam threads. I am from a christian culture and may be this is just a question of perception. On the other hand I am interested to understand the basics of Islam, because I am a guest in this country and i want to get a broader view of the world's cultures. In addition if people from my culture ask me questions about islamic life in the gulf, I want to be able to tell them profound facts and not subjective impressions of mine. What makes me feel a little uncomfortable is, that nobody asked for the infromation given in the recent posts about Islam.
If I may suggest to Qatari (thanks a lot for this site by the way, it helped me a lot while getting settled) to design a section for information about islamic life and culture, so everyone who is interested can access it and draw out the information he/she likes or needs.
The topics posted during the last days are just perfect for it, but a forum is meant for discussion and not for general information. I don't mean to ban any discussion about topics from the forum, just categorize the recent post that do not intend to provide a topic for discussion. I think an own section for islamic facts and infos would be in a row with info as the Qatar map, Gallery, Events, etc.
Would this be a solution everybody could live with?
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Good thread Gypsy! In my opinion it is offensive as well to post all this Islam threads. I am from a christian culture and may be this is just a question of perception. On the other hand I am interested to understand the basics of Islam, because I am a guest in this country and i want to get a broader view of the world's cultures. In addition if people from my culture ask me questions about islamic life in the gulf, I want to be able to tell them profound facts and not subjective impressions of mine. What makes me feel a little uncomfortable is, that nobody asked for the infromation given in the recent posts about Islam.
If I may suggest to Qatari (thanks a lot for this site by the way, it helped me a lot while getting settled) to design a section for information about islamic life and culture, so everyone who is interested can access it and draw out the information he/she likes or needs.
The topics posted during the last days are just perfect for it, but a forum is meant for discussion and not for general information. I don't mean to ban any discussion about topics from the forum, just categorize the recent post that do not intend to provide a topic for discussion. I think an own section for islamic facts and infos would be in a row with info as the Qatar map, Gallery, Events, etc.
Would this be a solution everybody could live with?