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Why I Am Proud To Be Muslim
Marco Villa , Connecticut: Oct 8 2008
Made Popular Oct 8 2008

Islam is an ethical religion

Muslims invented algebra

Muslims translated the works of the Greek philosophers

Muslims pioneered medicine. At a time when Europeans were using sorcery to heal, Muslims doctors were engaging in the first eye surgeries.

Muslims built one of the greatest architectural wonders: the Hamarabi in Granada, Spain

Muslims, not the Franks, built the world’s first city of light: Cordoba in Al Andalusia (Spain)

Muslims invented the hospital

Muslims invented the modern numerical system

Muslims expanded the study of astronomy

Muslims invented calligraphy

Muslims built the Taj Mahal

The Muslim thinker Ibn Rushd sowed the seeds of the European Renaissance through his philosophy that faith and reason are complimentary. Ibn Rusha or Averros appears in Raphael’s “The School of Athens” sited next to Aristotle and Plato. An symbolic image of the debt Western civilization and the world owes to Islam.

Islam has spread throughout the world from Arabia to Jerusalem to Morocco to Iran to Turkey to Kosova to Russia to Indonesia and beyond. And for almost 800 years Muslims ruled Spain and Portugal.
And Islam did all of this not through the sword but through its message which is a call to all mankind and as testament to its glory over 1.3 billion people have heard it

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Shahwar K
kolkata, India
I AM PROUD TO BE A MUSLIM

BECAUSE

ISLAM IS A RELIGION OF PEACE AND DIGNITY!
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Amrish
rajkot, India
”PEACE AND DIGNITY!” do these words really means in Muslim religion.
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Sasmita
pune, India
All the religions teach the same thing my dear- Peace and dignity! If you think only Islam has these good qualities, than you have a very very narrow vision to understand the world. I feel sad for you.......
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Marco Villa benaliwatch.blogspot..
Connecticut, United States
Do you Sasmita? Feel sorry for her? That’s nice to know. She was not making a statement about other religions. She did not say that only Islam is an ethical religion. She was only emphasizing her pride in her faith. She did not offer criticisms of any other faith or a contrast. I feel sorry for your inability to properly read and appreciate English.
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Shahwar K
kolkata, India
hey marco,

forgot...

nice post and even greater refutations!

good job!

your post as all the others on this topic has made people around here a bit insecure as usual!

good!

I PROUD TO BE A MUSLIM!
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Ramesh Balam
Pune, India
Tajmahal was not built by Muslims. Tajamahal and other grand forts, fortresses and temples existed long before Muslims invaded India. The history of India is replete with their atrocities. They built nothing. They destroyed or converted everything that was existing. The rich culture of India knew its core religion, algebra, astronomy, surgery, medicines, architecture, arrows, bombs, aeroplanes, economics, warfare, etc. long before any other person of any other religious domain set foot in India.
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Amrish
rajkot, India
absolutely true ......thks Ramesh
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Ramesh Balam
Pune, India
Whatever has been written here is a false propaganda to tell the world that nothing existed before Islam came. Hitler said that if you repeat a lie hundred times, people will believe it to be true.
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Marco Villa benaliwatch.blogspot..
Connecticut, United States
Learn history, the Taj Mahal was built by Muslims. It was built by Shah Jahan, a grandson of the Muslim Emperor Akbar who ruled over Indian. Shah Jahan built it as a shrine to his wife. Please, I know it must be hard to be a national in a country without many accomplishments but stop trying to appropriate Muslim wonders for your sake.
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Ramesh Balam
Pune, India
Please open up your eyes and read my article on Tajmahal. Muslims did not build Tajmahal. Read Shahjahanama, his own court chronicle. It does not mention any where that he built anything; let alone Tajmahal. All buildings which afre said to be built by him existed long before he was born; including Tajmahal.
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Marco Villa benaliwatch.blogspot..
Connecticut, United States
I have no need to read your article as if you are a historian, you need to consulate real historian and a history text. I recommend the work by Georgetown Professor John L. Esposito ”Islam The Straight Path”. See page 65 in the revised third edition.
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Michael Kerjman
The Earth, Australia
Hey, on these pages expressing your pride for being Muslims, have you got any other choice if even atheism in the USA?

What about arranging a Faith Pride Parade-afterwards or simultaneously with routinely running Pride Parade annually?

Probably, it will not be so easy to explain why Islam is the best if Muslims seek refuge in a Christian world and even in Israel the Jewish State most recently.
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Ramesh Balam
Pune, India
Muslims don’t have a choice. Their doors are shut. If they try to dissent, they get a fatwa.
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Marco Villa benaliwatch.blogspot..
Connecticut, United States
Muslims are not trying to seek refuge in ”Christian” nation let alone Israel, most Muslims are proud to live in their countries. How about you cite some statistics before you make generalization about people you do not know.
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Michael Kerjman
The Earth, Australia
Marco Villa,

Usually, American newspapers report about refugees to foreign shores-as long as yesterday 18 tropes were found washed on Greece’s shores and nine of them had Iraq’s papers on.
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Marco Villa benaliwatch.blogspot..
Connecticut, United States
Micheal Kerjman, you wrote in your post that Muslims are seeking refuge in the ”Christian” West due to, as you see it, the intolerable conditions under Islam as implied in your words: ”it will not be so easy to explain why Islam is the best if Muslims seek refuge in a Christian world”. If a few Muslims are leaving their homes it is not due to Islam, it is due to a lack of jobs back home. Just like Mexicans illegally cross into my country seeking opportunity not because of Mexican culture. As for Iraqis; the Iraq people are leaving their homes and seeking refuge elsewhere due to the horror that the West including Australia has visited upon their country. Maybe you forgot that.
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Michael Kerjman
The Earth, Australia
So, Marco Villa, what is wrong with economic conditions in, for instance, Darfur, from which black Muslims established their own colony in Israel the Jewish State, running scared from local Arab-Sudanese Muslims?

There are natural resources and no Zionist/Christian/non-believer-of-any-kind occupants there – as well as in too many other part of Rightful world under Him, Merciful.
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Michael Kerjman
The Earth, Australia
Yeah, and just this moment news reached a world that Pakistan had been at a brink of bankruptcy – did it mean that locals, Muslims in large among, did not lose their lives during human trafficking as far as to the States already?

Why not go to more close and less different culturally places as Saudi Arabia is?
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Pierre P.
Bpr, U.S. Virgin Islands
MICHAEL,

I find it hard to argue with your arguments-maybe, because I am not interested in Koranh.
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Michael Kerjman
The Earth, Australia
So Marco Villa, perhaps, does.
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Michael Kerjman
The Earth, Australia
Ramesh,do proud-only-for-being-Muslims know this ”one-two-three”?

I would find it difficult to quarrel with a notion that belonging to a particular ethnic/faith group is a matter of a PERSONAL pride.

Even for Muslims, the most fast growing in numbers populous.
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Michael Kerjman
The Earth, Australia
I mean, individual’s PERSONAL achievements rather than inhereted biology/social status or faith are to be proud of.

Asking no excuse for such a view.
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Ramesh Balam
Pune, India
If a Muslim has to wear his pride on his shirt and proclaim it from roof tops; there is something basically wrong with Islam.
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Michael Kerjman
The Earth, Australia
Ramesh,

I would say it is a very personal problem of a particular being regarless of religion an individual practices.

However, pushing if any, devotee into such a public manifistation, is a general problem with particular faith(s).
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Vijay
Kota, India
ISLAM IS A RELIGION OF PEACE AND DIGNITY?????????????????????
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Shahwar K
kolkata, India
@ MR. VIJAY,

Is this another one of your atrocious ”Ha ha he he” series?

please spare us!

and as for your answer...

Islam IS a religion of peace and dignity!

whatever that may mean(if anything) to you!
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Vijay
Kota, India
Shahwar,I didn’t said anything yet,I just asked and its still a ? mark.
Did you heard about the famous Dargah of Salim Chishti?
and did you realy gone throgh that article?
Shawar,I’ll open the clue at the right moment.
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Hemant
Varanasi, India
Most of the content of this post is highly debatable and the rest is pure garbage. Muslims invented algebra and surgery may be true if they were there over 2000 years back. If my history is right, Muhammad was born on 570 CE, that is in the 6th Century. This post is a piece of gutter literature.
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Pierre P.
Bpr, U.S. Virgin Islands
Does it matter-their inventions?

A matter is strong urge to opress non-Muslim world-welcome to Paris, France, Europe to see.
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What options a Muslim has got in the matter of faith? Absolutely nothing. Therefore he believes all that is not true and tries to justify his belief by putting more untrue garbage.
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