Other Religions

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Have your say.

[enlightened108]

Looks like this forum privides platform for hindus and shikhs to fight with eachother.Well nothing wrong with it but they should open their own forum, collect money and then fight with eachother. Or if hidus wants to fight with hindus, shiks with sikhs they can always got to their place of worship and can get good publicity

[roshan]

I am neutral regarding the other religions forums. One one hand I like discussing in them and on the other hand I acknowledge that they dont further the sites purpose and only distract from it. However if they are removed then I doubt that I would stay here for long or visit here often.

[PeaceOnEarth]

Comparing religions get you nowhere. People end up digging their heels and get entrenched in defence of their own religious beliefs.

They get into arguments like "if you think XXX religion did this then how about YYY doing ...".

I vote to discard them. Let us keep the focus here.

[mhw20854]

I agree that the proliferation of topics detracts from the dialogue and would vote for limiting the topics to those that concern Islam

There could be a section linking discussions of other religions

granted this somewhat goes against the name of the site "faithfreedom" but that's a rational price to pay to achieve a greater focus

[roshan]

Its also possible to have a completely seperate message board for the discussion of other religions, that way those that want the site focused on Islam and those that want to discuss other things as well can be happy.

[Hinduwoman]

I voted for comapring Islam with other religions, because religion is a social issue. BUT I would suggest that it be an experment first. If the posters can behave in a scholarly manner, well and good. If it becomes a slanging match as it happened before then close it down permanently.
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[Mughal]

Dear friends,

greetings.

Originally I supported the idea for using other religions to attract people of different relgions to this forum so that we could help them become aware of true islam and so that if they were having problem discussing their own religions like us then they too could have a place. Now that many many people from amongst nonmuslims have become aware of true islam and that many other foruns have come about without restrictions, I would agree that such forums no longer serve such purpose. Perhaps as some of the people here have suggested we should remove them.

However, I still see the need for expanding on aspects of islam to continue putting out good information about islam for references at least. So that when people from this forum go on other forums to debate, they have backing reference materials easily available to them. I also think that we should keep rationality sections as well because our that aim remains unfulfilled, which is helping muslims to educate themselves in becoming more rational so that they themselves could see the problems islam poses.

So a bit narrowing down here and a bit expansion over there is not a bad idea. Perhaps we should also consider controlling the flow of information as well. Useless threads and posts may not be allowed to continue. Also we should have a section for debates wherein only debating posters should be allowed. This would prevent cluttering and messing up of the said threads.

And yes, some kind of entertainment section should also be continued so that we all continue having some fun as well. Being serious all the time is not good for human health.

Regards and all the best.
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[IoshkaFutz]

Hello people,

Well now I can't get in with my old name (Steven Luotto)... so it'll have to be IoshkaFutz.

I'm for all religions and all topics being able to find a place here at FFI... All that is required is proper "threading."

A discussion forum about "faith" must be broader in scope than heaven, hell and earth.

There must be a table for everyone at this café, without waiters lingering by snarling "No you can't talk about that!"

If Hindus and Sikhs, Papists and Baptists,Athiests and cynics, Finnish Democrats and Australian Nazis choose FFI to battle one another... so much the better.

The minute we start focusing, FFI loses its most precious asset: it's special 360 degree lens upon the universe.

Please let's not be afraid of some healthy chaos nor of strident antagonism between groups!

[R_Nelson]

re: Should FFI keep the "other religions" section?

I voted to keep it.

If there is no special section devoted to other religions, then the main forum will be cluttered with people griping about other religions. This clutter would be very anoying.

[Chanakya]

Keep it..

Just discussing Islam day in and out can be very boring and repetitious.

Other religion forum increases the number of visitors on the site and this is beneficial for the main message of the forum to get out.

[Neutral Singh]

Sat Sri Akal

I submit my Vote to keep the other religions section but there should be a group of moderators too, who have some basic knowledge these religion and can ably use some discretion with some of the unwanted so-called religious representatives as suggested by Spinoza as well...

Keep it... other wise it would be tooooooooooooooooooooooooo boring...

I think there should be some sort of pruning of useless and aimless threads periodically... there is no sense in keeping dead threads hanging out burdening the bandwidth...

Chardee Kalaa

PS.: FFI with no posts looks so much peacefull... I like this calmness sometimes... and I dont see the smileys too...

[Yohan]

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[bintjahsh]

I abstain. It's your site. You decide.

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