This is an open invitation to everyone to come and learn something about ISLAM and get answers to any questions you might have about the religion.
This event will be at The Islamic Center of Raleigh located at 808 Atwater St. Raleigh, NC 27607, only about 5 minutes from the main campus. It will be from 2 to 5 pm this Saturday 02/26/2011.

for more info, go to http://www.raleighmasjid.org

2/25/2011 2:39:24 PM

I know all I need to know about ISLAM

2/25/2011 2:40:04 PM

Neat idea.

This should probably get moved to the Lounge before it gets destroyed

2/25/2011 2:40:17 PM

I used to live right next to this place

nice people

2/25/2011 2:43:55 PM

great idea. a group in charlotte did this around christmastime too. i was gonna go but i only found out the morning of and couldn't take off work

2/25/2011 2:49:10 PM

Do you have to take your shoes off before entering the center?

2/25/2011 2:54:47 PM

^
yes (i believe thats true for all masjids)

this needs to be moved to lounge

[Edited on February 25, 2011 at 3:04 PM. Reason : ..]

2/25/2011 3:03:58 PM

muslim guy i used to work with told me hitler was a very smart man

not sure if i hate them or the baptists more

2/25/2011 3:05:41 PM

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"Do you have to take your shoes off before entering the center?"

not at the main door, there is a lobby and some offices before you get to where the prayer takes place then you take off the shoes because there are prayer rugs and carpet covering the floor

2/25/2011 3:14:02 PM

^^Way to judge an entire religion on one idiot's opinion.

[Edited on February 25, 2011 at 3:14 PM. Reason : .]

2/25/2011 3:14:10 PM

should i point out more muslims who hate jews?

2/25/2011 3:16:33 PM

^ you know Jews have been living among Muslims in peace in morocco (for example) for years. the hatred you speak of stems from the Palestine/Israel conflict which is another topic by itself. so to keep this thread on track, i'm going to invite you to come tomorrow if you can and get a better idea about Islam and Muslims.

2/25/2011 3:25:33 PM

should move this to the lounge unless the poster is prepared for chit chat bullshit in a well-meaning thread

2/25/2011 3:42:46 PM

thread = moved

[Edited on February 25, 2011 at 3:49 PM. Reason : take your ignorant jokes back to chit chat plz]

2/25/2011 3:48:45 PM

sorry boss

2/25/2011 3:50:17 PM

I have to go to Charlotte for a wedding otherwise I would be there.

2/25/2011 4:04:53 PM

^^^It's not our fault the kid posted in Chit Chat. This thread really had some potential until the lounge killed it......

[Edited on February 25, 2011 at 4:26 PM. Reason : .]

2/25/2011 4:25:55 PM

thanks qntmfred

2/25/2011 4:32:26 PM

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"muslim guy i used to work with told me hitler was a very smart man"

Just because someone is evil doesn't mean they're not smart. Just saying.

I might try to check this out since my knowledge of Islam is limited to what I learned in my politics classes.

2/25/2011 4:54:22 PM

have fun getting suicide bombed

2/25/2011 6:32:39 PM

it begins

2/25/2011 6:38:31 PM

jesus people.

this sounds like a cool idea. i'd actually be interested in attending if i could.

2/25/2011 7:01:59 PM

yeah, but he was discussing his attempt to exterminate the jews. he was saying that attempting to exterminate the jews was a very smart thing to do.

2/25/2011 7:04:42 PM

^ please do not derail my thread.

2/25/2011 7:09:36 PM

Quote :

"jesus people. "

2/25/2011 7:16:36 PM

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"not sure if i hate them or the baptists more"

well people seem to expect the generally liberal guys like myself to welcome and appreciate islam when in fact most liberal people are so sick of the conservative christians in this country to begin with that they don't want another generally more extreme/violent version of christianity going around, plus the middle eastern societies are reflections of what liberals are scared dumb bitches like palin would like to create here deep down with christianity, so yeah even though america has a vastly moderate muslim population, you are fucked sorry

2/25/2011 7:16:40 PM

^^ you know that Muslims believe in Jesus as well so i guess that makes all of us people of Jesus

2/25/2011 7:21:52 PM

to clear things up, I don't have a problem with Islam. I have a problem with religion.

2/25/2011 7:22:54 PM

And if a person of faith had a problem with heathens, they'd still be an asshole for not showing some courtesy to a heathen who was trying to extend a hand in friendship

[Edited on February 25, 2011 at 7:28 PM. Reason : So let's not be assholes]

2/25/2011 7:27:54 PM

^

2/25/2011 7:48:05 PM

Will there be alcohol?

2/25/2011 7:50:35 PM

^^^^ditto

[Edited on February 25, 2011 at 7:50 PM. Reason : d]

[Edited on February 25, 2011 at 7:51 PM. Reason : friendship and/or cult recruiting, but whatever]

2/25/2011 7:50:39 PM

I took 2 classes on Islam while in college (circa 2003 or 04), and they were both extremely enlightening, and actually really cool. I can firmly say that 85% of Americans who speak of Islam really don't know dick about dick, and that there is no question an anti-Muslim slant in domestic media circles.

2/25/2011 8:20:24 PM

How long until Rep Ellmers comes out against this? (The US congresswomen, representing areas including Raleigh, who tried to make the 2010 congressional race about a Islamic Center in NY)

2/25/2011 8:49:01 PM

^ Shes just an all around terrible person politically speaking.

2/25/2011 10:00:09 PM

If I could get my mother do go to this, I would do anything.

The woman is so anti-muslim, somuch as to not let my muslim friend come to my wedding.

She needs something like this! (but they would start serving double-scoop choclate chip icecream in hell before she would go to this)

2/26/2011 2:49:57 AM

^ man if my mom tried to tell me I couldn't invite a friend to my wedding it would get a giant from me.

2/26/2011 9:05:38 AM

Shows a lack of character and spine that you didn't reject your mother's absurd request whether she was paying for shit or not

2/26/2011 3:46:04 PM

Sounds like a cool idea. Would go visit if I lived in Raleigh.

I'm meh on religion, but I get along with about 95% of religious people who are just trying to merrily live their lives. It's the other 5% that cause 95% of the problems that make me go .

But I suppose there are assholes in every group.

2/26/2011 4:07:32 PM

Shows a lack of character and spine that you didn't reject your mother's absurd request whether she was paying for shit or not

2/26/2011 4:34:38 PM

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"the hatred you speak of stems from the Palestine/Israel conflict which is another topic by itself. so to keep this thread on track, i'm going to invite you to come tomorrow if you can and get a better idea about Islam and Muslims."

This guy is spouting Taqqiya.

It's right there in the Koran:

"The Day of Judgement will not come about until Muslims fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Muslims, O Abdullah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. Only the Gharkad tree, (a certain kind of tree) would not do that because it is one of the trees of the Jews." (related by al-Bukhari and Muslim).Sahih Muslim, 41:6985, see also Sahih Muslim, 41:6981, Sahih Muslim, 41:6982, Sahih Muslim, 41:6983, Sahih Muslim, 41:6984, Sahih al-Bukhari, 4:56:791,(Sahih al-Bukhari, 4:52:177)"

2/26/2011 6:22:24 PM

I wonder whether the Bible sounds this melodic in its original language(s): http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3d/019_abdulbaset_mariam.ogg


[Edited on February 26, 2011 at 6:52 PM. Reason : IE and Safari suck

2/26/2011 6:49:35 PM

^^ Not that it changes anything much, but what you quoted is not from the Qur'an. That is a 'hadith' - a saying of the prophet.

2/26/2011 6:52:05 PM

Thanks.

2/26/2011 7:22:50 PM

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"This guy is spouting Taqqiya. It's right there in the Koran:"

Nobody in their right mind should read anything after this. Good and logical arguments do NOT come from taking a small passage of the Bible, Torah, or Qur'an as literal and absolute truth regarding the general beliefs of an entire group of religious people.

There are passages in the Old Testament regarding polygamy and slavery as positive establishments- so all Jewish and Christian people believe these are acceptable behaviors?

2/27/2011 11:36:18 AM

they're just as stupid

2/27/2011 11:50:57 AM

^^I don't believe in any religious text. Therefore... your point?

2/27/2011 12:28:41 PM

Lol at muslim rocks vs jew trees



THE BATTLE RAGES ON!!!

2/27/2011 12:52:41 PM

NeuseRvrRat should be suspended for shitting all over the Lounge

2/27/2011 6:02:33 PM

Actually me and my mom fought over that shit for weeks. It got pretty bad. I won the "she can't wear a white dress to my wedding" but lost the invite my friend (who actually already had something planned that weekend)

Me and my mom argue about Muslims all the time, and I tell her to tell me anything she knows about the religion, like the five pillars- she just says" all I got to know about them is that they are terrorists"

2/27/2011 6:41:33 PM