18 Mar 2002

Dear Ali:

I see you have published my earlier E-mail on your website:

[If you are the one(s) responsible, your website is a horrendous montage of distortion and misconceptions of Islam. While it is true that modern practice of the religion has fallen into deep corruption, you have no basis whatsoever for saying that Islam or the Holy Qur'an have anything to do with the crimes that are commited in the name of Islam. Please rectify your site.

Thank you. May peace be upon you.

 - Bill  Noble]

Please respond to me in person via E-mail. I would like to have the opportunity to discuss Islam with you. Additionally, if you would like to meet in person, you have nothing to fear from me. I strongly uphold the Islamic laws of non-aggression. I live in Surrey, BC, Canada; I am not wealthy enough to ravel, but if my home town is not too far for you to visit, name a place and we'll meet. I feel the issue of Islam is very serious and must be discussed thoroughly; for I see Islam as the hope of humanity, while you seem to view it as a threat to humanity.

If you prefer discussion via E-mail, can you please summarize for me:

1) your views on Christianity

2) your views on Judaism

3) your views on Atheism

4) your views on Satanism (a la Anton LaVey).

 "PETER HALFORD" <[email protected]>

19 Mar 2002

to ali sina

i have read some of the hate pregnant arguments on ur site, they dont surprise me nor do u.  First of all i believe in expressing ones opinion as openly as one can, for everyone has the freedom of thought and statement. But as humans we at least should give some thought to the nature of our language tone for it can hurt many peoples feelings. I understand one cant hold ones emotions on some senstitive issues. I am open minded person and i would like other people who i debate with at least be open minded too.  Many a problem our societies face today is not born out of religion but out of people's misunderstanding of religious teachings. There has been not a single religion which taught hatred, be it christianity, judiasm, hinduism which ever faith u look at.  It is we humans who commit transgressions against each other, religion is not to blame but only our ignorance of it. I have to say u sound like a child of 15 at many points on ur site but perhaps many have failed to notice it. Do u wish to seek truth? if so then be humble dont be arrogant for our egos are the enemy of acquiring knowledge. When i started to type this i hought i would write one or 2 lines, sorry to bore u with this but i am researching each and every verse about Quran that u qouted on ur main page. But it sadens me when i think of someone arrogance hindering in his path to acquire the truth. Most of the muslims who tried to refute u sound ignorant of islamic history and and Quran, they sound like kids who have been emotionally disturbed and who will say anything in their frustration.  You have the right as anyone else to share ur opinions, u r entitled to express ur beliefs but u claim urself to be a civilised individual, one sets oneself some moral standards of debating and sharing ones beliefs. Our opinions dont have to be pregnant with emotion and hatred.

The big question to ask u is this, do u really seek the truth or do u only intend to attract negative attention to urself, pls think about it carefully before u start swearing at me too.

I m looking forward to hearing from u personally, although i can learn alot about ur life philosophy from ur site, but id like to be interactive while debating , not dumb and deaf.

Is that ok to ask ur age or would u be offended like they say , u shouldnt ask the age of a lady. I think u r a guy but we all have feminine sides to us ;o)

Could u write a FEW ( a couple of lines not long paragraphs pls) to differentiate between "Wisdom" and "Intelligence". Thanks for ur time  :o)

Take care,

 "Mohammad Hasan Abbasi" <[email protected]> 

10 Mar 2002

Hi,

Read your page and was very intrigued. Not by what was written there but by your message. I am not going to sit here and try o refute you for I firmly believe in choice, for I am tolerant and mostly because I don't care. 

But a few interesting things that you might also want o think about. You calimed Islam to be intolerant and wrong. Yet aren't you the one preaching intolerance here. After all religious fundamentalism isn't just through acceptance of a religion, it is also through rejection of a religion. By the simple act of maintaining this site, you are committing an act of religious intolerance and hence you are also a religious fundamentalist. 

You raised a lot of interesting issues about Hazrat Mohammed's life. I don't care to address them but by saying that morality and correctness are artifacts of culture and society. The society as it was 1400 years ago was vastly different from the society as it is today. You can no more impose the morality of today's society on someone living 1400 years ago then you can claim that Adam's children commited incest. (See if you believe in any semetic religion you know that mankind comes from a single man and woman -so there children were commiting incest when hey interbred). Imposing your morality on another society (and thereby judging people with that standard) is as intolerant as any of the actions hat you blame muslims for. 

Finally it is interesting how you are so quick to quote Quranic Ayahs but you don't look at the context. There is a famous western saying "The devil can quote the scripture". Not that I am calling you a devil, but rather that anything can be misquoted. 

I read Mona's response to your site with great interest. It was interesting to see the tone of your response though. You seemed to term the word as an insult (or perhaps I am reading too much into it). It would be interesting if Mona responded to your response with some additional rebuttals, for debating isn't a one off thing. The argument is not resolved for many people I believe. But even in your response you did make the same mistake that she called you on - you quoted (or should that be mis-quoted the Quran). 

You might think this as another sign of Islam being evil (and I am honestly sure that you can spin it that way), but I would like you to think about who is being a fanatic here. Who is practising intolerance by attacking the religion of someone else? Are you really any better then anyone one else who discriminates on religious basis? Just hink about it. 

Salam,

Hasan

"Farzeed" <[email protected]>

5 Mar 2002

Salam,

        Amusing as it was to read your comments on various things under the sun, he reason for your feeling so eludes me. I don't believe any one person can contradict and criticise a lot of things that he does not have absolute knowledge about. I was surprised to read the article about jinns. I have a story that seems equally wild and adventurous. 1400 years ago, an illiterate man said that it was revealed to him among countless other hings that the Earth, sun and moon were actually orbiting in paths.

  Till a few Centuries ago, the "rational thinkers" of this world were crucifying anyone who said that the earth wasn't the centre of the universe and everything was as it was since the beginning of time (actually the fact that there was a beginning was just as controversial). The point of the story is, rational thinking should allow for a bit of open mindedness. What seems to be illogical to you today might be common knowledge tommorow. How much do humans know about this universe? Can any one person stand up and claim that there is nothing that they dont know.

 Our problem is that whatever we don't understand we attribute to God and when we understand it we assume it was always so, God forgotten, his existence deemed irrelevant. God made all, we discover it and quite arrogantly assume that because we understand it, it is no longer the work of God.

    You are permitted to question. Seek answers. The most used word, right after Allah(SWT) in the Quran is ilm, which means knowledge. Sitting here, based on a few narrations, i could prove anyone on this planet to be mentally unstable. Not everybody's opinions are the same. Maybe he knows something I don't. Anyway, I'm not especially pissed or anything, its just hat knowing that God is with us makes us better people, better humans and if I feel someone/something is trying to take that away from me, I atleast have to know why.

take care, Allah hafiz

"mohammed ziaulla" <[email protected]> 

3 Mar 2002

mr u are unfit to say hi ,
 any how what rights do u have to create the website which ui have created to hurt muslims like me, i accept ur point tht muslims also commit crime but very few not the whole othem mr . what do u know of our religion our religion has been proved true in our hearts there is not enogh time to prove u of our caste is true any how u call me where to come i will definetly meet u. when ever u call me to address and i will prove you,
 after reading my letter i definetly hope that u will never disclose his in public comments am ai right,
if u have guts than u disclose my letter.
and reply me.