Source: thenorthwestern.com

Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam members in Oshkosh, opened their doors to the community to gather and find out more about Islam. Our topic was “Demystifying Islam”. The very purpose was to allow for an open dialogue and invite any questions, especially the ones termed “Difficult”.

By any estimation of how to gauge the success of a gathering, it was a successful event. We had over 40 members from Oshkosh Community show up with prepared questions about Islam.

However, to our disappointment the questions remained to be the same rhetoric that one finds in the media, or from the politicians or from some of the talk show hosts. The audience kept pressing on the same negative points: How come no Muslim community condemned 9/11, why is Sharia Law coming to the USA, why don’t Muslims believe that Israel has a right to exist, why do Muslims subjugate their women and so on.

Our hope was that the discussion could actually be moving toward questions that are meaningful about Islam, like: Why the need for Islam when Christianity existed? Or why does Islam so adamantly reject the deity of Jesus Christ? Or why does the Holy Quran have verses dedicated towards violence etc. To our utter disappointment, no matter what we would say to answer the… read more @ thenorthwestern.com