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Woman converting to Islam

  • 29-03-2012 3:18pm
    #1
    page turner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭


    Hello all, I wish hear some views and experiences of women here who have converted from Christianity to Islam.
    I have met an Islamic man who I fell in love with and he made his intentions clear to me. I plan to live in Ireland with him( I am originally Canadian) and would also like to meet up with fellow muslim women in the Irish community.


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  • #2
    yammycat
    Registered Users Posts: 445 ✭✭yammycat


    Is it your choice or does he want you to ?


  • #3
    masadjie
    Registered Users Posts: 135 ✭✭masadjie


    page turner wrote: »
    Hello all, I wish hear some views and experiences of women here who have converted from Christianity to Islam.

    I remember one of post in this forum talk about it : http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056351881 You can contact the OP of that post for asking/sharing her experience.
    Good luck.


  • #4
    pinkheels88
    Closed Accounts Posts: 435 ✭✭pinkheels88


    Yes, please drop me a mail, and i'll try answer your questions. I'm the OP he's referring to. Glad to help :)


  • #5
    KamiKazi
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,201 ✭✭✭KamiKazi


    Why any woman would want to convert to Islam is beyond me.


  • #6
    pinkheels88
    Closed Accounts Posts: 435 ✭✭pinkheels88


    KamiKazi wrote: »
    Why any woman would want to convert to Islam is beyond me.

    Inshallah someday you might understand. God guides who he wills.


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  • #7
    Voodoo_rasher
    Registered Users Posts: 521 ✭✭✭Voodoo_rasher


    they are known to change straight after successfully marrying, converting a non-Muslim (to them , we are all Infidels!)

    then one day, you find the children have disappeared, were snatched and taken away to his country of origin. Don't convert. Islam is more than a religion and you may find you will be biting off more than you can chew. Islam entails their own laws, social doctrine, finance, justice (sharia!), morality, and narrow views of women in society. Islam is a System just as Communism was. It is or was anti-enlightenment. Don't be taken in by Islam - it is very persuasive, hidden depths. Read a little Christopher Deliso. Open your eyes.
    You may like to know also if he entered Ireland legally, and how he entered Ire. since we are sadly very lax about these things.

    Coming from Canada, you may be very new to all of this. He'll know that you are.


  • #8
    golden lane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,364 ✭✭✭golden lane


    pinkheels88 wrote: »
    Inshallah someday you might understand. God guides who he wills.

    you are entitled to believe what you wish......but will you wish that you had a wish.......????


  • #9
    KamiKazi
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,201 ✭✭✭KamiKazi


    pinkheels88 wrote: »
    Inshallah someday you might understand. God guides who he wills.

    "God" is a figment of your imagination. So good luck with that.


  • #10
    paddyandy
    Site Banned Posts: 2,037 ✭✭✭paddyandy


    The Popular versions of anything are of little worth and often the rehash of the real thing .Few understand this .


  • #11
    Gurgle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,064 ✭✭✭Gurgle


    Voodoo_rasher wrote: »
    then one day, you find the children have disappeared...
    Good grief :rolleyes:
    @OP, good luck with that.


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  • #12
    dead one
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,320 ✭✭✭dead one


    KamiKazi wrote: »
    "God" is a figment of your imagination. So good luck with that.
    Imagination is more important than knowledge -- so bad luck with that


  • #13
    Mark Hamill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,783 ✭✭✭Mark Hamill


    pinkheels88 wrote: »
    Inshallah someday you might understand. God guides who he wills.

    You do realise the theological problems with a statement like that?


  • #14
    dead one
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,320 ✭✭✭dead one


    Mark Hamill wrote: »
    You do realise the theological problems with a statement like that?
    For example?


  • #15
    KamiKazi
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,201 ✭✭✭KamiKazi


    dead one wrote: »
    Imagination is more important than knowledge -- so bad luck with that

    How so?


  • #16
    dead one
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,320 ✭✭✭dead one


    KamiKazi wrote: »
    How so?
    Knowledge is limited, imagination isn't? -- There is source of her imagination... Every thing in the world has a source, source of her imagination is God... She believes God created her imagination, on the other hand, there is no God in your imagination.. You cheat your imagination in the name of false hope... How could you keep your imagination satisfy with out source.. Get a life buddy...


  • #17
    KamiKazi
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,201 ✭✭✭KamiKazi


    dead one wrote: »
    Knowledge is limited, imagination isn't? -- There is source of her imagination... Every thing in the world has a source, source of her imagination is God... She believes God created her imagination, on the other hand, there is no God in your imagination.. You cheat your imagination in the name of false hope... How could you keep your imagination satisfy with out source.. Get a life buddy...

    Explain the bolded line please?

    I'm realistic in my attitude towards religion, that is not cheating my imagination.


  • #18
    dead one
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,320 ✭✭✭dead one


    KamiKazi wrote: »
    Explain the bolded line please?
    You believe in your imagination, that you don't have a source.. you're cheating your imagination, that's false hope.. That's fool's paradise, on the other hand, if you see the world in which you are living, in this world, every thing has source... What is source of your imagination? -- If you're source of your imagination then there must be your source... That is God


  • #19
    KamiKazi
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,201 ✭✭✭KamiKazi


    dead one wrote: »
    You believe in your imagination, that you don't have a source.. you're cheating your imagination, that's false hope.. That's fool's paradise, on the other hand, if you see the world in which you are living, in this world, every thing has source... What is source of your imagination? -- If you're source of your imagination then there must be your source... That is God

    No it's biology, the human brain. Nothing more, nothing less.


  • #20
    dead one
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,320 ✭✭✭dead one


    KamiKazi wrote: »
    No it's biology, the human brain. Nothing more, nothing less.
    Are you sure?.. Will your imagination get satisfaction by this.. Who created your imagination and brain and cell and all that wonderfull structure.... Was that a chance which created a masterpiece like you.. Ask to your imagination..


  • #21
    KamiKazi
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,201 ✭✭✭KamiKazi


    dead one wrote: »
    Are you sure?.. Will your imagination get satisfaction by this.. Who created your imagination and brain and cell and all that wonderfull structure.... Was that a chance which created a masterpiece like you.. Ask to your imagination..

    WTF are you smoking??


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  • #22
    dead one
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,320 ✭✭✭dead one


    KamiKazi wrote: »
    WTF are you smoking??
    Smoke has a source-- Imagination like smoke..


  • #23
    pinkheels88
    Closed Accounts Posts: 435 ✭✭pinkheels88


    I'm pretty sure the islamic forum is meant to serve as a space for sharing information and support for muslims and those interested in the religion not for ridicule. You're entitled to your beliefs but refrain from insulting others. You're insinuating a lot about my life choice and that of other female converts, without clearly knowing much about the topic. I wish u the best but I don't appreciate your comments.
    Mods step in please!


  • #24
    Voodoo_rasher
    Registered Users Posts: 521 ✭✭✭Voodoo_rasher


    Islam is more than a religion. having its own legality, social doctrine, financial practices, its a System much like Communism was. I know more than you thought. But blindly go where other ex-Infidels have gone before..Feel free to 'succumb' to Allah, 'religion of the sword' according to Rottweiler of the Vatican, & embrace some new fairytales.


  • #25
    KamiKazi
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,201 ✭✭✭KamiKazi


    pinkheels88 wrote: »
    I'm pretty sure the islamic forum is meant to serve as a space for sharing information and support for muslims and those interested in the religion not for ridicule. You're entitled to your beliefs but refrain from insulting others. You're insinuating a lot about my life choice and that of other female converts, without clearly knowing much about the topic. I wish u the best but I don't appreciate your comments.
    Mods step in please!

    If your beliefs are right then you would have no problem defending them.


  • #26
    Mark Hamill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,783 ✭✭✭Mark Hamill


    dead one wrote: »
    For example?

    The implication that understanding islam (and the implied acceptance and following of islam) comes not because it is inherently understandable, but because god picks and chooses who gets it. It implies that understanding islam is a game of luck, except of course, for the kids of those who already understand it.


  • #27
    Mark Hamill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,783 ✭✭✭Mark Hamill


    dead one wrote: »
    Knowledge is limited, imagination isn't?

    Knowledge is limited only by reality.
    dead one wrote: »
    -- There is source of her imagination... Every thing in the world has a source, source of her imagination is God...

    Non sequitor. Also, aren't you saying that god is doing the imagining for her, and she just receives it somehow?
    dead one wrote: »
    She believes God created her imagination, on the other hand, there is no God in your imagination.. You cheat your imagination in the name of false hope...

    Non sequitor. Firstly, because if god is the source of imagination, he would be the source of non muslims imagination too, as he is god. Secondly, its not cheating it if its imagination, as your imagination isn't real.
    dead one wrote: »
    How could you keep your imagination satisfy with out source.. Get a life buddy...

    My imagination has a source - my brain.


  • #28
    tfitzgerald
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,285 ✭✭✭tfitzgerald


    I cannot understand why women would want to convert to Islam and be treated like a second class citizen . Shariah law and it's rules frighten me and I would have thought more so for women. op if the bloke loved you he would not encourage you to convert


  • #29
    tfitzgerald
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,285 ✭✭✭tfitzgerald


    Mark Hamill wrote: »
    Knowledge is limited only by reality.


    Non sequitor. Also, aren't you saying that god is doing the imagining for her, and she just receives it somehow?


    Non sequitor. Firstly, because if god is the source of imagination, he would be the source of non muslims imagination too, as he is god. Secondly, its not cheating it if its imagination, as your imagination isn't real.


    My imagination has a source - my brain.

    I just had to google

    non se·qui·tur (nŏn sĕk'wĭ-tər, -tʊr')
    n.
    An inference or conclusion that does not follow from the premises or evidence.
    A statement that does not follow logically from what preceded it.


  • #30
    Freiheit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,783 ✭✭✭Freiheit


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=NQOCcx5V9RI


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  • #31
    hivizman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,163 ✭✭✭hivizman


    pinkheels88 wrote: »
    I'm pretty sure the islamic forum is meant to serve as a space for sharing information and support for muslims and those interested in the religion not for ridicule. You're entitled to your beliefs but refrain from insulting others. You're insinuating a lot about my life choice and that of other female converts, without clearly knowing much about the topic. I wish u the best but I don't appreciate your comments.
    Mods step in please!

    I think that the discussion has got rather off the point. There may be a case for a general discussion on the status of women in Islam, but the OP's original question has been answered. There was an earlier similar discussion in the thread "Why are so many modern British career women converting to Islam?", but the present discussion has run its course. So I'm locking the thread.


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