Understanding Islam

[alaric]

In the hopes that we may all better understand our muslim neighbors, I present this document which outlines several of the customs and practices of this ancient and disciplined religion.

Understanding Islam

[|MP|Buccaneer]

Hell, at least it's not a sin to masturbate for them, and they make you take a shower afterwards.

While that page is poking a bit of fun, personal hygiene is a part of Islam.  I talked to an Iman about that years and years ago.  He said that many things were put in Islam to help the people, for the betterment of them.  Things that they still hold true, even if they do know why.  Eating pork, for instance, is haraam.  It's that way because too many people were dying at an early age from both eating under cooked pork and developing parasites, and just from being in the hot desert and dropping of heart attacks from all the fat in the pork.  They saw that those who ate pork in that environment were struck down, as it were.  

On the whole, there are a lot of things that make more sense in Islam, than in the other two major religions.

[BFG]

Yeah bucc, you couuld almost say that the article is 'taking the piss' a bit