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Choose ONE thing that stops you from converting to Islam.

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I do not believe in the existence of a higher being, therefore being a member of any religion would be pretty pointless.

Reply 81

Lil08

JD28

Im going to heaven :cool:

even though not being muslim :wink:

No you're not. :lolwut:

Reply 82

DaveSteed24

i'm catholic - i believe what i believe - leave me alone :p:

Reply 83

MrAsim

Ayostunner

i was brought up as a christian

Have u never researched?

Reply 84

Ibaad'Allaah

Moe Lester

Yes, I was friends with a girl who was atheist but didn't dare tell anyone in her community due to the consequences. Also she didn't want to wear a headscarf but did so out of parental and religious pressure.

Do you know how to read?

Reply 85

TI-84

Lollyage

I like the freedom Hinduism gives, and the fact that there are no rules you must live by.

Reply 86

username224850

Abhead

I think the idea of allah (or of any god) is totally implausible and that religion in general is backward and maintains unfair social norms.

this sums up my feelings

Reply 87

yodude888

Laziness.

Well actually I'd be quite happy to convert, I have more admiration for what Islam sought to achieve, than that which Christianity sought.

BUUUT I don't particularly believe in God.

im sikh

booraad

I'm so annoyed the mods integrated my other thread asking Muslims to give one reason why all humans should practise Islam with this one!!!!!

I wanted to keep them separate to see both sides clearly.

Why did you quote me? :confused:

oppression of women

Its the biggest load of **** I've ever heard, as a religion and a way of life it offends me and shocks me to my very core that people are stupid enough to follow it and devote their lives to it as a religion.

Good enough?

Reply 92

IWantSomeMushu

My lack of a belief in a God.

jack daniel's

Probably if I believed not in God.

Reply 95

BrightGirl

I find it really sexist, in a bad way.

Reply 96

Varciani

The fact that I'm athiest?

Reply 97

SpamBa

Ibaad'Allaah

A matter of subjectivity. I can confidently say that you have not met a practicing Muslimah in your life and listened to her viewpoint.

Actually I have been friends with a muslim girl at school and we have family firends who are Muslim too. The family were moderate by Muslim standards: the girls did not go veiled or have to entirely cover themselves up. But still, they were not allowed to eat with their Dad (he ate alone despite being the only male in the house) or have boyfriends, and they went to an all-girls school. They were brought up as 'good Muslim girls' in the words of their mother (a convert): she wanted them to be like her and get married young and have children, and there was little mention of the idea of university. The eldest one is now studying at uni, but commutes from home. They were nice peope but it is a bit weird that in all the years we were close, I never once saw or was allowed to speak to their father.
As for my friend, she was not allowed to speak to men for the most part (she only had sisters) or go out unnaccompainied with friends at the age of maybe 14. She accepted it but being so isolated I doubt she ever really saw anything else. She was quite wild at school, the only time she was really 'free' from being so controlled. In the end, she left my Catholic school to go to a muslim all-girls insititution a 30 minute train ride away. I saw her when she was about 16, and she was going back to Pakistan (where she was from) to be married off. Really sad, actually.

Reply 98

CynicalZebra

My lack of genuine spiritual enthusiasm for it.
For the past 2 years, I've been really interested in Judaism, and I might convert to that in the future.