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west Muslim: "Islam is a religion of peace"
Esat Muslim: "Islam will dominate the world"

I had to figure out how to reconcile my Islam, a religion of peace, with the Islam on television, a religion of terror...

>>on reference of the 0911 attacks

Much of the West’s inability to understand the East stems from the
paradigmatic schism between honor-shame cultures and innocence-guilt
cultures. Of course, the matter is quite complex, and elements of both
paradigms are present in the East and the West, but the honor-shame
spectrum is the operative paradigm that drives the East, and it is hard for
Westerners to understand.

The process of reciting the Quran during prayer was ingenious
method to propagate the Quran in the mostly illiterate society of seventh
century Arabia...

This is an interesting note, because is the same reason for the rosary prayer.

Muslims believe that every single word of the Quran was dictated
verbatim by Allah, through the Archangel Gabriel, to Muhammad. The
Quran is therefore not only inspired at the level of meaning but at the
deeper level of the words themselves. For this reason, Muslims do not
consider the Quran translatable. If it is rendered in any language other than
Arabic, it is not Quran but rather an interpretation of the Quran. A