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The authors of the original map are using different clans in Somalia as a way to justify claiming Somalia is hyper diverse. Probably confusing clans with ethnicity. "some of the data are very old, dating from as far back as the early 1990s or even late 1980s. Conceptions of ethnicity can change...

"Atheists tell me why you deny the favour of your Lord is it because your kibir stops you from bowing down to allah but to yourself" This isn't a sincere question. This is preaching. I don't believe in Allah for the same reason I don't believe in leprechauns or pixies. There's no evidence for...

This is interesting. So how do you know he isn't really a prophet? What makes you reject him?

Whales/dolphins are sea creatures with some ability to live on land. Their ancestors were amphibious animals similar to hippos, whose ancestors further back were land creatures. You say you want an intermediate stage for whales/dolphins? You're looking for Ambulocetus. A whale ancestor who walks...

The notion of a fish spending an extended period of time out of water was never as absurd as you made it out to be. The example I gave you was just that. A fish that spends most of its life outside of the water. I see now that since mudfish need to stay moist so that eventually they will return...

"Everyone knows a fish cant survive for more than 2 minutes on land without dying. Atheists really believe that, and the average atheist arent even aware of this. If that isn't blind faith i dont what is." Google: Mudskipper

Is this something different from the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation?

I never said I grew up in a devout household. Chances are you're mixing me up with someone else. Here's my post about this topic from a couple months ago: https://www.somalispot.com/threads/yes-you-are-blind-but-god-did-not-forget-you.41760/#post-1122318

Both my parents are Somali. Both of them are irreligious. I never went to dugsi or any Islamic school as a kid. I had a secular upbringing.

Unless you have some alternative sufi version of the story, you believe that for the sins of humanity Allah unleashed a flood throughout the world killing everyone except for Noah and his family. This included all the animals except the pairs brought onto his ship. Just how big was this ship...

So do people just want to know about thoughts and sayings? Or do they have to know about them to practice Islam? This is what separates you from a Quranist. If it's only for the sake of curiosity then the hadiths aren't necessary to practice Islam. If they have to know about them to practice...

The concept of a weak hadith and strong hadith shouldn't exist if Allah preserved them. The fact that there are strong/weak hadiths implies that there is an element of uncertainty. Do you also believe in strong/weak surahs in the Quran? That you can just ignore the weak ones because of that...

Uthman canonized the Quran we have today. He burned any other version that existed at the time. It's why I included the word "supposedly". But that isn't the point of my question. My question is directed at Muslims who say the Quran is the unaltered word of Allah. Muslims who also use the...

If the hadiths were really necessary to practice Islam. Why didn't Allah preserve them the same way he supposedly did the Quran?

Start lurking on @government 's older posts.

My parents aren't even Muslim. I wouldn't go so far as to call them atheists, but definitely irreligious/secular. My mom believes religion is a disease and my dad calls Islam an arabizing problem.

Emotional reasons? Really? Tell me more about them. I'm not a Muslim for one reason and one reason only. There is no evidence for Islam being from a supernatural being. In fact it's as unremarkable as about any other religion there is today. And listening to Muslims try to explain why theirs is...

This isn't a surprise. Salaat is very tedious spread throughout the day at inconvenient times. Before sunrise and after sunset too and everything in between. Who needs sleep right? You could instead be washing up for prayer. Plus it's so easy to break the ablution by doing pretty much anything...

"If Islam was false, why were there no successful prophets after Muhammad?" I see. So the validity of a religion depends on the number of followers it has. Why aren't you a Christian then? Would it be unreasonable to think that if a religion really was from an all-powerful god, and this...