Home
Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
Latest activity
Members
Current visitors
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Home
Forums
Brown Cafe Community Center
Current Events
trumps travel ban
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 3589471" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>I don't agree with their religion at all, but I am in an area that's majority Muslim and they have been very kind to me. I occasionally see someone in Muslim attire, long shirt, skull cap, beard but no moustache. Those that take it that seriously seem to not want to have anything to do with me, but they're in the minority. I've come to realize that just as there are Christians who are mildly faithful at best, there are Muslims who only are because they grew up in it but are ambivalent. For a city that's mostly Muslim there's a lot of liquor being sold here. I'd be much more concerned about my safety two countries over in Afghanistan or the Middle East. I've read it's very much this way in Malaysia, where they practice a very tolerant form of Islam. It's just not cookie cutter uniform across the Muslim world. I think a good rule of thumb is if Westerners have been killed in a particular Muslim nation, probably best to avoid it. Never heard of Westerners being killed by extremists in a particular nation, probably ok, but do your due diligence. Muslims of different ethnic groups have killed each other here in Kyrgyzstan in large numbers about 8 years ago so not a stretch to think some might kill Christians and others too.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vantexan, post: 3589471, member: 24302"] I don't agree with their religion at all, but I am in an area that's majority Muslim and they have been very kind to me. I occasionally see someone in Muslim attire, long shirt, skull cap, beard but no moustache. Those that take it that seriously seem to not want to have anything to do with me, but they're in the minority. I've come to realize that just as there are Christians who are mildly faithful at best, there are Muslims who only are because they grew up in it but are ambivalent. For a city that's mostly Muslim there's a lot of liquor being sold here. I'd be much more concerned about my safety two countries over in Afghanistan or the Middle East. I've read it's very much this way in Malaysia, where they practice a very tolerant form of Islam. It's just not cookie cutter uniform across the Muslim world. I think a good rule of thumb is if Westerners have been killed in a particular Muslim nation, probably best to avoid it. Never heard of Westerners being killed by extremists in a particular nation, probably ok, but do your due diligence. Muslims of different ethnic groups have killed each other here in Kyrgyzstan in large numbers about 8 years ago so not a stretch to think some might kill Christians and others too. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Home
Forums
Brown Cafe Community Center
Current Events
trumps travel ban
Top