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Former Irish American Sunday school teacher on why she converted to Islam - VIDEO

New Jersey woman who grew up in an Irish Catholic family speaks about journey to Islam

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That's as opposed to the perfectly reasonable advice of Leviticus? "If there is a man who commits adultery with another man's wife, one who commits adultery with his friend's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death." Sweet.
This defies reason. Islam is an totalitarian ideology posing as a religion. It was born of the sword and it's "holy book" the Quran calls for the conversion of the world via any means. Additionally the Quran is replete with Suras that incite violence and hatred against infidels. "...take no Jew or Christian as friend." "Slay the infidel where yo find him, smite his neck..." Sharia law is barbaric in it's extreme punishment for even summary offences. Women are treated as chattel and have no rights. Is this woman insane?
Kilgara- As opposed to a cult that believes in different fairies?
hmmmmmm......Divorced, Sunday School teacher with four kids. Need to look back on this story in a year or so. Meanwhile, look for her in Journal Square at the entrance to the tube station sitting on the sidewalk, jingling a paper coffee cup. Truly a case for intervention!
You combine a lack of knowledge of the basic tenents of Catholicism[ most Catholics , even those who attended Catholic schools after 1970 or so, are woefully ignorant of the faith largely because nuns and brothers were scarce by then and most lay teachers did not then or now have the "fire in their belly" to impart these truths the way the religious formerly did}and you take someone like Dacey who is , to put it kindly, not the sharpest crayon in the box{see interview}, and voila you have an instant convert to a vile and filthy cult. God help us.
A woman went from believing in Christian pixies to believing in Muslim pixies and that's news?
Life is a learning curve for better or for worse, we don't get a trial run at it, just the one shot that's it,at the end of the day we look back and come to our own conclusions,no time for regrets.
good on ye - explore - scientific.
Many of the rules associated with Sharia are also found in Leviticus: death for adulterers of both sexes, death for women who have premarital sex, death for disobedient children, condemnation of homosexuality, extremist patriarchy, etc. Actually, you can argue from the context in Leviticus that the condemnation of homosexuality applies only to homosexual sex at pagan temples, where ritual sex with the priests was common. The condemnation is part of a list of forbidden practices relating to pagan worship. But the popular interpretation does not take context into account. Leviticus is pretty savage as is the bloody revenge fantasy in Revelation.
Anyone who believes her "malarky" only need go so far as to read Nonie Darwish. Women are told one thing and once they are "trapped" they learn another. I have a friend from South Africa, half German-half black, whose daughter married a Muslim. This became the sad story for her. There is a wide gulf between fact and fancy. The complete subservience of women is hard to overcome in the arena of justice and reality.
Mullarkey! giving me a song and dance about the koran is absurd. the koran is nice reading but doesn't contain much fact. the REAL islam is in the 3 principal hadiths and they ain't so nice. The realtionship is the same between the bible and Canon Law. bible nice - Canon Law nasty.
If I were the FBI I would keep an eye on her !
I am catholic and would never ever even consider converting to Islam or the muslim faith. It is way too restrictive and too violent for me. We don't say it's voilent because of the media, we know it from world wide situations, we know it from other muslim women, we know it from the "honor" killing of their own children and siblings, we know it from things we have seen and heard first hand. It has nothing to do with the coverage in the media. There will always be a few who are vunerable, who seek attention, to are unhappy with their lives that look to do something radical. They now have a spokes woman who they hope will help to convert others.
Start of a trend, a double-edged sword for right wing fundamentalist Muslims. These women converts will demand a more humanitarian interpretation of the Muslim tradition and equal rights for women. ... Is it easy for a Catholic woman to convert to Islam since Catholicism also subordinates women? Who knows? ... As the number of priests in the Catholic Church goes into a serious nosedive, Catholics will seek out a religion that is easier to practice, especially in the home. ... Women were responsible for Europe's conversion to Christianity and will be responsible for the conversion of the US and much of Europe to Islam.
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