“Islam is dangerous, violent, and above ALL satanic. In actual fact, Satanism is bad, but the atrocities committed in the name of prophet Mo' are worse!”

“The debate is simple, some,not all but a large percentage of us English do not want you Muslims in our country we want to keep it Christian and not keep being ordered by the powers that be to respect diversity, I like many others want to be English in England, end of story.”

“Farooq,

Thanks for your reply.

I need to spend some time getting together an answer.

And yes, it makes sense to focus on one or two quotes at a time - and quotes around the same topic to help the debate.

Regards”

“Let's get all of these middle eastern desert cults out of our national fabric. Jews, Christians and Muslims. We have our own indigenous beliefs in these Islands and across northern europe. If we can get back to the teachings of those beliefs, where we concentrate on living in harmony with nature, living honourably and bravely and putting kith and kin first, we will all be better off.

A Heathen in Bristol”

“Anon i take my hat off to you, fabulously put,All monotheistic religons have at their heart the idea that only one religon is right despite them all agreeing on the central point that there is only one god.”

“Gelly, the christian guy doesnt get abuse because first and formost we are a christian country, Farooq was suposed to talk about the genaral effects of day to day living of a muslim living in Bristol but instead he uses the space to try and preach religion.”

“I despare at some of the ranting ill-educated comments on this board. Whilst i do not agree with all of Farooq's views, I welcome his weekly article with interest. I believe that the fact we are able to read about someone's first hand experience of being of the Muslim faith is a great thing, after 9/11 and 7/7 there are now so many who fear this religion and are quick to tar all followers with the same brush as the extremists who carried out these atrocities, and a columnist like Farooq is incredibly important in dispelling this myth.
For those copying and pasting manuscripts from religious texts - Im sure that in all religious texts for all religions you would find the same ideology, i.e. our religions better than yours etc¿.just in a different context. This is not what this column is about, this is about a Muslim man doing his best to educate the people of Bristol about the day to day life he leads and the laws he chooses to live his life by.
Never has it been said he would expect us to do the same, never has he once blasted another's religious views, and never has there been any plea for Muslim laws to become part of British law.
Like I said, I have disagreed with certain things Farooq has written about ¿ however I am educated and grown up enough to respect his religion and opinion as his own, and not mine to lambast.”

“I cannot accept that every person Farooq segregates as being Muslim are stupid enough to privately believe that the Quran is the infallible word of his god.
The charge of treason for going against Islam.
As Farooq says Islam is a political force, and he is spot on. It SHOULD be criticised, as any other political entity is. The Quran is a political book.There must NEVER be in this country a law that forbids criticism of ANY religion.
As for the many acts of charity mentioned here by the male taxi drivers etc.who are segregated, by Farooq and even some of his critics, as being Muslims first and human beings second, they are INDIVIDUALS, and are individually responsible for their actions. They should hold up there heads as individuals, as members of the human race, not Muslims, or trainspotters.”

“Good point gelly.
However, the Methodist Rev is at least refreshingly honest enough to publicly recognize that his guidebook is probably fiction.
Only at the end of his last piece did he make what I took to be a personal leap of faith. I liked his comments about rose tinting and his approach to miracles is still a little rose tinted to me, but I am probably biased, having been indoctrinated from an early age with this sort of nonsense.
In one sense I agree with him about Christmas. Yes I know it was probably hijacked etc but that is in the past. It is at present a good opportunity to spread a bit of good cheer around, religious or not.”

“Also, in answer to the Saudi Arabia question. There are no churches there because the state prohibits Christians worshipping.”