The Digital Devil...

[Saltmeister]

Originally Posted by wil

The internet is the wild wild west. Lawless, tread with care, lots of great stuff and opportunity out there but also blind canyons, flash floods, train robbers, and snake oil salesman.

A good thing is, you can't get killed on the Internet. Not directly anyway. You might read instructions on making a meal or drink that kills you. But you won't get killed by train robbers, robbed by them, or shot in the bar/pub by a cowboy. There is no direct physical danger to using the Internet, except getting electrocuted by loose wires supplying power to the computer, or tripping over the computer and falling on an axe. Lawless but not harmful or dangerous. Except for minors.

Oh I forgot to mention phishing and people hacking into your credit card accounts and email.

[Saltmeister]

Originally Posted by farhan

Arabic

shukran, Mr Antenna!!!

Originally Posted by farhan

Lets say I am on a satellite, covering 210 countries world wide. All tubes flow through me . And then I am in space, unlike the tube which is in a server.

What are you? What are you called?

Originally Posted by farhan

you cant make them realise, thats the whole problem. Islam provides roads for humans to walk upon, they have produced cages with their literal interpretation of Quran.

Beliefs come from knowledge and experience. We decide to think a certain way because of what we've seen and heard. When we've seen a bit more of the world, we change our minds. We realise we were wrong. Yeah this happens in Christianity too.

[wil]

Originally Posted by Saltmeister

A good thing is, you can't get killed on the Internet. Not directly anyway. You might read instructions on making a meal or drink that kills you. But you won't get killed by train robbers, robbed by them, or shot in the bar/pub by a cowboy. There is no direct physical danger to using the Internet, except getting electrocuted by loose wires supplying power to the computer, or tripping over the computer and falling on an axe. Lawless but not harmful or dangerous. Except for minors.

Oh I forgot to mention phishing and people hacking into your credit card accounts and email.

For the most part the wild wild west was safe, it was when you went down the wrong alley or chose to mingle with the wrong crowd. The net is the same, it can get folks to leave the virtual, lead them down the wrong alley. You are so correct though, no gun, no threat of harm and the cons can clean your bank account if you are not careful.

I've been identity thefted, quite the run around to get your money back when some bell hop steals your credit card from a hotel receipt and then uses it to gamble at a Cayman Islands Online Casino using a Gibraltar bank account.

[17th Angel]

Originally Posted by farhan

you cant make them realise, thats the whole problem. Islam provides roads for humans to walk upon, they have produced cages with their literal interpretation of Quran .

And then with all the petro dollars, they spread too fast. Anyways, try Hamza Yusuf as an alternative. You will find him too on YT.

Marhaban,

They have produced cages, sah...... But for every cage there is one key... (The Qur'an) "the truth shall set you freeeeeeee!"

[Muslimwoman]

wa aleykum salaam

The internet has many wonderful teachings of Islam but also many misguided corrupted teachings. It is like going into a library, you just have to be selective about which books you choose to read and cross reference all the time.

With Islam, if you see a 'scholar' teaching hatred then cross reference with the Quran, if you don't find the teaching there then ignore the information from the internet.

Here is a couple of examples of good Islamic information to be found on youtube, they are both worth a watch and are by Abdullah Hakim Quick:

YouTube - Prophet Muhammad: "Do Good to Those That Harm You"

YouTube - Muslims Wake Up! Look Into Your Heart

YouTube - Ignorant Muslim Scholars

YouTube - Some Muslims Need to Lose the Taliban Mentality!

If you want to know why I choose to live in a poor Egyptian town, then watch this one, again by Abdullah Quick:

YouTube - Don't Be A Spoiled Muslim

I better stop there or you will be watching all day And brother Farhan is right Hamza Yusuf is also a good scholar to listen to.

wasalaam