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Originally Posted by Pushpa
I don't think people should be turned away or excluded because of their level of practice because this might be their opportunity to learn some more and if you deprive someone of that you are ultimately responsible.
However, I think there should be a way of providing events and activities without compromising Islamic principles. Socialising and interacting for the sake of learning from one another is one thing, socialising for the sake of socialising is something that does not and should not have to take place under the auspices of an organization like an msa. If people want to do so they can do it on their own, the MSA shouldn't be endorsing things which are unIslamic.
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Yes. There is a difference between rejecting people based on their level of practice and actively seeking to attract people by compromising principles. You can't say, hey, Mo thinks MSA is boring, let's have a non-alcoholic dance!
Quite frankly, some of the viewpoints offered in this article were decidedly stupid. People want to ascribe the label of "culture" to actual Islamic principles, and then they don't even realize that they're just succumbing to desires created by their own entrenchment in the American culture in which they were raised, which isn't necessarily Islamic, either.
Basically, people care too much about what they themselves think and what others think of them, instead of what Islam actually says.