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Originally posted by MADIBA

If i may speak for my religion, Islam, it has not led to the lost of the african identity. Infact the missionaries or jihadists who spread the religion in sub-saharan african where africans in the like Elhaj Umar Taal, Usman Dan Fodio, Sheikh Ebrahim Niass etc etc. The Muslims didnt colonize any african country, infact these jihadist fought western imperialism.

Islam never asked africans to be ashmed of cooking and eating indigenous foods, sharing with their own, islam never told them that eating from calabashes is uncivilized, islam never told them leaders were irrelant or their clothes or ways or speaking etc were uncivilized.

Arabia like Africa before islam or christanity or judaism were pagans and hence living in darkness. Some of the despicable practises of the arabian pagans was to bury their baby girls. Thanks to Islam that barbaric practice was stopped. In africa too there were times were humans were sacrficed. But thanks to the 'foreign religions' and islam in paricular that these were abandoned.

Judaism, Christianity and Islam were meant to be universal religions abt a true God and monotheism.

Kay,

Many scientic discoveries have already be meantioned in the Quran.

Islam to an extent is not against science. In fact there were many pioneering muslim scientists such as Ibn Sina or Avicenna, Aljabr from whose name sprung the mathemical dsicipline Algebra.

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