Riberi Is a Muslim

[Ejaj]

I personally think, religion is totally a personal matter. And. a religion is simply can not be an identity, clear and loud. If I were to support the idea of muslim being the identity about me, then, I have to say that, I would have to acknowledge the theology of Allama Iqbal or Maududi from Pakistan that Muslim are differnt race/nation/ etce tc. This is definitely not the ideology I believe. So for me, religion means nothing.. simply nothing to have any impact on the national or gloabal issues. Its the person himself who does this wonderful things for the mankind. Zidance would still be Zidane if he were the followers from any other religion. He would have stil won the world cup in 98 and would still have taken this french team to the final of this world cup. He would have still had that headbut and got sent off. So, this plain rubbish to glorify someone onthe basis of relligion. Humanity is much more above the cornered idea of raligional expressions. THats completely a personal affair and really should be kept like that. Zidane and all others mentioned here , should only be praised because of what had they achieved in life and how much did they contribute to ppl and the society , not because, what religion do they follow.

On 2nd note, i just want to mention that, being a muslim and being a national from some country arent the same. Muslim isnt the identiy, where as, nationality clearly describes a persona completely. So, if a Bangladeshi does someting great, surely, we can be proud of that and cen take inspiration from him. But, seeing some doing something great , it doesnt make any sense to be proud of him just because , I may believie in the same religion as his. Ppl should be judged with their deeds, not with their personal affairs specialyl with religion.

Please.. open your minds friends.

[al Furqaan]

once again why would they care about what they think, when their john major said as a green signal to slobodan milosevic by saying "we want no more Muslim countries in Europe", I wonder what would happen if Marshall Tito was there. My point being when they themselves are genocidal gayniac, why care about their opinions, if they think they can get away with it they will commit crimes.

rather it should be what do we think about ourselves, and how are we going to live? to live as true Muslims or denounce our faith altogether and atleast show the grace of not being munafic? how should we fight the corruption and crimes which so much is in the vein of our system? how are we going to know about the fundamentals of Islam instead of calling ourselves Muslim just to make a label out of it???

that is true

[orzoon]

Ribery muslim so what.Zidane is a muslim ,how does it matter ?
Normally people identify themselves more closely with someone from similar culture rather than with same religion but alien culture.When I see a famous personality ,to me it doesn't matter whether he is from my religion or not but it does matter if he is from my culture.

[al Furqaan]

ferdaus bhai,

what i meant to say in my post was that celebrity muslims give us earthly credibility in the eyes of non-muslims. their existance is anti-thetical to that which our detractors stuff down the public's throats day in and day out i.e that islam is evil and muslims are non-human viruses.

of course you are correct when u stated 'who cares what others think.' there are times when i am amused by all the islamophobia. and yes, in terms of divine credibilty islam doesn't need it; its a moot point.

[Mridul]

the matter of one's identity varies from person to person....i personally identify myself as a Muslim first then as a Bangladeshi....so it obviously does give me some good feelings when someone from my religion does something to be proud of.