No one is supposed to prove anything to anyone.

I know i did not prove anything, as i said in my post . I just transferred what i know, anything wrong?, i did not start this discussion btw.

I am not referring specifically to you but please for a second think about the absurdity of raving about the age of Aisha in a language learning site. Did it stop there and the parties just noted one another's point of view there would be no problem but there is usually more to it.

In the end, I suppose, this is the wrong place for having such discussions. To avoid bitterness, we should really mind our own belief and refrain from criticizing others'.

I am not a moderator of this forum.
I said "I suppose" in other words I am not sanctioning anybody's thoughts, I am just putting forward my opinion at a time when people are getting into these fruitless discussions.
Since the beginning, I have defended the need for respecting each other's faith.

It is a very serious accusation to say that Mohammad had a 9 year old wife which by today's standards is a child abuse case. Do you think such matters should really be discussed here? What kind of an outcome do you expect out of that?

I wouldn't object to discussions about specific details pertaining to a belief system.

For example,
What do you think about after life, how is it described in your faith?
What is the purpose of Asure day?
Why do you fast?

Above questions indicate a geniune curiousity about Islam.
They should be more than welcome and actually provide an excellent opportunity for cultural exchange.

We should support mutual understanding and tolerance. We shouldn't talk about prophet's sex life based on unproven information.

If you look at the posts, I just gave aysa's age- mohammed as an example as a non insulting subject in the begining.
It was just an example. I was, clearly, not try to open a discussion about it. (But some of the muslim friends picked on it and took it as an insult -again-.)

Respecting eachother's faith is one of my princepals too but with a slight difference: you believe critisisim towards religion is violation of personal freedom of speech,whereas I dont.

And although I would not open a subject personally about 'if Mohammad had a 9 year old wife'. But I would not object it either from the 'personal speech point of view'.

And I also mentioned before what is wrong about your idea of 'critisisim towards religion is violation of personal freedom of speech'.
Becasue, critisisim towards religion is NOT 'violation of personal freedom of speech'.

I said in one of my posts:
"any beliefs which are not true or valid will only be revealed through criticism.
What this means is that if people care about the truth, they should not be afraid of criticism.
if they are true then this will strengthen them; if they are wrong, then they will are free to follow new beliefs."

And also I mentioned that

"each person deserves respect as a human being.
But their belief does not get that respect automatically..
The belief has to earn that respect. "

I really reccommend religious people should be more tolerant about 'anything' regarding their religion.
When you dont, it really looks like you are inline with the man in the cave who threathened denmark about the cartoons, with the people who were happy with fatwa about salman rushdie or with the people who tried to burn aziz nesin alive because he wanted to publish satanic verses in Turkish.

So the consequences of whose opinions have we been suffering in the form of misunderstandings, protests and eventually personal attacks?

For my own part, I wouldn't like anyone to call me "zindik", "infidel" or whatever just because I don't believe in one of the established belief systems. It is none of their business, this is a matter of belief and belief is not a matter of discussion.

Discussing religion on an intellectual level demands first of all the presence of a proper platform. Do you think this is the right platform?

Furthermore, if we are hoping to reform a religion, we must really be concentrating on the principal tenets of it. Do you think people are really bringing up such matters?

Today, almost everyone knows everything about every culture, every religion. There is no need to advertise a religion; just be a good believer and stay away from harm's way. If most believers act like that, others will become curious about what causes those people to be so enviable. To my knowledge, Gandhi did not openly invite anyone to become a Buddhist but a Western journalist J. H. Holmes after spending so many years scrutinizing his life dubbed him the greatest man since Jesus and Buddha. So, many Europeans have been converting into the Buddhist faith ever since.

Don't you think the proper way to reform our faith is through setting a good example to others with our stance in life, with our philosophy and the strength of our personalities and not through criticizing a prophet based on unestablished facts about his life?

Last but not least, I do not like when people greet foreigners using religious words. Everyone believes in something, you believe in yours and I in mine. The relationship between people believing in different faiths should be personal not communal, especially in this age.

When a group of French tourists visit a town in our country as a group of people, they do not act like a group of missionaries in search of souls waiting for salvation. They visit that town because they are interested in the people living in there. They spend time there for enjoyment mainly, they do not mind about who believes in what. The people using these forums are not very different from those tourists. They are a group of people who are linked to Turkey for some reason. They are interested in Turkish people, turkish culture and yes, Islam but I suppose no one is really interested in letting this service turn into an arena where religious wars are fought.