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Canli thank you for you very patient answer  Actually (of course) what you say is almost completely right. May I just correct you on one point about your religion? You made the comment that only muslims are allowed to receive Zakah. In fact, you are allowed to give non-musilms Zakah in an emergency, where the matter is life or death. However, the culture remains "we don´t give money to non-muslims, only our Islam family", as Alameda was happy to declare!
Despite Peacetrain´s concerns that I am trying to attack Islam, I am actually not. I am just amazed at how little many muslims (even fervent converted ones!) know about their own religion! It is a shame that so many take on the antiquated practises of other cultures and think it is part of Islam. I can understand why men would want to keep the status quo, but I do wonder about the women! For example, ask any Professor of Islamic Studies what the meaning of obeying your husband is and they will reply that it is symbolic and not relevent to modern times. It is only of significance in prayer. However, ask many muslim men of its meaning, and you will get a completely different answer
Even dear Peacetrain had to wait until she received the comfort of your back-up before replying - mostly with just psychological assumptions about me Anyway she will need to calm down after all her huffing and puffing ...
Actually, Zakah is a very sensitive issue to us, thats why you find people tend to the safer side.
You already can give Sadakah and will be rewarded by it too, so why putting yourself into doubts ?
That is how many of us think, unless in times when you want to give the money to spesific place or person, and your Zakah money is a large sum or something, so you start asking if i gave it to that place or that person will it be considered Zakah ?
à also would partly agree with you on that, they are not many muslims, but still they are sum, and at same time its something not special to muslims only, you would find it same with others too.
Ãn here Christians are same as muslims too in many cases although it has nothing to do with Christianity.
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