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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 ...
You are quite knowledgable Aenigma...thus you must know that in order to be considered a Muslim one only has to utter the shehadah.
أشهد أن لا إله إلاَّ الله و أشهد أن محمد رسول الله
ašhadu al lā ilāha illa l-Lāh, wa ašhadu anna muammadar rasūlu l-Lāh
Of course this is to be sincerely from the heart. Everything springs from that. Some are highly educated, some are not. but at least all Muslims agree on that.
As to what I said, you have it wrong. "we don´t give money to non-muslims, only our Islam family", as Alameda was happy to declare!
Here is what I actually said:
"Of course Muslims prefer to help Muslims. Do you have a problem with that?
The analogy would be, helping one´s own family members first, not go to the family down the street."
I did not anywhere say charity is denied to others.
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