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Old 08-30-2007, 10:52 AM   #10 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by hkbajwa View Post
That is absolutely correct. Unfortunately the lines between religious edict and cultural tradition are always blurred. Even muslims often have difficulty in separating what their religion expects of them and what their culture expects of them.

Not to mention, those that are unknowledgeable about either the religious aspects of Muslims and the society traditions of the areas the Muslims live in that are on polar opposites...Not realizing, cause they either aren't Muslim or know those individuals' cultural traditions that are in conflict with religious teachings...Inadvertly confuse and combine the two themselves and perpetuate/embrace even more false information about the religious practice through that unknowledgeable position the non-muslim is getting their 'information' from.