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Hi,
I'm from East London, and I am a Muslim. I found this site after rebuttling posts made by aethists and people from other religions, who tried to disrepute Islam on youtube...
I found a few very misleading videos claiming to be "islamic" when in fact, after careful analogy and reading between lines - I concluded that these videos were created by the enemies of Islam, posing as Muslims to spread confusion amongst the Muslims and lies to anyone else.
We see a constant misrepresentation of Islam through the media, and the general public do not believe all they see on the news but after a while, these lies and crazy ideas about Islam spread by the media - start to take root in the minds of the public. Let me give you a real life example:
A member of youtube who is not a Muslim, claims he believes nothing shown to him on the news channels and in newspapers - yet, when he posts is videos / leaves comments on videos posted by Muslims, he uses language not dissimilar to the phrases and power terms used in broadcasts... funny isn't it? scarily so...
Studies conclude that as an adult in a modern metropolitan city, you'll be exposed to over 250,000 advertising messages a day, and 2-3 of these adverts will take root in your brain, as dominant products/services that will often pop up in your head at inopportune times... ever wonder how this happens?
You may have stumbled across the subject of "subliminal advertising". In the 60's a cinema group conducted an experiment. Just before a movie was about to start in the talkie, you'd get a countdown from 10 to 1, with all sorts of fuzzy images and shapes thrown inbetween the number of frames, these images would appear just long enough for your eyes to not really register what they are straight away - but you will register it, a few seconds later - in your subconscious memory. But your conscious self won't even realise it... On with the experiment - in these split frames, this cinema group inserted frames which read "You are hungry - toffee popcorn is tasty" and in another frame "You will get thirsty - Drink Coca-Cola". then the countdown finished off - and more than half of the cinema going public who were in that screen, got up and left for the foyer - where they proceeded to order toffee popcorn and coca-cola...coincidence? no...
Subliminal advertising was banned shortly afterwards apparently... but was it? Maybe subliminal advertising was banned - but throwing subliminal messages out there - in documentaries, reports, studies, etc... hmmm, this leaves a scope to exploit. I have found videos and seen reports on TV that leave me with thoughts that conflict with my inner Muslim soul. I can recognise that something is trying to plant an idea which goes against my fundamental beliefs. And once I recognise this, I try to battle this intrusive thought out of my mind... anyone else had a similar experience?
I have been coming top this forum for a while and decided to join a few weeks ago because I found the topics discussed, and the friendly, mature vibe of this forum - a place to discuss/debate ideas with intelligence, and careful study. I also found that there are many non-Muslim members here too, which is encouraging - because they are intelligent and can debate without resorting to troll-talk... Well done, to all non-Muslims on this site who have helped to promote cross faith understanding, and not resort to trolling once they find they can't answer a specific point or issue. I don't know if other sites like this exist, but for the moment - I think I will be happy here, Insha-Allah. Amin.
Brother Scimitar
(dispelling the lies of modern day living with a tongue so sharp, it swathes a through myth like a sword for truth...)
I'm from East London, and I am a Muslim. I found this site after rebuttling posts made by aethists and people from other religions, who tried to disrepute Islam on youtube...
I found a few very misleading videos claiming to be "islamic" when in fact, after careful analogy and reading between lines - I concluded that these videos were created by the enemies of Islam, posing as Muslims to spread confusion amongst the Muslims and lies to anyone else.
We see a constant misrepresentation of Islam through the media, and the general public do not believe all they see on the news but after a while, these lies and crazy ideas about Islam spread by the media - start to take root in the minds of the public. Let me give you a real life example:
A member of youtube who is not a Muslim, claims he believes nothing shown to him on the news channels and in newspapers - yet, when he posts is videos / leaves comments on videos posted by Muslims, he uses language not dissimilar to the phrases and power terms used in broadcasts... funny isn't it? scarily so...
Studies conclude that as an adult in a modern metropolitan city, you'll be exposed to over 250,000 advertising messages a day, and 2-3 of these adverts will take root in your brain, as dominant products/services that will often pop up in your head at inopportune times... ever wonder how this happens?
You may have stumbled across the subject of "subliminal advertising". In the 60's a cinema group conducted an experiment. Just before a movie was about to start in the talkie, you'd get a countdown from 10 to 1, with all sorts of fuzzy images and shapes thrown inbetween the number of frames, these images would appear just long enough for your eyes to not really register what they are straight away - but you will register it, a few seconds later - in your subconscious memory. But your conscious self won't even realise it... On with the experiment - in these split frames, this cinema group inserted frames which read "You are hungry - toffee popcorn is tasty" and in another frame "You will get thirsty - Drink Coca-Cola". then the countdown finished off - and more than half of the cinema going public who were in that screen, got up and left for the foyer - where they proceeded to order toffee popcorn and coca-cola...coincidence? no...
Subliminal advertising was banned shortly afterwards apparently... but was it? Maybe subliminal advertising was banned - but throwing subliminal messages out there - in documentaries, reports, studies, etc... hmmm, this leaves a scope to exploit. I have found videos and seen reports on TV that leave me with thoughts that conflict with my inner Muslim soul. I can recognise that something is trying to plant an idea which goes against my fundamental beliefs. And once I recognise this, I try to battle this intrusive thought out of my mind... anyone else had a similar experience?
I have been coming top this forum for a while and decided to join a few weeks ago because I found the topics discussed, and the friendly, mature vibe of this forum - a place to discuss/debate ideas with intelligence, and careful study. I also found that there are many non-Muslim members here too, which is encouraging - because they are intelligent and can debate without resorting to troll-talk... Well done, to all non-Muslims on this site who have helped to promote cross faith understanding, and not resort to trolling once they find they can't answer a specific point or issue. I don't know if other sites like this exist, but for the moment - I think I will be happy here, Insha-Allah. Amin.
Brother Scimitar
(dispelling the lies of modern day living with a tongue so sharp, it swathes a through myth like a sword for truth...)
