@MonicaCellio I wanted to clarify this long standing misunderstanding , I am not doing DAWAH or proselytyzing. "Dawah literally MEANS direct invitation to Islam" If i say "Become a Muslim say the Shadah" then it is Dawah , , its like "Calling for Dinner". If one calls to dinner one would directly invite a person to dinner rather then saying "I have cooked a turkey, black cake " etc
As I'm very fond of saying on Christianity SE, words have different meanings in different contexts. The fact that what you are doing is not proselytism as you understand the term is irrelevant. What matters is that it is proselytism as the regulars here understand the term.
@Ali I didn't say you're doing dawah, and I neither know nor care what that means. Any statement here of the form "Islam is superior" or "you should be a Muslim" or "you are a Muslim but don't know it yet" etc is proselytizing as far as we are concerned.
Proselytism (pron.: /ˈprɒsɨlaɪtɨzəm/) is the act of attempting to convert people to another religion or opinion. The word proselytize is derived ultimately from the Greek language prefix προσ- (toward) and the verb ἔρχομαι (to come) in the form of προσήλυτος (a new comer).[1] Historically in the Koine Greek Septuagint and New Testament, the word proselyte denoted a gentile who was considering conversion to Judaism.
@msh210 I guess my mentioning that novel is apropos of earlier mentions today of Scifi novels, gaming, and transliteration. There's one more easy connection, but I'll skip it.
My question on the origins of the term "Holocaust" was migrated to another board. That's fine, but why does migration have to close out a question from the Judaism board? It would seem to be appropriate in both places.
@DoubleAA oh, I thought @MadaraUchiha was talking about Bam, not that room. I remember being added to the owners' list for Bam when I became a mod, and more recently when I became a mod pro-tem elsewhere. So I just assumed that rooms needed to have owners, for designation if not for powers, or something. Shrug
@HodofHod oh. I've been bitten by that. They do some parsing on the excerpt to try to avoid wasting valuable space on redundant verbiage. Your "is" got caught up in that. The pattern is trying to catch "The X tag is" and cut to the chase, but legitimate excerpts like yours get caught by it sometimes.
i live a block away from a place called pinters and they sell seforim outside for a buck a piece and inside its from 5-what ever number the guy feels the book is worth and then you bargain with him on it some more lol.
The FAQ seems to be contradictory. It says that "If you have a question about...history of Jewish law or of Jewish life...then you've come to the right place." But it also says, "On the other hand, questions unrelated to Jewish life and learning, even if they are about...Jews, Jewish history, a...
My question on the origins of the term "Holocaust" was migrated to another board. That's fine, but why does migration have to close out a question from the Judaism board? It would seem to be appropriate in both places.
