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Oh Sheite! Oliver Stone's son converts to Islam in Iran.

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US filmmaker Sean Stone, son of Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone, converted to Islam on Tuesday in Iran, where he is making a documentary, he told AFP.
"The conversion to Islam is not abandoning Christianity or Judaism, which I was born with. It means I have accepted Mohammad and other prophets," he said in a brief telephone call from the central Iranian city of Isfahan, where he underwent the ceremony.
Sean Stone's famous father is Jewish, while his mother is Christian.
The 27-year-old filmmaker did not say why he converted.
According to Iran's Fars news agency, Sean Stone had become a Shiite and had chosen to be known by the Muslim first name Ali.
Sean/Ali Stone has acted in minor roles in several of his father's films, and has directed a handful of documentaries..

http://news.yahoo.com/oliver-stones-son-converts-islam-iran-140347160.html
 
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Islam isn't the problem. It's the radical extremist interpretations of it which are the problem.

Just as there are radical extremist interpretations of Christianity (see: Crusades, the Inquisition, Holy Roman Empire, etc.) and Judaism.
 
SunnyD said:
Islam isn't the problem. It's the radical extremist interpretations of it which are the problem.

Just as there are radical extremist interpretations of Christianity (see: Crusades, the Inquisition, Holy Roman Empire, etc.) and Judaism.
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Well Christianity are not the laws of my countries unlike in Iran. So you are saying the Iran Govt is the radical extremist? Do you know who Mohammad was?
 
If I was a US citizen in Iran, I'd convert to islam too if i didn't wanna get shot or arrested for spying.
 
I don't see the appeal of Islam. Even on a secular level Islam doesn't have the sheer amount of art that Christianity or Judaism has. It's just not that interesting.

He probably did it for some chick.
 
karmypolitics said:
I don't see the appeal of Islam. Even on a secular level Islam doesn't have the sheer amount of art that Christianity or Judaism has. It's just not that interesting.
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Uh really? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Golden_Age

Ever heard of algebra? It's derived from Arabic, and invented by a muslim. The precursor to chemistry, alchemy, was vastly islamic, and the word also is derived from Arabic. Distillation was a islamic invention. They were to first discover how the eye works, they were integral to the development of modern chess, and their scientific works far outclassed anything the Christian Europeans were working on in the dark ages. They developed the crankshaft, windmill and even much of modern medicine tools such as the scalpel and forceps. I'm sure I am missing much more.

In term of art, Persian rugs, complex ornaments, ornate calligraphy, frankly, it was amazing what they were able to do. Some of the elaborate mosques easily rivals the cathedrals in the Vatican. Examples: Makkah Masjid and Masjid al-Haram.

Islam was a very liberal and advanced religion when compared to christianity for hundreds of years. The ottoman empire had religious toleration (or a form of it), while Europe had the inquisition. It was only the rise of Islamic Conservatism later in history that crippled Islamic discoveries, and of course, the European Renaissance and scientific revolution out shadowed Islamic contributions due to the fact we are in a western-based society.
 
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I love it, to find something good about Islam we have our history major here going back a thousand years. To find something bad about Christianity we go back hundreds/thousand years.

Let's just look at them as they are today. Islam isn't in it's golden age. It's in its dark ages right now as the nutjobs run the asylum. It really isn't that interesting right now unless you're into blowing shit up.

Christians still corner snake handling though.
 
SunnyD said:
Islam isn't the problem. It's the radical extremist interpretations of it which are the problem.

Just as there are radical extremist interpretations of Christianity (see: Crusades, the Inquisition, Holy Roman Empire, etc.) and Judaism.
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Islam isn't the problem. All religions are the problem.
 
Nintendesert said:
I love it, to find something good about Islam we have our history major here going back a thousand years. To find something bad about Christianity we go back hundreds/thousand years.

Let's just look at them as they are today. Islam isn't in it's golden age. It's in its dark ages right now as the nutjobs run the asylum. It really isn't that interesting right now unless you're into blowing shit up.

Christians still corner snake handling though.
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My previous post was not about the state of Islam as it is today, nor about Christianity. All it states is that Islamic History is very facinating. I was just rebutting that claim that "From a Secular point of view, Islam is not interesting." That is all.
 
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