Don Pushkin

To whom it may concern Recently I’ve seen quite a few people talking about “Bosnian Islam” “Turkish Islam” or whatever other nationality they decide to put in front of Islam. Here’s the thing. There is no such thing as Bosnian Islam or Turkish Islam. There is only one Islam, the same Islam that was revealed over 1,400 years ago. It really isn’t that complicated. Islam is not something you can reshape to fit your culture, traditions, or personal preferences. Just because something is common or widely accepted in your culture doesn’t automatically make it part of the religion. Your culture is your culture, and your religion is your religion. Learn to separate the two. If you want to follow certain cultural traditions, that’s entirely up to you. Nobody is stopping you. But don’t take those traditions, mix them with religion, and then try to present the result as some special version of Islam. And most importantly, don’t drag the rest of us into it. Those of us who actually take our faith seriously and put Islam above nationality, ethnicity, and culture want no part in any of this. Be proud of where you come from. Nobody is telling you otherwise. But your nationality doesn’t define Islam, and Islam doesn’t need to be adjusted to suit your nationality. Islam is Islam. Whether you’re Bosnian, Turkish, Egyptian or anything else makes absolutely no difference. It’s really as simple as that 👋🏻

Secularism is not neutral. Secularism is atheism disguised as neutrality. Its strategy is to slowly strip religion away from the people, so they don’t even realize what is being taken from them until it’s too late to resist. First religion is pushed out of education then public life and slowly out of people’s everyday lives, until an entire generation grows up thinking that a society without God is normal. Secularism doesn’t free society from ideology. It simply replaces divine authority with human authority. The greatest deception of secularism is convincing people that removing God is neutrality, while replacing His guidance with the opinions and desires of man is somehow progress.