Talk to the sane

I remember when a work colleague of mine (a German) started to talk with another work colleague of mine (an Egyptian Muslim).

The German started to talk about Muhammad and that he lived in the desert with a woman that learned him how to read and write.

Then the German said that the Koran was based on how Muhammad thought that  a state should be run and that many (maybe most) of its versus are from Muhammad’s pen.

The Egyptian then just shortly stated that this is not true but that the Quran comes directly from Allah and holds the words of Allah.

The German didn’t accept that answer but started again with the same story (myself, I knew from the start that he will have no success with his arguments and laughed a little for myself). The Egyptian then repeated what he just said and the German gave up, end of discussion.

P.S.
Having worked now for more than 30 years as an engineer I have had about five Muslim (among a thousand or more non Muslim) closer work colleagues.
According to my judgement none of them were extreme but still not moderate since they were all very strong in their beliefs.
We non Muslim (almost all) knew that we without problem can discuss work issues with our Muslim colleagues but that was more or less it since otherwise we knew that tension could easily build up impacting all our work negatively.

6 thoughts on “Talk to the sane”

  1. Nej, orden från Sveriges 7 klöver politiker är
    ”Vi har varit naiva” De fattar inte vad de säger, eller gör. Dessa har svenska folket valt att leda landet och representera dem. Stackars Sverige

  2. Har arbetat i Mellanöstern. Afrika, bakom järnridån och i Västeuropa.
    I de två förstnämnda länderna fick man passa sin tunga. Prata religion var tabu, om man inte ville ha bekymmer. Överallt i övriga länder gick detta bra och gav aldrig några problem. Religionen var inte så stor sak där. Tyvärr har våra politiker nog inte fattat, att de importerar religionskrig.
    Och när det väl kickar igång kommer de natuligtvis att säga: Oh, detta hade vi ju inte en aning om.

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