Time to reflect

[Tay]

Peace all,

It's been almost 2 weeks and since my last visit, and to my dismay, here's a post from the first thread I clicked on

by stolenidentity

Posted Fri May 21, 2004 427 pm Post subject Re why 1400 years of mullahs rule is just starting to end??

?just cause your family is retarded and didn't have a copy of Quran and it's translation, doesn't mean each and everyone of the sunnis share the same retardness as your relatives. so keep your mouth full of shitty or rather made up stories shut and stop manipulating people around here. is that why you come to this forum to brainwash people? R E T A R D, that goes for everyone who talk shit about others based on their own effed-up life experiences to appear somewhat reasonable to themselves and others of the same kind.

That's just the tip of the iceberg.
Insults are being flung back and forth.
And the hadith discussions go on and on and on.

Needless to say, a few minutes of reading was enough to entice my trigger-finger into clicking on my favorites and going somewhere a little more stimulating, and a lot less annoying.

Forum members and moderators, the time for deep reflection has come.

What is free-minds all about?

We need to take a moment and think about the importance of what is being discussed here. This movement is gaining momentum. Free-minds is but one face of a multi-faceted diamond. We are breaking the shackles of 1000 years of dogma and ritual. We are moving forward. This is just a bump in the road. The invaders of this forum are but a few, and they have successfully halted progress in a few short weeks. I don't think anyone realizes how important this forum is. We have an established web presence. Visitors are flocking here. It is our duty to maintain the integrity of what we all agree on, and that is Allah and His Favor upon us, Al-Qur'an.

As time goes on, opposition will grow stronger. Things will get more serious. The time for tolerating nonsense has come to an end.

I urge all members and moderators to refrain from particpating in trivial debates. I humbly request that any posts containing profanity, insults, and comments non-conducive to constructive dialogue be deleted without warning.

I feel it is time to tighten the reigns on the direction of this forum. I have grown close to many of you and I do not want to leave this place. However, I just don't have the time to waste in reading fruitless debates. I'm hoping for a noticeable improvement.

My apologies if I have overstepped my bounds.

Peace,
Tay