Do you really have a problem with every foreigner who comes to Japan and contributes to the economy, or is it mainly with one particular community? Tourism is one of the reasons Japan’s economy stays strong. Visitors spend money, create jobs, and support local businesses. Many Japanese people also move to America, Europe, and other countries for work or a better life. Should Americans start telling Japanese people to stay in Japan because their country is “uncomfortable”? Moving to another country is not automatically wrong. People look for opportunity, safety, or a different life. That is normal. Hate is not the answer. I strongly disagree with Islamic ideology and its closed system of thought. I speak against it openly. But Muslims are still human beings. Many are simply raised inside an ideology that limits free thinking and keeps them attached to rigid identity. The problem is the ideology, not the fact that they are human. Live peacefully wherever you are. But selective resentment toward one group while ignoring the larger picture of global movement and economic exchange does not solve anything. Clear thinking is better than blanket rejection.

Mansoor Laghari, thank you for the courage to speak from your own conscience. We need more people who refuse to let a group identity silence what they know to be true inside. Most of us grow up inside a strong religious story. The mind attaches to it early and begins to treat that story as 'who I am.' Once the identity hardens, any thought that challenges the group begins to feel dangerous. Loyalty becomes more important than honesty. This is how the mind slowly closes. True spiritual growth moves in the opposite direction. It gently questions every fixed label. It asks: Who am I without this identity? You do not stop loving your people. You do not become empty or cold. You simply stop needing the label to feel whole. When that happens, awareness becomes clearer. Conscience can speak without fear. You become free to stand by what is true even when the circle around you demands silence. Your willingness to follow your own seeing, rather than the pressure of the group, is a living example of this freedom. That is rare and valuable. Thank you for showing that it is possible to remain connected to truth without abandoning sincerity. The more people who learn to listen to the quiet voice within, rather than the loud demands of identity, the more space opens for real clarity and peace.

You asked a honest question. What does Islam offer in this world that could make someone leave the religion they already feel at home in? The real answer is a strong sense of identity and certainty. It gives clear rules, a clear belonging, and a clear story about who you are. For many people that feels safe. But look carefully at what this does to the mind. Islam places firm boundaries around thinking. Certain questions become dangerous. Doubting core teachings is often treated as a serious fault. People are ranked and some are called the worst of creatures. Everyday life is filled with strict rules of allowed and forbidden. The afterlife is presented with strong physical rewards that keep the heart attached to the story. All of this keeps the mind inside a closed circle. The more tightly a person holds the identity I am Muslim, the harder it becomes to look beyond it. The mind stays busy protecting the story instead of exploring freely. This is how the system quietly blocks deeper awareness. Now look at another way of seeing. There is a teaching that does not ask you to lock yourself into any fixed identity. It points you back to a simple question: Who am I? It says that every label you carry, name, religion, body, thoughts, emotions, is temporary. These things can all be observed. What observes them cannot be any of them. The real Self is the pure awareness that watches everything come and go. When you slowly stop claiming I am this body or I am this mind or I am this religion, something begins to open. You do not stop loving people. You do not become empty. You simply stop needing the label to feel complete. As the old identification weakens, consciousness becomes clearer. Thoughts are seen as thoughts. Emotions are seen as emotions. The awareness that remains steady behind them is recognised as what you have always been. This is not belief. It is direct looking. The more you look, the quieter the inner noise becomes, and a natural clarity appears. One path strengthens identity and protects it with rules and warnings. The other invites you to question every identity until only awareness remains. The comfort of certainty is real. The freedom of not needing certainty is deeper. Most people never notice the difference until they begin to watch the one who is holding the identity, instead of only defending the identity itself. That quiet watching is where the mind truly starts to open. I am not promoting Hinduism. These are simply teachings that have helped me see more clearly, so I thought of sharing them.

Hamas started in 1987 as the Palestinian arm of the Muslim Brotherhood. They treat the fight as a holy duty. Every loss becomes we are victims. Every attack becomes resistance. This keeps people angry and loyal while the leaders stay in power. It does not build schools, jobs, or a future. Most Muslims fall into this trap for simple reasons. Al Jazeera and similar outlets run the same emotional script every day with endless images of suffering, selective stories, and religious language that frames Israel as pure evil. Online, the pressure is even stronger. Share the right post or you look disloyal. Question it and you get attacked. The brain prefers the story that protects identity and belonging over the one that requires hard facts. That is how emotional blackmail works. It hijacks loyalty before logic can speak. Israel has the right to exist. It is a real country. About 1.85 million Muslims live there as full citizens. They vote, study, work, and live longer, healthier lives than people under Hamas or the Palestinian Authority. That is measurable reality, not a slogan. Ordinary people Japanese, European, Arab, or Muslim do not support Hamas or endless conflict. They want progress. Places that choose development grow. Places that choose emotion and resistance stay stuck. Clear thinking beats curated rage. Results matter more than the videos designed to make you angry.

Nothing is wrong with her looking for halal food. She is Muslim and her religion has strict rules. She can search. Japan does not have to change its food for her. The problem is the rule itself. The Quran says do not eat meat if Allah’s name was not mentioned over it (6:121). Same animal, same meat, same knife but if a non-Muslim cuts it, it becomes haram. That only works if the identity of the person who slaughtered it decides whether the food is acceptable to God. A God who created every human does not need to treat non-Muslims as ritually insufficient for the meat to be allowed. The same pattern continues. The Quran says those who disbelieved among the People of the Scripture (Jews and Christians) and the polytheists are the worst of creatures (98:6). A merciful God who made all humans does not rank groups of his own creation as the worst beings. Dogs are treated as impure in Islamic practice (mainly from hadith; the Quran itself allows trained hunting dogs in 5:4). A God who created all animals does not single out one ordinary animal as ritually dirty without a clear reason. Paradise is described with houris- pure, beautiful companions for the men (44:54, 52:20, 55:72, 56:22–37). The popular 72 virgins number comes from hadith, not the Quran, but the reward is still framed in physical and sexual terms. An intelligent God focused on spiritual growth does not need to promise men sexual companions in the afterlife as the main attraction. Once serious questioning of these rules is treated as dangerous or sinful, the system stops working like open belief. It starts working like a closed cult. She can look for her food. The rules that force her to look for it that way do not survive plain examination.

What this woman is doing is wrong and heartbreaking. No mother of any faith or background would truly want to hurt the child she carried for nine months, the little life that was part of her body and soul. That bond is one of the deepest things humans experience. This looks like one deeply troubled person in a moment of darkness, not proof of what Muslim mothers (or mothers of any group) are like. Almost every mother on earth loves her child fiercely and would do anything to protect them. Using one painful clip to paint an entire community as demonic is neither fair nor true. I have my disagreements with Islam, but I also refuse to let one video become a tool for spreading hate. Children deserve better than that, and so does the truth. Most mothers, everywhere, are doing their best to love and raise the children they brought into the world.

Not defending daily filth ... pointing out that progress exists and blaming Indian culture as some unchangeable defect is lazy.Indore has been India’s cleanest city for 8 straight years under Swachh Survekshan, driven by strict waste segregation + high citizen participation. Bhubaneswar jumped into the top 10 of clean big cities with near-universal door-to-door collection and processing. Swachh Bharat built over 12 crore rural toilets and took open defecation from widespread to largely eliminated.Singapore, Tokyo, and Macau are exceptionally clean because of strict laws, constant enforcement, and cultural norms that treat littering as unacceptable. High density doesn’t make it impossible; those cities prove it. India is large, diverse, and still catching up in many places, but pretending zero improvement or zero local effort has happened is just selective negativity.Plenty of local groups and volunteers clean up across states. What are you doing besides sitting online equating all of India with the worst examples?

These come from the same Hadith collections that also say Prophet Muhammad married Aisha when she was 6 and consummated the marriage when she was 9. The same books that record orders about killing apostates, fighting non-Muslims, and other things people usually push back on hard. When those parts come up, a lot of people say Hadith isn’t fully reliable and we only follow the Quran. But for dusting the bed three times, which foot goes in the bathroom first, covering your mouth when you yawn, or not wearing a ring on the index finger, suddenly those same Hadith are solid enough to teach as proper daily living. That double standard is pretty clear. I don’t mind good things from any source. Cleanliness habits, eating with the right hand, covering food, knocking before you enter someone’s house, those can make sense practically. If something is actually useful or kind, it should be appreciated and followed, no matter where it comes from. At the same time, every religion has good teachings in it. You can’t just highlight the rules from one and ignore the rest. Here are a few from the others so it’s not one-sided: Bible (Christians) -------------------- Do to others what you would have them do to you (Matthew 7:12) Love your neighbor as yourself (Leviticus 19:18, Matthew 22:39) Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you (Matthew 5:44) Forgive others so your Father will forgive you (Matthew 6:14-15) Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other (Ephesians 4:32) Bhagavad Gita (Hindu) -------------------------- Non-violence, truthfulness, freedom from anger, and compassion toward all beings (BG 16.2, also 10.5) You have the right to action, not to the fruits of it (BG 2.47) The wise see with equal vision a Brahmin, a cow, an elephant, a dog, and an outcaste (BG 5.18) A true yogi sees the Self in all beings and all beings in the Self (BG 6.29) Act with equanimity, without attachment to success or failure (BG 2.48) Upanishads (Hindu) ---------------------- The wise man sees all beings in the Self and the Self in all beings, so he does not hate anyone (Isha Upanishad 6) When one sees oneness, there is no delusion or sorrow (Isha Upanishad 7) You are that, the identity of the individual self with the ultimate (Chandogya Upanishad 6.8.7) Lead me from the unreal to the real, from darkness to light, from death to immortality (Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 1.3.28) May we not hate one another (various peace mantras) Torah (Jews) -------------- Love your neighbor as yourself (Leviticus 19:18) Love the stranger as yourself, because you were strangers in Egypt (Leviticus 19:34) Do not take vengeance or bear a grudge (Leviticus 19:18) Justice, justice you shall pursue (Deuteronomy 16:20) Do not oppress the stranger, the fatherless, or the widow, leave something for the poor (Deuteronomy 24:17-21) Good things are in all of them. Pointing out specific practices or difficult reports from one doesn’t erase the positive parts in the others. Consistency matters, either we look at the full picture of the sources, or we don’t.

But Video gives an important message. Even Educated Muslims rarely question the filth in their own texts. From childhood the mind is locked shut , no critical look at the Prophet or the verses that command killing, subjugation, and sexual rules that clash with every modern standard. The verses and hadiths: Quran 9:5: “Kill the polytheists wherever you find them… seize them, besiege them, and lie in wait for them.” - Quran 9:29: Fight the Jews and Christians “until they pay the jizya… while they are humbled.” - Quran 5:51: “Do not take the Jews and the Christians as allies… whoever is an ally to them among you is one of them.” - Quran 98:6: Disbelievers among the People of the Scripture and polytheists “are the worst of creatures.” - Quran 8:12: “I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieved, so strike them upon the necks.” - Quran 2:223: “Your wives are a tilth for you, so go to your tilth as you will.” - Sahih Bukhari 5134: The Prophet married Aisha at six and consummated the marriage at nine. - Sahih Bukhari 268: He used to visit all his wives (nine or eleven) in one night and was said to have the strength of thirty men. These are the actual texts. Most Muslims treat them as untouchable.

Japan does not need to change its workplace rules so that Muslim identity stays exactly the same. The women feel their Muslim identity is becoming weaker because they cannot wear the hijab at work and have no separate room to pray. This shows how closely they have connected their sense of self to those practices. When the practices are not possible, they feel something important about being Muslim is lost. That is limited identification. The mind treats the religious identity as the main thing that must remain unchanged. Japanese workplaces in nursing, care, and factories use uniforms and shared spaces for practical reasons such as safety, hygiene, and the same rules for all workers. Those rules were not created against Muslims. Changing them so that one religious practice can continue puts Muslim identity above the needs of the shared work. Detachment does not mean giving up being Muslim. It means Muslim identity does not have to depend on the workplace matching the rules of the home country. The same life moves in the Japanese workers as well. When that larger seeing is clearer, the missing hijab or prayer room matters less. If the world is one family and we are one at the root, neither side needs the other to change daily rules only to protect a religious identity. Japan can keep its clear workplace standards. The workers can keep their faith without needing every practice protected by the host country. The real problem is holding Muslim identity so tightly that ordinary rules of another place feel like an attack on who they are.