Comments by "Emir" (@irongron) on "Islam u0026 Freedom: A Conversation with Rory Stewart (Episode #356)" video.

  1. My ancestry is from the former Yugoslavia (Mother Serbian, Father Bosnian). For me, Islam never felt right, for starters most of my fathers side of the family were closet drinkers, so I would not call them real muslims. I grew up in Australia and going to the mosque there was weird, it was mostly Pakistani's and us Bosnians. All of us kids hated learning Arabic to read the Quaran, so we would go out in the back yard and play cricket, Pakistani kids love cricket and Australians love cricket, so that was it for us. When I moved to Ukraine a decade ago, I was baptised into the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, thus correcting a mistake my father's ancestors made in the Balkans hundreds of years ago because of the Ottoman Turks. Anyway, thanks for the scholarship Mr. Harris and I hope this comment helps as a kind of "value add" to your quite lively discussion with Mr. Stewart!
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