I will confess that more than a few times, still abundant with patience, thinking that the best way to respond to the ludicrous assertion of the prospective Muslim before me was, with the best of intentions of course (and a mischievous smile), to bluntly and indecorously declare that said point, statement or hogwash was by any criteria, utterly and completely, stop, drop and roll foolish that to utter it must have been a joke. (Whoa, get an english professor in here, we have a rampant run-on on our hands.)

Has this worked often, ill admit the negative, but yes it is one of my guilty pleasures. Alhamdulillah, that I am a Muslim and that ALLAH has spared me their kind of foolishness. Though I have my own share of other “foolishnesses.” (If that’s not a word then I coined it!)