Registration Agreement

QM FORUM

You agree, through your use of this forum, that you will not post any material which is false, defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, threatening, invasive of a person's privacy, adult material, or otherwise in violation of any International law. You also agree not to post any copyrighted material unless you own the copyright or you have written consent from the owner of the copyrighted material. Spam, flooding, advertisements, chain letters, pyramid schemes, and solicitations are also forbidden on this forum.

Note that it is impossible for the staff or the owners of this forum to confirm the validity of posts. Please remember that we do not actively monitor the posted messages, and as such, are not responsible for the content contained within. We do not warrant the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information presented. The posted messages express the views of the author, and not necessarily the views of this forum, its staff, its subsidiaries, or this forum's owner. Anyone who feels that a posted message is objectionable is encouraged to notify an administrator or moderator of this forum immediately. The staff and the owner of this forum reserve the right to remove objectionable content, within a reasonable time frame, if they determine that removal is necessary. This is a manual process, however, please realize that they may not be able to remove or edit particular messages immediately. This policy applies to member profile information as well.

You remain solely responsible for the content of your posted messages. Furthermore, you agree to indemnify and hold harmless the owners of this forum, any related websites to this forum, its staff, and its subsidiaries. The owners of this forum also reserve the right to reveal your identity (or any other related information collected on this service) in the event of a formal complaint or legal action arising from any situation caused by your use of this forum.

You have the ability, as you register, to choose your username. We advise that you keep the name appropriate. With this user account you are about to register, you agree to never give your password out to another person except an administrator, for your protection and for validity reasons. You also agree to NEVER use another person's account for any reason.  We also HIGHLY recommend you use a complex and unique password for your account, to prevent account theft.

After you register and login to this forum, you will be able to fill out a detailed profile. It is your responsibility to present clean and accurate information. Any information the forum owner or staff determines to be inaccurate or vulgar in nature will be removed, with or without prior notice. Appropriate sanctions may be applicable.

Please note that with each post, your IP address is recorded, in the event that you need to be banned from this forum or your ISP contacted. This will only happen in the event of a major violation of this agreement.

Also note that the software places a cookie, a text file containing bits of information (such as your username and password), in your browser's cache. This is ONLY used to keep you logged in/out.

The software does not collect or send any other form of information to your computer.

A general forum policy is also provided for forum members to abide by and to peruse at any time. This is available from the 'News' section in the top right area of the main forum page.

Privacy Policy

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS FORUM IS PRIMARILY DEDICATED TO A STUDY OF THE QURAN

In addition to the Registration Agreement, please see the QM Forum policy below which forum members agree to abide by:
 
1.  GENERAL RULES

(a)   Whilst healthy open discussions are encouraged between forum members, those who break the forum rules may be banned. No reason will need to be given by the moderators for doing so.

(b)   Forum members can report a post or another member by contacting the moderators. Once any objectionable content is brought to the attention of the moderators, they will attempt to edit or remove such material as quickly as possible. If you feel that the matter has not been dealt with effectively, please email Joseph Islam directly at josephislam1@gmail.com

(c)   Posts made on this forum will appear in the public domain and express the views and opinions of the author of each post. The  QM forum is not liable for the content of the posts and any private messages made by the forum members. If no other forum rules are contravened, individual posts and the username will remain on the forum to maintain integrity of the threads and at the sole discretion of the forum moderators. Therefore, forum members are expected to consider carefully what they share in a public space such as this forum.

(d)   Only one user account per individual will be permitted. Duplicate accounts and posts will be removed.

(e)   The default language of this forum is English. The only other language that will be permitted is Arabic with the proviso that an appropriate translation in English is provided.
 

2. CONTENTS OF THE POSTS AND INTERACTION WITH OTHER FORUM USERS
 
(a)   Decorum, civility and respect must be maintained at all times.

(b)   Posts which contain personal insults, jibes, threats, swearing, inappropriate content, comments of a sexual or racist nature and extremist views will be removed. The offending member will be banned.

(c)   Any repeated posts whether general or aimed at any particular forum member, posts deemed irresponsible and posts unnecessarily contentious will be removed with the offending member's account being temporarily suspended or permanently banned.

(d)   Please avoid attempting to badger any members into responding especially if they have concluded parting with their perspectives on a matter.

(e)   Any form of 'trolling' will be curtailed and the repeated offender banned.
 
(f)   This forum must not be used as a platform for any form of indiscriminate advertising, whether it is with a view to promote another scholar's views or the views of a particular group of thinkers, especially when academic differences of opinion have been made clear.

(g)   The moderators will remove posts with website links which promote religious or racial hatred and the offending member will be banned.

(h)   Usernames must not be offensive or of an inappropriate nature. Otherwise, they will be removed.

(i)   Please keep an appropriate, consistent font size. Posts which overtly make use of full capitals will be removed.
 
(j)   Please endeavour to make your point succinctly and provide references wherever possible. Please avoid voluminous content.
 
(k)   Please do not infringe any copyrights. It is the sole responsibility of the forum member to ensure that no copyright breaches occur in their posts. Please provide all appropriate references.

(l)   Links to external websites must be relevant to the topic. Where they are deemed to be inappropriate, they will be removed.

(m)   Signatures must not be offensive. The moderators may ask you to edit your signature if they deem it to be inappropriate.
 

3. CONDITIONS OF DISCUSSION OR DEBATE WITH JOSEPH ISLAM INCLUDING CRITIQUE OF HIS ARTICLES OR PERSPECTIVES

Notwithstanding the above forum rules, please click the following link below which outlines the conditions of discussion or debate with Joseph Islam:

https://quransmessage.com/articles/debate%20FM3.htm


CONDITIONS
 
The moderators reserve the right to modify the forum rules at any time.