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ISLAM
We will now examine Islam – what Muslims teach and believe – and how it differs from Christianity. I hope that this will help to equip you to share the claims of Jesus Christ in a loving and compassionate way with the Muslim. We know that Muslims will be reading these words as well as Christians, as we share these blogs, and we want to address those readers for just a moment.
If you are a Muslim, we want you to know that we appreciate you taking the time to see why your faith is a false teaching. There may be some things you will read with which you are in strong disagreement, but we cannot avoid that.
Please understand that in a Western country, where the freedom of religion and freedom of speech are constitutional guarantees, we have the freedom to discuss, consider, and think about religious issues. We have the freedom to say what we want and write what we want. That freedom to think and act for ourselves is vitally important, and is a major difference between our culture and faith and that of Islam.
Dr. Ron Carlson, president of Christian Ministries International, a graduate of Bethel College and Theological Seminary, has spoken in 75 countries and is recognized as one of the foremost lecturers on the non-Christian cults and Christian apologetics. He knows what he is talking about in this matter. He shares not only from his academic studies (simply from books or theory), but from very practical life experiences as well. Ron studied and lived in the Middle East. He studied Middle Eastern history, archaeology, and Arabic beliefs. He lived and worked in Beirut, Lebanon, and in Palestine, and traveled through many more Muslim countries such as Morocco, Algeria, Syria, Jordan, Tunisia, Lybia, and Egypt.
As a Christian, Ron has spoken in probably every high school (as well as the American University) in Beirut, Lebanon. He has lectured in the Muslim countries of Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.
He has traveled and lectured throughout the Philippines, where the Muslim faith is visible everywhere, and has dialogued the points of this subject with Muslim religious leaders. Thus what is shared herewith is not simply from theoretical book knowledge but from a very live working knowledge of what Islam is in its practical and real sense.
Where the Muslims Are
Islam is a rapidly growing religion, both spiritually and geographically. Today there are over 850 million Muslims worldwide. They make up about one-sixth or more of the worlds population. As of the year, 2000 there were reportedly one billion Muslims in the world. And as of the year, 2000 Islam dominated 52 countries of the world. It's now 2008, and I only have the stats up to the year 2000.
With that out of the way, when most people think about Muslims, they immediately think of the Middle East or North Africa, but in fact only 20 percent of the worlds Muslims live in those two areas; most of them live in other countries. The largest Muslim country is Indonesia, with 154 million Muslims. The total Arab world, including all of the Middle East and North Africa, has about 144 million Muslims. Bangladesh has 90 million and Pakistan another 90 million. India has about 70 million Muslims, approximately 11 percent of its population.
To the surprise of many people, there is also a large Muslim population in China. In fact, nearly 63 million Muslims live in China. The whole southern tier of the former Soviet Union along the border with Afghanistan, Iran, Syria, and Iraq (and all across to Turkey), is home for more than 41 million Muslims. In Turkey there are about 46 million and in Iran about 40 million.
As of the year, 2000 Islam was the second-largest religion in Europe, and it may be now the largest in 2008. In Great Britain there are over 1 ½ million Muslims, with some 1500 mosques. Thirty years ago (1970) in the United States, Islam was virtually nonexistent. But because of heavy immigration from Muslim countries, with many Muslims fleeing the oppression of the Islamic states and seeking freedom in the United States, among other things, as of the year 2000 there was a Muslim population of about 5 million in our country. I have no idea of the exact number now in 2008.
God gave us a Great Commission: to go into all the world and proclaim the good news of Jesus Christ. But, sad to say, we have not carried that Great Commission as we should have into the Muslim world. Only 2 percent of North American missionaries have been involved in Muslim ministries (based on the year 2000 calculations). We have approximately one Christian missionary for every million Muslims! In the twenty-first century Islam represents the single greatest challenge to Christianity. No matter how peaceful many Muslims are, their core doctrine allows for no other faith to exist peacefully along side the.
Understanding Islam
To understand Islam, perhaps the key factor is to realize that Islam must be studied in the religious and cultural context of seventh-century Arabia.
In his excellent book Islamic Invasion, Dr. Robert Morey says that what Muhammad did was to raise the seventh-century culture in which he was born to the status of divine law. In fact, Islam is the deification of the seventh-century Arabian culture. Unless you understand the historical context of when and where Muhammad was born, you will never understand Islam.
Dr. Arthur Arberry, the head of Mideastern Studies at Cambridge University (and one of the great Arabic scholars), said this:
Islam is a peculiarly Arabian religion because Islam is a religion and culture, and as a religion and culture they are one. It must be understood in terms of its essential identification with seventh-century culture.
Islam imposes its seventh-century Arabian culture in its political expression, in its family affairs, in its dietary laws, in its clothing, in its religious rites, and in its language. Muslims are religiously compelled to impose seventh-century Arab culture on the rest of the cultures in the world.
Muhammad took the political laws which governed seventh-century Arabian tribes and literally made them the laws of Allah, their god. In such tribes, the sheik or chief of the nomadic tribes had absolute authority. There was no concept of civil or personal rights in seventh-century Arabia. This is why Islamic countries are inevitably ruled by dictators or strong men who rule as despots. There are 21 Arab nations today (as of the year 2000), not one of them is a democracy. Democracy cannot flourish in Islam.
The more Islamic fundamentalism gains dominance, the more a nation is plunged into the dark ages of the seventh-century Arabia. Iran is a good example of this. The despots today of Libya, Iran, Iraq, Syria, the Sudan, and Yemen are merely examples of such Arabian tyranny grafted into modern times.
Because there was no concept of personal freedom or civil rights in the tribal life of seventh-century Arabia, Islamic law today does not recognize freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of assembly, or freedom of the press. This is why non-Muslims (such as Christians) are routinely denied the most basic of human rights and are often physically attacked, jailed or murdered.
Islam in Action
According to a Washington Post story on January 3, 1993, crowds of Muslims, reacting to what they regarded as proselytizing by Christians, attacked or burned several Christian churches or homes on the islands of Java and Sumatra. In the biggest reported incident, more than 10,000 Muslims apparently well-organized, tore down and burned the home of a Christian preacher outside Perusia, a town in East Java, to protest tracts that he was distributing. The mob wrecked two nearby Protestant churches that were unconnected to the preacher. The head of Indonesia's largest Islamic organization says that at least 30 attacks on churches or other Christian property were reported in the previous three months.
The Associated Press reported this on February 8, 1993:
Western human rights groups say that a quick mobilization by their international networks may have saved the lives to two Christian Philippine leaders imprisoned in Saudi Arabia.
Reliable sources within the human rights community reported that two lay pastors scheduled to be executed on Christmas Day by the government of Saudia Arabia were arrested in October and charged with violating kingdom law by preaching Christianity. The two had apparently been in hiding since January, when a Christian service they led in a private home was raided by Saudi religious police. Reports of the scheduled execution prompted a flurry of international inquiries and protests, including a harshly worded appeal to King Faud from Philippine president Fidel Ramos.
With those things happening 15 years ago, and from what we see and hear on our television networks and over the internet now, things are much, much worse, and will not be getting any better. And these efforts were futile. The two pastors were beheaded in Saudi Arabia because they dared to hold a Christian Bible study! And this is the same country where Christians by the tens of thousands had just stood in defense in 1993, of its soil against attacks from Iraq, if you remember!
There is NO FREEDOM of religion in Saudi Arabia. In fact, one of the biggest tragedies of the Gulf War was that when we went our men over there to save that country of Saudi Arabia, our Christian chaplains weren't even allowed to wear their little crosses on their lapels. The government of Saudi Arabia said they were not allowed to hold Christian chapel services for our soldiers who were protecting their country. Service personnel were advised to leave their Bibles at home. This was because Islamic law forbids any presence or mention of Christianity. The same things are happening now in Iraq and abroad in 2008.
The Washington Post of January 13, 1993, carried this story:
Sudan's radical Islam regime is not just waging a genocidal war in the South against Christians, it is also part of a larger Islamic push. It made itself a training ground for Islamic terrorists to overthrow Egypt's pro-Western Regime. For months now, Islamic terrorists have been going around and randomly shooting foreign tourists in an attempt to kill the major foreign currency earner of a desperately poor country so that they might be turned back to the Islamic laws.
How about these headlines today:
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Islamic Practice
Other cultural things that Muhammad took from the culture around him include praying five times a day while facing Mecca in Saudi Arabia. This reminds the Muslim five times a day that he must bow in obedience to Arabia.
A Muslim is also required, often in the face of great hardship and great cost, to go on a pilgrimage to Arabia at least once in his life to worship at the Kaaba in Mecca. Historical evidence is clear in showing that Muhammad adopted the pagan religious rite of a pilgrimage to Mecca, which was already being widely practiced long before Muhammad was even born.
Muhammad, in order to appease the merchants of Mecca (who made tremendous amounts of money by people coming there on pilgrimages), put this requirement into Islam as part of his religion. For financial and cultural reasons Islam adopted this pagan practice, which must be fulfilled even by the poorest Muslims as one of their five pillars of faith.
One of the most demeaning practices of Islam is its barbaric treatment of women. Women are considered property in the fundamental sects of Islam. They are not allowed to have ownership of any kind of property. Approximately 75 percent of Muslim women suffer female circumcision in a most barbaric, painful ritual designed to make them obedient and docile. They are dressed from head to toe in cloths that cover all but the eyes, and often even these are covered by a veil.
It is interesting that what an illiterate nomadic tribesman wore in the desert in seventh-century Arabia is still mandated as the dress code for Muslim women today! It is a clear denial of civil rights to women and is reflective on the Islamic Arabian culture and its low view of women.
You might remember what took place during the Gulf War. On March 10, 1991, The New York Times Magazine reported the following incident about women's rights in Saudi Arabia.
The crisis in the Gulf spawned a much-publicized demonstration by women who dumped their chauffeurs and drove in convoy, defying a ban on women driving in Saudi Arabia. The incident promoted a vicious campaign acquiescence. The religious police patrolled the street and shopping malls, telling women to cover their faces and the young men to pray.
The government punished the demonstrating women as severely as it would any public protester. The women as well as their husbands were forbidden to leave the kingdom. They were forbidden to speak with foreign reporters or to discuss their situation with an outsider. They were warned of further reprisals if they attempted to drive again and stage another demonstration.
But the government's treatment of these women was mild compared to their treatment by the Islamic religious establishment. The fundamentalist sheiks denounced them from one of the kingdom's most powerful political platforms, the Mosque Opus.
In the Friday services after the demonstration, the women were branded as "red Communists, dirty American secularists, whores and prostitutes, fallen women and advocators of vice." Their names, occupations, addresses, and phone numbers were distributed in leaflets at the mosques and other public places. One leaflet accused them of having denounced Islam, an office punishable by death in Saudi Arabia. And these women were all educated Ph.D.'s, most of them teachers at the University. Some were medical doctors. Yet they were threatened with death because they had gotten into cars and driven them. Several of the women remained unrepentant, convinced that eventually the issue of their status would be addressed. ..TABLE> ..TABLE>
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Mumbai, Coming to a Town Near you
Posted: 28 Nov 2008 11:02 PM CST
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As the world watches the horrors of the Islamic terrorist attacks in Mumbai India, other Islamists are training to carry out the same kind of operation and it could easily happen here in America, Canada, or Europe.
Most recently in March of this year, about 20 male Muslims where seen shooting handguns, assault rifles and a sniper rifle off of a dirt road in Phoenix. Some left before the police arrived, but six were arrested and charged with felony weapons charges. It is said that they fired off between 500 to 1,000 rounds. Those captured claimed that it was all just for fun.
The game of paintball is even being used to train for jihad right in our own backyard. Between 2005 and 2006 17 Muslims in Canada who were arrested for plotting terrorist attacks against Canada used paintball to train. One of the London bombers was a player and in Virginia 11 American Muslims were convicted of using plotting attacks against our troops abroad. They also trained by playing paintball.
In 2006 it was reported that a Muslim encampment in upstate NY called Islamberg was being used for military training as nearly every weekend automatic gunfire can be heard along with the occasional small explosion. Neighbours are not welcomed on the camp with open arms as strangers are not allowed in.
I have spoken to several people in law enforcement and they say that this is their biggest fear. That terrorists will just open fire in crowded areas in America as this is their easiest opening to attack us. Unfortunately the terrorists of Mumbai have figured this out.
Iranian Court:Burn his Eyes out With Acid
Posted: 27 Nov 2008 11:52 PM CST
The sharia loving Iranian courts are going to punish a man in the same manner that he punished a young woman who would not marry him. He blinded her with acid and he will be getting the same treatment back. In Arabic this is known as "qisas" It is the act of retaliation.
Iran orders man blinded for acid attack - report
Date : November 27, 2008
TEHRAN, Nov 27 (Reuters) - A man who blinded a woman with
acid after she spurned his marriage proposals will also be
blinded with acid under Iran's Islamic law, a newspaper said on
Thursday.
An Iranian court made the ruling on Wednesday based on the
system of "qisas" or fair retribution, Etemad-e Melli reported.
The man identified as Majid proposed several times but was
spurned by the woman, identified as Ameneh, the daily reported.
In revenge, he threw acid in her face as she left her work in
2004, it added.
She travelled to Spain for surgery to reconstruct her face
but efforts to restore her sight failed. On return from Spain,
she asked the court for retribution, the newspaper said.
"Ever since I was subject to acid being thrown on my face, I
have a constant feeling of being in danger," she said, adding
that Majid had also threatened to kill her in the past.
The newspaper published pictures of Ameneh's face before the
attack and, still disfigured, after reconstructive surgery.
Majid was quoted as saying he did not regret his action but
added: "I threw acid on her face so that she would be mine
forever ... I did not know that acid could have such an effect
on her face."
At the end of the court session, the judges "unanimously
decided to sentence the accused to 'qisas' of his body part,
blinding by acid" and to pay compensation, the report said.
Judiciary officials could not be reached for comment.
The concept of "qisas" also holds in other cases in Iran,
such as murder. A victim's family can demand the death of a
convicted murderer or commute the sentence in return for
financial compensation from the culprit.
The newspaper did not give details about how or when the
sentence would be carried out. Court rulings can be appealed.
(Reporting by Hashem Kalantari; writing by Edmund Blair;
editing by Philippa Fletcher)
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ISLAM
We will now examine Islam – what Muslims teach and believe – and how it differs from Christianity. I hope that this will help to equip you to share the claims of Jesus Christ in a loving and compassionate way with the Muslim. We know that Muslims will be reading these words as well as Christians, as we share these blogs, and we want to address those readers for just a moment.
If you are a Muslim, we want you to know that we appreciate you taking the time to see why your faith is a false teaching. There may be some things you will read with which you are in strong disagreement, but we cannot avoid that.
Please understand that in a Western country, where the freedom of religion and freedom of speech are constitutional guarantees, we have the freedom to discuss, consider, and think about religious issues. We have the freedom to say what we want and write what we want. That freedom to think and act for ourselves is vitally important, and is a major difference between our culture and faith and that of Islam.
Dr. Ron Carlson, president of Christian Ministries International, a graduate of Bethel College and Theological Seminary, has spoken in 75 countries and is recognized as one of the foremost lecturers on the non-Christian cults and Christian apologetics. He knows what he is talking about in this matter. He shares not only from his academic studies (simply from books or theory), but from very practical life experiences as well. Ron studied and lived in the Middle East. He studied Middle Eastern history, archaeology, and Arabic beliefs. He lived and worked in Beirut, Lebanon, and in Palestine, and traveled through many more Muslim countries such as Morocco, Algeria, Syria, Jordan, Tunisia, Lybia, and Egypt.
As a Christian, Ron has spoken in probably every high school (as well as the American University) in Beirut, Lebanon. He has lectured in the Muslim countries of Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.
He has traveled and lectured throughout the Philippines, where the Muslim faith is visible everywhere, and has dialogued the points of this subject with Muslim religious leaders. Thus what is shared herewith is not simply from theoretical book knowledge but from a very live working knowledge of what Islam is in its practical and real sense.
Where the Muslims Are
Islam is a rapidly growing religion, both spiritually and geographically. Today there are over 850 million Muslims worldwide. They make up about one-sixth or more of the worlds population. As of the year, 2000 there were reportedly one billion Muslims in the world. And as of the year, 2000 Islam dominated 52 countries of the world. It's now 2008, and I only have the stats up to the year 2000.
With that out of the way, when most people think about Muslims, they immediately think of the Middle East or North Africa, but in fact only 20 percent of the worlds Muslims live in those two areas; most of them live in other countries. The largest Muslim country is Indonesia, with 154 million Muslims. The total Arab world, including all of the Middle East and North Africa, has about 144 million Muslims. Bangladesh has 90 million and Pakistan another 90 million. India has about 70 million Muslims, approximately 11 percent of its population.
To the surprise of many people, there is also a large Muslim population in China. In fact, nearly 63 million Muslims live in China. The whole southern tier of the former Soviet Union along the border with Afghanistan, Iran, Syria, and Iraq (and all across to Turkey), is home for more than 41 million Muslims. In Turkey there are about 46 million and in Iran about 40 million.
As of the year, 2000 Islam was the second-largest religion in Europe, and it may be now the largest in 2008. In Great Britain there are over 1 ½ million Muslims, with some 1500 mosques. Thirty years ago (1970) in the United States, Islam was virtually nonexistent. But because of heavy immigration from Muslim countries, with many Muslims fleeing the oppression of the Islamic states and seeking freedom in the United States, among other things, as of the year 2000 there was a Muslim population of about 5 million in our country. I have no idea of the exact number now in 2008.
God gave us a Great Commission: to go into all the world and proclaim the good news of Jesus Christ. But, sad to say, we have not carried that Great Commission as we should have into the Muslim world. Only 2 percent of North American missionaries have been involved in Muslim ministries (based on the year 2000 calculations). We have approximately one Christian missionary for every million Muslims! In the twenty-first century Islam represents the single greatest challenge to Christianity. No matter how peaceful many Muslims are, their core doctrine allows for no other faith to exist peacefully along side the.
Understanding Islam
To understand Islam, perhaps the key factor is to realize that Islam must be studied in the religious and cultural context of seventh-century Arabia.
In his excellent book Islamic Invasion, Dr. Robert Morey says that what Muhammad did was to raise the seventh-century culture in which he was born to the status of divine law. In fact, Islam is the deification of the seventh-century Arabian culture. Unless you understand the historical context of when and where Muhammad was born, you will never understand Islam.
Dr. Arthur Arberry, the head of Mideastern Studies at Cambridge University (and one of the great Arabic scholars), said this:
Islam is a peculiarly Arabian religion because Islam is a religion and culture, and as a religion and culture they are one. It must be understood in terms of its essential identification with seventh-century culture.
Islam imposes its seventh-century Arabian culture in its political expression, in its family affairs, in its dietary laws, in its clothing, in its religious rites, and in its language. Muslims are religiously compelled to impose seventh-century Arab culture on the rest of the cultures in the world.
Muhammad took the political laws which governed seventh-century Arabian tribes and literally made them the laws of Allah, their god. In such tribes, the sheik or chief of the nomadic tribes had absolute authority. There was no concept of civil or personal rights in seventh-century Arabia. This is why Islamic countries are inevitably ruled by dictators or strong men who rule as despots. There are 21 Arab nations today (as of the year 2000), not one of them is a democracy. Democracy cannot flourish in Islam.
The more Islamic fundamentalism gains dominance, the more a nation is plunged into the dark ages of the seventh-century Arabia. Iran is a good example of this. The despots today of Libya, Iran, Iraq, Syria, the Sudan, and Yemen are merely examples of such Arabian tyranny grafted into modern times.
Because there was no concept of personal freedom or civil rights in the tribal life of seventh-century Arabia, Islamic law today does not recognize freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of assembly, or freedom of the press. This is why non-Muslims (such as Christians) are routinely denied the most basic of human rights and are often physically attacked, jailed or murdered.
Islam in Action
According to a Washington Post story on January 3, 1993, crowds of Muslims, reacting to what they regarded as proselytizing by Christians, attacked or burned several Christian churches or homes on the islands of Java and Sumatra. In the biggest reported incident, more than 10,000 Muslims apparently well-organized, tore down and burned the home of a Christian preacher outside Perusia, a town in East Java, to protest tracts that he was distributing. The mob wrecked two nearby Protestant churches that were unconnected to the preacher. The head of Indonesia's largest Islamic organization says that at least 30 attacks on churches or other Christian property were reported in the previous three months.
The Associated Press reported this on February 8, 1993:
Western human rights groups say that a quick mobilization by their international networks may have saved the lives to two Christian Philippine leaders imprisoned in Saudi Arabia.
Reliable sources within the human rights community reported that two lay pastors scheduled to be executed on Christmas Day by the government of Saudia Arabia were arrested in October and charged with violating kingdom law by preaching Christianity. The two had apparently been in hiding since January, when a Christian service they led in a private home was raided by Saudi religious police. Reports of the scheduled execution prompted a flurry of international inquiries and protests, including a harshly worded appeal to King Faud from Philippine president Fidel Ramos.
With those things happening 15 years ago, and from what we see and hear on our television networks and over the internet now, things are much, much worse, and will not be getting any better. And these efforts were futile. The two pastors were beheaded in Saudi Arabia because they dared to hold a Christian Bible study! And this is the same country where Christians by the tens of thousands had just stood in defense in 1993, of its soil against attacks from Iraq, if you remember!
There is NO FREEDOM of religion in Saudi Arabia. In fact, one of the biggest tragedies of the Gulf War was that when we went our men over there to save that country of Saudi Arabia, our Christian chaplains weren't even allowed to wear their little crosses on their lapels. The government of Saudi Arabia said they were not allowed to hold Christian chapel services for our soldiers who were protecting their country. Service personnel were advised to leave their Bibles at home. This was because Islamic law forbids any presence or mention of Christianity. The same things are happening now in Iraq and abroad in 2008.
The Washington Post of January 13, 1993, carried this story:
Sudan's radical Islam regime is not just waging a genocidal war in the South against Christians, it is also part of a larger Islamic push. It made itself a training ground for Islamic terrorists to overthrow Egypt's pro-Western Regime. For months now, Islamic terrorists have been going around and randomly shooting foreign tourists in an attempt to kill the major foreign currency earner of a desperately poor country so that they might be turned back to the Islamic laws.
How about these headlines today:
..TR>..TR> ..TR> ..TABLE>
Islamic Practice
Other cultural things that Muhammad took from the culture around him include praying five times a day while facing Mecca in Saudi Arabia. This reminds the Muslim five times a day that he must bow in obedience to Arabia.
A Muslim is also required, often in the face of great hardship and great cost, to go on a pilgrimage to Arabia at least once in his life to worship at the Kaaba in Mecca. Historical evidence is clear in showing that Muhammad adopted the pagan religious rite of a pilgrimage to Mecca, which was already being widely practiced long before Muhammad was even born.
Muhammad, in order to appease the merchants of Mecca (who made tremendous amounts of money by people coming there on pilgrimages), put this requirement into Islam as part of his religion. For financial and cultural reasons Islam adopted this pagan practice, which must be fulfilled even by the poorest Muslims as one of their five pillars of faith.
One of the most demeaning practices of Islam is its barbaric treatment of women. Women are considered property in the fundamental sects of Islam. They are not allowed to have ownership of any kind of property. Approximately 75 percent of Muslim women suffer female circumcision in a most barbaric, painful ritual designed to make them obedient and docile. They are dressed from head to toe in cloths that cover all but the eyes, and often even these are covered by a veil.
It is interesting that what an illiterate nomadic tribesman wore in the desert in seventh-century Arabia is still mandated as the dress code for Muslim women today! It is a clear denial of civil rights to women and is reflective on the Islamic Arabian culture and its low view of women.
You might remember what took place during the Gulf War. On March 10, 1991, The New York Times Magazine reported the following incident about women's rights in Saudi Arabia.
The crisis in the Gulf spawned a much-publicized demonstration by women who dumped their chauffeurs and drove in convoy, defying a ban on women driving in Saudi Arabia. The incident promoted a vicious campaign acquiescence. The religious police patrolled the street and shopping malls, telling women to cover their faces and the young men to pray.
The government punished the demonstrating women as severely as it would any public protester. The women as well as their husbands were forbidden to leave the kingdom. They were forbidden to speak with foreign reporters or to discuss their situation with an outsider. They were warned of further reprisals if they attempted to drive again and stage another demonstration.
But the government's treatment of these women was mild compared to their treatment by the Islamic religious establishment. The fundamentalist sheiks denounced them from one of the kingdom's most powerful political platforms, the Mosque Opus.
In the Friday services after the demonstration, the women were branded as "red Communists, dirty American secularists, whores and prostitutes, fallen women and advocators of vice." Their names, occupations, addresses, and phone numbers were distributed in leaflets at the mosques and other public places. One leaflet accused them of having denounced Islam, an office punishable by death in Saudi Arabia. And these women were all educated Ph.D.'s, most of them teachers at the University. Some were medical doctors. Yet they were threatened with death because they had gotten into cars and driven them. Several of the women remained unrepentant, convinced that eventually the issue of their status would be addressed. ..TABLE> ..TABLE>
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Mumbai, Coming to a Town Near you
Posted: 28 Nov 2008 11:02 PM CST
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As the world watches the horrors of the Islamic terrorist attacks in Mumbai India, other Islamists are training to carry out the same kind of operation and it could easily happen here in America, Canada, or Europe.
Most recently in March of this year, about 20 male Muslims where seen shooting handguns, assault rifles and a sniper rifle off of a dirt road in Phoenix. Some left before the police arrived, but six were arrested and charged with felony weapons charges. It is said that they fired off between 500 to 1,000 rounds. Those captured claimed that it was all just for fun.
The game of paintball is even being used to train for jihad right in our own backyard. Between 2005 and 2006 17 Muslims in Canada who were arrested for plotting terrorist attacks against Canada used paintball to train. One of the London bombers was a player and in Virginia 11 American Muslims were convicted of using plotting attacks against our troops abroad. They also trained by playing paintball.
In 2006 it was reported that a Muslim encampment in upstate NY called Islamberg was being used for military training as nearly every weekend automatic gunfire can be heard along with the occasional small explosion. Neighbours are not welcomed on the camp with open arms as strangers are not allowed in.
I have spoken to several people in law enforcement and they say that this is their biggest fear. That terrorists will just open fire in crowded areas in America as this is their easiest opening to attack us. Unfortunately the terrorists of Mumbai have figured this out.
Iranian Court:Burn his Eyes out With Acid
Posted: 27 Nov 2008 11:52 PM CST
The sharia loving Iranian courts are going to punish a man in the same manner that he punished a young woman who would not marry him. He blinded her with acid and he will be getting the same treatment back. In Arabic this is known as "qisas" It is the act of retaliation.
Iran orders man blinded for acid attack - report
Date : November 27, 2008
TEHRAN, Nov 27 (Reuters) - A man who blinded a woman with
acid after she spurned his marriage proposals will also be
blinded with acid under Iran's Islamic law, a newspaper said on
Thursday.
An Iranian court made the ruling on Wednesday based on the
system of "qisas" or fair retribution, Etemad-e Melli reported.
The man identified as Majid proposed several times but was
spurned by the woman, identified as Ameneh, the daily reported.
In revenge, he threw acid in her face as she left her work in
2004, it added.
She travelled to Spain for surgery to reconstruct her face
but efforts to restore her sight failed. On return from Spain,
she asked the court for retribution, the newspaper said.
"Ever since I was subject to acid being thrown on my face, I
have a constant feeling of being in danger," she said, adding
that Majid had also threatened to kill her in the past.
The newspaper published pictures of Ameneh's face before the
attack and, still disfigured, after reconstructive surgery.
Majid was quoted as saying he did not regret his action but
added: "I threw acid on her face so that she would be mine
forever ... I did not know that acid could have such an effect
on her face."
At the end of the court session, the judges "unanimously
decided to sentence the accused to 'qisas' of his body part,
blinding by acid" and to pay compensation, the report said.
Judiciary officials could not be reached for comment.
The concept of "qisas" also holds in other cases in Iran,
such as murder. A victim's family can demand the death of a
convicted murderer or commute the sentence in return for
financial compensation from the culprit.
The newspaper did not give details about how or when the
sentence would be carried out. Court rulings can be appealed.
(Reporting by Hashem Kalantari; writing by Edmund Blair;
editing by Philippa Fletcher)
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Comparison Study of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Religion
Abrahamic Faith consists of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. These religions have something in common such as the belief of Adam is the first man created and the
ancestor of all human beings, Abraham as a prophet, and the Torat as a revelation of God. Nevertheless there are also some significance differences among them.
Judaism is a tribal religion that can only confessed by a Jew tribe. This religion could not be spread to Non Jew. That is why the number of its follower is only a few. Around 14 million people in the world. Meanwhile the Christianity and Islam are spreading to
all people in the world and confessed by billions of people.
About God
Judaism and Islam regard there is only one God. The Jews call the God as Yahweh which is third singular person means “He who is.” Muslims call God as Allah
which is singular form and genderless from ilah (God). In the Quran, chapter Al Ikhlas stated the unity of God:
Say: He is Allah, the One!
Allah, the eternally Besought of all!
He begetteth not nor was begotten.
And there is none comparable unto Him.
Actually in the Bible the Unity of God also stated in the Ten Commandments of God in Exodus 20:20:1 And God spake all these words, saying, 2 I am the
LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me. [Exodus 20:1-3]
Though in Judaism and Islam the Monotheism of God is absolute including of God’s essence, in Christianity there is a doctrine named Trinity that says God exists
as 3 persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit who are united in one substance or being. The trinity consists of 2 words: Three and Unity. Three is One and One is
three.
This concept is contradicted to Al Quran in Chapter Al Ikhlas that says God has no Father or Son. The Bible says:
“The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.”[2 Corinthian 11:31]
“Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort” [2 Corinthian 1:3]
The Bible verses above clearly said that God is the Father of Lord Jesus Christ. On the other hand, in Islam strictly stated the Oneness of God, that God is one, God has no Father or Son as follows:
“And say: Praise be to Allah, Who hath not taken unto Himself a son, and Who hath no partner in the Sovereignty,nor hath He any protecting friend through
dependence. And magnify Him with all magnificence.” [Al Israa’:111]
Allah has no Son or Partner:
“Allah hath not chosen any son, nor is there any God along with Him; else would each God have assuredly championed that which he created, and some of them
would assuredly have overcome others. Glorified be Allah above all that they allege.” [Al Mu’minuun:91]
About Jesus
The Jews not only deny Jesus as a God or a prophet, but they also tried to kill Jesus as a pervert.
On the contrary, the Christians regard Jesus as a God:
“The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen.” [2 Corinthian 13:14]
Islam regards Jesus not as a God, but only a human being that became a messenger of God:
“And when Allah saith: O Jesus, son of Mary! Didst thou say my mother for two gods beside Allah? He saith: Be glorified to which I had no right. If I used
to say it, then Thou my mind, and I know not what is in Thy mind. Lo! Thou, only Things Hidden.” [Al Maa’idah:116]
According to Islam, Jesus only a prophet to call people to worship only one God as God order in the Ten Commandments:
“I spake unto them only that which Thou commandedst me, and your Lord. I was a witness of them while I dwelt tookest me Thou wast the Watcher over them. Thou
art” [Al Maa’idah:117]
About Jesus Parent
As the Bible verses above, the Christianity regards Jesus as the Son of God:
“The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God” [Mark 1:1]
“He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David” [Luke 1:32]
Nonetheless, on Matthew 1:16-18 said that Jesus’ father is Joseph though Jesus was born from virgin Mary before Mary married to Joseph or having sex with him:
“1:16 And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ. 17 So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen
generations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are fourteen
generations. 18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with
child of the Holy Ghost.” [Matthew 1:16-18]
Jesus’ family tree at last follows Joseph’s instead of Mary’s.
On another verse described Jesus as the son of David, the son of Abraham.
The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of
David, the son of Abraham.” [Matthew 1:1]
Jesus the Son of Man:
“For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day.” [Matthew 12:8]
According to Islam Jesus is the Son of Mary. Not the Son of God or Joseph:
“The Messiah, son of Mary, was no other than a messenger, whom had passed away before him. And his mother was a used to eat (earthly) food. See how we
make the revelations they are turned away!” [Al Maa’idah:75]
The Power of God
In the Bible, Genesis 32:25-28 said that Jacob fought with God from night until dawn. When God could not defeated Jacob, God touch the hollow of Jacob’s thigh.
God named Jacob as Israel because Jacob has fought God and men and Jacob prevailed:
“32:24 And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day. 25 And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him.26 And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said,
I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
27 And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob.28 And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou
power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.” [Genesis 32:24-28]
In the Gospel Matthew told how Jesus the God caught, spit, and beaten by men:
“27:27 Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus
into the common hall, and gathered unto him the whole
band of soldiers.28 And they stripped him, and put on
him a scarlet robe.29 And when they had platted a
crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed
in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him,
and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!
30 And they spit upon him, and took the reed, and
smote him on the head.
31 And after that they had mocked him, they took the
robe off from him, and put his own raiment on him, and
led him away to crucify him.” [Matthew 27:27-31]
In Islam God is the Most Powerful. He cannot be beaten by any man even if they are all join together against Him:
“If He will, He can be rid of you and bring (instead of you). That is not a hard thing for Allah.” [Al Faathir: 16-17]
“Thy Lord is the Absolute, the Lord of Mercy. If He will, He can remove you and can cause what He will to follow after you, even as He raised you from the seed
of other folk.” [Al An’aam:133]
From the verses of Holy Book above, can you tell us which the Most Powerful God is?
The Independence of God
In Gospel Matthew said how Jesus complain and cry: “My
God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?”
And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?”
[Matthew 27:46]
Do you think such statement will come out from the Most Powerful God?
In the Al Quran said that God is not a weak man that needs help:
“And say: Praise be to Allah, Who hath not taken unto Himself a son, and Who hath no partner in the Sovereignty, nor hath He any protecting friend through
dependence. And magnify Him with all magnificence.” [Al Israa’:111]
Whom should we worship for? The weak and need help God or the Most Powerful God?
The Knowledge of God
In Gospel Mark 11:12-13 said that Jesus felt hungry and did not know if the Fig tree is fruitless because it is not its season.
11:12 And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry:
13 And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for
the time of figs was not yet.” [Mark 11:12-13]
In Islam God is All Knowing:
“And with Him are the keys of the invisible. None but He knoweth them. And He knoweth what is in the land and the sea. Not a leaf falleth but He knoweth it. Not
a grain amid the darkness of the earth, naught of wet or dry but it is noted in a clear record“ [Al An’aam:59]
Is God Sleep?
In Matthew 8:24 said that Jesus was a sleep:
“And, behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves: but he was asleep.” [Matthew 8:24]
According to Islam, God never feel weak such as sleepy or sleep:
Allah! There is no God save Him, the Alive, the
Eternal. Neither slumber nor sleep overtaketh Him.
Unto Him belongeth whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is in the earth. Who is he that intercedeth with Him save by His leave? He knoweth that which is
in front of them and that which is behind them, while they encompass nothing of His knowledge save what He will. His throne includeth the heavens and the earth,
and He is never weary of preserving them. He is the Sublime, the Tremendous.” [Al Baqarah:255]
Prohibition of Statue
In the Ten Commandments stated in Exodus 20:4-5 God forbid man to make any statue:
20:4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
20:5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children
unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me” [Exodus 20:4-5]
However the Christians now make many statues of Jesus
and Mary and put them on the churches.
In Islam making statues is forbidden. In Hadeeth
Bukharee, Ummu Salamah and Ummu Habibah said there is a beautiful church in Habsyi (Mary Church) with some beautiful statues. Muhammad said “When their saint died, the Christians will build church on the grave. Then they make many statues in the church. They are the worst creatures before God in the day of
judgement”
The Holy Book
Though the Jews Holy Book is quoted in Bible as the Old Testament, yet there are some significant differences between them. The Jews Holy Book mostly
written in Hebrew and a few in Aramaic. On the other the Old Testament in Christianity the oldest one written in Greek with 7 additional books.
The New Testament consists of 27 books (including 4 gospels) and originally written in Greek between 50-150 AD (Jesus died arount 29 AD).
The gospel consists of 4 different versions originally written in Greek namely: Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John. The Gospels written around 70-100 AD about 40
years after the death of Jesus.
For example, Luke wrote Gospel for a man called Theophilus
1:1 For as much as many have taken in hand to set
forth in order a declaration of those things which are
most surely believed among us,
2 Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were
eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word;
3 It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of
all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus, 4 That thou mightestknow the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast
been instructed.” [Luke 1:1-4]
Luke sometime only guesses such as Jesus about thirty years of age and use the word “As was supposed”.
“And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli” [Luke 3:23]
Though Jesus language is Aramaic, but the New Testament original language at least the oldest version is all in Greek.
If in Luke 3:23 Jesus’ grand father’s name is Heli,
In Matthew 1:16 Jesus’ grand father is Jacob:
“And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom
was born Jesus, who is called Christ” [Matthew 1:16]
On the other hand, there is only one version of the Al Quran which is memorized by millions of Muslims and still in its original language: Arab, the language of
Muhammad.
“Lo! We revealed it (Al Quran) on the Night of Power” [Al Qadr:1]
Al Quran revealed by Allah to Muhammad. And Muhammad passed it on his followers. Some of the followers memorized Al Quran, some wrote it down on several media (leaves, bones, leather, etc). Abu Bakar, Muhammad’s friend, gather the Al Quran to be one. And Usman, another Muhammad’s friend, then compiled the Quran into one book called Mushaf Usmani with punctuation mark so the spelling complies with the Arabic language standard.
The Circumcision Obligation for Men
In Judaism and Islam, Circumcision is an obligation for men. It is complied with Bible:
17:10 This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised. 11 And ye shall
circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you. 12 And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you,
every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed.
13 He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting
covenant.
14 And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cutoff from his people; he hath broken my covenant”
[Genesis 17:10-14]
The uncircumcised man is regarded as unclean in Isaiah 52:1:
“Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the
uncircumcised and the unclean” [Isaiah 52:1]
However though God said in Genesis 17:13 that circumcision is an everlasting covenant, the Christians no longer doing the obligation because Paul who claimed become apostle after Jesus died (when Jesus alive Paul is Jesus enemy) said that
circumcision is no longer an obligation:
2:25 For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision. 26 Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision? 27 And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?
2:28 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: 29 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and
circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
3:1 What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?” [Romans 2:25-29 – 3:1]
The Prohibition of Eating Swine
In Judaism and Islam, eating swine is strictly forbidden. It is complied with Leviticus 11:7-8 and Deuteronomy 14:8:
11:7 And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be cloven-footed, yet he cheweth not the cud; he is unclean to you. 8 Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and
their carcass shall ye not touch; they are unclean to you.” [Leviticus 11:7-8]
In the Al Quran the prohibition stated:
“He hath forbidden you only carrion, and blood, and swine flesh, and that which hath been immolated to (the name of) any other than Allah. But he who is
driven by necessity, neither craving nor transgressing, it is no sin for him. Lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.” [Al Baqarah:173]
Nevertheless Swine Flesh is a common food among the Christians now.
Original Sin
In the Christianity known the Original Sin Doctrine. All human race are sinners because of Adam committed sin by eating forbidden fruit. That is why Jesus sent
down as the Saviour to redeem the original sin. In Exodus 20:5 God said that He will punish the children, the third and fourth generation for the
iniquity of their fathers:
“Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children
unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;” [Exodus 20:5]
In Islam every one will only responsible for their own
sin. No one can be punished because of other people sin:
“Say: Shall I seek another than Allah for Lord, when
He is Lord of all things? Each soul earneth only on
its own account, nor doth any laden bear another's
load. Then unto your Lord is your return and He will
tell you that wherein ye differed.” [Al An’aam:164]
Slander on Lot
In the Bible, Genesis 19:30-38 said that Lot had drink wine and committed sexual intercourse with his own daughters (incest) and had children (or
grandchildren?) from them:
19:30 And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he
and his two daughters.
31 And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth:32 Come, let
us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
33 And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she
arose.
34 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yester night with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
35 And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
36 Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.
37 And the first born bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day.
38 And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Benammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.” [Genesis 19:30-38]
In Islam stated that Lot is really a prophet and cleanfrom such a sin such as drinking liquor or doing incest:
“And lo! Lot verily was of those sent (to warn)” [Ash Shaafaat:133]
In the Quran stated that God has raised Lot’s degree
over people. If common people will not commit adultery
with their own daughter, then a prophet such as Lot
will not such a thing:
“And Ishmael and Elisha and Jonah and Lot. Each one of them did We prefer above (Our) creatures” [Al An’aam:86]
Slander on David
In Bible, 2 Samuel 11:2-17 said that David (who in Matthew 1:1 described as Jesus’ father) committed adultery with Uriah’s wife, Bathsheba. After that,David ordered Joab to send Uriah to the front line of a battle and then deserted him so Uriah get killed by the enemy:
11:2 And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman
washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon.
3 And David sent and inquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?
4 And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in unto him, and he lay with her; for she was purified from her uncleanness: and she returned unto
her house.” [2 Samuel 11:2-4]
In 2 Samuel 13:11-14 also stated that the son of David, Amnon raped his own sister, Tamar:
13:11 And when she had brought them unto him to eat, he took hold of her, and said unto her, Come lie with me, my sister.
12 And she answered him, Nay, my brother, do not force me; for no such thing ought to be done in Israel: do not thou this folly.
13 And I, whither shall I cause my shame to go? and as for thee, thou shalt be as one of the fools in Israel. Now therefore, I pray thee, speak unto the king; for
he will not withhold me from thee.
14 Howbeit he would not hearken unto her voice: but, being stronger than she, forced her, and lay with her.” [2 Samuel 13:11-14]
In the Al Quran, the Slander over David is denied:
“Those of the children of Israel who went astray were cursed by the tongue of David, and of Jesus, son of Mary. That was because they rebelled and used to
transgress.” [Al Maa-idah:78]
Prohibition of Adultery / Sex Story
In the story of Adultery or prohibition of Adultery, the Bible described it very detailed:
23:1 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:3 And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity.
4 And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and they were mine, and they bare sons and daughters. Thus were their names; Samaria is
Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah.
5 And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours, 6 Which were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses.
7 Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all of them that were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted: with all their idols she defiled herself.
8 Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt:for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her. 9 Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted.
0 These discovered her nakedness: they took her sons and her daughters, and slew her with the sword: and she became famous among women; for they had executed
judgment upon her.
11 And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in her whoredoms.
12 She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours, captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men.
13 Then I saw that she was defiled, that they took both one way,
14 And that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men portrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion,15 Girded with
girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the
land of their nativity:16 And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea.
17 And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated
from them.
18 So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her, like as my mind was alienated from her sister.
19 Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt. 20 For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
21 Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth.” [Ezekiel 23:1-21]
In Song of Solomon 7:1-8 the sexual desire described like this:
7:1 How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince's daughter! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman.
2 Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies.
3 Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.
4 Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward
Damascus.
5 Thine head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king is held in the galleries.
6 How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!
7 This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes.
8 I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose
like apples” [Song of Solomon 7:1-8]
In the Al Quran the prohibition of Adultery described in a gentle way so it do not arouse sexual desire of its readers. The readers will not have desire to have
sex with his wife or close friend or masturbate after reading the holy book:
“And come not near unto adultery. Lo! it is an abomination and an evil way. “ [Al Israa’:32]
Even the permission of having sex in the month of fasting described in a very decent way:
“It is made lawful for you to go unto your wives on the night of the fast. They are raiment for you and ye are raiment for them.” [Al Baqarah:187]
That is the Holy Book of Al Quran!
Retaliation Law
In the Old Testament, Exodus 21:11-22:19 stated the Retaliation Law, namely death sentence for killer, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth:
“He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.” [Exodus 21:12]
“21:24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,25 Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.” [Exodus 21:24-25]
But on the New Testament the Retaliation Law is eliminated and the Christians no longer follow the rule.
In the Al Quran the Retaliation Law restored:
“O ye who believe! Retaliation is prescribed for you in the matter of the murdered; the freeman for the freeman, and the slave for the slave, and the female
for the female...” [Al Baqarah:178]
The Retaliation Law applied so people will think twice before they kill others. If they kill other people then they will be sentenced to death so they could no
longer kill innocent people again in the future By this way the world will be safer for innocent people (but not for the killers):
“And there is life for you in retaliation, O men of understanding, that ye may ward off (evil).” [Al Baqarah:179]
Evil or Serpent who Cheated Adam and Eve?
In Genesis 3:1-19 said that Serpent is the most clever among animals and could talk so it could cheat human: Adam and Eve:
3:1 Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat
of every tree of the garden?
2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall
be as gods, knowing good and evil.
6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit
thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.” [Genesis 3:1-6]
3:13 And the LORD God said unto the woman, What isthis that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
14 And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly
shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life” [Genesis 3:13-14]
In the Quran said that the cheater of Adam and Eve is Satan. Not animal like serpent:
“But Satan caused them to deflect there from and expelled them from the (happy) state in which they were; and We said: Fall down, one of you a foe untothe other! There shall be for you on earth ahabitation and provision for a tune.” [Al Baqarah:36]
If in the Christianity Adam and Eve remain as sinners and passed their sin to their descendants as original sin, in Islam after they regretted and asked God’s
forgiveness, God forgive them. There is no original sin to pass to their descendants.
“Then Adam received from his Lord words (of revelation), and He relented toward him. Lo! He is the Relenting the Merciful.” [Al Baqarah:37]
The Jews regard themselves as the Chosen People while the Christians believe there is no salvation for those who don’t believe Jesus as a God so they send many
evangelists/missionaries all over the world to make people become Christians. Islam said only Islam the religion that God loves:
“Lo! religion with Allah is The Surrender to His will and guidance (Islam). Those who (formerly) received the Scripture differed only after knowledge came unto
them, through transgression among themselves. Whoso disbelieves the revelations of Allah (will find that) Lo! Allah is swift at reckoning.” [Ali ‘Imran:19]
“And whoso seeketh as religion other than the Surrender to Allah (Islam) it will not be accepted from him, and he will be a loser in the Hereafter.” [Ali ‘Imran:85]
Those are some differences in Judaism, Christianity,
and Islam. Though there are many more differences, yet
Muslims are recommended to have a good social
relationship with them as long they are not hostile or
insulting Muslims or Islam.
Though there is no compulsion in religion, yet Islam
forbids Muslims to mix their religions with others.
Your religion is for you and our religion is for us.
That is the Islamic teaching.
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