Is Islam as you say it is

Submitted by Truth (United Kingdom), Jun 25, 2008 at 08:45

It is sad to see that you have so much hatred against Islam and muslims. But your attitude is understandable my brother. We live in a world where information is prevalent but knowledge is lacking.

If you read a bit about the history of religions you will realize that the primary message of all religions was one "there is only one God" however it got distorted over time and time and time again God sent a messenger to remind people of their duty towards God. Islam is not new. Its been the religion since the time of Adam (peace be upon him).

Christianity and Judaism are in fact distorted forms of Islam. If the previous scriptures were not altered by people then we Muslims would have nopt had any issues in accepting them. Bible as it stands today is not the same Torah and Gospel that was revealed to Moses and Jesus (Peace be upon them both).

It is a well established fact that bible has undergone numerous revisions, alterationm, translations and interpolations. Then how can one claim that it still is the original scripture of God. On the other Hand Quran is in the same language, script order and volume as it was revealed to Muhammad (peace be upn him) 1400 years ago. This is a proven fact. Now the onus is upto you wether you wich to follow something that has doubt or something that is certain.

Maltreatrment of minorities? This is a lie. People of the book have always enjoyed privilages in Muslim world. Even today they are well respected and protected. On the contrary it were the Christians who massacred jews when they took over Spain. In Muslim Spain, both christians and jews were living in peace. It were the christians who tortured and incinerated millions of jews in Europe and the drove them out. Muslims did not do that. Saladdin Ayoubu let go all christians alive whereas the Christiuans crusaders massacred the entire Muslims city of Jerusalem.

Islam offers freedom within in the Law of God. Try doing something against the constitution of your country and then cry about freedom.

Keeping Concubines is a european tradition. One of the reasons that marriage is discouraged and fornication is encourage din European society is because you do not want to give the women rights that go along in a marriage contract. The whole aim is to waste a woman's life without any accountability. Islam prohibits acts of indecency. If you call naked billboards of women, treating them as sex objects on the cover of magazines and flaunting them around in flimsy clothes in public for the pleasures of mens eyes as freedom, then Islam has no room for it. Islam has given more rights to women that europe had never given.

As late as 19th century in europe, women were not allowed to own property, they were not allowed to touch bible, they were and still are considered the property of their husbands (what is the history of changing last name). They had no right to divorce. They had no right to work. Talking about freedom of women, please look into the dark histiry of judo christian europe which subjugated women to the state of animals. For the status of women in ISlam read http://www.islamicity.com/Mosque/w_islam/intro.htm

Take a look at the perversion of fornication in your society and the ever increasing problem of underage pregnencies in europe, once you have solved that then you can point fingers at the segregation of sexes in Islamic societies.

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