reply to MR. X - Jews and Christians

Submitted by wamiq (United States), Nov 10, 2005 at 17:45

i want to tell you that the verses in the koran has limits concerning it's use. In Islam you fight for god and die for him. When mr. x quoted surah 5 verse 51, the one concerning muslims not to have jewish and christian freinds it should be pointed out that surah is applicable in only some circumstances.

You cannot make friends with jews and christians in times of war because during war the jews and christians will be allies to each other. This is evident in history when christians supported Israel in the arab and Israeli wars and how christian preachers openly sympathize with Isael in contrast with the muslim palestinians. The verse is only applicable in times of war. Muslims can make freinds with individual christians and jews and be nice to them but as political groups you cant be friends with them because they cannot be trusted and only will help and aid each other.

Also concerning the Jizya, in an Islamic state the there has to be laws on how to handle the Dhimmi. In Islam when you are fighting them you have to defeat them and rule them. In an Islamic state the Dhimmi are protected by the goverment as long as they pay a tax which is typically one or two dinars. The Dhimmi will be protected and their rights upheld as long as they pay a tax. The tax is needed so as to take account of the dhimmi and have them administer their laws in an islamic state. the tax is use the state is compenstated when the dhimmi is excused from obligitory state duties.

God said to pray for non muslims because they have rejected god and our are punished by god and man does not have the right to interfere between the relationship between god and his servant. The difference between Jesus and Mohamamad was that jesus dealt only with the jews while Mohammad dealt with all the arabs and had to preach to pagans jews and christians.

Jesus mission dealt with reforming the jewish people of Israel while Mohammad had to reform all of Arabia and had political as well as relgious responsibilities. Also Mohammad did not die a rich man.

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