Re;Please, Please

Submitted by dianamoon (United States), Nov 28, 2005 at 23:33

Just a quick note, thta Islam does not mean peace, but submission. Also, the Qu'uran does not teach that Allah could be human or not.

The Bible does not teach that God actually had intercourse with Mary. And another question, if you think that Jesus was such a holy prophet, then why would he lie and say "noone shall come to the Father, except through me" ?

Also, have you ever eaten an apple? Well, an apple consists of 3 parts, the flesh, the skin, and the core. All are apple, but they are not all the same. That is how God had a son. Because He was God come to earth. He chose to come as a human, so that he could fully experience the sorrow, pain, joy, and love that we humans experience.

Another point, if Muslims are so peaceful, then why are countries ruled by Sharia (Islamic Law), so oppressive? There is not one Muslim country that allows freedom of religion, rights for women, etc. And don't bring up Turkey, just last month there was a crisis because the Turkish government refused to hear the plea of an Iranian woman who had come there for asylum, after being charged with heresy in Iran. If sent back, she faced execution for blasphemy. Her daughters would have been given in marraige to Muslim men.

As for the Crusades, well, everyone needs to go look over their history books a bit more carefully. The first crusade was fought, because the patriarch of Constantinopol ( then a Christian city), was being threatened by the Muslims, and asked the Roman pope to send help. All of Europe responded. Has anyone ever bothered to look at the titles of the letters written by Paul in the New Testament? Virtually every city in which Christianity had a foothold, is now Muslim.... Hmmmmm... I guess we Christians really did a number on those Muslims. I mean, we tricked them into taking over all the real estate... what suckers.

Of course there were atrocities, but they happened on both sides, and at the time that the Crusades were fought, seige warfare was the norm. The Muslims under Saladin commited as many atrocities as did the Crusaders. We are just made to feel guilty for it, why, I don't know. At least we grew out of it, can't say the same for the other side.

Jihad does not have anything to do with an inner struggle, but is indicative of violent warfare in every Sura that it is mentioned in, in the Qu'uran. People have to understand, the Qu'uran in its entirety cannot be translated into English. To read it one must be capable of reading classical Arabic. 80 % of Muslims do not read modern Arabic, let alone classical Arabic, and most Muslim countries have almost complete illiteracy rates in their native languages. Mohammed was a warlord. He forcibly took over lands that would not capitualte to Islam.

The people who lived in those lands were given 3 choices,death, conversion,or a tax- which was accompanied by almost impossible living conditions ( rules such as not being able to educate your children in your religion, not being able to walk on city streets at certain times of the day, having to wear specially colored clothing ---hmmm, sounds kind of familiar doesn't it? the list of requirements goes on and on, some ridiculous, and some dangerous- like not being able to repair damaged buildings- but all in all it was an effort to make it unlivable to be a nonmuslim in a muslim ruled land. Jihad, as I said before, has nothing to do with inner struggle, and everything to do with violent warfare.

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