Clarification to dhimmi no more

Submitted by Nick (United States), Aug 8, 2006 at 01:13

In your comment you ask Dr, Fahad if Allah is the god of the Jews and the Christians. I have give that matter a great deal of thought. Being Roman Catholic and very traditional at that, still follow the Latin Tridentine rite etc.

I feel Allah is not the same God worshipped by the Christians and Jews. Allah is unknowable at least according to Mohammad. The God of the Christians ( I will not speak for the Jews) is not only knowable, but seeks a personal relationship with His followers. Where Allah commands wars of conquest and the subjugation of unbelievers and women, Christ teaches compassion and equality among peoples and sexes.

I realize, historically Mohammad tried to link Allah (actually the name of the moon god of ancient Arabia, hence the crecscent moons displayed prominently over mosques) with the God of the Christians, but isn't that just an artificial attempt to legitimize his philosophy? Christ did not teach his followers to spread their religion through war. I am cognizant that Christians did wage wars of religion, but it was never a core belief of the religion.

The Crusades were defensive wars brought on by excessive Muslim provocation and later wars of religion were waged in Europe during the Renaissance. Religion has been used as a cover for many wars, but on closer examination the real reasons for the wars become evident. The fact here is Christ commanded His followers to spread the word, but he never granted them license to wage wars of aggression in His name. Allah did command his followers to wage unceasing war against unbelievers and his followers are quite good at it. Unfortunately the Islamic world does very little else except wage war.

It is my firm belief that Allah is not the god of the Christians or the Jews. What exactly Allah is I am not sure except for an old pagan god that made it into the modern world on the coat tails of a very violent aggressive philosophy.

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