To Sohail: So who is racist?

Submitted by Plato (United Arab Emirates), Apr 8, 2007 at 08:54

You consider the NT a filthy racist book? Well then compare Jesus' Sermon on the Mount with your Prophet's Last Sermon. Not the last sermon bandied about on the Internet but the original account of it given by Ibn Ishaq and Tabari. It is as racist as it can get. Only Muslims are brothers of one another (in line with the Surah 3:28 Let not believers take unbelievers for friends...) Racism based not genes but 'racism' based on one's belief.

"O People, just as you regard this month, this day, this city as Sacred, so regard the life and property of every Muslim as a sacred trust...."

"All mankind is from Adam and Eve, an Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab; also a white has no superiority over a black nor a black has any superiority over a white - except by piety and good action. Learn that every Muslim is a brother to every Muslim and that the Muslims constitute one brotherhood. Nothing shall be legitimate to a Muslim which belogs to a fellow Muslim unless it was given freely and willingly."

Notice the stress on Muslim, especially note nothing being legitimate to a Muslims which belongs to a fellow Muslim. By corollary this implies that non-Muslim property can be legitimate even if taken against their will.

You will find the sentence 'All mankind is from Adam and Eve etc' missing from the original sources like Ishaaq and Tabari. So who put those words into your prophet's mouth?

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