Posted on 10/12/2014 1:24:02 PM PDT by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
In a recent TV interview, Syrian Minister of Culture Issam Khalil drew a parallel between ISIS and the Jews, saying: "Jehovah, the god of the Jews, does exactly what the leaders of ISIS are doing everywhere... ISIS relies upon the same source that the god of the Jews relied upon in His killing, destruction, torching, and so on."
Following are excerpts from the interview, aired by the Lebanese NBN TV channel on October 3, 2014.
Issam Khalil: If we examine the culture propagated by the Torah that distorted and forged Torah, underlying the political theory of the Zionist entity we see that Jehovah, the god of the Jews, does exactly what the leaders of ISIS are doing everywhere.
The cultures of [ISIS and the Jews] stem from a joint root. ISIS relies upon the same source that the god of the Jew relied upon in His killing, destruction, torching, and so on.
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The Zionist entity has citizens from over 90 countries. What binds them together? What binds the Poles with the Germans, the French, the Syrians, the Yemenis, and the Iraqis? They are joined by their religion, which is based on these terrorist notions. Any scripture that calls for killing and slaughtering cannot be holy and divine.
I’d love to be there when he meets G_d, the Holy Spirit and Jesus.
This level of thinking is why we should not get involved in any tribal spats in the middle east.
Can it get any clearer?
I guess this is a fancy way of saying "Yo mama was a Jooooooooo!"
This poor soul will find out soon enough.
LOL - let me get this straight - ISIS is planting trees, building a superior culture and creating a first world country? LOL - yeah, right.
Islam actually is based on the weirder parts of what we call the Old Testament, and it takes everything very literally. By the time the Jews had made it to the point of at which their tradition was codified and the warfare had become mainly adherence to the Law, they no longer believed in dashing the heads of their enemy’s children against the stones (a phrase that appears in the Psalms and elsewhere).
Islam is the first fundamentalism, but it’s also stuffed with other things: polygamy and fertility cult moon worship, for example, and probably a lot of things that would appeal to the heirs of the Baal worshippers that the Arabs overran. There are a few figures from the New Testament and then a lot of hatred of the Jews. This was because Mohammed was influenced by Arian Christianity, which was always highly antisemitic.
I think his point is that in human history more people have been killed in the name of religion than for any other reason.
Polygamy has a part among the Old Testament figures. Jacob/Israel is the perfect example. He had four wives, or two wives and two concubines, yet he was one who spoke to God, and wrestled with an angel. Even in the OT, a small minority of the Jews were polygamous. The majority were monogamous, likely 90+ percent had only one wife, at a time.
nuke the whole place and let allah sort them out
I must have missed the Chapter where Jesus was beheading sinners.
FROM WHAT was the Torah supposedly “forged”? The muzzies never do say, do they?
Stupid people will believe him.
That explanation is akin to the charge in the interview that the Torah was distorted and forged, as in fact that Law was first given that mandated the annihilation of the Canaanites in judgment against them.
The differences btwn religious violence in Scripture and Islam are that:
1. The covenant Israel made with God was preceded by unmistakable supernatural evidence that the God of Abraham was real and delivering and directing them, which was so manifest that there could not be a rational atheist among them (though that did not stop them from acting like atheists sometimes, while atheists can be quite irrational in disallowing a Creator-judge even as a hypothesis).
In contrast, Islam's laws on conquest have no such unmistakable supernatural attestation, but Muhammad's revelations were such that at first he wondered if they were of the devil. Which they were of course.
2. The laws of conquest given to Israel were specific and geographically and ethnically limited, versus Islam's were are universal.
3. The Bible provides extensive historical narratives and context for its laws, in contrast to the disjointed mundane monologues of Allah to his pseudo-prophet. And which at best do not provide a coherent theology on religious violence that would relegate the conquests of ISIS type groups to having as much Quranic warrant as the so-called "Lord's Army" in Africa has from the Bible for its violence. And in contrast, the context of certain strong commands to engage in religious violence, and what "war" can consist of are such that they can provide sanction for ISIS.
4. The Bible promised a New Covenant, in which the kingdom of God is spiritual (Jn. 18:26) and thus its warfare is waged by spiritual force, (2Cor. 10:3,4; Eph. 6:12) prayer and the word of God, (Acts 6:4) not by employing the sword of men to deal with theological foes or act as a theocracy.
In contrast, if Islam has a different covenant then it was when Muhammad was a minority prophet in Mecca, thus the suras that call for tolerance are from that period, while once he was a majority in Medina then his "revelations" accommodated his needs and lusts.
More as its bedtime.
The “Zionist Entity” must survive, even if it means a billion die.
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