Posted on 12/24/2015 11:17:11 PM PST by Impala64ssa
Besides. Wouldn't that be Idolatry???
Sorry about that. 1 1/4 Billion.
Moe and Dolphie!
“where the crew of the Enterprise tries to figure out how to pull your head out of Uranus.”
LMAO!
Yes, I’d like to see an Islamic hero who incorporates into Islam the Japanese ritual of seppuku (honorable, stylized suicide) as being mandatory WHENEVER a Muslim has a bad thought about a non-Muslim. Now THAT would be something to celebrate and would be heroic.
Until that happens...NO MUSLIM HEROES...only Muslim villains.
It was revealed that portions of the Koran pre-dated the life of Muhammed. How about a DA VINCI CODE where it’s revealed that their entire religion is a fraud? Oh, wait. They’d bomb theaters and murder the creators of such a film. It’s Christians that are the easy targets.
Notice the fake fear of backlash card. They kill us and yet they are the ones with legitimate fears?
I did see one story this week worthy of a verified act of Muslim heroism. Muslim gunmen boarded a bus in Africa and asked the people on the bus to separate Muslims and Christians. The Muslims spoke up and say, “No. You will have to kill us all.”
If Muslims did that worldwide, there’s never be another Islamist attack. The mother who saw the pipe bombs would speak up. The families of the suicide bombing would be ostracized instead of celebrated. The dead bodies of these murderers would be cremated (an unIslamic burial) with no one willing to perform their eulogy.
Behave heroically Muslims and then we will celebrate you.
Well the politically correct bent of the age is such that it’s possible we would see it happen, should no other trend appear and intervene (and it yet could).
I try to see it all through the light of God, who will, if we are not very careful to avoid noticing it, witness to us something of Himself right in the middle of the worst depravity, just to keep the devil knowing who’s boss.
A Muslim hero would do some very un-Muslim things. In real life we can get around this via taqqiya, the ability to go Calvinball when needed. However when imams see it, they may be less open minded. It could be the fear of a fatwa keeps this from occurring.
If I as a Christian were a cartoonist and were posed with this request and I had the power and boldness to do whatever I wanted... well let’s see what I might do. I think I’d have the Muslim resign Islam and become Christian after catching hell from imams for trying to do good to unbelievers, and then hearing a passing preacher talk about the opposite attitude being found in Christian faith. Then this ex-Muslim would save the lives of millions of grateful Muslims who would become Christian too... Yes, I would.
And I believe the operative line in the movie went something like:
"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy."
Sometimes God puts a spark of humanity even in the mind of Muslims. You can bet the Christians on board were praying like mad!
Ah yes, no Jews or Christians in Star Wars but by will of Obama and NASA put some muslims in it, by all means.
I did see one story this week worthy of a verified act of Muslim heroism. Muslim gunmen boarded a bus in Africa and asked the people on the bus to separate Muslims and Christians. The Muslims spoke up and say, “No. You will have to kill us all.”
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I read that “story” also. I have my doubts about it having actually happened.
Mohammed was "the last prophet", as such there can be no "reform Islam". The reformation for muslims will only come when they reject Mo's warlord cult and return to the Judeo-Christian Bible as Jews or Christians.
I believe in spiritual influences... God has a book that has more information in it than just, “This person is a Muslim now.” This book chronicles what the entire history of the person will be.
A present Muslim could bend, either temporarily or permanently, to an actual Christ. More and more, “Churchianity” won’t fly in the Middle East in the face of such terrorism. The terrorism forces purity on Christianity as nothing else will endure.
Such a meme as a “reform Islam” would not be entirely impossible — people can and do change even the most fundamental religious tenets in response to various pressures and enticements — but in the face of fundamental belief it would be terribly difficult to engineer, and by the time we finished trying, we might as well just have evangelized.
That number floats wildly even in their out accounting (1.0-1.5 billion, so they claim).
There are millions of so-called muslims in this world who have no choice in this matter. They are not permitted a freedom of religion. Some muslim nations prohibit the practice and texts of all other religious beliefs. Even in some theocratic nations where other faiths are permitted, persons who were born to a muslim father are not permitted to leave the cult under penalty of death.
When the US government was busy making sure that terrorists held prisoner at Gitmo got korans and halal meals, they SHOULD have been notifying the prisoners that they were FREE to practice any religious tradition, not just Islam.
The little drama queen probably never saw JJ Abrams’s Lost, which featured the Muslim Syed, well after 9/11. And Syed was one of the coolest characters in all of JJ’s works.
And yes I mean it... there is at least one “reform Islam” that I know... we know it as Bahai.
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