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Islam Is Not a Civilization
American Thinker ^ | September 4, 2016 | Paul Eidelberg

Posted on 09/04/2016 2:15:37 PM PDT by Kaslin

We need a politically incorrect and radically new multi-disciplinary and multinational understanding of Islam.

To speak of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam as the “three Abrahamic faiths” or as the “three religions of the Book,” or, more significantly, as the “three monotheisms,” obscures rather than illuminates. These familiar tropes, says theologian George Weigel, ought to be retired.

The eminent French scholar Alain Besançon agrees. He writes, “The Abraham of Genesis is not the Ibrahim of the Qur’an; Moses is not Moussa. As for Jesus, he appears, as Issa, out of place and out of time, without reference to the landscape of Israel. His mother, Mary, or Mariam, identified as the sister of Aaron, gives birth to him under a palm tree. Then Issa performs several miracles, which seem to have been drawn from the apocryphal gospels, and announces the future coming of Muhammad.

Alain Besançon takes us deeper into the heart of the matter. He draws this theological distinction between Judaism and Christianity, on the one hand, and Islam, on the other:

Although Muslims like to enumerate the 99 names of God, missing from the list, but central to the Jewish and even more so to the Christian concept of God, is “Father” — i.e., a personal God capable of a reciprocal and loving relationship with men. The one God of the Qur’an, the God who demands submission, is a distant God; to call him “Father” would be an anthropomorphic sacrilege. The Muslim God is utterly impassive; to ascribe loving feeling to Him would be suspect. If God is not “Father,” then it is difficult to imagine the human person as having been made “in the image of God.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: culture; islam
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1 posted on 09/04/2016 2:15:37 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

But it IS an infection.


2 posted on 09/04/2016 2:16:56 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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Islam is a theocracy.

A form of government wrapped in sheep’s clothing that is a pack of wolves AND a parasite all at once. Islam is a macro-biological weapon that attacks the whole people instead of a micro-biological weapon that attacks the insides of each person.


3 posted on 09/04/2016 2:19:44 PM PDT by USCG SimTech
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To: Kaslin

Islam is as much a form of civilization as abortion is a form of health care.


4 posted on 09/04/2016 2:20:05 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: Kaslin

bkmk


5 posted on 09/04/2016 2:20:30 PM PDT by sauropod (Beware the fury of a patient man. I've lost my patience!)
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To: Kaslin

The problem is our current gov’t and the far left PC crowd.

I don’t befriend or invite into my home people who’s religion teaches them to lie to me, hate me, kill me............but my gov’t invites them into my country.


6 posted on 09/04/2016 2:26:37 PM PDT by umgud (ban all infidelaphobics)
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To: Kaslin

Islam is a psychotic death cult starting with its founder and following consistently through 1,400 hundred years of history since then.


7 posted on 09/04/2016 2:26:38 PM PDT by TigersEye (~Putin made me post this!~)
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To: Kaslin

Islam is unethical monotheism.


8 posted on 09/04/2016 2:26:56 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: Steely Tom

Islam is to civilization as cancer is to the body.


9 posted on 09/04/2016 2:29:01 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: Steely Tom

Islam and abortion. People die as a result of both.


10 posted on 09/04/2016 2:29:24 PM PDT by lakecumberlandvet (APPEASEMENT NEVER WORKS.)
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To: Kaslin

Islam is a crime against humanity.


11 posted on 09/04/2016 2:29:58 PM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: Kaslin

Islam is a battle plan.


12 posted on 09/04/2016 2:30:54 PM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: Kaslin
The Moabites and Ammonites were the result of incestuous, drunken sex.

Genesis 19:31-35

“Then the firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man on earth to come in to us after the manner of the earth. “Come, let us make our father drink wine, and let us lie with him that we may preserve our family through our father.” So they made their father drink wine that night, and the firstborn went in and lay with her father; and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose. On the following day, the firstborn said to the younger, “Behold, I lay last night with my father; let us make him drink wine tonight also; then you go in and lie with him, that we may preserve our family through our father.” So they made their father drink wine that night also, and the younger arose and lay with him; and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.”


The "Palestinians" that Obama, the UN, the EU, and everyone bows down to are direct descendants of this wickedness.

In the same way, the rest of the Islamic world is a product of incest, rape, murder, and treachery.

Lott's daughters got him drunk, and had sex with their father, producing an incest race. The Bible describes these people as cruel, wicked, murderous, and treacherous. They tortured the innocent, exhibited zero mercy, and sacrificed their newborn children on burning red hot plates to the demon Moloch.

13 posted on 09/04/2016 2:31:00 PM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6e)
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To: TigersEye; All
To make it plain and simple

Islam is evil

14 posted on 09/04/2016 2:33:50 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin; exit82; nickcarraway; onyx; nopardons

FORGIVE ME FREEPERS.

Saw sausage party. Thought it was going to be raunchy but funny Nope, Seth Rogen made sure it was anti God, had plenty of nazi references (because they’re the real threat), a gay couple (a taco and a hot dog bun) and a gay hating burger bun holding a sign that said (God hates Figs!!... get it? haha), also showed that we just need to understand ISIS, and the usual left wing ####.

Stayed for 45 minutes. Then I cracked. Everyone in the theatre who hadn’t walked out already knew what I thought. Thank goodness they were 6 dollar tickets.

Shame on me for not seeing Ben Hur and seeing this garbage based on writer reviews!! I know what they are (the writers) and I fell for it. God forgive me.

the left WANTS SO BAD to make everyone HATE Christians and love muslims. I’ll never understand, and though I think he’s funny, Seth Rogen is dead to me.

It breaks my heart Ben Hur will lose over 100 million, a lot of that based on the “Anything to do with Christ” bashing reviews.

Will see Ben Hur tomorrow. Sorry God, I messed up.

PS I thought it would be a little raunchy, not disgustingly disturbing and profane and sick.


15 posted on 09/04/2016 2:37:03 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Kaslin

Islam is Satanic. It’s not “like” satanism - it IS satanism.

Jesus said “you shall know them by their fruits.”

He wasn’t kidding.


16 posted on 09/04/2016 2:37:50 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: umgud

I was told by a Muslim with whom I worked that he was very fond of me , but someday he would be forced to kill me. Yeah. Got me thinking.


17 posted on 09/04/2016 2:40:58 PM PDT by amihow
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To: Kaslin

Islam is the greatest anti-truth, anti-freedom, anti-individual, anti-life collective in the history of civilization.


18 posted on 09/04/2016 2:42:15 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: PGalt

Islam: the 1.6 billion-strong Manson Family.


19 posted on 09/04/2016 2:47:53 PM PDT by bassmaner (Hey commies: I am a' white male, and I am guilty of NOTHING! Sell your 'white guilt' elsewhere.)
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To: Kaslin

Islam is a manifestation of a predator, pedophile, psychopath. As long as the evil that is Islam has existed is amazing due its roots, and its teachings. Curious if the evil that is Democrats will last as long.


20 posted on 09/04/2016 2:49:38 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists Call 'em what you will, they all have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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