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If You Like Your Religion You Can Keep It
American Thinker ^ | 11/16/2013 | Richard Butrick

Posted on 11/17/2013 7:24:45 AM PST by SeekAndFind

We learn from an online dictionary of Islam that Islam accommodates all the Abrahamic religions:

Islam is the religion of all prophets. Muslims believe that all the prophets were sent to their respective peoples from God. They all had the same mission and message guiding people to the worshipping of One God. The three revealed monotheistic religions, Islam, Christianity, and Judaism, go back to the Prophet Abraham (PBUH).

Therefore, Christians and Jews hold a special place in Islam. They are called the People of the Book, since the original Torah and Gospel were also divinely revealed and they shared in the prophetic tradition. Islamic states have shown their religious minorities tolerance and respect and those communities flourished under Islamic rule. God says in the Qur'an [link]

It seems in practice, at least, that these encouraging words are modified by the Obama Principle: If you like your religion you can keep it [unless, of course, as it should be obvious to anyone of any intelligence, it is an inferior product]. It seems, moreover, that it hardly needs to be stated that all religions and in particular Christianity and Judaism are inferior products compared to Islam.

Here is a recent example of the Islamic principle that there is no compulsion in religion:

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Islam; Religion & Culture; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: islam; tolerance

1 posted on 11/17/2013 7:24:45 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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The sooner islam is wiped out the better for all humanity.


2 posted on 11/17/2013 7:38:57 AM PST by onedoug
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Muslims have their own made-up “history”.


3 posted on 11/17/2013 7:46:03 AM PST by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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4 posted on 11/17/2013 8:05:37 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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