You may not have seen the following thread, but I’m including it with a response I wrote to someone who said that, essentially, Christians are just like Muslims in that our religion condemns non-believers the same way. In light of your own personal experiences, let me know what you think.
“Muslim pupils learn to cut off hands of thieves”
Thu Feb 10 2011 14:36:11 GMT-0600 (Central Standard Time) · 27 of 36
llandres to Soothesayer9; All
“I don’t approve of Islam either but a little perspective is in order. We preach the same thing!”
NO, we don’t. Christ commands us to be tolerant, love one another and hate the sin but not the sinner. Our faith teaches that only God can judge, NOT us, and that judgment will be in the hereafter. Muhammed (the prophet) commands his followers to be judge, jury and executioner. And NO tolerance for non-Muslims. Christ respected women; Muhammed was a pedophile, polygamist and advocated stoning, beating, mutilation, and all manner of murder against females who don’t “toe the line” according to his sick standards. Christ promised eternal life to all who believe in Him - Muhammed wrote that the only sure way to Paradise is to kill, or be killed, in the name of Allah. (Hence, suicide bombers - “livin’ to die for virgins in the sky”.)
The two religions are fundamentally different, but then, Islam is fundamentally different from all other major world religions.
And the tired, old rant about “more wars were fought in the name of religion” is not a valid argument against Christianity, either. While there has been violence through the ages by those who twisted it wrongfully for their own ends, the New Testament upon which our faith is founded advocates no such thing. The “new testament” of the Koran, however (writings of Muhammed after Medina when he became increasingly violent in his beliefs and teachings, and which Islam believes supercedes the earlier part of the Koran), commands world domination of Islam through its followers by any and all means possible (including lies/deception), and death to ALL infidels who will not convert or agree to being subjugated as second-class citizens.
Brigitte Gabriel has said that those Muslims who are “peaceful and moderate” are either not familiar with the entire Koran or choose to cherry-pick the pleasant parts of it in order to lead a comfortable life harmonious with their neighbors in non-Muslim societies.
Sorry to be long-winded, but I wrote this because we will all, more and more, be called upon to defend the facts of our religion, and Christ’s love, against Islam and the true hatred that Muhammed commands.
Some years ago, a relative of mine showed me an item in some regional Catholic newspaper. It wasn’t an ad, just some filler with CAIR as the cited source. It said that many people don’t realize that the god of islam and the God of Christianity are the same. I found it rather unsettling to read this in the official newspaper of our diocese.
Muslims will always tell you straight up, that “Allah” has no son. Their god is not Father, Son, Holy Spirit.
The differences start there and as you have shown, they are profound. Jesus said his kingdom is not of this world. Muhammad’s objective, and that of all muslims, is precisely the conquest of this world. (It happens to be Satan’s objective as well.)
Of course, Jesus is not actually analogous to Muhammad. Better to say that in Christianity, the Word was made flesh (Jesus) and in Islam the word was the quran. Muhammad was merely the vessel; they say he did not write it himself, he conveyed it at the command of an angel; his illiteracy corresponds to Mary’s purity.
And therein lies the fatal flaw. To muslims, the quran is divine, perfect, sinless, and beyond question or criticism or alteration. It is in a permanently fixed state and therefore so is the religion. Muslims cannot improve. They are what they were in the seventh century, insofar as they are muslim.
Beyond that, their culture was virtually frozen by islam, partly because of the early traditions of islam (hadith). Traditions and cultural practices are venerated, and no devout muslim wants to stray far from them.
In consequence, we see a martial people, fanatical, backward, rigid. Throw some gasoline on those fires — their oil riches — and you get a holocaust.
I truly believe they will bring about World War III. If the decision were mine, we’d invade their countries and seize the oilfields, every last square inch. We won’t, and the apocalypse that will result from our irresolution will be deserved.