Posted on 04/29/2006 6:27:32 AM PDT by NYer
I stand corrected.
I stand corrected.
Christ will emerge triumphant.
I just read the last chapter of Revelations the other day, and it looks like WE WIN! Well actually God wins. :-)
I think most people would be happy just to let Islamists be to observe their religion regardless of whether we think it is a real religion worthy of mutual respect or a cult by a pedophilic, bloodthirsty power-mad human being. Most of us don't really care one way or another.
The flying of planes into buildings and beheadings seem to have a way of focusing our attention, and not in the way moderate muslims might like.
So 25% of posting muslims realize that the only thing that is causing people to remain muslims and not become Christians is the threat of death. Now there's something to commend a religion.
http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?cid=1119503547222&pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaEAskTheScholar
tells about the official moslem position facing the apostasy (al-riddah).
whereas (in arabic):
http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AD%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D8%AF%D8%A9
tells about the wars against apostates (Houroub al-riddah)and their causes, the first paragraph says:
"The 'riddah' wars took place immediatly after the death of Mohammed and were aimed at those arabs who retracted from the new faith of Islam. Remained faithful to the Caliph Abu-Bakr, only the tribes around Medinah, plus the inhabitants of Medinah, Mekkah and Ta'ef. The Caliph Abu-Bakr decided to fight all the retracted, and 'did not leave anyone' of them, despite the direct intercession of the fellows of the prophet to spare only those who did not abide by the 'zakat'...."
Apparently, were it not for this violent (sarcastically their "shock and awe")reaction in its first days, we would only read about Islam in specialized History books.
Christianity began in the east and predates Islam. Fr. Samir is considered an authority on Muslim Christian relations. It makes sense that Arabs would be drawn back to christianity.
Perhaps, with time and much prayer, Islam will slip into history.
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