To: vietvet67
“I believe there is a universal God. I believe the God that the Muslim prays to is the same God that I pray to. After all, we all came from Abraham. I believe in that universality.”
Neither Islam nor the Arabs came from Abraham. This was an invention of Muhammed to abstract to his own religion a bit of the mojo of one of the two high-tech civilizations of the Arabian Peninsula.
8 posted on
10/09/2007 5:28:38 AM PDT by
aruanan
To: aruanan
According to the Bible the father of the Arab people was Ishmael the brother of Isaac and son of Abraham. It was told that he became the father of twelve princes and lived in Hejaz the Arabian Peninsula.
43 posted on
10/09/2007 7:05:20 AM PDT by
allmendream
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To: aruanan
Neither Islam nor the Arabs came from Abraham. I thought the Arabs came from Ishmael.
46 posted on
10/09/2007 7:07:44 AM PDT by
William Terrell
(Individuals can exist without government but government can't exist without individuals.)
To: aruanan
Neither Islam nor the Arabs came from Abraham. This was an invention of Muhammed to abstract to his own religion a bit of the mojo of one of the two high-tech civilizations of the Arabian Peninsula. So you have not heard of that firstborn child of Abraham called Ishmael? Where do you think the Arabs came from then? NOTE I did not say their religion came from Abraham.
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