The Islamic world has declared war on every other form of religion in the world. They essentially destroyed the Zoroastrian religion in ancient Persia, so that only a ragged remnant remains in existence today in India. Zoroastrianism was the revealed religion that spawned the tale of the three Wise Men, or Magi, priests of the Zoroastrians, who read the signs and came bearing gifts to the child Jesus of Nazareth. Before there was a Christ, they believed.
Zoroastrians were Medes and various other non-Jewish tribes and ethnicities in the Middle East, who adopted and subscribed to a monothestic religion of a supreme being of goodness, Ahura Mazda, and his army of angels, who battled Ahriman and his horde of the Fallen, concepts that are surprisingly similar to those held by Christian theologists (or at least ones who take their vocation seriously).
There is reason to believe that Mohammed Ali was a student of the Zoroastrian religion, and was well acquainted with its concepts and tenets. Apparently, in middle age, he was overtaken by a peculiar madness and religiosity (sometimes seen in schizophrenic psychiatric patients) in which he began to see new meanings and “signs” in the existing texts, and decided that he was hearing the “voice of God”.
Only, to distinguish HIS version of “God”, he designated the Supreme Being as “Allah”, and went on the warpath to destroy all vestiges of the religion he had known from childhood. By extensively re-writing and re-interpreting the existing religious texts, and summarily destroying all those with which there were unresolved differences, a warped form of a monotheistic cult emerged. The text of the Koran, and the various hadiths which are based upon thae Koran, are the only religious texts still accepted by the Muslims. There is no room for compromise with any other religion.
Now everybody in the room is aware of how a cult like the Branch Davidians, of recent notoriety in Texas, or of the various Sangria and Voodoo cults of the Caribbean islands are looked upon by more traditional Christians. Yet those religions were more or less loosely based on Christianity. The same relation bears between Zoroastrianism and Islam.
The spread of Islam was at the point of a sword, and a choice given to those who yielded in combat: 1) accept Allah and Islam as your God and way of life, 2) submit to servitude (dhimmi) under the Noble Islamic Gentlemen Given Great Exceptional Respect, or 3) be summarily executed on the spot, preferably by decapitation, as it was then easier to mount the heads on pikes and further intimidate future conquests.
Bearded men with burning eyes. Now referring to the Zoraastrian religion, did Mohammed select Ahura Mazda or Ahriman as his model for Allah? One suspects the latter, as was predicted in the Book of Revelations and the writings of Nostradamus.
Barack Hussein Obama, Jr., the charismatic, messianic Magic Negro, scares the billy out of me. His “audacity”, and “impertinence”, together with vague information concerning his early childhood, generate a great feeling of forboding.
Jessie Jackson would be a better choice for Democrat Presidential candidate. Not much, but a little better.
Muhammadens routinely blow themselves up and kill hundreds or thousands in the process, THIS is offensive.
archbippy of cantbeworried.
There. I fixed it.
Careful, you might offend them, and that is not allowed. Of course, they can be as offensive to you as they like, but that’s different.
While comparing and contrasting Islam and Christianity, he finds that the Christians have abandoned peace?!?
Video beheadings annoy me.
I think honest Jews, Christians and Muslims can agree the Karan is a haphazard effort to take the Jewish and Christian traditions and make them Islamic traditions with the intent of conversion. Further, MUSLIMS NEED TO GET OVER IT ALREADY.
Abraham ‘was not a Jew nor a Christian, but he was a monotheist, a Muslim’ (Âl ‘Imran 3:66)
CAN’T WE ALL JUST GET ALONG: Abraham was a jew. Jesus was a Christian. Mohammad was a tyrant and propagandist that beheaded people and collected goats.
Rowan the Fuzzy is offensive to me.