[muawiyah]

That's part of Islam's secret - it really is a Western religion. From the perspective of the Far East, using a Buddhist filter, Christianity, Judaism and Islam are pretty much the same thing except with a different order of worship and a different selection of stories and verses.

[vrwc1]

That's part of Islam's secret - it really is a Western religion. From the perspective of the Far East, using a Buddhist filter, Christianity, Judaism and Islam are pretty much the same thing except with a different order of worship and a different selection of stories and verses.

I think you need to adjust your filter there pal. Islam is NOTHING like Christianity and Judaism. It may have 'borrowed' some of the history (not stories) of Judaism and Christianity, but that is where all similarities end. Islam is a religion of hate and death towards the 'infidel' who must be converted to Islam at the point of a sword or die, and worship of the ancient moon god Allah, who is most definitely not the God of the Torah or the Bible. The God of the Bible is a loving God, desiring that none should perish, but that all would come to salvation through faith in the messiah, Jesus Christ.

[Aquinasfan]

using a Buddhist filter Christianity, Judaism and Islam are pretty much the same thing except with a different order of worship and a different selection of stories and verses.

You need a new Buddhist filter. Any Buddhist with half a brain would prefer to live in a Christian society than a Mohammedan society.