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To: wmfights
I hope you don't mind my jumping in. Do you believe Islam itself is a religion of peace? I'm not trying to play "gotcha". I believe Islam was founded by Mohamed as he was guided by Satan.

Don't mind it at all.

I have four points you might consider.
1. Most of Islam is a knockoff of Judaism and Christianity. Muslims greatly respect both of those religions and the "People of the Book."

2. No, Islam isn't the religion of peace. Mohammad never said it was. "Islam" means "submission to God." It doesn't mean "peace" and never did.

3. People make war; religions don't. If you believe Satan guided Mohammad, then he guided him using the Old and New Testaments. I don't believe Satan guided Mohammad at all. I don't even speculate.
I do know that many wars and much evil are started in the name of religion, as we see in those insane imams who advocate suicide bombers, but that's all hypocrisy and I truly believe that hypocrisy, especially religious hypocrisy, is guided by Satan.
There have been holy people since the beginning of time who have talked gullible people into dying for their particular purposes. THEY were guided by Satan.

4. I don't listen to and observe those evil imams and then believe that THEY represent the billion+ Muslims in the world. That would be like condemning the religion of Catholicism and ALL its priests for the sins of a relatively few evil pederast priests.

No "gotcha" intended here either.

11 posted on 09/03/2007 3:56:20 PM PDT by starfish923 (Socrates: It's never right to do wrong.)
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To: starfish923
I think you are very naive.
Most Muslims “Greatly respect” Judaism and Christianity?
Sure, perhaps on paper. However all non Muslims are infidels and in pure Islam have to choose to convert or tod ie "the sword". “People make war ...” Just so much silly talk. Most Muslims are ignorant, backward, poor people who are directed by their Islamic leaders so inreality Religions do make war.
12 posted on 09/03/2007 8:12:24 PM PDT by Bainbridge
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To: starfish923
1. Most of Islam is a knockoff of Judaism and Christianity. Muslims greatly respect both of those religions and the "People of the Book."

If they respected both faiths why did they rewrite the Scriptures 600 years after the fact.

2. No, Islam isn't the religion of peace. Mohammad never said it was. "Islam" means "submission to God." It doesn't mean "peace" and never did.

If a religion teaches it is right to convert at the point of a sword, or that those who don't believe should be slaves and are less human it probably doesn't come from God. I don't know of any passages in the OT or NT that call for Jews or Christians to convert people in this manner.

3. People make war; religions don't. If you believe Satan guided Mohammad, then he guided him using the Old and New Testaments.

Islam teaches all must submit to it's authority whether it is willingly or by force.

One of the reasons that I believe Islam is the invention of Satan is that it is based on a rewrite of Scripture 600-1,500 years after the fact.

15 posted on 09/04/2007 7:39:16 AM PDT by wmfights (LUKE 9:49-50 , MARK 9:38-41)
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