Posted on 08/21/2012 11:38:08 AM PDT by NYer
So of course moslems are his brothers and sisters but Fundamentalist Protestants are either comic caricatures or malevolent foes . . . no sir, no "brothers and sisters" in the trailer park.
Hmm. I note the remark that moslems believe the qur'an was "revealed" during the month of ramadan. Where's that scornful scriptural modernism with which Catholics so like to pour on "their own" bible? Apparently there was no J, E, P, or D involved in this little endeavor.
Orthodox Jews believe that the Torah as it exists now was wholly revealed by G-d to Moses. I expect a Catholic bishop to say this next year for Shavu`ot.
My apologies for assuming the author of the piece was a bishop.
Has anyone checked yet whether this latter-day Rachel Corrie (pbuh - pancake be upon her) is wearing an explosive vest?
Praying for this diocese and the replacement of the bishop who would allow such folly.
“”Praying for this diocese “”
Thank you,dear sister!I am in this Diocese like NYER , but I can tell you that we have some marvelous priests who tow the line even with their frustration of the Bishop.
We have many good priests who are stronger because of Hubbard, which shows our Lord works in many ways despite those who have a liberalized view of the Catholic Faith.
All I needed to know I learned on 9/11.
Satan’s words do have some value, as long as you know them for what they are.
Here’s what I learned.
Mohammed is a pervert and questioned his own sanity. He heard voices in hi head and was unsure where they came from.
Before Christians and Jews rejected his ideas for blending all three religions together his writings were favorable to them. After being rejected his writings became incredibly hostile to them advocating their deaths and 2nd class’citizenship and tribute to be paid.
Muslims can lie if it helps further muslim causes. Al-taqiyaa.
The Muslim 12th imam is the mirror image of the Bible’s description of the anti (substitute) christ. As in THE Antichrist.
Islam is the religious equivalent of the Hotel California. Nothing like a religion you can’t leave without possibly being killed for it.
Islam seems to have two central obsessions: Sexual perversion and killing. I tell people all the time to contrast the life of Mohammed and that of Jesus Christ. Even the most unfamiliar with the former know damn well there is no comparison with the latter. Try it sometime with someone talking about ‘’tolerance’’ and ‘’the religion of peace’’. If you ever do I’d be interested to know how it went. Keep in touch FRiend.
That can only be Abdullah Yusuf Ali's version. It has the original text, an English translation, and a lot of commentary, unfortunately all interleaved, which makes it a poor version for devotional reading. The modern editions have also edited (badly) much of Ali's original text.
The translation alone is about 40% of the whole. So she read 20 to 25 pages a day throughout the month. Not that hard.
I have read the Holy Quran twice. Once an english translation from the 1800s the second from the http://www.gutenberg.org . Looking in the bookstores at the more recent transltions, it has been altered a great deal to hide the violence the real Qurans contain.
For instance the Sura, “Spoils of War”, which tells how to divide the booty from vanquished infidels has been changed to “Victory” and states that Allah will give great booty to the true believers, never saying from whence it comes.
I have read the Holy Quran twice. Once an english translation from the 1800s the second from the http://www.gutenberg.org . Looking in the bookstores at the more recent transltions, it has been altered a great deal to hide the violence the real Qurans contain.
For instance the Sura, “Spoils of War”, which tells how to divide the booty from vanquished infidels has been changed to “Victory” and states that Allah will give great booty to the true believers, never saying from whence it comes.
I have read the Holy Quran twice. Once an english translation from the 1800s the second from the http://www.gutenberg.org . Looking in the bookstores at the more recent transltions, it has been altered a great deal to hide the violence the real Qurans contain.
For instance the Sura, “Spoils of War”, which tells how to divide the booty from vanquished infidels has been changed to “Victory” and states that Allah will give great booty to the true believers, never saying from whence it comes.
What Catholics can learn from the Koran is that the sola scriptura used by Wahabbis when they read the Koran is what gives them utter justification for massacres in the name of Allah.
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P.S. -- I have read the Koran and it ranks below the MeinKamf in coherency and sense. As pollster and AB point out -- we should all read it to understand the insanity that drives our enemies. Islam is pure evil and reading of its book only confirms that
95% my rear — it has a facade that it is similar to the tenets of Abraham, but that’s just a thin veneer. Only a fool like this author could think it the same.
Don't recall if you were on my list when I posted this article several years ago. It's a fascinating insight into the source books of the Koran and what happened when a German language scholar looked deeper into their sacred book. The title is misleading. I would be interested in your feedback.
The Virgins and the Grapes: the Christian Origins of the Koran
Ditto!
good points and I will do that.
Thank you.
The Koran is filled with a number of Biblical stories distorted -- some deliberate like the replacing of Isaac with Ishmael in the story about Abraham's sacrifice - a clear case of marketing to people who Mo said were the descendents of Ishmael. Others are clearly that of an illiterate man like Mo hearing the Gospel accounts of the birth of Christ and the Apocalypse and mixing them up
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