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To be completely honest I believe so too. The other day in looking into the comparisons between Obama’s “5 Pillars of Education” and the Muslim’s “5 Pillars of Islam”, I ran across a list of the “99 names of God”, or what Muslims apparently consider more accurately to be ‘attributes’ of Allah (God).

I truly believe that 98 of the names would not necessarily be blasphemous (although I haven’t read them in context personally - I’ve just seen this list).

And, if one were to consider them facets of God’s “personality” as represented in what I, for example, know and remember about the Bible from my reading and religious education (as a Catholic, in parochial grade school, and (usually) more than weekly mass (due to feasts and holy days that were part of our religious education), and from my Mom who had converted from Lutheran to Catholic). Plus my ‘research’ as an adult into matters of my own faith.

However, there is one “name of God” according to Islam that is (in my understanding) totally twisted — like an antonym vs. a synonym. This was in the 6th Hadith, which is also, IIRC the part of the Hadiths that, according to Muslims, contain the passages that make killing of infidels, and such ‘blessed’.

Obviously, I would have to write out a pretty decent essay to espouse my entire theory on this.

One thing I want to make clear, that is also interesting. The members of specific ‘denominations’ of Islam hold Hadiths higher than the Koran (Islam’s bible, if you will), in terms of holiness, but the way Hadiths were passed orally honestly reminded me of playing a game of telephone over generations with no way to PROVE that the person they attribute the quote to is genuine. It would’ve been easy for someone to “slip” something in, IMHO.

That is why I don’t want to judge any of the peaceful muslims that may exist in our world — some who would view self-initiated “jihad” and especially “HIRABIST” (or “non-legal” war), as morally wrong.

If anyone is willing to truly live peacefully and isn’t an honest to God threat to me, I wish them no harm. I can’t know if in these people’s hearts just because they ARE Muslim that they may not be even trapped in that Religion but still ‘know God’ in their hearts. That’s why I’m glad I’m not God, that’s for sure...

I can’t help but get philosophical when I try to figure out why a group of people would have such a blood-lust and willingness to commit atrocities in the name of God. It seems so utterly foreign to me, and everything I believe...

OK, it’s getting quite late, and I’m getting tired. Plus, my doctors still have me on medications for some minor lingering irritation from my bronchitis. So if I sound a “little out there” it’s these darn drugs my doctors put me on! LOL

Oh, one more thing I wanted to share that’s along these lines somewhat... [Some I’ve pinged are already aware of some of these things, so forgive my repeating them if you are]

Coincidently, my whole family just got over a NASTY flu they came down with around April 2nd/3rd - I didn’t get the flu, but I got an Acute Bronchial Infection around the 7th, and went to the doctor on the 8th due to the pain I was experiencing.

We homeschool, and my husband has been laid off and not at work, so he didn’t come in contact with a flu virus there. He has gone to job interviews, and we have done regular errands and such. We also had friends visit us from the suburbs of Chicago about 2 days before, but that would be kind of too quick for them to have exposed us to anything and for it to ‘incubate’, and I don’t think they’ve been sick after being here either...

We haven’t been sick in YEARS, really, and every other member of my family came down with it seemingly at the same time. Another weird coincidence(???), we had to put our kitten who had feline leukemia to sleep due to his contracting an upper respiratory infection that put his disease and white blood cell production on ‘hyper-drive’. Our cat, Hobbes, got sick at the same time as all the other members of my family — we noticed he was having trouble breathing about 24 hours after my family got a 24-36 hour fever, and respiratory flu symptoms.

No reason to believe we had this new virus of course, it’s even more likely to just be a coincidence and somehow we got exposed to a “late season flu bug”, it just makes looking at all of this stuff “hit home” in a weird way since I nursed my kids and hubby and just ‘did combat’ against an illness of this sort! LOL :)

My girls have heard about this flu outbreak on the news, and I told them, well, look at it this way — if it is more widespread than we’ve thought till now, then there’s a very slim chance that maybe we’ve already “had it”! :) Worth being optimistic, I’d say! LOL

Hope everyone has a good night & take care!