Then there are all those Muslims who like to kill for god Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
You know them personally I take it.Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
.... Sam, you're missing the point. You say "gee, isn't it funny that these Muslims aren't acting like Muslims, but think they are, and call themselves Muslims?" To which I say "gee, isn't it?"Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Yeah I'm sure if the Chinese found a weapon that would neutralise all the nuclear weapons in the US and then landed with a HUGE army in America and the opportunists became their best friends, the Muslims would be the only ones fighting back.Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Thats the point. You can't imagine what its like because its not a situation you've ever faced Go to war once and then I'll ask you again.Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
So to explain your first non sequitor you... give another non sequitor? What do the Chinese have to do with this? You'll have to forgive my slow American brain.
I selected someone culturally different who would have the US screaming, "they hate us because of our FREEEEDOM".Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
It's a possible analogy. Now please try to stick to the original topic. This thread is not about USA vs Muslims.
Perhaps this topic should be renamed in reverse order! In the Hejaz, Muhammad’s homeland, there were Jewish tribes with which he was intimately involved as he was, to a lesser extent, with Christian Arabs. Muhammad learned much from the Jews and using Judaism as a base, developed his new faith Islam. There was no Arabic translation of the Hebrew Bible at the time, but Arabian Jews were deeply immersed in the mainstream of the Jewish midrashic tradition. Thus, in the Koran, many of the stories of the Hebrew Bible are retold in the form known from midrashim which diverges widely from the simple meaning of the biblical text. Many Jewish teachings, sayings, normative and ethical precepts are also found in the sacred oral tradition of Islam It is of interest to note that there are cases of Jewish ideas or practices entering Islam, being changed and then returned to Judaism. Thus the Talmudic idea of kavannah (praying or doing a ritual act with conscious intent) entered Islam which invented ritual kavannah formulations and these in turn, in Hebrew garb, were reintroduced into Judaism by Jewish mystics. Don't forget they both practice male genital mutilation as a seal of legions with a so called loving God!!!
Considering most of the qu`ran is badly plagiarised Torah and Christian scriptures. I find this thread amusing.
Just finished reading the one on Heaven and Hell; you're an excellent writer, very clear and articulate. There are striking similarities with Islam. Like this: (Malfoozat, Vol. III, pp. I55- 156). (Islami Usul ki Philosophy; Now printed in Ruhani Khazain (London, 1984), Vol. 10, pp. 7I-79). The Essence of Islam: Volume Two by Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad A bit more flowery than you but you get the essence of it.Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! im glad you were able to get through it. ive tried to share it with others, and they always said it was too dry. im happy you enjoyed it. im sure you see why i cant post that kind of thing here.
well, mostly it was people that had no interest....i was in redneck rural illinois at the time i wrote all i sent you. *shrug*
