Hugh Hewitt on the The Tancredo Blunder

HughHewitt.com ^ | 07/18/2005 Posted at 5:40 PM, Pacific | Hugh Hewitt

[BigSkyFreeper]

Good, so have I. You're trying to tell me that if Islam is perverse, so is Christianity. That in itself is disengenuous.

[Sir Gawain]

You're trying to tell me that if Islam is perverse, so is Christianity. That in itself is disengenuous.

Huh? Not sure how you're getting that from any of my posts.

[BigSkyFreeper]

Reading the Gospels does not lead one to an understanding of the Koran

No it doesn't, but reading both (and I have a book that does a side-by-side word-for-word comparison of the Holy Bible and the Holy Koran) and you'd understand that the Koran is based on the Holy Bible, which it is.

[BigSkyFreeper]

Not sure how you're getting that from any of my posts.

From the way your posts are worded.

[jaykay]

How come in all the outcry over the hypothetical nuking of mecca, there is no concern over the hypothetical nuking of American cities which precedes? America nuking mecca, that's outrageous, islam nuking America, well that's all in a day's allah akbar.

[jaykay]

Center-right = Socialism-light.

[Sir Gawain]

and you'd understand that the Koran is based on the Holy Bible, which it is.

It's called being a cheap imitation. Mohammed took cliff notes from the Bible to make his book sound holy. What exactly is your point?

[jaykay]

Is Hugh living in fantasyland?

Isn't he out of LA? So the answer is: Yes.

[BigSkyFreeper]

It's called being a cheap imitation. Mohammed took cliff notes from the Bible to make his book sound holy.

So?

What exactly is your point?

Are you always this dense?

[Mind-numbed Robot]

I don't have time to wade through this whole thread but before I go I want to say that I agree with Hewitt. We have a lot of keyboard Rambos on FR so just let them have their fun. They are safe knowing no one is going to follow their silly advice.

[BigSkyFreeper]

The outcry is coming from the same people who are notoriously not known for complex thinking skills.

[Siobhan]

Sorry. The Koran is not based on the Bible. The Muslims claim the Koran's origin is divine. If one sees any relationship to the Christian Bible, the Muslim would simply see that as a confirmation that the Christians had received some divine truth before corrupting it.

From a Christian perspective or Jewish perspective the Koran picks pieces of Scriptures, using some, elaborating on some, perverting some. But most of the material in the Koran has no relationship to the Hebrew or Christian Scriptures as they are understood by most Jews or Christians. The Koran has its own mission to supplant and replace all religious texts and legal codes.

[BykrBayb]

I have not seen Sir Gawain equate Islam with Christianity. You have accused him of your own deed. But please, don't let the truth get in your way.

[BigSkyFreeper]

The Koran is not based on the Bible.

Well, you're wrong.

The Muslims claim the Koran's origin is divine.

Not sure which Muslims you're talking about, but Muslims I've talked to believe Jesus to be Divine and that Koran to be the text from which they themselves follow.

[BigSkyFreeper]

I have not seen Sir Gawain equate Islam with Christianity.

That's because you're dense too.

[tkathy]

When Hugh starts to talk about all the wonderful Muslims, and just a tiny minority are about terrorism I could scream. Either he is uninformed or deliberately lying.

Every active Muslim worldwide is knowingly giving money for murder in the vast monetary network that is funding terrorism.

[BykrBayb]

I must not be as dense as you'd like me to be. I haven't been fooled by your lies.

[k2blader]

The outcry is coming from the same people who are notoriously not known for complex thinking skills.

Well, at least you admit it.

[Siobhan]

It is difficult to exchange posts with someone who is so painfully and stubbornly wrong. Jesus is most definitly not divine in any branch of Islam, and any Muslim who tells you that Jesus is divine is really selling you a bridge in Brooklyn. Only the Koran's origin is divine in Islam. You need to find out the story of how Mohammed is said to have received the Koran.

Back to the Divinity of Jesus, which is a tenet of orthodox Christianity: In Islam Jesus and Mary are sinless, but they are not divine. And for the average Muslim knowledge of Jesus and Mary in the Koran is extremely limited.

From a secular perspective, the Koran has a multi-source background but the most important nexus is Mohammed himself as redactor/editor/translator/presenter. Elements from Christian and Hebrew Scriptures are borrowed, but the structure of the Koran is not based on the Hebrew or Christian Bible. The linguistic conventions of the Koran are not consistent with the Hebrew or Christian Bible. The thematic content of the Koran is not consistent with the Hebrew or Christian Bible. The legal content is not consistent with the Hebrew of Christian Bible. Category by category the Koran presents a fascinating cohesive whole in Arabic, very beautiful Arabic I might add, and that is totally opposite from the various voices, genres, languages, and purposes in the various books of the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures.

[Siobhan]

The Koran has its own mission to supplant and replace all religious texts and legal codes.