Prophet not perfect, says Islamic scholar

The Australian ^ | 4th October 2006 | Richard Kerbaj

[top 2 toe red]

1001 fatwas issued thus far...and counting.

Seriously, this man needs to be protected, finally someone with the guts to speak the truth about the 'prophet.'

[Ole Okie]

This guy may want to slip on a viking hat and change his name to Olaf if he wants to live past tomorrow.

Olaf Ameer Ali? Think it will fool the jihadists?

[vox humana]

Something tells me this guy isn't going to live very long.

He doesn't have to worry about anything. Islam is the Religion of Peace. That's what our President says, so it must be true.

[1forall]

"This is too bad.... Jesus was perfect. I bet they are jealous."

Or so some book some guy wrote says. That's proof enough for you eh?

You were there so you know He wasn't perfect, right?

[Jaysun]

Or so some book some guy wrote says. That's proof enough for you eh?

A book about 40 guys wrote over hundreds of years, yet it fits together perfectly. The Word of God.

[DejaJude]

A very brave man.

[sappy]

The Religion of pieces will take care of this guy.

[Arkinsaw]

...it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. Acts 26:14

[Moral Hazard]

"I'm a Christian so yes the Bible is true"

So you believe the bible to be true therefore it is true? That's one amazing ego you have there.

[Moral Hazard]

"You were there so you know He wasn't perfect, right?"

No, I'm an atheist so I don't believe in an inherent concept of perfection. Of course you weren't around Muhammad to know whether he was perfect or not.

[Moral Hazard]

"A book about 40 guys wrote over hundreds of years, yet it fits together perfectly."

So you're saying the Catholic church did a good job of editing?

[Khepera]

"So you believe the bible to be true therefore it is true? That's one amazing ego you have there."

So you believe the Bible is not true so it is not true.
Talk about ego.

Your arguments are stupid so far as you have implicated yourself as a victem of your own logic.

[NRA2BFree]

Uh Oh! This sounds like the "Satanic Verses" part II. There will be a price on his head before tomorrow at sunset.

[Jaysun]

So you're saying the Catholic church did a good job of editing?

It's unchanged. Move along.

[RobbyS]

Mohammed was a Prophet, not the Son of God; a man, not an angel. This is, anyway, a basic teaching of Islam. Ironically, they idolize him more by refusing to let him be portrayed physically than by allowing this. They treat him as though HE were the angel Gabriel.

[Khepera]

"...it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. Acts 26:14"

Well it's not too hard.

[The_Reader_David]

Al-Ghazali with his literalist Koran and Hadiths only approach to everything from epistemology to law prevailed of the rationalism of Averroes.

Averroes, or later-day spiritual and intellectual descendants would have responded to the Pope's address and Regensberg with a learned disquisition based on both faiths' scriptures and Aristotle. The later-day descendant of Al-Ghazali riot and issue threats of murder.

[Asclepius]

"This is too bad.... Jesus was perfect." Still is.

Nope. Never was. He plainly supported the authority of the law and the prophets, yet he plainly refused to honour the mitzvot or the sages in practice, and commanded his followers--tax collectors, i.e. Roman quislings and oppressors of the Jews among them--to do the same. He seemed particularly hostile to Shabbot, the most sacred of Jewish observances. Not to mention his hostility to the temple services.

OK. So I will allow that he was the perfect gentile, whatever that means, because he certaily hated all things Jewish, and I can hardly blame him since the Jews of Judea didn't regard their Galilean cousins as Jewish (and rightly so, as their paternity was disputed). So he must have been hurt that the establishment never accepted him. But he was never the perfect Jew.

[Jason_b]

I'm unchurched and a bit ignorant. Did Jesus ever claim to be perfect? Does it say somewhere in scripture by someone else that "he is/was perfect?" Or are you just saying so? Not meaning to start a problem. Thanks.