Posted on 10/04/2007 6:46:10 AM PDT by SJackson
"A moderate Muslim is a Muslim who is not trying to kill you. At this time." Would include both of the above as well as out of ammo Muslims, those traveling to the ambush, those that are trying to kill some other infidel, those that want to enslave you or any others who are not actively intent on killing you at the moment for any reason including personal cowardice on their part.
That is a good description yes.
When Muhammad (circa 600 AC) linked the name of Allah to the religious histories of Judaism and Christianity, this was a way to claim them for Islam. In the light of later events, the claim that Islam was the original religion, and that all preceding prophets were Muslims, can be regarded as an attempt to appropriate the histories of other religions for Islam. The effect is to rob Christianity and Judaism of their own histories.
The fact that Mohammed appropriated the Jewish and Christian Traditions, that the Muslim Tradition OWES to those traditions, creates quite a crisis of confidence for the radical Muslim.
Muslims should not take Christians or Jews for friends. (Al-Ma’idah 5:51) They must fight against Christians and Jews who refuse Islam until they surrender, pay the poll-tax and are humiliated. (At-Taubah 9:29) [ To this may be added hundreds of Qur’anic verses on the subject of jihad in the path of Allah, as well as the ‘Book of Jihad’ found in all Hadith collections. ]
Never the less, we should deny this reality and go on asking “...why do they hate us?”
Liars, beggars and thieves.
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