Posted on 02/01/2010 1:06:22 AM PST by A Navy Vet
After reading some more Koran tonight, I had an epiphany.
I realized that some of the worst parts of the Koran were similar to worst parts of the Christian Bible. I now believe many parts of both were misinterpreted.
While I realize that Islam has been violent throughout its history, so has Judeism and Christianity (think Crusades).
I'm not sure I believe in the 72 virgin promise, but I am starting to get Mohammed's believe in a better after-life. I need to read more.
That said, our world has gone to shit. There can be a better place for those who believe.
Yes, I know I've been promoting the opportunity and potential of our original Founding Fathers' intent for years, but they were also persons of faith. I don't know what happened...call it a vision...call it a dream...call it what you like.
This is tough stuff for me. But when you have a "vision" of Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed, where do you go?
The last prophet was Mohammed. Yes, I know of his trangressions, the same as others. But his writing are starting to make sense.
If Islam was a religion of peace, how do you explain your religion to the family of Nick Burg ?
This was likely written by someone for whom English is a second language. I wonder what his first language was? Hm?...Arabic? ( Just guessing.)
And...Can you spell *T*R*O*L*L*?
haha.. took about 20 seconds for you to be found out.. thats embarrassing..
Good for you picking this up. This guys just looking to start trouble and it reinforces my belief, not shared by many here, that length of time as a forum member hasn’t a ting to do with a members knowledge, Party affiliation or anything else.
Put him in the long boat till he’s sober,
And has he really been here since 1998, or have the bad guys figured out how to hack those dates?
This guy is all over the place... I hope he’s just a troll.
Were you a Christian before you became a Muslim ?
One cannot evaluate the formation and validity of islam without examining the origin of the text as researched by Professor Christoph Luxenberg:
“the Qur’an was not written in classical Arabic but in a mixed Arabic-Syriac language, the traders’ language of Mecca and it was based on Christian liturgical texts. When the final text of the Qur’an was codified, those working on it did not understand the original sense and meaning of this hybrid trading language any more, and they forcefully and randomly turned it into classical Arabic. This gave rise to a lot of misinterpretations. Something like this can only have happened if there was a gap in the oral transmission of the Qur’anic text.”
For example, “the word huri, universally interpreted by scholars as white-eyed virgins (who will serve the faithful in Paradise; Qur’an 44:54, 52:20, 55:72, 56:22) means, according to Luxenberg, white grapes. He says that many Christian descriptions of Paradise describe it as abounding in pure white grapes.”
In other words, texts used by Christian missionaries in the Arabian peninsula in the early centuries of the first millennium were corrupted through misapplication in a different language into a book of false prophesy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Syro-Aramaic_Reading_of_the_Koran
Inferno XXVIII, 19-42. The poets are in the ninth chasm of the eighth circle, that of the Sowers of Discord, whose punishment is to be mutilated. Mahomet shows his entrails to Dante and Virgil while on the left stands his son Ali, his head cleft from chin to forelock.
No, I have never subscribe to any religion until now.
dick.
This is pure nonsense because the crusades were not based on Biblical principles.
For all...look at my new tagline.
Y A W N
But his writing are starting to make sense.
——————————————————————————DECEPTION does that..... Islam is about control of a people, control of mind heart and soul.
Careful.. you might be next. Don’t underestimate deception...clearly it’s deadly.
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