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Ouch.
They must put this part in the brochures.
Yes. Keep searching. You haven't found it.
This article suffers from numerous instances of unfair prejudiced statments against Eastern Orthodox Christians (and perhaps the links to "Luther", etc. will reveal the same against Protestants, but I have not verified that.)
However, in our current situation in the US, the above paragraph says it all. And with respect to persecution of Christians by the muslim Turk (and the Turk's henchmen and successors, the Albanian and "Bosnian" muslims), I only have to ask my Serbian, Greek, and Armenian friends to verify that it is true!!!
You're joking right? I'm sure the Catholic Encyclopedia's view of Islam is as objective and balanced as it's view of Luther, Calvin and Henry VIII. Or the Albigensians or the Monophysites.
How nice to have a modern perspective.
This website was a Yahoo! daily pick.
Islam is a false religion.
Allah is a false God who does not exist in reality.
The Koran is a collection of incoherant, discombobulated rantings from that moron Mohammed.
His followers are a bunch of losers who are so bitter at their failure in life that they have no goals other than to strike out at America and the Western world with hatred.
They are miserable.
It is for this reason that arabic language and concepts are extremely pervasive at the root of western thought. Take the stars for example - they have arabic roots in their names (Polaris, Sirius etc). The Arabic world was on the forefront of many sciences from shortly after its creation up into the 1000's.
Islam's philosophical contributions cannot be understated, as it is likely we would not have many of the texts of key western philosophers like Aristotle were it not for Islam. Aristotle was basically assimilated into an extremely scholarly community of Islam where it emerged most notably in the late 900's with Ibn Sina, known as the philosopher Avicenna to the west, and then Ibn Rushd, or the philosopher Averroes as he is know under his western name. Averroes lived from the early 1100's to about 1200 and basically gave Europe neo-aristotelean thought by way of Spain.
But just before him, Islam started to implode on itself into a deep fundamentalist theocracy under which it exists to this day. In a few years, the Islamic world basically went from the forefront of human knowledge and thought to the backwoods of an extreme fundamentalist sect not unlike some of the radical groups that exist today. A key factor was the theologian Algazel, or Al Ghazali in the arabic world, who spread the call for an ultra-orthodox theocratic state in Islam around the later end of the 11th century. Algazel began the movement that is known as Sufism, an Islamic movement that came out the Shiites of Persia (Algazel's home), which is known today as Iran.
So basically, the Islam fundamentalism that is familiar to many today was not always such. The Islamic world has, for better or worse depending on who you ask, undergone a huge turnaround from a culture at one time tied heavily to western post-Rome ideas into a culture of fundamentalist theocracy unique onto itself.
Yikes! This one is wild!!
You are trying to understand the subject and you rightly know that the whole issue is spiritual and its roots are deep in world history.
I read the article with enthusiasm and I would like to know much more.
Can someone answer this question:
In the commentary of my KJV - Scofield study Bible, It says that Islam presents the biggest challenge to Christians because Islam is most like Christianity.
That statement both surprises and confuses me. I would have thought that Christianity was most closely linked to Judaism - the antithesis of Islam.
Wasn't it Abram's effort to fulfill God's promise in his own way the start of the Arab-Israeli conflict? This being God's promise that the descendents of Ishmael would be against the descendents of Isaac.
Thanks for any response.
Russ
Seriously, we hear much about the pleasures awaiting faithful Muslim males, but what happens to Muslim women? Do they turn into houris? Also, why can't they drink wine while alive but can guzzle away in Paradise?
Our God is everywhere and we can pray anytime and anywhere.
And as far as Mohammand, did he not marry a 12 yr. old girl?