Posted on 05/10/2003 1:34:32 AM PDT by kattracks
Ha! It'll be easy to mistake the two from any distance! Considering that the Koran is the word of Allah, and Islam isn't spread by peaceful persuasion but through violence, all too many of these words are in fact incitements to behave in the manner of those called fundamentalists.
I wish............
Like the part about him murdering the two slave girls for singing a song about him?
Like him sticking his crank into a 9 year old?
Interesting "religion."
Again, I provided the critical exception ~ in it's earliest days Arab conquests paved the way for the spread of Islam in the Middle East and North Africa. To a degree only now being discovered by archaeologists, the "conquering armies" were more nearly non-Arab and non-Moslem than otherwise. The Moslem dominated Arab government provided a focus of opportunity for "rogue" Byzantine military personnel (that's a polite way to say it). (I hope folks have noticed that the Syrian and Chaldean Christian churches still exist even though they were right there were the first military "conquests" occurred.)
Actually, this all makes a great deal of sense because Christians, with their history of violence over the last millenium and a half, should have done a really great job at wrapping up the states in North Africa in a short period of time. This would also be in line with the opportunities Christian conquerors gave Moslems to spread their faith throughout Africa in modern times.
Except for the Turkish conquests, and the Mongel conquests before and after them, the Arab Moslems were doing pretty good right up to the 11th century.
It's purpose is similar to the Moses story where Moses is drawn out of the bullrushes of the Nile by a royal princess, his real mother being a Hebrew slave who set him adrift to avoid having him slaughtered in one of those "first born" killings so common in the background of world religions.
The Moses story made Moses legitimately a Hebrew. Fortunately he had his new-found brother Aaron at his right hand to do all the heavy duty preaching in Hebrew (Moses being fluent primarily in Egyptian).
This business of the "recovered brother" or "long lost child" is common in ancient history. The Arabs just did it a different ~ they simply destroyed the reputation and standing of the woman ~ women were of no account among them and they didn't think a thing about it, nor were they concerned with your utterly modern attitude toward womens which they could not have imagined!
The Moslems in Indonesia were probably as concerned about East Timor's history of Communist activism as they were their supposed Christian backgrounds. In fact, the biggest mass murder by Moslems commited against anyone else because of their beliefs happened in Indonesia and the targets were Communists ~ (except for the Hindus in Bali who got in the way ~ many of whom were sociopathic Communist cadre anyway).
For the most part Americans cheered when the Indonesians disposed of the Communists.
I merely pointed to the various Mongel invasions of the West and Middle-East. It didn't matter whether the top dog was a Buddhist, a Christian or a Moslem, the technique the Mongels used was of equal brutality and violence.
Certainly anyone who knows anything about the history of Islam knows of it's interaction of the Mongels from the 600s to the 1500s~!
Your name-calling is symptomatic of your problem in this discussion.
Whoa...hey now! The Easter Bunny is real.
Your response and that of your brother Moslems there (who are trying to discredit everybody on this thread who knows anything about the history of the Middle East) suggests that you are driven mostly by the "myth". So, take a hike back to Egypt or Syria, or wherever it is you hang out, and stuff a sock in it.
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