[XBob]

For your review

[Drew68]

Here is a interesting Hindu take on Islam. The author does not spare his feelings at all.

[syriacus]

My daughters and I were discussing Mohammed the other night. We wondered kind of religious background he came from. In other words, What religion was practiced by his friends and relatives before he introduced Islam?

So we looked him up in several books we have, including the Pictorial History of Philosphy, by Dagobert D. Runes, Philosophical Library , NY. (pp 166-167)

It seems idolatry was practiced in his area, but Mohammed changed that.

We also learned, from the book, that "He did not feel he was a saint, and consciously refrained from performing miracles."

[sam_paine]

So why does GWB trip over himself to make a distinction between terrorists and Islam, "a peaceful religion???"

Or was he intentionally using the term "crusade" as an allusion to what's coming.

[Wright is right!]

Here's MY review:

It's making my eyes glaze over.

Michael

[rebelsoldier]

My problem is with being told not to consider religion as an operative factor in all of this, while at the same time being told Moslems should be allowed special dispensation because of their faith and regarded on behalf of it. Those who expect this are hypocritical and misguided. It can't be both ways and be credible. Since Islamic militant extremists are calling this a "holy" war, it is reasonable to presume THEY consider religion an operative, if not primary factor, and thus they have necessitated a discussion of their beliefs and its relevance. Finally, when one identifies and refers to himself by his religion, operating on that basis is unavoidable.

[Psycho_Bunny]

"People in glass houses..."

Being riddled with orders of genocide, slavery, subjection of women, and a host of general bizarreness, the Bible isn’t so pretty itself, sometimes.

[bluetoad]

"The Urdu-language newspaper, the Punjab Post, offered 400,000 rupees to anyone who killed an American."

Declaration of WAR!!!

hmmm... Nothing here, move along...

[Mat_Helm]

Islam is the antichrist. It is the second final solution for satan to try and kill as many Jews and Christians as possible after Rome failed and than Hitler failed. But God has other plans and the victory has already been won through Jesus Christ. Repent and make yourself ready for His return. Christians love their enemies and that is why we have so many pacifists in this country as apposed to Muslim countries. We hold life sacred unlike the communist atheists Stalin and Mao that killed millions upon millions and the muslims that fasely believe killing women and children will obtain paradise for themselves. If these bastards had a nuke they would or will use it to kill many more innocent people as they did on September 11. They would be blowing up neihborhood pizza parlors here now as they do in Israel if Syria or Lebanon was on our border instead of Mexico and they wanted California back!!! Thank God native American indians hold life more sacred than these evil islamic terrorists. I am sick and tired of this political correctness crap about the middle east. We made the same cultural mistake in Veitnam. There are not just a few muslims that hate America, but millions that do because they are mislead. But I trust God and our nations leaders and I trust what the bible says will be, so let it come.

[StayoutdaBushesWay]

It's written in the Qur'an in Surah 5

From those, too, who call themselves Christians, We did take a covenant, but they forgot a good part of the message that was sent them: so we estranged them, with enmity and hatred between the one and the other, to the day of judgment. And soon will Allah show them what it is they have done.

We are considered a "Christian Nation" by the Muslims

[x]

Just off the top of my tired head: Christianity is faith-based, individualistic and universalistic. Judaism puts more emphasis on practices and laws, and is community-based and not universalistic. Islam is practice and ritual centered, community-based and universalistic. The eastern religions adhere to a very different way of thinking than the Western monotheisms, though one could draw vague or loose parallels between Buddhism and Christianity or Hinduism and Judaism if one really wanted to. Judaism's influence over the secular world is limited by its emphasis on one particular people, Christianity by its growing emphasis on the individual and his conscience, Hinduism by its many gods and cults and emphasis on the god within, Buddhism by it's essential unwordliness or other worldliness. Islam's power over society doesn't face these limitations.

Also, the Koran was written in one life time and reflects one particular set of circumstances: the establishment of a new religion in bitter competition and contestation. The Hebrew Bible, and to some degree the Christian gospels and epistles and the writings of Eastern religions that we take to be canonical evolved over longer periods of time and reflect different circumstances.

There is an interesting article in Saturday's Times: The World is Paying For the Failure of a Dream. According to the author, Michael Binyon, Islam was quite self-confident until the rise of Mongols and Turks and then of the West, which threw them back upon themselves and eventually led some into deep bitterness. A dominant, self-confident religion may find it easier to adapt to "modernity" than one that is forever conscious of being thought backward or inferior.

Sorry if I've insulted anyone's or everyone's religion. I can't claim to speak with any authority on any of this.

[FReethesheeples]

Bump.

[EverOnward]

Thank you for your research and post.

Bookmarked.

[AmericanCheeseFood]

I find more spritual value in used TP !

Cheese .

[My Favorite Headache]

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