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Islam Is Not An Abrahamic Religion
Right Side News ^ | February 3, 2016 | Col. Tom Snodgrass (Ret)

Posted on 02/03/2016 6:51:43 AM PST by RightSideNews

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Islam’s Abrahamic Religion Claim Is A Trojan Horse Subterfuge By Col. Tom Snodgrass (Ret.), Right Side News

Do Muslims Jews, And Christians Worship The Same God?

This basic question must be addressed and answered in the negative if Western Civilization is to begin to forge an effective defense against Islamic jihad. Dr. Mark Durie, an Australian Anglican theologian, has written the definitive analytical book, “Which God?: Jesus, Holy Spirit, God in Christianity & Islam,” that debunks the accepted conventional wisdom that Islam, Judaism, and Christianity share Abrahamic roots. Dr. Durie’s book incontestably demonstrates that YHWH and Allah are not the same god. Consequently, Christians and Jews are being misled about the shared identity of the three religions’ divinity. This deception is a key component in the overt and covert war being conducted by the political forces of Islam in order to subjugate the Judeo-Christian religions and their societies.

One of the most dangerous avenues of covert attack is contained in this Muslim assertion that Islam shares Abrahamic roots with Christianity and Judaism. Dr. Durie explains the Islamic covert attack plan in the following paragraph.

DR DURIE

There are bountiful examples making the case that YHWH and Allah are not the same god; but in the interest of brevity, here are two salient quotations from the Gospel of Matthew and from Sura 2 of the Quran cited by Dr. Durie. Dr. Durie’s explanation of Matthew 5:43-45 and the quotation of that New Testament scripture follows:

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Next, consider Dr. Durie’s comments regarding Quran Sura 2: 190-94 that he also quotes:

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One need not be a religious theologian to comprehend that ‘a god’ cannot possibly be the same ‘deity’ when that ‘divine source’ issues completely contradictory instructions to followers on how to behave in exactly the same circumstances.

In regard to the injunction in the Quranic sura quoted above that states: “…aggress not: Allah loves not aggressors,” the Islamic concept of ‘aggression’ needs to be explained. In terms of Islamic thought, aggression only occurs when non-Muslims impede the Islamization of their territory and thus erect obstacles to the Allah-commanded evangelization of Islam throughout the world. Consequently, these non-Muslims are obstructing the will of Allah. Furthermore, since submission to Islam is the only ‘path’ (that is, ‘sharia’) to peace, Muslims believe that they are bringing peace, not aggression, when they engage in jihad, violent or non-violent.

The Shared Abrahamic Origin Lie Of Islam

Abraham’s life is archeologically dated to have occurred circa 2000 B.C. in Mesopotamia and the Fertile crescent, while Mohammad’s Islamic cult first began to take fruition in Mohammad’s imagination in 610 A.D. in Western Arabia. There is, in fact, no genealogical, historical, or archeological evidence linking Abraham and Mohammad. Mohammad claimed Abrahamic lineage for Islam through Abraham’s illegitimate son, Ishmael. Ishmael was the Arab spawn of Abraham and his Egyptian concubine, Hagar. Hagar was eventually exiled along with Ishmael from Abraham’s tribe to the desert of Sinai, not to the desert of Arabia.

The fact which makes Mohammad’s ‘Abrahamic common-ancestor-origin myth’ extremely dubious is that the Ishmaelite-descendant tribes lived not in the Arabia deserts of Mohammad’s Quraish Tribe, but far to the north and west of Arabia by Bronze Age standards in the Sinai and Fertile Crescent deserts. Another historical fact discrediting Mohammad’s fictitious Abrahamic myth is that these Ishmaelite nomadic tribes disappeared from history after 700 B.C, while Mohammad’s Quraish Tribe didn’t occupy Mecca until after 500 B.C.

In order to make sense of Mohammad’s historically fanciful Abrahamic lineage claim, it is necessary to be aware of the ‘Islamic mythological theology’ that the Quran, ‘the Mother of the Book,’ has existed forever with Allah; therefore, according to Islamic theology, the Quran predated Adam, Abraham, Mohammad, and all of mankind. Consequently, according to this Muslim timeline, Abraham was actually a prophet of Islam. And since Abraham is claimed by Muslims to be the patriarch of all three religions, consider how Islamic theology depicts Abraham counseling Muslims to embark on eternal hatred of any persons that do not believe in the ‘Islamic Allah god’ alone, which naturally refers to Christians, Jews, and believers in other faiths. This Quranic portrayal of Abraham is totally contrary to the Judeo-Christian concept of that patriarch, thus invalidating the Islamic claim of shared Abrahamic lineage.

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DR DURIE 5So, Mohammad would have people believe that Allah told him through the Angel Gabriel that, 2600 years before Mohammad lived and proclaimed the existence of Islam, Abraham was instructing future Christians and Jews to practice Islamic submission to Allah. Moreover, should wayward Christian and Jewish ‘descendants of Abraham’ not follow his instructions to serve the Islamic god Allah, then the ‘true heirs of Abraham’ (that is, Muslims) will be justified in loathing those who will not submit to Allah through the practice of Islam until they do. Thus, according to the Islamic Quran, sharing Abrahamic origin really means that the religious patriarch Abraham was prophetically admonishing all his spiritual progeny to disavow the covenants they would make with YHWH in favor of eventual submission to Allah.

Then following that Islamic scriptural perversion of Abraham, consider the egregious Islamic instructions to followers concerning the justness of murderous retribution as cited in Dr. Durie’s book.

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It is worthy to note that behind Mohammad’s ‘retribution’ was the motive of plundering Jewish property and enslaving their women and children for sex and profit. At the base motivation of Mohammad’s Islamic religion is always the plunder of the property of non-believers in Islam and their murder, or their enslavement. St. Thomas Aquinas made the following trenchant observation regarding Mohammad’s ‘brigand theology.’

Muhammad enticed peoples with the promise of carnal pleasures, to the desire of which the concupiscence of the flesh instigates. He also delivered commandments in keeping with his promises, by giving the reins to carnal pleasure, wherein it is easy for carnal men to obey: and the lessons of truth which he inculcated were only such as can be easily known to any man of average wisdom by his natural powers: yea rather the truths which he taught were mingled by him with many fables and most false doctrines. Nor did he add any signs of supernatural agency… but he asserted that he was sent in the power of arms, a sign that is not lacking even to robbers and tyrants. Again, those who believed in him from the outset were not wise men practiced in things divine and human, but beastlike men who dwelt in the wilds, utterly ignorant of all divine teaching; and it was by a multitude of such men and the force of arms that he compelled others to submit to his law.
In today’s vernacular, Mohammad was the ‘Godfather’ of a Muslim desert mafia family.

A Christian Perspective Of The Coming Of Mohammad

For Christians, Jesus foretold the coming of Mohammad: “Beware of false prophets. They come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves” (Matthew 7:15); “ For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the ‘elect’ (that is, ‘Christians’)” (Matthew 24:24); and “But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them….” (2 Peter 2:1-3).

As these verses should make abundantly clear to Christians, Christ and the Apostles were very concerned about false prophets and the anti-Christ deceiving Christians. Without a doubt, Christians have been amply forewarned about the coming of Mohammad and Islam. Christians foolishly ignore the New Testament warnings at their peril, as the genocidal execution of Christians by Islamic jihadists in the Middle East provide daily testimony.

Islam’s Blatant War On Judeo-Christian Civilization And Judeo-Christian Leadership’s Politically Correct State Of Denial

The State of Israel’s leadership is well aware of the eternal war between Judaism and Islam mandated by Islamic scripture, but they are constrained in their responses by politically correct world leadership. Consequently, they engage in a ‘diplomatic kabuki dance’ that gives lip service to a fairytale ‘two-state solution.’ Western secular and religious leaders should wake up and realize that Israel is Western Judeo-Christian Civilization’s frontline in the jihadist religious war that Islam is waging against it.

On the other hand, the indisputable worldwide onslaught by Islam against Christianity is very troubling because there is only scant awareness of the Islamic jihadist warfare among the leaders of Christ’s Church, Catholic and Protestant, and because there is no organized Christian effort to repel the overt and covert subversion of the Judeo-Christian religions and culture of Western Civilization. This dire situation cries out for the Christian leaders to finally become fully conversant in Islamic ‘theology,’ that is, their plan for religious jihadist war to impose Islamic Sharia law on all unbelievers.

Christianity, regardless whether its leadership knows it or not, is engaged in existential conflict with Islam. Mohammad’s unequivocal, eternal declaration of war leaves no doubt about the unending, existential nature of the combat: “Allah's Apostle said, 'I have been ordered to fight the people till they say: 'None has the right to be worshipped but Allah.' And if they say so, pray like our prayers, face our Qibla [direction of Mecca] and slaughter as we slaughter, then their blood and property will be sacred to us and we will not interfere with them except legally and their reckoning will be with Allah'"( Bukhari (8:387)). This ‘Mohammadan war declaration’ may also be found in Sahih Muslim (1:33), Bukhari (2:24), Bukhari (60:40), Bukhari (59:643), and Islamic Sacred Sharia Law (Jihad o9.0 (3)).

Conclusion

As world history makes undeniably crystal clear, religious wars are fought to the death without compromise. The indisputable proof that this is a religious war is found throughout Islamic scripture, but Mohammad’s documented declaration removes any doubt: 'I have been ordered to fight the people till they say: 'None has the right to be worshipped but Allah.'

The denial of the war being conducted to the blood-curdling screams of ‘Allahu Akbar’ against the Western world by its political and religious leadership will go down in human history as the greatest leadership failure in the annals of mankind. The Western world leadership’s willful blindness is self-induced insanity because it contravenes human self-preservation instinct.

 

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TOPICS: Apologetics; General Discusssion; History; Islam
KEYWORDS: abraham; allah; mohammad; yhwh
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1 posted on 02/03/2016 6:51:43 AM PST by RightSideNews
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To: RightSideNews

Islam is not a religion period.


2 posted on 02/03/2016 6:58:29 AM PST by freedomjusticeruleoflaw (Western Civilization- whisper the words, and it will disappear. So let us talk now about rebirth.)
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To: RightSideNews

Arabic speaking Christians call God Allah, so comparisons can dispense with the God vs. Allah issue. Islam’s God has supreme will so that He can arbitrarily reverse the course of physical and moral nature, He can summarily declare evil to be good, He can tell us to lie, the Old Testament on that subject notwithstanding. The Christian God’s will is to send His Son to die for us, to temporarily suspend His omnipotence, to allow His creatures to commit the sacrilege of Deicide. It’s a difference in Islam vs. Christianity’s conception of Will: We say that will is the decision to love. Satan’s crime could be construed as a perversion of the decision to love, to love himself to a disordered extent in violation of his primary duty to love God. Islam’s God seems to be pretty sensitive on the issue of His creatures having regard for His omnipotence, as if it were in question.


3 posted on 02/03/2016 7:08:31 AM PST by CharlesOConnell (CharlesOConnell)
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To: CharlesOConnell

I read your post three times and can’t figure out if you are agreeing with the OP or not. So, are you saying that Allah is God or not?


4 posted on 02/03/2016 7:12:51 AM PST by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: CharlesOConnell
Islam vs. Christianity’s conception of Will: We say that will is the decision to love ... Islam’s God seems to be pretty sensitive on the issue of His creatures having regard for His omnipotence, as if it were in question.

Exactly.

5 posted on 02/03/2016 8:22:54 AM PST by kidd
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To: CharlesOConnell

Islamic Call to Prayer, phonetic and translated to English from Arabic:

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Allahu Akbar
God is Great

Ashhadu an la ilaha illa Allah
I bear witness that there is no god except the One God.
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There are not two occurrences of the word “Allah” in the second line. “Allah” is a proper name, not the term for a generic deity, unlike our word “God”.


6 posted on 02/03/2016 8:33:17 AM PST by angryoldfatman
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To: CharlesOConnell

My version: Christianity believes that goodness is intrinsic part of of God’s nature, just as it is the nature of water to be wet.

Islam believes that this imposes a limit upon God’s power, and that good is whatever he declares it to be. If he says it to be so, murder, rape, and deceit are good, and water will be dry.

The Muslim Allah is a god of pure and primary power, alien to his creation.

Islam does not permit Mohammed or his version of God to be judged by any human standard, any outside evidence, any cry of the conscience.


7 posted on 02/03/2016 8:35:39 AM PST by heartwood (If you're looking for a </sarc tag>, you just saw it.)
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To: RightSideNews


8 posted on 02/03/2016 8:56:10 AM PST by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING ’VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: RightSideNews

There is no Allah but Satan, and Muhammad was his murdering pedophile.


9 posted on 02/03/2016 8:57:42 AM PST by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever!)
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To: CharlesOConnell

Allah may be a corruption of JHWH.


10 posted on 02/03/2016 8:59:00 AM PST by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever!)
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To: JoeProBono

Zakat, giving charity to those in need, applies only to fellow Muslims.


11 posted on 02/03/2016 9:02:10 AM PST by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever!)
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To: RightSideNews

I’ve read the Koran and studied islamic history as I think most people should. It’s full of a lot of twisted, deviant stuff but it is clearly heavily influenced by Christianity and Judaism.

Like every religion however, there is a difference between the ‘holy’ book and the religion. Islam is a pagan practice with judeo-christian elements added in. In the end, it depends on how you define Abrahamic religions. Muslims, along with Mormons believe that they are.


12 posted on 02/03/2016 9:07:49 AM PST by Raymann
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To: CharlesOConnell

God’s Will is life and love. allah’s will is death and war. Arabia has been conquered, Christians speaking Arabic MUST call God “allah”.

“allah” of course is the moon god from Muhammad’s local village.


13 posted on 02/03/2016 9:18:30 AM PST by Maelstrom (To prevent misinterpretation or abuse of the Constitution:The Bill of Rights limits government power)
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To: Raymann

>>but it is clearly heavily influenced by Christianity and Judaism.

The influence is the kind that you would expect if Satan wanted to write an “anti-bible” to weaken and discredit the gospel.


14 posted on 02/03/2016 10:38:36 AM PST by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: Maelstrom

What did Arabic Christians call God in Arabic before Islam?

Freegards


15 posted on 02/03/2016 11:11:45 AM PST by Ransomed
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To: RightSideNews
Wonderful photo of the famous "Trojan Horse."

As long as we keep our hold on the middle east petroleum, we will be dealing with those countries.
Indonesia is, by the way, by far, the largest Muslim nation in the world.
Wikipedia: Indonesia has an estimated population of over 255 million people and is the world's fourth most populous country and the most populous Muslim-majority country in the world.

I THINK that we are allowing everyone else to deplete their petroleum/natural gas sources before we start in on getting ours out of the ground. Just a guess.

16 posted on 02/03/2016 12:19:33 PM PST by cloudmountain
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To: JimRed

More like Ba’al,

Pronounced:

“Bah all”.


17 posted on 02/03/2016 1:37:41 PM PST by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: RightSideNews
This article first appeared in the Viewpoint column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 25, number 1 (2002). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org Since September 11, scores of commentaries have been written about terrorism and Islam, many from Christian leaders. It is remarkable how writers unfamiliar with the Arabic language have ventured comments, if not judgments, relating to the term Allah. It is as if anything to do with Allah must be demonized in order for us to feel righteous and justified.

In a news clip on KFUO-AM Radio in St. Louis, shortly after the 9-11 tragedy, Tim LaHaye, noted evangelical speaker and coauthor of the Left Behind series, said, “Allah is not the God the Bible. He is an evil spirit that results in murder.” I have to assume Tim LaHaye is not fluent in Arabic! He is, however, not alone in referring to a Qur’anic interpretation or concept of God. Many Westerners seem unaware that Allah is the God Arabic-speaking Christians worship. The Arabic Bible is replete with the word Allah, beginning with Genesis and ending with Revelation. Jesus Christ is even called the son of Allah in the Arabic Scriptures.

Arabic-speaking Coptic, Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Maronite, evangelical, and Reformed Christians worship Allah, which is simply the word or term for God in another language. Islam does not hold a copyright to the term. In fact, Arab Christians existed before Islam appeared on the scene. Christians who worship Allah number in the millions, and their biblical version of Allah differs from the Qur’anic version. To demean or demonize the word for God in another language does a great disservice to believers who speak that language. Opportunities to win a hearing or dialogue between Christians and Arabic-speaking Muslims vis-à-vis Jesus Christ are also minimized.

It is time for all of us, especially Christians, to exercise caution when it comes to attacking the term for God in a language foreign to most of us. No other term exists in Arabic for the God Christians claim to be the one, true God. Western Christians do not normally use Hebrew terms for God in their languages. They cannot expect Arab Christians to use any other term or word for theirs. Allah is equivalent to the English God, the French Dieu, or the Spanish Dios.

In a World magazine issue on terrorism and Islam, Marvin Olasky, editor, referred to Allah as not being the God of the Bible. He wrote, “Muslims say their God is all-wise and all-compassionate, but Allah merely displays man’s understanding of what wisdom and compassion are” (World, 27 October 2001). This statement causes confusion. To say rather that the Muslim concept of Allah differs from the Christian concept of Allah, in my opinion, would be helpful.

Throughout Western history, many people have corrupted the term God. For instance, the Ku Klux Klan demeans, diminishes, and denigrates the English word God; yet, English-speaking Christians have not permitted such corruptions to rob them of their use of the term God. Likewise, the same is true for God in Arabic. Terrorists may misuse the term Allah, but they cannot rob millions of their word for God.

Perhaps we could better understand this error if we translate some of these judgments and criticisms into English. For example, some Christians might say, “God is not the God of the Bible.” They also might say, “God is a demonic force causing murder,” and so on. How can Christians then proclaim Christ to people who know of God by that term? If God is demonized, it also becomes impossible to encourage people to love God, to worship God, or to believe Jesus Christ is the Son of God. Would we be willing to give God a different term after centuries of using God in our language? Some are linguistically destroying the term for God used by millions of their coreligionists in other parts of the world. God loves the world, including those who speak Arabic.

It is imperative that the term Allah not be totally destroyed in Western minds. Otherwise, even Arab Christians will be questioned as to their authenticity and worship of the one, triune God, according to Christian orthodoxy. Such linguistic destruction also threatens to harm relationships with Muslims and potentially arouses hatred. The problem is linguistic, not theological.

Arabic was spoken at Pentecost, a watershed event in church history (Acts 2:8–11). Its usage regarding the worship of God predates English. In fact, Muhammad may have borrowed the term from Christians and Jews of his day. A Washington University anthropology professor states, “Allah is the south Semitic version of the north Semitic Elohim…so that the Eloh and Allah versions appear to come from the same Semitic root.” Let’s exercise caution in speaking of Islam’s different tenets and not demonize Allah, who is found throughout the Old and New Testaments in the Arabic Bible, as is God in our English version. The apostle John said, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with Allah, and the Word was Allah” (see John 1:1). We can join our Arab brothers and sisters in Christ who often say, “Allah be praised!”

Christian Research Institute

18 posted on 02/03/2016 8:52:19 PM PST by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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To: Ransomed

Yahweh


19 posted on 02/04/2016 5:22:37 PM PST by Maelstrom (To prevent misinterpretation or abuse of the Constitution:The Bill of Rights limits government power)
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To: Maelstrom

Everything I have looked at says they used ‘Allah’ long before Islam.

I searched ‘what did arabic jews and christians call god before islam.’ I haven’t seen any results yet to claim they used Yahweh when speaking Arabic.

Freegards


20 posted on 02/04/2016 5:42:00 PM PST by Ransomed
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