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Qur’-an
Muhammad is the conduit of scripture not their
composer. Qur’an means “The Recitation” the
very words of Allah that is why Muslims frown on
“translations” “We have revealed the Koran in
the Arabic tongue so that you may grow in
understanding” (Sura 12:2)
No need to interpret the “final draft” building on
Torah and Christian Bible.
Islam a Religion of Peace?
• President Clinton (1998): Regarding an
inevitable clash between Western civilization
and Western values and Islamic civilization and
Islamic values “I believe this view is
wrong…Americans respect and honor Islam”
• President George W. Bush: the terrorist attacks
“violate the fundamental tenants of the Islamic
faith.”
• Tony Blair : September 11 “has nothing to do
with Islam.”
Jihad: “greater jihad” – individual’s spiritual
struggle and “lesser jihad” – takes the struggle
against enemies of the faith. – “War Against
Non-Muslims” Ahmed Ibn Naqib al-Misri,
Reliance of the Traveler: A Classic Manual of
Islamic Sacred Law, trans Nuh Ha Mim Keller
(Amana Publications, 1999)
Does not say that the lesser struggle cannot
involve force of arms.
Sheikh Omar bin Bakri bin Muhammad - The Judge of
the Great Britain’s Sharia or Islamic Court, spokesman
for the International Islamic Front for Europe said the
terrorist attacks because it killed innocent people was
“a crime and violation for the sanctity of Human beings
which is prohibited in Islam” yet Muslims can attack
American troops because America is “engaging in
aggression and atrocities: against Muslims in Iraq and
support “Pirate State of Israel and the dictator Leaders
in Muslim World”
Innocent vs. aggression and occupation.
How to treat non-Muslims:
“Prophet, make war on the unbelievers and
the hypocrites and deal rigorously with
them. Hell shall be their home: an evil
fate” (Sura 9:73)
“the true believers fight for the cause of
God, but the infidels fight for the devil.
Fight then against the friends of Satan”
(Sura 4:76)
How To Treat non-Muslims
“When you meet the unbelievers in the
battlefield, strike off their heads and,
when you have laid them low, bind your
captives firmly (Sura 47:4)
“Fight for the sake of God those that fight
against you, but do not attack them first. God
does not love the aggressors. Slay them
wherever you find them. Drive them out of the
places from which they drove you. Idolatry is
worse than carnage (Sura 2:190-191)
How To Treat non-Muslims
“Muhammad is God’s Apostle. Those who
follow him are ruthless to the unbelievers, but
merciful to one another” (Sura 48:29)
No mercy in Qur'an: example: Cat Stevens ,
author of “Peace Train” wanted mercy shown to
American journalist Daniel Pearl “Now is the time
to show the world the Mercy of Islam”
Convert to Islam or. . .
Egypt: Man working in field approached by
armed Muslims and asked to renounce
Christianity – say statements of faith that
would convert him to Islam – refused and
shot! Bishop Wissa of Coptic Church in
May 2000 interview with Prayer for the
Persecuted Church.
Those that die for Allah:
“shall recline on jeweled couches face to face,
and there shall wait on them immortal youths
with bowls and ewers and a cup of purest wine
(that will neither pain their heads nor take
away their reason) ; with fruits of their own
choice and flesh of fowls that they relish. And
theirs shall be the dark-eyed houris, chaste as
hidden pearls: a guerdon for their deeds.
(Sura 56:15-24)
Those that die for Allah:
11 year boy report to class: “I will make my body a
bomb that will blast the flesh of Zionists the sons of
pigs and monkeys…I will tear their bodies into little
pieces and will cause the more pain than they will
ever know.” Class mates responded “Allah Akhbar”
(God is Great) and his teacher shouted, “May the
virgins give you pleasure” witnessed by Jack Kelly of
USA Today – a school run by Hamas. Quoted in
Yotam Feldner, “72 Black- Eyed Virgins” Claremont
Review of Books Fall of 2001, p. 17
Qur-an VS. Bible
• Christianity a religion of peace: Peace with God
and with one another through Christ (Eph. 2:1314)
• Love of enemies and pray for them – not kill
them (Matt. 5:44-45, Lk. 23:34)
• Convert to Christianity – persuasion not physical
force (Acts 26:28-29, Acts 13:46, 2 Cor. 10: 3-6)
• Fleshly lusts war against Soul not the fruits of
the home of the soul (I Pet. 2:11, Lk. 20:34-35,
Matt. 22:30)