{Please respect ANY religion discussed here. Without religion you'd be supriesed what isn't here.}
Islam has had such a large impact on this world, either you know it or not. It is the second largest religion in the world, right after Christianity, but is growing fast. Though it's a younger religion than most of the big religions.
Though Muslims may have different beliefs about Allah and ways to respect Allah.
Islam begun about five hundred years after the Roman destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem which dramatically altered the history of Judaism. Muhammad was born about 570 CE {BC} in the town of Mecca, which was basically a trade outpost. When 25 he married a business woman named Khadija, who was 15 years older roughly.
[The defining point in Islam goes back to the time of Abraham, Isaac and Ishmael. Abraham was given a promise by God that his descendants will be as numerous as the stars in the sky but he did not have any children at this time and he and Sarah were quite old at the time. Sarah did not have faith that God would give her a son and got Abraham to have a child with her handmaiden Hagar and she had a son Ishmael (Arabs). Sarah had a son Isaac (Jews) 16 years later.
Sarah was angered by Ishmael and persuaded Abraham to send Hagar and Ishmael in to exile. God told Abraham that he would take care of Ishmael and that his descendants would also be too numerous to count.
-Richard]
Muhammad developed the habit of praying in the hills and caves around Mecca. One day about 610 CE, he claimed about an experience, he underwent audio and visually experiences, and his wife Khadija encouraged him to not dismiss them. Soon he became to see them as divine revelations. He was to be a messenger of God. He was to be a prophet charged with a mission to deliver a message that would set straight the misinterpretations of earlier revelations given through the prophets that God has given to the Jews and Christians.
For the next twenty three years Muhammad preached about that God has spoken directly to him. The heart of the message was "surrender". Surrender is the root meaning of the word Arabic word Islam. By surrender he meant to the one true God.
His early preaching called for Social Justice and equality and comprehend oppression of the poor by the wealthy and powerful. Muhammad belonged to a tribe called the Quraysh, which exercised considerable control over the lives of the Meccans generally. But Muhammad and his family were among the poorer and less influential people of the tribe.
There are many similarities between the holy texts, the Koran and the Bible, it is claimed the Muhammad 'borrowed' from the Bible and Torah. But that isn't the case, the way the Koran tells stories mostly short as the attention span of people was not long. There are accounts of some people in the Koran, such as Hud, Salih, Shuayb who are in some ways unique to the Koran and the bible/Torah.
Jews, Christians and Muslims all claim the same holy land, Jerusalem. Palestine lies in southwest Asia at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea. It is the Holy Land of the Jews, since it was there were Moses led the Israelites after he led them out of slavery in Egypt, and they established their homeland there. Christians, their Christ was born in Jerusalem, or as the Jews call it, the City of David. {AKA the City of the King}. Palestine had Jerusalem as their capital after the Jews were forced to leave by Babylon.
So with this information, I appointed that they surrendered to their God, but what do they interpret their God as? Allah, as they call their God, whom is also the same God of the Christians and the Jews, but they were led to the right path through the last prophet in their beliefs. So is it possible that some sees Allah in different ways than others?
Equality of what? It really isn't clear in the structure of Muhammad of what is equality, so once again it could have been seen in different ways.
In my opinion Muslims see the Koran in different ways, as Christians see the Bible in different ways. {Such as the Jehovah Witnesses believe if you are not JW you are going to burn in hell and only 144,000 JWs get into heaven.}
But than in return people around the world have been getting extreme against Muslims, is that a way to act? It's like Malcolm X all over again. Fight violence, terrorism, and extremism with violence, terrorism, and extremism.
I even been to a sight of a house, where it was trashed, in flames, and spray painted all over it, 'Go back to your country', 'Muslims are not welcomed here', 'Our God is the true God' and some of them were so gruesome, I do not wish to even say, but these were bad enough. Look at the crimes committed:
If history repeats itself, than why don't we let smaller thing involving one country actually repeat and involve the world.
Islam extremists have been going too far, granted, but are we also going too far ourselves as non religious people, Christians, Jews, and Atheists?
Islam has had such a large impact on this world, either you know it or not. It is the second largest religion in the world, right after Christianity, but is growing fast. Though it's a younger religion than most of the big religions.
Though Muslims may have different beliefs about Allah and ways to respect Allah.
Islam begun about five hundred years after the Roman destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem which dramatically altered the history of Judaism. Muhammad was born about 570 CE {BC} in the town of Mecca, which was basically a trade outpost. When 25 he married a business woman named Khadija, who was 15 years older roughly.
[The defining point in Islam goes back to the time of Abraham, Isaac and Ishmael. Abraham was given a promise by God that his descendants will be as numerous as the stars in the sky but he did not have any children at this time and he and Sarah were quite old at the time. Sarah did not have faith that God would give her a son and got Abraham to have a child with her handmaiden Hagar and she had a son Ishmael (Arabs). Sarah had a son Isaac (Jews) 16 years later.
Sarah was angered by Ishmael and persuaded Abraham to send Hagar and Ishmael in to exile. God told Abraham that he would take care of Ishmael and that his descendants would also be too numerous to count.
-Richard]
Muhammad developed the habit of praying in the hills and caves around Mecca. One day about 610 CE, he claimed about an experience, he underwent audio and visually experiences, and his wife Khadija encouraged him to not dismiss them. Soon he became to see them as divine revelations. He was to be a messenger of God. He was to be a prophet charged with a mission to deliver a message that would set straight the misinterpretations of earlier revelations given through the prophets that God has given to the Jews and Christians.
For the next twenty three years Muhammad preached about that God has spoken directly to him. The heart of the message was "surrender". Surrender is the root meaning of the word Arabic word Islam. By surrender he meant to the one true God.
His early preaching called for Social Justice and equality and comprehend oppression of the poor by the wealthy and powerful. Muhammad belonged to a tribe called the Quraysh, which exercised considerable control over the lives of the Meccans generally. But Muhammad and his family were among the poorer and less influential people of the tribe.
There are many similarities between the holy texts, the Koran and the Bible, it is claimed the Muhammad 'borrowed' from the Bible and Torah. But that isn't the case, the way the Koran tells stories mostly short as the attention span of people was not long. There are accounts of some people in the Koran, such as Hud, Salih, Shuayb who are in some ways unique to the Koran and the bible/Torah.
Jews, Christians and Muslims all claim the same holy land, Jerusalem. Palestine lies in southwest Asia at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea. It is the Holy Land of the Jews, since it was there were Moses led the Israelites after he led them out of slavery in Egypt, and they established their homeland there. Christians, their Christ was born in Jerusalem, or as the Jews call it, the City of David. {AKA the City of the King}. Palestine had Jerusalem as their capital after the Jews were forced to leave by Babylon.
So with this information, I appointed that they surrendered to their God, but what do they interpret their God as? Allah, as they call their God, whom is also the same God of the Christians and the Jews, but they were led to the right path through the last prophet in their beliefs. So is it possible that some sees Allah in different ways than others?
Equality of what? It really isn't clear in the structure of Muhammad of what is equality, so once again it could have been seen in different ways.
In my opinion Muslims see the Koran in different ways, as Christians see the Bible in different ways. {Such as the Jehovah Witnesses believe if you are not JW you are going to burn in hell and only 144,000 JWs get into heaven.}
But than in return people around the world have been getting extreme against Muslims, is that a way to act? It's like Malcolm X all over again. Fight violence, terrorism, and extremism with violence, terrorism, and extremism.
I even been to a sight of a house, where it was trashed, in flames, and spray painted all over it, 'Go back to your country', 'Muslims are not welcomed here', 'Our God is the true God' and some of them were so gruesome, I do not wish to even say, but these were bad enough. Look at the crimes committed:
- Vandalism
- Blackmail
- Discrimination
- Violation of Freedom of religion
If history repeats itself, than why don't we let smaller thing involving one country actually repeat and involve the world.
Islam extremists have been going too far, granted, but are we also going too far ourselves as non religious people, Christians, Jews, and Atheists?
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