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Re: The Christian Fly in the Assyrian Ointment
Posted by AssyrianMuslim (Guest) - Monday, March 23 2009, 4:20:32 (CET)
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I agree with everything and I get the valid point you make but I like to clarify something in the post with regards to Islam. The term Muhammadan is incorrect and it is actually an insult invented by Christians but some people continue using it either intantionally or out of lack of knowledge. I know you mean well brother and I am simply clarifying that this name is false and an inult. The name of the religion is Islam and one who belongs to it is called a Muslim. Furthermore, Islam is not named after anyone or anything. It is not a name of a deity but it is a word which calls for an action and at least 5 Arabic words derive from "Islam". The words that are derived from Islam are submission, surrender, obedience, sincerity and peace. In other words, Islam is not the name of any deity, person, place or ethnicity. While other world religions are named after either a person, place or ethnicity, Islam is not but it is a word which calls for something. The word Islam is normally translated as submission or surrender to make it short but in Islamic context it means total submission to the will of God and that is done with obedience, sincerity and in peace.

Therefore, one who does the above acts is a Muslim. That is why we can't help but laugh when ignorant or bigoted Christians will continue falsely accusing Islam of spreading by forced conversions. It is impossible to make someone submit to God with sincerity, surrender, obedience and in peace. How can do so if it is done by force and the person has no knowledge of what he is doing? It is a contradiction and something that is impossible. Even if someone totally ignorant of Islam would try to imagine forcing someone to Islam(submission to the will of God), it wouldn't be accepted by Allah because it has to be done voluntarily and with sincerity. This is why it is funny and any Christian who has studied Islam will laugh and reject this myth. Just as the many non-Muslim historians or scholars of Islam and its history reject this false claim. This is true of Christianity that it had to be forced on people or many had to be deceived into it but this is false about Islam.

It would have been impossible for Muslims, Jews, Christians, Hindus, Zorastarians and others to have seeked knowledged together, studied, and learn with one another. There wouldn't be any of those people if Islam was intolerant and called for forced conversions and murder. Any religion which calls for forced conversions, relies on that and must use deception or propaganda to gain followers is weak and useless. Christianity is just that in my opinion because even today it relies on slandering, using fear/sneak tactics and propaganda just to keep its own. They can't keep the fish at home(in the west) so they have gone fishing elsewhere in the 3rd world countries hoping to catch a few ignorant and desperate folkis who have to be bribed with food, medicines, education, marriage and visas in order for them to even accept a Bible. Islam never had to do this and never will. Muslims do not have missionaries and it never relied on such. We are not Christians and we do not believe we have an obligation to "save" the world. Every person is responsible for his or her own actions and self.

Another point that I might as well clarify is the idea that Muslims are obligated to give special respect to Jews and Christians as people of the book and this too is misunderstood. Dhimmi status is not only extended to these two communities but it applies to all non-Muslims who happen to be citizens of the state. Not only Jews and Christians but Hindus, Buddhists, Zorastarians, Pagans and others are etnitiled to that and public services must be provided to them. Even the pre Islamic Arabs who were for the most part polytheists who burried their infant daughters alive were tolerated and were not fought against because of their religion but because of their continues warfare and persecution of the Muslims. When the Prophet(saaws) entered Makkah during the final battle in which none died, the people there were all given amnesty and they were Pagans who had persecuted, murdered, expelled and fought the Muslims for 23 years but still they were forgiven.

No offense was intended my brother and I know your point and that you mean no harm but I just thoughtr I might as well clarify that and to let it be known that it is another Christian invention just as "holy war" "infidel" and "Muhammedan" were all invented in the same time period by the same people. Words such as the above are not of Islamic origin and "holy war" is definitely not Muslim but Christian. The word "fundemantalists" is also false and there is not even an Arabic equivalent for that, however one does have to do Islam(Submission to God) in order to be a Muslim, daaa, this is common sense but to the Christian and all Islamophobics this is a "terrorist" and a "radical" because he does Islam.



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