Note: The following is a guest post by DemocracyRules.
Mainstream Muslims proclaim this to be true. It is a central part of Islamic belief that Allah is responsible for all the holy books of the Jews, the Christians and the Muslims. They state that Allah is God (Yahweh), and God (Yahweh) is Allah. I am not strongly religious, but I have a serious problem with this idea. As the years unfold after 9/11, we all learn more and more about Islam, and Islamists. I’m sorry, there is no way that I can believe that the ‘Allah’ who is supposed to bless Muslims as they slowly saw the heads off Christians, Jews, and others, is God. Nope, no-way, no-how.
“But,” you may say, “those are the Islamists talking, they do not represent the mainstream Muslim, and Allah is a god of peace.”
I’m sorry, I don’t buy that either, not for a minute. If Allah wrote the Koran, then he certainly is not the Christian God I learned about in Sunday School. The Koran is not only full of hate, and murder, and war against Jews and Christians, but it also is full of statements and stories which directly violate the Ten Commandments. Nowhere, in any Bible that I have ever seen, does it say, ‘BEHEAD ALL THOSE WHO OPPOSE ISLAM’.
ISLAM IS MOON WORSHIP
UNTIL Mohamed, most Middle Eastern peoples (except Jews and Christians) worshiped multiple deities, with disagreement over who was the highest god, or “Allah”. For at least 5000 years, the moon god was usually the “Allah”. Mohamed appears to have adapted this by eliminating all gods but the moon god, named it Allah, and asserted himself as His messenger. There seems to be no better explanation of why Islam displays the half-moon on mosques, flags, and myriad other places.
Most Muslim scholars acknowledge that the Koran is based on Bedouin values and culture. Mohamed said Islam descended from Judaism, and Christianity, and claimed these religions as a subset of Islam, but nothing actually proves this, or explains the huge discrepancies between the ideas about God and Allah. A fair comparison of the values, directives, teachings, and goals of Allah (as interpreted by Mohamed and his Bedouin disciples) seem to have very little to do with the God of the Old and New Testaments.
The Koran mainly concerns rules of conduct in tribal life in war and peace. Many troubling parts of the Koran advocate hate, murder, and revenge, particularly regarding the subjugation and/or genocide of other cultures, especially Jews and Christians. The golden rule, the heart of the other major religions, is not emphasized. Islam was spread almost entirely by war, and incredibly, Islamists actually seek to impose Bedouin culture on the West.
ISLAM VERSUS DEMOCRACY
Democracy consists of : (1) The people are governed by representatives who are elected by fair and frequent elections, with the President and Prime minister also elected, (2) Written laws which can be changed by elected representatives, (3) A final secular “Basic Law” (Constitution), on which all other laws are based, and it usually has a “Bill of Rights”, describing the essential rights and freedoms of all citizens, (4) Judges who ensure that the secular laws are applied fairly, and these judges are appointed or elected, and no politician can fire them, (5) A separation of Religion and Politics, so that neither can interfere with each other. Islam is against all five.
DEMOCRACIES have a right to insist that their citizens do not promulgate antisemitism or other hate. Islam needs to rethink how it will integrate itself into democracies. Other religions are constantly remaking and re-interpreting themselves, and so must Islam. I would like them to start by acknowledging that Allah is not God (Yahweh). If they don’t do it, Christians and Jews are certainly entitled to do it for them.
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