by: Nashid

MY ANSWERS TO THE ACCUSATIONS CONTAINED ARE IN CAPS.

--- In stopdemocratsclub@y..., "wesandsandy" <99wesscott99@m...>
wrote:

> • "If the Koran is truly God's word, then why:
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> ...are there four different versions of how Mohammed received the > revelations in the Koran?"
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> ...do those four versions contradict each other?"

THE LIFE OF PROPHET MUHAMMAD IS WELL DOCUMENTED. MUSLIMS KNOW OF ONLY ONE VERSION BY WHICH THE PROPHET RECEIVED REVELATIONS. I AND 1.3 BILLION MUSLIMS WOULD LOVE TO KNOW ABOUT THE 4 VERSIONS YOU ARE REFERRING TO.

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> ...did Mohammed receive revelations that he was to rob and pillage rom passing caravans?"

NO PROPHET OF GOD HAS EVER BEEN ORDERED TO ROB AND PILLAGE. IF YOU CLAIM MUHAMMAD RECEIVED SUCH ORDERS FROM GOD PLEASE SHOW FROM THE QURAN OR FROM ANY ISLAMIC MATERIAL WHERE THOSE ORDERS WERE GIVEN. BETTER YET SHOW IN THE LIFE OF PROPHET MUHAMMAD WHERE HE EVER ROBBED AND PILLAGED ANYONE.
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> • "If Allah is the same God as Christians worship (as Muslims claim), then why...
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> ...was Allah known as the man god in Mecca long before Islam
> started?"
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> ...was Allah one of 360 idols worshiped in Mecca long before Islam > started?"
>
> > ...did the same symbol that represented Allah (the crescent moon) > represent the moon god ,as well, long before Islam started?"
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>
THE QURAN IDENTIFIES ALLAH AS THE GOD OF ADAM, ABRAHAM, MOSES, JESUS AND ALL THE PROPHETS. BEFORE ISLAM THE ARABS WERE IDOL WORSHIPPERS.

ISLAM CORRECTED AND ELIMINATED IDOL WORSHIP. IN THE MIDDLE EAST THERE ARE MANY CHRISTIANS AND OTHERS WHO SPEAK ARABIC. THE NAME FOR GOD IN ARABIC USED BY CHRISTIANS AND OTHERS IS ALLAH. THERE IS NO EQUIVALENCE OF GOD WITH MAN IN ISLAM AS THERE IS IN CHRISTIANITY. TO MUSLIMS THE POWER THAT GENERATED THE CREATION IS TOO BIG TO BE CONTAINED IN THE CREATION HE GENERATED. EVEN CALLING GOD A POWER IS DUE TO OUR HUMAN LIMITATIONS. HE IS MUCH MORE THAN THAT!!!

> • "If Islam is such a great religion, then why...
>
> ...are many Islamic women treated barbarically (about 75% suffer
the > excruciatingly painful process of female circumcision)?"

YOU SAY 75% OF WOMEN SUFFER FEMALE CIRCUMCISION. I WILL ASK YOU FOR SOMETHING MUCH SIMPLER. SHOW ME ONE PARAGRAPH, SENTENCE, OR WORD IN ISLAM THAT PERMITS THAT? THERE IS NO SUCH THING IN ISLAM. THAT PRACTICE IS CONDEMNED IN ISLAM AND ARE CULTURAL PRACTICES OF PEOPLE LONG BEFORE ISLAM. THE 75% NUMBER IS A PURE, UNDILLUTED, UNREFINED 100% LIE!!! JUST ANOTHER SMEAR TO DEMONIZE ISLAM IN THE EYES OF CHRISTIANS.

WOMEN ARE SO BARBARICALLY TREATED THAT IN THE SHORT INDEPENDENCE FROM COLONIALISM TWO ISLAMIC COUNTRIES WERE ABLE TO ACHIEVE SOMETHING FOR WOMEN THAT AMERICA IN HER 200 YEAR HISTORY HAS NEVER ACHIEVED. WHAT IS THAT YOU ASK? WOMEN WERE DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED AS THE RULERS OF THEIR COUNTRIES. INDONESIA AND PAKISTAN. HOW DID THAT HAPPEN IF ISLAM BARBARICALLY TREAT WOMEN AND KEEP THEM IN INFERIOR ROLES. EITHER YOU HAVE BEEN LIED TO OR HAVE TAKEN BARBARIC CULTURES IN MUSLIM LANDS AND ASSOCIATE THAT WITH ISLAM. NOW WOULD I BE FAIR IF I TAKE PORNOGRAPHY AND SEX EXPLOITATION IN THE WEST AS WE SEE IN MAGAZINES SUCH AS PLAYBOY AND HUSTLER AND IN OUR MOVIE INDUSTRY AND SAY THAT IS ENDORSED BY THE NOBLE CHRIST AND CHRISTIANITY? NO! IN ISLAM WOMEN HAD THE RIGHT TO VOTE, OWN PROPERTY, INITIATE DIVORCE, ETC. 1400 YEARS AGO. THE WEST HAS JUST RECENTLY IN THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES GIVEN THESE RIGHTS TO WOMEN.
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> ...do they routinely persecute, beat, and even kill Christians in > Islamic countries for merely sharing their faith?"

IF MUSLIMS DID THIS AS THE SERBS DID IN BOSNIA TO MUSLIMS I AM SURE AMERICA AND THE REST OF THE CHRISTIAN WORLD WOULD HAVE BOMBED THOSE MUSLIMS TO SMITHEREENS! EVEN THE JOURNALISTS THAT WERE CAPTURED BY THE TALIBAN SPOKE ONLY OF GOOD TREATMENT BY THEIR MUSLIM CAPTORS.

TODAY ONE OF THESE JOURNALISTS HAVE CONVERTED TO ISLAM. EVEN IN THE WORDS OF BERTRAND RUSSEL ISLAM HAS ALWAYS SHOWN TOLERANCE AND GOOD TREATMENT TO CHRISTIANS IN MUSLIM COUNTRIES. BERTRAND RUSSELL WROTE:

"But the Mohammedans, when they conquered Christian countries, allowed the Christians to be perfectly free... This proved completely successful, and the immense majority of the population became Mohammedans, but not through any fanaticism on the part of the Mohammedans. On the contrary they, in the earlier centuries of their power, represented free thought and tolerance to a degree that the Christians did not emulate until quite recent times."

OF CHRISTIANS THE QURAN SAYS THE FOLLOWING:

"Strongest among men in enmity
To the Believers wilt thou
Find the Jews and Pagans;
And nearest among them in love
To the Believers wilt thou
Find those who say,
"We are Christians":
Because amongst these are
Men devoted to learning
And men who have renounced
The world, and they
Are not arrogant."
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>
> ...was your founder a man who built his religion on robbery and > murder?"

THE SIMPLE ANSWER IS NO! I AM SURE 1.3 BILLION PEOPLE INCLUDING THE UNDER SEA SCIENTIST JACQUES COUSTEAU AND OTHER NOTED PEOPLE WOULD NOT BE FOLLOWING A MURDERER AND A ROBBER. I INVITE YOU TO STUDY ISLAM AND THE LIFE OF THE PROPHET YOURSELF AND SEE IF HE IS WHAT THESE LIARS ACCUSE HIM OF.