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Posted : 3 Sep, 2011 11:58 AM
MUSLIMS BOW TO JEW AND CHRISTIAN�S PRINCIPLES
By Sazie Johnson
Christianity is more of a relationship with God than it is a religion of dos and don�ts. But if we must view Christianity as a religion, then it is the most powerful and influential religion that the world has ever seen. No religion in human history has had an influential in the lives of human beings as Christianity. Today, with little effort, Christianity sways the will of individuals, cultures, and nations. Christianity has not only altered empires, but has also melted hearts made of stone, and brought dictators to their knees in meekness (humility). Today Christianity is imparting every culture and every life on the face of the earth. In many ways it is dictating to Muslims across the globe what is suitable and allowable in Islam and what is not. Interestingly, Muslims are eagerly complying with little resistance.
There is something called �Judeo-Christian Principles.� It is a term used to refer to the standards of ethics which are deeply rooted in Judaism and Christianity. These principles in no way assume that the two religions are identical, but that rather the two religions share some common aims. It is these shared aims (principles) that are reshaping and turning the Islamic world upside down. Recently these �Judeo-Christian Principles� not only brought down both the Egyptian Government and the Libyan Government, but they have also made many an Islamic government to fear and to worry.
What are some �Judeo-Christian Principles?�
Freedom of Religion is a �Judeo-Christian Principle.� It is also called �Freedom of Worship.�This �Judeo-Christian Principle� not only supports an individual or a community the right to worship whatever god he chooses, but it also supports an individual to change his god and religion without hindrance (obstruction). We find the first inclination toward �Freedom of Worship� in the Old Testament Book of Joshua wherein 24:15 the Prophet Joshua addressed the Nation of Israel. He said, �If it is unacceptable in your sight to serve the LORD (YAHWEH), then choose for yourselves today whom you will serve: whether you want the gods which your fathers served in Egypt, which were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are now living; but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.�
This Freedom of Religion is one of the core principles of Jews and Christians. It is a basic human right given to mankind by his Creator; and it is echoed throughout the Bible in the writings of all the prophets. However, Islam disagrees with any such thing as Freedom of Religion. Bukhari: V1B2N24, Narrated Ibn 'Umar: Allah's Apostle said: �I have been ordered (by Allah) to fight against the people until they testify that none has the right to be worshipped but Allah and that Muhammad is Allah's Apostle��
Today in the light of 21st century living, we see good signs, though faint, how Muslims are turning away from Muhammad�s mission to fight all peoples �until they testify that none has the right to be worshipped but Allah� to embracing the �Judeo-Christian Principle� of �Freedom of Religion� which is set forth by YAHWAH in His Holy Word � The Bible. Muslims all around the world are beginning to realize that the solution for the Islamic world is not to embrace more Islamic principles, but to embrace �Judeo-Christian Principles� � the very principles Muhammad rejected and fought against.
Freedom of Choice is another �Judeo-Christian Principle.� This principle not only supports the �Free Will� of man, but it also upholds �Human Behavior�. It entails the right one has to choose his own form of happiness apart from the happiness God wants for him. We see YAHWAH laying out the terms of �Freedom of Choice� when He spoke in Deuteronomy 30:19: �I call heaven and earth as My witness against you today, that I have set before you not only life and death, but also blessing and cursing. Therefore; choose life in order that you may live, you and your descendants.�
The Freedom of Choice one has to choose life or death, blessing or cursing, Heaven or hell, is a basic human right set forth by YAHWAH in His Holy Word � The Bible. This basic human right is vigorously opposed and undermined by Islam. In his book entitled �Al Road Al Anf� (part 4, p. 240), Ibn Hisham, the great Islamic scholar, indicates that Abu Bakr (the daily companion of Muhammad) used to converse with Ibn Abu Rafi al-Ta�i and to say to him: "God�to whom belong the might and exaltation�has sent Muhammad with this religion for which he fought until people entered this religion by hook or by crook.� Today more Muslims are opting for the �Judeo-Christian Principle� of Freedom of Choice than the Muhammad�s principles of �No Freedom of Choice.�
Freedom of Opinion is a �Judeo-Christian Principle.� This principle is sometimes referred to as �Freedom of Expression.� This basic human right is given to man by his Creator in order for man to freely express his thoughts (speak in mind) and his beliefs without censorship (restriction, suppression). God�s intention is for man to freely and openly converse (talk) to Him and with Him. YAHWAH set forth this �Judeo-Christian Principle� of Freedom of Opinion in the Old Testament Book of Isaiah 1:18 in which He says to man: �Come now, and let us reason (make up our minds) together� so that though your sins are as scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they will be like wool.�
Islam aggressively contests �Freedom of Expression.� In fact in Islam a person�s freedom of any kind, be it Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Choice, or Freedom of Expression, is an insult to Allah, for it is Allah alone who is free. Hence is the verse, �None is comparable to Allah.� (Quran 112:4)
Delara was a young teenage girl, an atheist, who was executed by Islam for expressing her beliefs. Afshin-Jam, an eye-witness to the execution, writes the following:
�I am at a loss for words. My heart is empty and my tears are flowing. I have just finished reading the details by attorney Mohammad Mostafaei of the minutes leading up to Delara execution. It is just too painful. Delara, I have known you for almost three years. We tried our best to keep you alive. We informed and had the High Commission on Human Rights at the UN, the European Union and Parliaments worldwide act on your behalf. We spread awareness through the media, to human rights groups worldwide. We kept in touch with your family and your lawyers. We conducted speeches and rallies worldwide. We sent you art supplies in prison and letters from supporters to keep your spirits high. We tried our best to get in touch with the family of the deceased and convince them to understand the severity of taking a young life away. We tried Delara. We tried but we failed.�
In Islam only Allah is free; and none is comparable to Allah.
We must understand that while the �Judeo-Christian Principle� of Freedom of Opinion would have supported Delara�s right of expression, Islamic principles demands her death not only because Islam opposes basic human rights of free expression, but also because Islam insists that the blood of a Muslim is superior to the blood of the infidel. In his book Vol. 14, p 85 Ibn Timiyya explains: "Nothing in the law of Muhammad states that the blood of the disbeliever is equal to the blood of the Muslim because faith is necessary for equality. The people of the Covenant (Jews or Christians) do not believe in Muhammad and Islam, thus their blood and the Muslim�s blood cannot be equal. These are distinctive texts which indicate that a Muslim is not to be put to death for (murdering) one of the people of the covenant or an unbeliever.�
Today the �Judeo-Christian Principles� of equality for all mankind which are revealed in �Freedom of Religion�, �Freedom of Choice�, and �Freedom of Expression� is a positive impart on every life, every culture, and every nation on earth. Recently the many riots and uprisings across the Islam world have their roots in �Judeo-Christian Principles� which Muslims are demanding for themselves as oppose to the Islamic principles which are deeply embedded in �Muhammad�s Totalitarian Religion�. This begs the question: �If the entire world, including the Islamic world, is opting and turning to �Judeo-Christian Principles,� � the very principle Muhammad fought against, how is Islam the fastest growing religion in the world?� The answer is simple: Muslims are rejecting Quranic principles for Biblical principles. Muslims are bowing to Jews and Christians� principles � a prediction that Allah, himself, made in the 7th century.
Quran 3:55 reads, �Behold! Allah said: "O Jesus! I will take thee and raise thee to Myself and clear thee (of the falsehoods) of those who blaspheme; I will make those who follow thee superior to those who reject faith, to the Day of Resurrection...�
One scholar writes, �The first time I read this verse (Quran 3:54) in the Koran, I could hardly believe my eyes. Even today, any Muslims I discuss this verse with is shocked. In the Koran, God tells all Muslims that the followers of Jesus will be exalted above the disbelievers until the Day of Resurrection. While there are some verses in the Koran that promise the world to the Muslims people if they follow its teachings, these are followed up with predictions that they will disobey their holy book, and not uphold its commands. God's prediction that the Christians will succeed in doing so is even clearer in the following verse:
�Quran 61:14: �O ye who believe! Be ye helpers of Allah: As said Jesus the son of Mary to the Disciples, "Who will be my helpers to (the work of) Allah?" Said the disciples, "We are Allah's helpers!" then a portion of the Children of Israel believed, and a portion disbelieved: But We gave power to those who believed, against their enemies, and they became the ones that prevailed.�
He concludes: �A Muslim may wish to argue that these verses refer to Muhammad and the Muslims as those who truly believe in Christ and dominate till the Resurrection Day. This explanation fails to resolve the issue. The passages do not say that Christ�s followers would only prevail from the time of Muhammad�s advent, but from the time that Christ was taken to God and unto the Day of Resurrection.� (Ibid., pp. 103-104)
At this point I will like to diverge a little and say, �We have the writings of the prophets as evident. No prophet of God ever proclaimed Muhammad�s Totalitarianism on the people whereby a person is to be totally submitted to God in dead silence with no question, power, or opinion of his own. The message of every prophet of God was geared toward Leviticus 25:10 which reads, �You shall thus consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty (freedom) through the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, and each of you shall return to his own property, and each of you shall return to his family.�
In the Old Testament Book of Jeremiah 34:17 YAHWEH is angry at the people for not proclaiming liberty throughout the land. The verse reads, �Therefore thus says the LORD, 'You have not obeyed Me in proclaiming liberty (freedom) each man to his brother and each man to his neighbor. Therefore, I am proclaiming liberty to you,' declares the LORD, 'to the sword, to the pestilence and to the famine; and I will make you a terror to all the kingdoms of the earth.�
YAHWEH simply states: �Because you have disobeyed Me by not proclaiming liberty throughout the land, I have proclaimed against you Freedom of the Sword (unrest, riot), Freedom of Pestilence (disease), and Freedom of Famine (hunger). Today of the poorest countries in the world plagued by riots, disease and hunger, the Islamic world contains the highest number.
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
�He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God.� John 3:16-21
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