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By Rev. Alain René Arbez, Geneva.
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Thursday, June 24, 2010 - 12 Tammuz 5770
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Increasingly, the media portrays Islam in a language confusion and approximation. Under the guise of repetitive references lies a huge ignorance of religious issues and conflicts of the spiritual values involved. Quite naive chroniclers tell us continually "religions of the Book", believing probably designate the "three monotheistic religions," another buzzword, but it also trapped: the religion of Zarathustra is also a monotheism, but what counts This is not the conceptual framework, the content, or the God of the Bible and Allah does not overlap at all. The two keywords biblical "covenant" and "love" do not exist in the Koran, and the term "kill" is mentioned more than "pray." Many readers apparently unaware that the unmarked term "religions of the Book" is exclusively an Islamic perspective. This is the famous "Ahl al Kittab" the Koran, which aims to distinguish Jews and Christians, accused of having falsified the Scriptures, the Bible and Gospel, returned to their truth by the only Quranic revelation, of course! Religions of the Book, Judaism and Christianity?
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Certainly not! Rather religions of the Living Word, in a human writing inspired, therefore analyzable, sheller and interpreted, what the Koran does not, as untouchable sacred writing which expresses Allah in person. The Koran considers Jesus as a Muslim prophet as well as Adam, Noah, Moses and David, although its role is somewhat enhanced ... Capture complete, precisely because the Quran Jesus (Issa) has nothing in common with Messiah of the Gospels. The hadith also shows returning to the end of time "to destroy the cross and kill pigs" to introduce to the world the only true faith: Islam. Can be seen easily: Judaism and Christianity have the same problem of "relative to each other" than Islam. The Jewish and Christian Scriptures deliver a message that speaks sympathetically to all human beings without discrimination. In the Koran Allah is for Muslims and non-Muslim threat.
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It's a totally different approach in which otherness is problematic because the universe is divided into dar al Islam (domain of Islam) and dar al harb (domain of war). Thus, the rights of each other are not the same (dhimmitude) and the infidels are targeted. It is often used argument to justify the Crusades Jihad (Islamic holy war). Yet the jihad is part of the Mohammedan doctrine from its beginnings as a war of conquest. The notion of jihad as a spiritual effort often cited as a diversion is recent, largely popularized by the Sufi movement, himself reviled by official Islam. It captures well why the first Crusade was a legitimate reaction of Western aggression against Muslims who had seized militarily holy places (with destruction of the tomb of Christ and abuse of Christians), but also, lest we forget not, of Spain, Sicily. We must remember that the Islamic foundational texts encourage every believer to a holy war (mentioned by the pseudo-bucolic formula "in the way of Allah") which is obviously not the case for Judeo-Christian writings turned to harmony and supply of faith without any constraints.
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But the Koranic verse "no compulsion in religion" often cited by Muslims in "dialogues" to appease the religious pilgrim, sadly, is repealed by the chapters that followed during the period of Medina and its bellicose processions of wanton killings ... While Turkey stomp into Europe, no one can forget the disaster of of Constantinople in 1453 by the Ottoman Turks who originally asked the hospitality in Byzantium by being blandly go for a peaceful shepherds of the steppes. Many interfaith unanimist junk like to say that the method Coué Judaism, Christianity and Islam have much in common that Benedict XVI in Regensburg should ignore the awkward questions. Usual demagogy in the service of a dialogue based on fallacies illusory: all religions are equal, we have the same God, etc.. It's very trendy and especially handy for evading the real discernment, those who can advance on a path that is not a fool but involves, from a real spiritual identity, to a truth which respect for others and reciprocity found meaning.
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By Rev. Alain René Arbez, Geneva.
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Thursday, June 24, 2010 - 12 Tammuz 5770
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Increasingly, the media portrays Islam in a language confusion and approximation. Under the guise of repetitive references lies a huge ignorance of religious issues and conflicts of the spiritual values involved. Quite naive chroniclers tell us continually "religions of the Book", believing probably designate the "three monotheistic religions," another buzzword, but it also trapped: the religion of Zarathustra is also a monotheism, but what counts This is not the conceptual framework, the content, or the God of the Bible and Allah does not overlap at all. The two keywords biblical "covenant" and "love" do not exist in the Koran, and the term "kill" is mentioned more than "pray." Many readers apparently unaware that the unmarked term "religions of the Book" is exclusively an Islamic perspective. This is the famous "Ahl al Kittab" the Koran, which aims to distinguish Jews and Christians, accused of having falsified the Scriptures, the Bible and Gospel, returned to their truth by the only Quranic revelation, of course! Religions of the Book, Judaism and Christianity?
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Certainly not! Rather religions of the Living Word, in a human writing inspired, therefore analyzable, sheller and interpreted, what the Koran does not, as untouchable sacred writing which expresses Allah in person. The Koran considers Jesus as a Muslim prophet as well as Adam, Noah, Moses and David, although its role is somewhat enhanced ... Capture complete, precisely because the Quran Jesus (Issa) has nothing in common with Messiah of the Gospels. The hadith also shows returning to the end of time "to destroy the cross and kill pigs" to introduce to the world the only true faith: Islam. Can be seen easily: Judaism and Christianity have the same problem of "relative to each other" than Islam. The Jewish and Christian Scriptures deliver a message that speaks sympathetically to all human beings without discrimination. In the Koran Allah is for Muslims and non-Muslim threat.
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It's a totally different approach in which otherness is problematic because the universe is divided into dar al Islam (domain of Islam) and dar al harb (domain of war). Thus, the rights of each other are not the same (dhimmitude) and the infidels are targeted. It is often used argument to justify the Crusades Jihad (Islamic holy war). Yet the jihad is part of the Mohammedan doctrine from its beginnings as a war of conquest. The notion of jihad as a spiritual effort often cited as a diversion is recent, largely popularized by the Sufi movement, himself reviled by official Islam. It captures well why the first Crusade was a legitimate reaction of Western aggression against Muslims who had seized militarily holy places (with destruction of the tomb of Christ and abuse of Christians), but also, lest we forget not, of Spain, Sicily. We must remember that the Islamic foundational texts encourage every believer to a holy war (mentioned by the pseudo-bucolic formula "in the way of Allah") which is obviously not the case for Judeo-Christian writings turned to harmony and supply of faith without any constraints.
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But the Koranic verse "no compulsion in religion" often cited by Muslims in "dialogues" to appease the religious pilgrim, sadly, is repealed by the chapters that followed during the period of Medina and its bellicose processions of wanton killings ... While Turkey stomp into Europe, no one can forget the disaster of of Constantinople in 1453 by the Ottoman Turks who originally asked the hospitality in Byzantium by being blandly go for a peaceful shepherds of the steppes. Many interfaith unanimist junk like to say that the method Coué Judaism, Christianity and Islam have much in common that Benedict XVI in Regensburg should ignore the awkward questions. Usual demagogy in the service of a dialogue based on fallacies illusory: all religions are equal, we have the same God, etc.. It's very trendy and especially handy for evading the real discernment, those who can advance on a path that is not a fool but involves, from a real spiritual identity, to a truth which respect for others and reciprocity found meaning.
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