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28644. concerned - 10/31/2006 1:13:45 AM

How's your foot feeling with all those holes in it, AC?

28645. concerned - 10/31/2006 1:17:42 AM

I have to concede that you have definitely found examples where the Hebrews have mistreated others in such ways in the past. My apologies if you misunderstood what I was asking.

28646. Jenerator - 10/31/2006 2:13:05 AM

Jexster,

28624. jexster - 10/30/2006 4:41:33 AM

No he doesn't Jen...that's a lie.


No - *who* doesn't? Doesn't what?


I am not going to keep posting the same material that proves it

For as many sites as you link, I can find equal number that prove what I saw. So....?

I have done it several times now

I have provided links as well.


The issue (in a nutshell) is that you are regurgitating bottom feeder swill that right wing Jews have passed off as authentic muslim scholarship

Who are these Jewish sources that I have been sourcing and who are these operatives I have been talking to? Are the Muslims I know all covert Jewish spies?

You are republishing lies and bigotry

What lies?? The principle of nasikh exists as do the bloody verses. You're mental, jexster.

28647. jexster - 10/31/2006 2:20:04 AM

That spew, that nonsense, that bile is of Kosher origin you moron

28648. jexster - 10/31/2006 2:20:28 AM

God would like to thank you for your belief and patronage. In order to serve your needs, God asks that your take a few moments to answer the following questions. There is no need to disclose your name or address, unless you prefer a direct response by mail.

1. How did you find out about God?

__ Newspaper __ Other Book

__ Television __ Divine Inspiration

__ Website __ Near Death Experience

__ Bible __ Word of mouth

__ Torah __ Other (specify):_________

2. Are you currently using any other source of inspiration in addition to God? Please check all that apply.

__ Tarot __ Lottery

__ Horoscope __ Television

__ Fortune Cookie __ Ann Landers

__ Self-help Book __ Sex

__ Biorhythms __ Alcohol/drugs

__ Mantras __“I’m feeling lucky” Google search

__ Insurance Policy __ Other:______________

3. God employs a limited degree of Divine Intervention to preserve the balanced level of felt presence and blind faith. Which would your prefer (circle one).

a. More Divine Intervention

b. Less Divine Intervention

c. Current level of Divine Intervention is just right

d. Don’t know

4. God also attempts to maintain a balanced level of disasters and miracles. Please rate on a scale of 1–5 his handling of the following

(1= unsatisfactory, 5= excellent)

a. Disasters (flood, famine

earthquakes, war) 1 2 3 4 5

b. Miracles (rescues, spontaneous

remissions, sports upsets) 1 2 3 4 5

5. Do you have any additional comments or suggestions for improving the quality of God’s services?

28649. Jenerator - 10/31/2006 2:26:49 AM

And again ..the proof is not only in Muslim scripture but in praxis

Proof that there is a violent aspect to Islam? I don't disagree! Tell me about the praxis of today

...which when contrasted with Christain history of Jewish and Muslim persecutions, admits of no dispute either

The Christians and Jews aren't strapping bombs onto our pregnant mothers and blowing themselves up. They aren't disguising themselves as civilians and walking into markets with other Christians and Jews and killing all of them, either.

Of course not.

28650. Jenerator - 10/31/2006 2:29:10 AM

Nasikh

and more nasikh

28651. Jenerator - 10/31/2006 2:40:27 AM

The biggest lie about Koran ever told

Today's Islamic scholars have a pleasure in showing the "NO COMPULSION IN RELIGION VERSE" (Koran 2:256). But these Islamic scholars who accuse the critics of using koranic verses out of context must check out the context of this verse. This is exactly what we will do:

But before we go into this we have to see when and why a verse was said by Muhammad (1) and does he contradict his earlier verses in that process (2)? In that case what happens (3)?

To know why and when Muhammad said some thing as a revelation (1) we need to make use of the chronology of the koranic verses obtained from the Hadiths and Siras, and the tafsir will also help us in this issue. Though there is no standard and accepted chronology of the Koran.

The Egyptian standard edition gives the following chronological order of the Suras, with the verses said to date from a different period given in parentheses:

XCVI, LXVIII (17-33, 48-50 Med.), LXXIII (10 f., 20 Med.), LXXIV, I, CXI, LXXXI, LXXXVII, XCII, LXXXIX, XCIII, XCIV, CIII, C, CVIII, CII, CVII, CIX, CV, CXIII, CXIV, CXII, LIII, LXXX, XCVII, XCI, LXXXV, CVI, CI, LXXV, XCV, CIV, LXXVII (48 Med.), L (38 Med.), XC, LXXXVI, LIV (54-6 Med.), XXXVIII, VII (163-70 Med.), LXXII, XXXVI (45 Med.), XXV (68-70 Med.), XXXV, XIX (58, 71 Med.), XX

(130 f. Med.), LVI (71 f. Med.), XXVI (197, 224-7 Med.),XXVII, XXVIII (52-5 Med., 85 during Hijrah), XVII (26, 32 f., 57, 73-80 Med.), X (40, 94-6 Med.), XI (12, 17, 114 Med.), XII (1-3, 7 Med.), XV, VI (20, 23, 91,114, 141, 151-3 Med.), XXXVII, XXXI (27-9 Med.), XXXIV (6 Med.), XXXIX (52-4 Med.), XL (56 f. Med.), XLI, XLII (23-5, 27 Med.), XLIII (54 Med.), XLIV, XLV (14 Med.), XLVI (10, 15, 35 Med.), LI, LXXXVIII,XVIII (28, 83-101 Med.), XVI (126-8 Med.), LXXI, XIV (28 f. Med.), XXI, XXIII, XXXII (16-20 Med.), LII, LXVII, LXIX, LXX, LXXVIII, LXXIX, LXXXII, LXXXIV, XXX (17 Med.), XXIX (1-11 Med.), LXXXIII Hijrah, II (281 later), VIII (30-6 Mec.), III, XXXIII, LX, IV, XCIX, LVII, XLVII (13 during Hijrah), XIII, LV, LXXVI, LXV, XCVIII, LIX, XXIV, XXII, LXIII, LVIII, XLIX, LXVI, LXIV, LXI, LXII, XLVIII, V, IX (128 f. Mec.), CX.

28652. Jenerator - 10/31/2006 2:41:08 AM

Jex,

The revered work "al-Nasikh wal-Mansukh" (The Abrogator and the Abrogated) deals in great detail with many subject matters addressed in the Qur'an wherein there appears to be some conflict or contradiction. The book goes through every sura (chapter), pointing out in full detail every verse which has been canceled, and the verse(s) which replace it. The author notes that out of 114 suras, there are only 43 which were not affected by this concept. If there no contradiction why was such a branch of science ever needed?

Answer that for me.

28653. Jenerator - 10/31/2006 2:46:50 AM

The Catholic Church of course rejects Jen's perverse understanding of Islam and Christianity, calling for a dialogue of mutual respect and understanding - something which Jen is manifestly incapable.

You're retarded. Everything I have said is legitimate. Nasikh is an Islamic concept and I bet that Ratzinger knows about it and is at least willing to admit it in private, unlike you.

That's because she's a heretic.

She'd have been burned at the stake 500 years ago.


Riiiiiiiiiiiight! What would they have done with you, Jex?

28654. jexster - 10/31/2006 3:16:02 AM

Jen you can spew all that Jewish sewer sludge all you want to but it doesn't amount to a hill of shit.

The verse "No compulsion in religion" is NOT - unlike yours - taken out of context. It is a MEDINAN text and is self-explanatory, ie it cannot be explained away.

I have demonstrated how you have taken verses out of context and have demonstrated that your polluted knowledge of Islam is against the teachings of the Catholic Church and Islam. I have shown you where they come from.

28655. jexster - 10/31/2006 3:17:29 AM

The "revered work"

That phrase comes from King's Missions




28656. jexster - 10/31/2006 3:26:57 AM

Against a clear teaching of Islam, Jen offers her "satanic verses" - Jewish sponsored hate propaganda fed through the King's Mission, to Jen, to the Mote


This is how they try to argue their way out of the No Compulsion mandate..have posted this before

You won't find it in "King's Mission" nor will you find any of that horsewaste in Catholic or Anglican dialogues with Islam


>No compulsion in religion
Quran and Hadith on Religious Persecution



All of which would be rather funny were it not for the horrid history of religious persecution in Christianity, a history unmatched in Islam


28657. jexster - 10/31/2006 3:35:29 AM

3. The Church regards with esteem also the Moslems. They adore the one God, living and subsisting in Himself; merciful and all- powerful, the Creator of heaven and earth,(5) who has spoken to men; they take pains to submit wholeheartedly to even His inscrutable decrees, just as Abraham, with whom the faith of Islam takes pleasure in linking itself, submitted to God. Though they do not acknowledge Jesus as God, they revere Him as a prophet. They also honor Mary, His virgin Mother; at times they even call on her with devotion. In addition, they await the day of judgment when God will render their deserts to all those who have been raised up from the dead. Finally, they value the moral life and worship God especially through prayer, almsgiving and fasting.

Since in the course of centuries not a few quarrels and hostilities have arisen between Christians and Moslems, this sacred synod urges all to forget the past and to work sincerely for mutual understanding and to preserve as well as to promote together for the benefit of all mankind social justice and moral welfare, as well as peace and freedom.

DECLARATION ON
THE RELATION OF THE CHURCH TO NON-CHRISTIAN RELIGIONS
NOSTRA AETATE

28658. jexster - 10/31/2006 3:39:46 AM

Comunicato Stampa del Pontificio Consiglio per il Dialogo Interreligioso

[Continuing collaboration existing between them, the World Islamic Call Society (Tripoli, Libya) and the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue (Vatican City) organized jointly a colloquium on Islamic Da'wah (Call to Islam) and Christian Mission in the Next Century]

    Looking forward to the future, the participants emphasized that in continuing to live, witness and share their faith, care must be taken to respect human dignity. This entails respect for the religion of the other when speaking and writing about it; it also means freedom of conscience enshrined in the right to religious liberty.

    Christianity and Islam agree that no compulsion should be used on persons or societies in the name of religion. Nor should advantage be taken of occasions of economic deprivation to exercise undue influence. On the contrary, injustice and exploitation should be fought by Muslims and Christians together and by all people of good will. Rather than carrying out Da'wah and Mission in the next century in a spirit of competition - as sometimes happened in the past - they should practise it in a spirit of collaboration, and as a service to humankind.

    The Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue and the World Islamic Call Society agreed also to continue on their part to collaborate and to invite others to join them in promoting better understanding between Christians and Muslims for the good of all.




28659. jexster - 10/31/2006 3:44:00 AM

John L. Esposito - Georgetown University

Washington, D.C. - The primary purpose and message of Benedict XVI's address in Regensburg, Germany was not about Islam, referred to in only four paragraphs of his eight-page lecture. And yet, this papal address to a university audience turned into an occasion for an international protest across the Muslim world. Morocco withdrew its ambassador to the Vatican, heads of state from Turkey to Indonesia voiced criticism, the Sheikh of Al-Azhar commented on the Pope's ignorance of Islam, and leaders of Muslim organisations called for a public apology. The incident has also triggered public demonstrations, the burning of the Pope in effigy in Pakistan and acts of violence against both Christians and churches.

The Pope clearly stated that his primary purpose was to discuss the issue of "faith and reason". He did so reacting and responding to a major concern of his, the excesses of secularisation: the triumph of secularism and increased weakness of Christianity and the Roman Catholic Church in his homeland, Germany, and in Europe in general, and attempts to exclude religion from the realm of reason.

Although the Vatican stated that the Pope did not intend to offend, his remarks did in fact upset many Muslims. Particularly offensive to Muslims was his citation of a fourteenth century Byzantine emperor's remarks about the Prophet Muhammad: "Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached."

Now, Muhammad is revered in Islam as the final Prophet of God and the model of Muslim life. Moreover, the remark that he commanded the spread of Islam by the sword is simply inaccurate, for what the Qur'an and Muhammad did was recognise the right to defend Islam and the Muslim community by fighting those Meccans who threatened and attacked Muslims.

Equally problematic is the Pope's statement that the Qur'anic passage, "There is no compulsion in religion" (Qur'an 2:256) was revealed in the early years of Muhammad's prophethood in Mecca, a period "when Mohammed was still powerless and under [threat]" but was overtaken later when he ruled Medina by "instructions, developed later and recorded in the Koran [Qur'an], concerning holy war."

Both these statements are incorrect. Qur'an 2:256 is not an early Meccan verse but is itself from the later Medinan period and the Qur'an does not equate jihad with holy war. This interpretation of jihad developed years later after Muhammad's death when it came to be used by rulers (caliphs) to justify their wars of imperial expansion and rule in the name of Islam.


28660. jexster - 10/31/2006 3:51:38 AM

    Forced Conversion

    The notion thatMuslims are commanded to spread their faith “by the sword” or that Islam in fact was largely spread “by the sword” does not hold up to scrutiny. Indeed, as a political entity Islam spread partly as a result of conquest,
    but the greater part of its expansion came as a result of preaching and missionary activity. Islamic teaching did not prescribe that the conquered populations be forced or coerced into converting. Indeed, many of the first areas conquered by the Muslims remained predominantly non-Muslim for centuries. (INDIA!]

    Had Muslims desired to convert all others by force, there would not be a single church or synagogue left anywhere in the Islamic world.The command There is no compulsion in religion means now what it meant then. The mere fact of a person being non-Muslim has never been a legitimate casus belli in Islamic law or belief.As with the rules of war, history shows that someMuslims have violated Islamic tenets concerning forced conversion and the treatment of other religious communities, but history also shows that these are by far the exception which proves the rule.

    We emphatically agree that forcing others to believe—if such a thing be truly possible at all—is not pleasing to God and that God is not pleased by blood. Indeed, we believe, and Muslims have always believed, that Whoso slays a soul not to retaliate for a soul slain, nor for corruption done in the land, it shall be as if he had slain mankind altogether (al-Ma’idah 5:32).



    Open Letter 38 Muslim Scholars to Pope Benedict XVI


Now either they're scholars or you're spewing right wing Jewish swill...

"King's Mission"?

What a crock

28661. jexster - 10/31/2006 3:53:26 AM

Worse than a crock, as I have said before, your slanders of Islam are an offense against the Cross of Christ

28662. jexster - 10/31/2006 4:46:05 AM

Francis Arinze : Cardinal, Prefect of Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments; President of the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue.


Christian-Muslim Relations in the 21st Century


28663. jexster - 10/31/2006 4:51:33 AM

4. Facing the Phenomenon of Religious Extremism and Promoting Religious Freedom



Muslims and Christians have no choice but to accept that we are in a world in which religious plurality is a fact. "There is no compulsion in religion" as the Qur'an asserts (Q 2,256). Religion is therefore to be proposed, not imposed. Religious unity or compliance arrived at as a result of force - physical, psychological, economic, social or otherwise - is not worthy of the human person. And it is not a fit offering to God. Religious fanatics absolutely need conversion. As for those who engage in violence in the name of religion, this is a major insult to God and to religion. "No one can consider himself faithful to the great and merciful God who in the name of the same God dares to kill his brother. Religion and peace go together: to wage war in the name of religion is a blatant contradiction", said Pope John Paul II to the World Conference on Religion and Peace (in L'Osservatore Romano English edition, 16 Nov 1994, n. 2, p. 2). Farseeing religious leaders and wise statesmen are needed to convince people that freedom of religion is one of the dearest of human rights and that no one should be prevented from exercising this right, provided that the just rights of other people are not violated.

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