Based on the history of mankind, can ISLAM religon said to an off-shoot of JUDAISM, or the "Other way around"?
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Islam isn't really an "offshoot" of Judaism. And Judaism predates Islam by thousands of years.
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Christianity, Islam, and sometimes Judaism (depending on the sect).
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No i dont, he never said something that was false he was a messenger from almighty God to all mankind.\n\n\n" And Muhammad is no more than a messenger; the messengers have already passed away before him; if then he dies or is killed will you turn back upon your heels? And whoever turns back upon his heels!s, he will by no means do harm to Allah in the least and Allah will reward the grateful. "\n\nthe Holy Qur'an\n\n\nmore of it replying back on the racist answers here\n\n" Quite a number of the People of the Book wish they could Turn you (people) back to infidelity after ye have believed, from selfish envy, after the Truth hath become Manifest unto them: But forgive and overlook, Till Allah accomplish His purpose; for Allah Hath power over all things. "\n\n002.109 \n\n\n\nNote: asking this question and saying you want only non muslims to answer is really bad because in this case you will see all negative and hater answers, i hope this was not what you wanted to see.
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Radical Islam is today the biggest threat to world peace.  First they intend to deal with the Saturday people, and then with the Sunday people.\n\nThe criticisms of the Jews in the Qur’an resulted in the persecution of  Jews in Muslim lands--often slavery, deportation, land expropriation,  and massacres, resulting from the permanent, uniquely Islamic institutions of jihad and dhimmitude.  They had to wear on their clothes the image of an ape. Specifically, the 9th century Tunisian Qadi, Ahmed b. Talib compelled the dhimmi Jews to wear upon their shoulder a patch of white cloth (riqa') that bore the image of an ape, [the Christians were required to wear the image of a pig], and to nail onto their doors a board bearing the sign of a monkey. Apes are mentioned in Judaic texts, but zoomorphic signs were never imposed in the Jewish kingdoms, as was done for Jews and Christians in Islamic lands. Hence the actual implementation of such discriminatory zoomorphic badges is particular to Islam, and the reasons for this must be examined independently, and honestly, without any reference to Judaism.  \n\nJihadists today invoke the Qur’an to justify the worst terrorist crimes. Throat slitting of infidels is mentioned in the Qur’an. Al-Mawardi (d. 1058), the prominent 11th century jurist quoted this verse, specifically,  « When you encounter those who deny (the Truth) then strike (their) necks. » (Qur’an 47 :4), in his learned discussion of jihad. This ritual execution is also mentioned in other Muslim legal texts and in narratives of Christian and prominent Muslim historians. Today it is performed against infidels and recorded on videotape for the edification of Muslim audiences. \n\nWhen the average pious Muslim reads a verse like 2:132 (“And this was the legacy that Abraham left to his sons, and so did Jacob; ‘Oh my sons! Allah hath chosen the Faith for you; then die not except in the Faith of Islam’”) or 3:67 (“Abraham was not a Jew nor yet a Christian; but he was true in Faith, and bowed his will to Allah’ (which is Islam), and he joined not gods with Allah”), he understands what so many imams tell him: that the true Jews and Christians of today are the Muslims, and the people who go by those names are renegades and rebels against God. \n\nThis is of course nonsense.\n\nThis argument does not rest on any idea that Abraham or Moses observed specifically Islamic rituals, but on the idea that they were prophets of the True Faith which was restored by Mohammed after it was corrupted by Jews and Christians.\n\nThis is of course nonsense.
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"Islamic terrorism is inspired by Islamic teachings. We can never get rid of Islamic terrorism unless we defeat the ideology behind it and that is Islam itself. Islam induces hate backed by lies. Muhammad was a terrorist by his own admission. All Muslims, to the extent that they follow him, are terrorists. Those Muslims who are not terrorists are ignorant of Islam. Fortunately they are the majority. We need to rescue them. If you are a good human being, you are not a Muslim. Read this site http://www.faithfreedom.org and if you can't prove me wrong, leave this deceitful cult of hate and terror and join mankind. Don't be part of the Umma. Umma is fascism. It is divisive. It induces the hatred of others. Be part of humanity instead. Your ignorance is not an excuse. Pull your head out of the sand and face the truth, like we did. \n\nFaith Freedom International is a grassroots worldwide movement of ex-Muslims and all those who are concerned about the rise of the Islamic threat. We want to bring humanity together, not by introducing yet another doctrine, which always ends up dividing mankind more, but by eliminating the doctrines that divide us. We want to abolish this evil 'Muslim vs. Kafir" dichotomy. Mankind is one family. Don't let narcissist men like Hitler and Muhammad sunder us with their big lies. Don't become the victim of the "divide and rule" policy of a psychopath. \n\nFaith Freedom stands for freedom of faith. We are against Hate, not Faith. We revere human rights not human beliefs. We endeavor to be factually correct, not politically correct. \n\nDo your part! Let this message out. Let us eradicate Islam and bring mankind together - the way God intended. Islam is the cancer of humanity. We can get rid of it. There is nothing we humans can't do. Mountains move aside to make way for those who are determined." - Ali Sina
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It's apparent that you have never opened a Bible, so please stop showing your ignorance.  The Bible is all about loving thy neighbor as thyself.  Love the sinner, hate the sin.  Love thy enemy.  Turn the other cheek.  Everyone is capable of finding faults in others when they do not have any knowledge.  It would be perfectly normal for people to judge Islam on the actions of terrorists who say "Death to the infidel."  That doesn't sound like Muslims tolerate their enemies, does it?
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The truth is that Islam is not a religion of peace. It is a religion of hate, of terror and of war. A thorough study of the Quran and Hadith reveal an Islam that is not being presented honestly by the Muslim propagandists and is not known to the majority of the people of the world including Muslim themselves. Islam, as it is taught in the Quran (Koran) and lived by Muhammad, as is reported in the Hadith (Biography and sayings of the Prophet) is a religion of Injustice, Intolerance, Cruelty, Absurdities, discrimination, Contradictions, and blind faith. Islam advocates killing the non-Muslims and abuses the human rights of minorities and women. Islam expanded mostly by Jihad (holy war) and forced its way by killing the non-believers. In Islam apostasy is the biggest crime punishable by death. Muhammad was a terrorist himself therefore terrorism cannot be separated from the true Islam. Islam means submission and it demands from its followers to submit their wills and thoughts to Muhammad and his imaginary Allah. Allah is a deity that despises reason, democracy, freedom of thought and freedom of expression.\n\nI reject Islam a) because of Muhammad’s lack of moral and ethical fortitude and b) because of the absurdities in the Quran.\n\na) Muhammad lived a less than holy life. His lust for sex, his affairs with his maids and slave girls, his pedophilic relationship at age 54 with Aisha, a 9-year-old child, his killing sprees, his massacre and the genocide of the Jews, his slave making and trading, his assassination of his opponents, his raids and lootings of the merchant caravans and unarmed villagers, his burning of trees, his destroying the water wells, his cursing and invoking evil on his enemies, his revenge on his captured prisoners of war, his torturing of his captives to for greed and his hallucinations such as believing of having sex with his wives when he actually did not, disqualify him as a sane person let alone a messenger of God.\n\nb) An unbiased study of the Quran shows that far from being a “miracle”, that book is a hoax. The Quran is replete with scientific heresies, historic blunders, mathematical mistakes, logical absurdities, grammatical errors and ethical fallacies. Could possibly the author of this Universe be as ignorant as it appears to be in the Quran?
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STANDING OVATION !!!! \n\nWhen the cave men learn to work and play well with others, the civilised world may change their point of view about islam.\n\nWhen there is a mass public outcry from the majority of islam condemning the terroristic acts of their minority islam terrorist brother and sisters, the civilised world may change their point of view about islam.\n\n\nWhen muslims can refrain from going insane and killing innocent people and destroying private property when someone draws a picture of their prophet,the civilised world may change their point of view about islam.\n\n\nWhen islam can PROVE they can live in peace with other cultures and religions WORLDWIDE(without the other cultures and religions having to pay the jizyah tax),the civilised world may change their point of view about islam.\n\nThe jisyah tax is something the infidel must pay to keep peaceful and loving muslims from killing them. You would be given the chance to convert to islam, if you dont, you are either killed or forced to pay the tax, paying them a bribe every so often to keep them from killing you. This is sharia law.
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It's relatively modern (20th century onward) and based more on politics than religion per se.  Ironically, there is more similarity between Judaism and Islam that Judaism and Christianity.  Neither Judaism nor Islam beleive in a trinity, for example.\n\nThe person here who said that nobody warred against Jews during the Crusades is wrong -- the Crusaders killed thousands of Jews in the name of Jesus Christ before moving on to invade the Muslim lands.  In the Jewish cultural memory, the Crusaders are remembered as a bunch of barbarians who did such things as smash the heads of Jewish babies against stone walls, cut open pregnant women and sew live cats inside them, toss babies up in the air to catch them on their swords, etc.   So horrid was the treatment of European Jews by the Crusaders that whole families chose to commit suicide rather than fall into the hands of the "Good Christians."   (You will find references to these events in any good book on Medieval Jewish history.)\n\nThe Muslims of that time, on the other hand, treated Jews very well.  Under Muslim rule in Spain, there was a golden era of science, art, philosophy, medicine, mathematics, etc.  in which Jews and others fully participated.  The Muslims of that era were the "progressives," founding, among other things, the first modern universities.   There was also a certian amount of sharing among mystical groups, which is why there are similarities between kabbalah (Jewish mysticism) and Sufisim (Muslim mysticism.)  \n\nBut all this ended when Ferdinand and Isabella conquered Spain and expelled all the Jews and Muslims from that country in 1492, the instituted the Spanish Inquisition under Torquemada (who was Isabella's Father Confessor) to ferret out secret Jews and Muslims under torture.   A high percentage of the "heretics" killed by the Inquisition were Jews who were forced to convert to Catholicism but who secretly practiced Judaism.  \n\nAfter the Expusion, The Sultan of Turkey, Bayazid II, opened the doors of his country to take them in.  He is reported to have called Ferdinand a foolish king because "He impoverishes his own country while enriching his enemies!"  (Hitler, BTW, did the same thing when he expelled the Jews.  Because of Nazi antisemitismn, the Allied nations got many top scientists, etc.  who happened to be Jewish.)  \n\nTo this day, Turkish Jews of Spanish descent (called Sephardim) speak a language called Ladino or Judeo-Spanish.   From Turkey, the Sepharigrated to the Balkan countries and also to North Africa (Morocco, Iraq, etc.)   BTW, the first synagogues in the USA were also Sephardic -- built by Spanish Jews fleeing the Inquisition, which was still burning people at the stake in the 1700s.\n\nThe animosity we see today between Jews and Muslims centers around the State of Israel and whether or not it has the right to exist.  During the Cold War, this was inflamed by both sides -- with the USA supporting Israel and the USSR supporting the Palestinians, and both superpowers arming both sides.   (Premier Khruschev was reported to have said that Israel was the "sore toe" he could stomp on whever he wanted to put pressur eon the United States.)   Unfortunately, even after the Cold War ended in 1989, the animosity has continued.  However, recent polls show that on both sides, people are tired of war and if the extremists would stop fanning the flames of hatred, we could have peace in the Middle East.
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Might I ask if you have actually read the Koran?   If so, you should have found that it is for the most part a very peaceful book.   As with all beliefs, anything can be interpreted to suit good or bad - it's all how you look at it.\n\nThe Bible could be held out as violent (eye for an eye etc) as could the Torah.\n\nAnything can be used and interpreted to justify actions in the name of Religion.\n\n"They are not peaceful people like us?".. who is 'they' exactly?   If you think 'us' is a peaceful world, look again.
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an offbeat non-orthodox Muslim apologist against Christian and Jewish faiths.
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yes it is.. im nuetral as anyone .. the koran speaks of violene against people who do not believe islam. look at Iran .. just today the pres said he was going to cut off the hands of people who try to attack islam .. thats an actual quote form the koran. God tells us that religions will be known by their fruits.. islam has produced 1400 years of violence and chaos. and dont tell me that  its just a few extremists... its 10 percent of the entire religion around 10,000,000 people .. including the entire country of iran!
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I am not saying that your argument is wrong and you may have a point but that only lead you to another thing to proove. If you believe that the Bible was altered by comparing it to the Torah, how sure are you then that the Torah was not altered? Your statement indicates that the Torah is never altered and that's the reason why you compared the writings of the Bible to it, right? Now, why then do you believe that the Torrah has not been altered while the Muslims say otherwise. That authority is even being put to the test by other faiths. They claim that both the Torah and the Holy Bible have been corrupted. So, that leaves you another question to answer and I think you have to proove that too. If then you have proven that the Torah has been altered too, naturally you will have another option to consider and that is to revert to Islam and find out if it too is really a true religion. I wish you good luck.
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When you pick up specifics out of the biblical or Koranic history, these may seem unrelated or even contradictory. However to get the real essence of this try reading the genesis book or the koranic description of Adam, the angels and his exile to the earth.\n\nA succession of prophets from Adam to Mohammed and related events that bind major religions like Judaism, Christianity and Islam together. If all the prophets are given equal importance things are better understood. Both Jews and Muslims do not believe in the son-of-god theory though muslim rever Jesus as one of their own prophet. Despite Moses prophecieing the coming of "messiah" which came as Jesus, jews are still waiting for him. \n\nThe basic concept of all religions is :\n\n1. Presence of one Supreme  being\n2. Tenets to keem social order in the world.\n\nFaith and things like that are hightened to make people follow the straight path.\n\nHope this gives you some insight.
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Well what do you know! Should we ignore this and say "ALL religions are coming from God? This child could not get this mentality except some older person taught her or him.\n\nHow much prove do we need until we realise that Islam is not a PEACE RELIGION? The September 11 plane crushes as well also redicules their "lucrative appearance of peace".\n\nIt is not only this:\n\nDID ANYONE OUT THERE KNOW THAT THE KORAN ALSO DISPLAYS DIFFERENT CATEGORIES OF PUNISHING YOUR WIFE? Guess what... By beating and by scourging...what on earth\n\nPlease check for yourself...\n\nPlease don't think I'm American...
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Could be.  I would say that the Babylon in Rev 18 is a country.  The harlot in Rev 17 I would think is the one world religion but her name also is mystery bablyon the great mother of harlots ect.\nThis also becomes interesting as the Catholic Church claims to worship the same God as Islam.  The majority of the world religions could be brought in under the Pope as a world leader.  But we are speculating.\nYou are already under instructions to come out of any false religion right now.  \nGal 1:9  As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.
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im a muslim and no that is not true in islam or in any other religion...