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This article is my attempt at placing jihadist Islam in context with the Koran and in comparison with Christianity.

 

When the Kingdom of Israel was subject to the Romans, Jesus came to offer forgiveness of sins to the Jews, and made the announcement that his Gospel would be preached to the world at large.  His Gospel would be for entrance into his Kingdom in Heaven.  “My Kingdom is not of this world,”  He stated.  If you will have it this was a pronouncement of the end of theocratic judgement as to earthly punishment for sin.  Judgement pertaining to the Kingdom of God was to be postponed until death.  Because of Jesus we enjoy a probationary state with regard to the Kingdom of Heaven.  Earthly punishment would only be administered by civil authority for crimes against society and individuals, not for sin against God.

 

When Jesus had arisen from the dead, he declared his intentions to visit others of different folds.  Several hundred years later Muhammad, living amid wicked idol worshiping descendants of Abraham, received visions in a cave.  Just as the name for God changed between Genesis chapter one and chapter two according to Josephus, so there are two names for God in the Koran.  The most specific name is “Allah” and the other is merely translated as “God”.  Sometimes “We” is used denoting that other messengers were sent in Allah’s place, Gabriel and Michael are mentioned specifically.  Islam was not told that Muhammad was visited by Jesus.  There was no attempt to join the Arab Moslems and the Christians though sometimes they fought side by side to protect each other.  They were told (Chapter 5 verse 48), after stipulating that the Gospel was bestowed upon Jesus, “Had Allah willed He could have made you one community.  But that He may try you by that which he hath given you (He hath made you as you are).  So vie one with another in good works.  Unto Allah ye will all return, and He will then inform you of that wherein ye differ”.  But Jesus is to merely be considered a prophet in the Koran though He is sometimes referred to as the Savior.  Though Jesus is referred to as The Savior in at least one place in the Koran, Islam does not recognize His suffering for our sins.  

 

The Kurds do not mix politics and religion.  Whether or not there are other groups of the Islamic faith who likewise keep them separate, I don’t know.  Where they are able most Moslems prefer to institute a state religion with Islamic Law in control.  However, it is a much harsher law than is described in the Koran.  Adultery, for instance, demands death by stoning under Islamic Law, while the Koran only calls for a beating of 100 stripes.  There are many differences between Islamic Law and the Koran, but I am not so well studied in them that I dare attempt to list them.

 

Similar to God’s dealings with the Children of Israel the Koran mentions no special blessing or righteousness connected with the killing of enemies.  It appears to me that Muhammad’s followers, fearing that they needed more help than they could get from the righteous, made  promises not in keeping with the Koran so that the wicked would be willing to fight for Islam in return for  virgins in the next life if they  killed enemies of Islam.  I am certain Muhammad never said it for when speaking of wedded bliss the Koran stipulates that (Chapter 20 verse 131), “The provision of thy Lord is better and more lasting.”  Islamic jihadists have hijacked the religion of the Moslems.  They have turned the God of the Koran into a bloodthirsty tyrant.  They have remade Allah after their own image.  The Koran introduced a gospel of peace, not the gospel of move in, take over, and kill or convert them, or send in your children as suicide bombers.  The Koran says (Chapter 4 verse 94 and 97), “Say not unto one who offereth you peace, ‘Thou art not a believer,’” and a little further on to Moslems who complained of mistreatment, “Was not Allah’s earth spacious that ye could have migrated therein?” 

 

Can any jihadist read the third Surah, verse 7 without wondering why the message of peace and mercy in the Koran has been replaced with the much harsher Sharia Law and bloody Jihad?  "He it is Who hath revealed unto thee (Muhammad) the Scripture wherein are clear revelations–They are the substance of the Book–and others (which are ) allegorical.  But those in whose hearts is doubt pursue, forsooth, that which is allegorical seeking (to cause) dissension by seeking to explain it.  None knoweth its explanation save Allah.  And those who are of sound instruction say: We believe therein; the whole is from our Lord;"

 

So please tell me Mr. Jihadist, who lost faith in the Koran and decided to supercede it with Sharia Law and other teachings?