Another link on my blog tells about a book "Islam Enemy of the West" written by a man learned in Christianity but totaly ingnorant of Islam. I gather this from his on-line question and answer session. How could he percieve Islam to be an enemy? Is he influenced by George Bush's perception of Islam as terrorists? The only violent part of Islamic teaching is when God made it mandatory for Muslims to fight off invaders who come to take their homelands.
I can think of two reasons of why the West hates Islam. Islam disagrees with Christianity over a few things such as the Christian belief in the original sin, the divinity of Jesus, trinity and the way to salvation. We get into this line of thinking because the Christian "Father" is actually our God Allah and the "son" is actually our revered prophet Isa. I think the West is also afraid of conversion. They have valid reason to feel that way because Islam is the fastest growing religion in North America and Europe. To the West Islam is a very burdensom restrictive religion. One has to get up at dawn to perform the first prayer of the day. Then there is fasting during Ramadhan - going to Mecca and so on. Muslim are prevented from doing things that the West consider their freedom
When one comes to understand Islam, he would love it. Leopold Weist was the son of a rabbi who converted to Islam and took the name of Muhammad Assad. He spent 40 years of his life translating the Quraan into English. That was indeed a labor of love
I can think of two reasons of why the West hates Islam. Islam disagrees with Christianity over a few things such as the Christian belief in the original sin, the divinity of Jesus, trinity and the way to salvation. We get into this line of thinking because the Christian "Father" is actually our God Allah and the "son" is actually our revered prophet Isa. I think the West is also afraid of conversion. They have valid reason to feel that way because Islam is the fastest growing religion in North America and Europe. To the West Islam is a very burdensom restrictive religion. One has to get up at dawn to perform the first prayer of the day. Then there is fasting during Ramadhan - going to Mecca and so on. Muslim are prevented from doing things that the West consider their freedom
When one comes to understand Islam, he would love it. Leopold Weist was the son of a rabbi who converted to Islam and took the name of Muhammad Assad. He spent 40 years of his life translating the Quraan into English. That was indeed a labor of love
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