Islam: Allah is an Arabic term for "God" the same way you might say, "There is no God but the Lord," so get over it already.|Islam|Forum|Forum: Apocalypse & Armageddon
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3:50 am
November 11, 2011
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It was brought to my attention that we needed this new Topic as many are unfamiliar with the Muslim Holy book "The Recital" or The Quran (The Koran as most here know it).
As I mentioned above, Allah is a non-plural and non-gender (for our feminist friends) term for "God" used by Arabic-speaking Jews, Christians and Muslims alike. Not all Muslims use the term "Allah;" as Turkish Muslims would say "There is no God but Tann;" and Persian Muslims would say "There is no God but Khoda."
I've known many Christians who say "There is no God but The Lord." Then I've also known some New Testament fundamentalists who claim "There is no God but Jesus" but that is just Idolatry (making a fetish idol out of Jesus) and not saying the same thing, at all.
But as we may soon see, not all Radical Islamists may know their own Holy book as well as they think they do, just like most Christians don't know what is in their own Bible (the Secret here is most people don't read these books for themselves but allow some Authority Figure Preacher to tell them what he wants them to think is in the Book).
I think these literary classics, religious books, should be read (straight through from page 1 to The End) in high school Literature classes–mandatory away from Ecclesiastical brainwashing cherry-picking techniques–so "young adults" will be able to make their own minds up what the books say to them. But Preachers have a vested interest in not allowing their young congregations to think for themselves, so I don't expect to see this before about the year 2068CE. Of course, those of you Home Schooling your children could implement this idea into your curriculum, but I doubt we will see much of that either.
For those not familiar with it, there is a really neat series of scenes from the screenplay written by Bruce Lee for his posthumous Feature Film "Circle Of Iron" that is also mentioned in a chapter of The Koran entitled "The Cave (not to be confused with Plato's very profound The Cave from his book The Republic)." If I were you, I'd rent Circle Of Iron today and disregard the martial arts as simply background to this Zen Story in-which not one spoken line is wasted, that"…takes place in a land that never was, but always is." There is know book!
4:46 am
November 11, 2011
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I asked Apoadmin to create this "Islam" topic as I have recently been asked some questions about The Koran. So I thought I would add, here, this piece I wrote as a comment for an article elsewhere, back when the creators of TV cartoon South Park (which I've watched maybe 5 episodes of total) were being given Death Threats like they were Salman Rushdie. The good news for Journalism students, everywhere around the World, it doesn't look like you are going to run out of religious zealots of any demographic that want to become lynch mobs to Report upon, any time soon.
Quran Passages Florida 9/11 Christian-Jonesing Pastor Should Quote:
Whenever a mean-spirited religious authority figure is fire and brimstone christian-jonesing I'm reminded how I always believe that no adult with any degree of real level of reading comprehension skills could actually read the Bible and still attend Church or Temple.
I mean The Old Testament Prophets are always blaming the priests for corrupting religion for their own benefit and leading the people to ruin doing what is wrong in God's eyes. Isn't that why Jesus turned over the Bingo tables in the Temple?
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