Previously, I mentioned an article by New York Times regarding the Role of Muslims during the Rawandan Genoice, now I would like to share a video from al-Jazeera.
July 2, 2009
Hutu Muslims saved Tutsis during Rwandan genocide
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July 2, 2009
An amazing site defending the Intimitable Qu’ran. Here is the introduction to the site:
The Qur’an can only be described as a unique expression of the Arabic language. This is due to its unique literary form, linguistic genre, matchless eloquence and its unparalled frequency of rhetorical features. The uniqueness of the Qur’ans language forms the backdrop to the doctrine of I’jaz al-Quran, the inimitability of the Qur’an, which lies at the heart of the Qur’an’s claim to being of divine origin. The Qur’an states,
“If you are in doubt of what We have revealed to Our messenger, then produce one chapter like it. Call upon all your helpers, besides Allah, if you are truthful” Qur’an Chapter 2 Verse 23.
June 30, 2009
Actually the quote says, “I come not to bring peace, but to bring a sword”(Matthew 10:34) . Anyways, interesting news from BBC World News:
US pastor opens church to guns
A pastor in the US state of Kentucky told his flock to bring handguns to church in what he said was an effort to promote safe gun ownership.
June 30, 2009
The Prophet of Islam: A Camel Urine Drinker?
Posted by fragileemptiness under Hadith, Research Article1 Comment
Many rationalists laugh thinking that Prophet Muhammad was an idiot because he just used folklore to treat some people by telling them to drink camel urine. How can urine, which is so repugnant, repulsive and stinky, be suggested as a therapy by the Prophet? Mind you, the Prophet was not the first one to suggest it because Arab bedouins had been drinking camel urine since antiquity for medical purposes. The hadith which mentions this story goes as this: it says that some people came to Madeenah and fell sick. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) told them to drink the milk and urine of camels, and they recovered and grew fat. In the story it also says that they apostatized and killed the camel-herder, then the Muslims caught them and executed them. Narrated by al-Bukhaari (2855) and Muslim (1671).
June 29, 2009
June 28, 2009
Many non-muslims claim that Prophet Muhammad is a liar. This is an unfounded claim since it goes agaisnt many aspects of the seerah of the Prophet.
One notable instance is when the son of the Prophet Muhammad(saw) died and an eclipse occurred the same day. Now it seems to me , that if he is a liar he would have taken advantage of this situation and claimed, that “Yes, this in fact shows that I am a prophet of God, because the universe is saddened by the death of my son”
However this is not the reply of the Prophet Muhammad as seen in the hadith below:
June 25, 2009
By Ibn Saad
Edited by Ibn Anwar
I, Ibn Sa’ad, was on a Mainstream Jewish site, called “Judaism 101 and I was suprised to see what they had under the secion “What does the Talmud say about Jesus?”:
” Rambam and many other prominent Jewish scholars believed that the stories of Jesus are based on Yeshu ben Pandeira, also known as Yeshu ha-Notzri (”Jesus the Branch,” a reference to Isaiah 11:1, a passage about the messiah).”
The position of the Talmud in the Judaeic tradition:
“The Talmud is probably the most important Jewish book, even more important than the Bible, even though the Bible is older and holier. The Jewish way of doing things (halakhah) is based on the Talmud much more than on the Bible. Many of the ideas and stories of Jewish life come to us from the Talmud.”
(KOLEL: The Adult Centre for Liberal Jewish Learning)
“The Talmud was created by the Jewish people and the Talmud has, in turn, molded them as a nation.”
“… Talmud constitute the backbone of diverse Jewish knowledge..”
(Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz)
The Talmud on Jesus
“The Talmud claims that this Yeshu was the son of a Jewish woman named Miriam (Mary) who was betrothed to a carpenter (more accurately, their marriage was in the stage of kiddushin, where she is legally his wife but not yet living with him or having sexual relations with him). She was either raped or voluntarily slept with a Greek or Roman soldier known as Pandeira, and Yeshu was the product of that union. Because of the status of Miriam’s marriage, Yeshu is considered to be a mamzer (usually mistranslated as “bastard”, it means the product of an adulterous or incestuous relationship). Some say that he was also a ben-niddah (conceived through intercourse with a woman in a state of menstrual impurity, which is also said to leave a stain on the offspring). The Talmud describes Yeshu as a heretic who dabbled in sorcery and lead the people astray (into idolatry). He was stoned to death by the Sanhedrin for his crimes, and in accordance with the procedure for heretics, his dead body was hung in a tree until nightfall after his death.
Were Jesus and Yeshu the same person? Many Jewish sages in history believed so.”
(http://www.jewfaq.org/looking4.htm )
June 25, 2009
Catholic Church no longer swears by truth of the Bible
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June 25, 2009
Many Christians try to claim that Jesus is the ‘prince of peace’ and that killing people would have negated his status of being not only a prophet of God but also his son. They mention this in particular to try to argue that Muhammad (saw) is not a prophet because he participated in wars.
This is obviously an absurd argument because we can just mention the “fatally violent acts” of OT prophets. In addition to this , christians claim Jesus is God, and therefore Jesus is ordering people in the OT to rip open the bellies of pregannt women(Hosea 13:16) which further debunks the claim that Jesus does not promote violent acts. However in this post, I will show in particular that Jesus is killing boys as a child.
Now before I get into the account, let me defend the Gospel of Thomas. In short the Gospel of Thomas, is just as authentic as the Bible we have today :p. You can take that statement however you want, because I am sure most people already know that I have a very low opinion of the authenticity of the Bible. A more articulated form of what I said, is echoed by a PhD candidate who is studying the Gospel of Thomas:
“I think that the fact that we are dealing with written records of orally transmitted eyewitness accounts of Jesus’ ministry and teaching means that we have no accurate way of making empirical decisions about what is and isn’t authentic Jesus tradition”
Now that we have settled any issues brought about the authencity of the Gospel of Thomas, let us get into the text.
The Gospel of Infancy Thomas
as translated by Harold Attridge & Ronald F. Hock in the book
The Complete Gospels, Harper Collins, ©1992
Boyhood deeds of our Lord Jesus Christ
1 I, Thomas the Israelite, am reporting to you, all my non-Jewish brothers and sisters, to make known the extraordinary childhood deeds of our Lord Jesus Christ – what he did after his birth in my region. This is how it all started:
2 When this boy, Jesus, was five years old, he was playing at the ford of a rushing stream. (2) He was collecting the flowing water into ponds and made the water instantly pure. He did this with a single
command. (3) He then made soft clay and shaped it into twelve sparrows. He did this on the sabbath day, and many other boys were playing with him.
(4)But when a Jew saw what Jesus was doing while playing on the sabbath day, he immediately went off and told Joseph, Jesus’ father: “See here, your boy is at the ford and has taken mud and fashioned twelve birds with it, and so has violated the sabbath.”
(5)So Joseph went there, and as soon as he spotted him he shouted, “Why are you doing what’s not permitted on the sabbath?”
(6)But Jesus simply clapped his hands and shouted to the sparrows: “Be off, fly away, and remembe’ me, you who are now alive!” And the sparrows took off and flew away noisily.
(7)The Jews watched with amazement, then left the scene to report to their leaders what they had seen Jesus doing.
3 The son of Annas the scholar, standing there with Jesus, took a willow branch and drained the water Jesus had collected. (2)Jesus, however, saw what had happened and became angry, saying to him, “Damn you, you irreverent fool! What harm did the ponds of water do to you? From this moment you, too, will dry up like a tree, and you’ll never produce leaves or root or bear fruit.”
(3) In an instant the boy had completely withered away. Then Jesus departed and left for the house of Joseph. (4)The parents of the boy who had withered away picked him up and were carrying him out, sad because he was so young. And they came to Joseph and accused him: “It’s your fault – your boy did this.”
4 Later he was going through the village again when a boy ran and bumped him on the shoulder. Jesus got angry and said to him, “You won’t continue your journey.” (2)And all of a sudden, he fell down and died.
(3)Some people saw what had happened and said, “Where has this boy come from? Everything he says happens instantly!”
(4)The parents of the dead boy came to Joseph and blamed him saying, “Because you have such a boy, you can’t live with us in the village, or else teach him to bless and not curse. He’s killing our children!“
June 24, 2009
The King James Version (”KJV”) of the Bible is dedicated to King James VI as many Christians know. What many dont know, is that he might have been a free mason. This is taken from a freemason site and it says:
On the west wall of the lodge hall used by Lodge Scoon and Perth No. 3 in Perth, Scotland can be found a mural depicting James VI kneeling at their altar at his initiation. The oldest existing record of the Lodge, called “The Mutual Agreement” of 24 December, 1658, records that James was “entered Freemason and Fellowcraft of the Lodge of Scoon” on 15 April, 1601.
