THE HYPOCRISY OF MUSLIM FAITH
Christianity and Judaism pretend they are not religions of blind faith which is
an admission that such faith is not desirable or good. Islam does not give a
toss. The second largest world religion and it has a jigsaw puzzle of
conjectures instead of a theology! That should warn us about putting our faith
in religion.
Muhammad did no miracles to prove that he was a prophet. Though Jesus presented
miracles as evidence and that was a mistake or trick it was not as bad as doing
absolutely NOTHING!
So this religion of Islam cuts the hands off thieves, persecutes those who try
to make converts from it, tramples upon women and murders adulterers by stoning
them to death and for what? For assumptions! Their courts tell them that you
need to be very sure of being right before you can do things like that and they
cannot be even half sure.
Their scripture the Quran, has not taken in this attitude.
Sura 1 says that unbelievers will be punished and that warning them is no good
for God has sealed them to exclude the truth from their minds. He causes their
unbelief.
Muslims and their defenders (page 177, The Light Shineth in Darkness) would say
that God is too good to do such a thing and that people blind themselves so God
takes the grace away from them because they do not want it. People blind
themselves and God who holds all things in being causes them to do so by keeping
them in existence so that they can freely do it so God does it in that sense but
it is not his fault.
But wait. The Quran has not even said yet that God is creator. And this is the
start of the book for it says that this book is not to be doubted in the first
line. That means there is no reason for taking the nice interpretation so the
nasty one that says that God deliberately makes people disbelieve so that he can
punish is correct. Further evidence for this is, is in the fact that there was
no need to say they were hardened by God. The verse is about hardening not
creating - beings harden themselves. The verse teaches predestination, the
notion that God makes some people choose salvation and others damnation. Now why
would anybody write a book that says God did something bad while meaning
something different when they could say that it was people not him?
Islam may deny the Christian slander that babies are born guilty of sin on
account of Adam (page 20, Understanding Islam) but it replaces it with
predestination which is not any better. The religion says that it is because man
is not God who is supreme and upon whom all things depend that man has to be
predestined and to deny predestination is to say that God does not know the
future (page 14, Understanding Islam). The Quran teaches that these reasons for
predestination are correct (Understanding Islam, page 68). But when God is
outside time he can know the future because it is present to him and not because
he programs what it will be like. And God holding all things in being is
compatible with the view that God has made some beings freely able to go against
him. He gives them freedom but he does not program their choices.
God could offer us grace and light that we refuse to see but that does not mean
he should remove them if we refuse them. This is not against our freedom. Better
to give light to a person so that nobody can say it might have been your fault
if they never change. Once the light is removed it is not their fault if they
disbelieve and do wrong but if the light is there and they won’t look it is
their fault. When any book says that God cuts off grace it means it. We all have
light we don't like seeing so God has no need to cease supplying us with
spiritual light.
The Islamic God cannot be trusted. The Moslem cannot really believe God for God
might be deluding him. Islam does not like self-righteous hypocrisy but yet the
Moslem will end up saying: “I am good and holy therefore Allah would not deceive
me. He will only blind me if I want to be blinded”. With all our faults we could
not say such a thing! Allah commanded humility.
When faith is not a revelation from God to the Muslim or something that God
causes in him or her the Muslim is believing Muhammad and not God. He or she is
looking at God the way Muhammad tells him or her to look and is not looking for
God as he is.
The pagans are taken to task for believing in guesses for which there is no
evidence (6:148). But the Muslims are doing the same thing. They have no
evidence that the Quran is from God and that Muhammad was a prophet just like
the pagans only assume that their scriptures and prophets have divine authority.
The Quran commands many things that reason cannot support or which are above
reason so the Muslim cannot contend that his book is from God for reason says so
and that is all it says stands the test of reason.
Sunni Muslims believe that they may go to Hell for a while and Muhammad will
pray for them to God so that they will be released sooner. This implies that one
prayer by Muhammad is not enough though quality is better than quantity. This
also implies that God is imperfect and needs to be influenced by Muhammad to do
the right thing which is blasphemy. The canonical prayers which are said towards
the Kaaba are the most important practice in Islam (page 15, Understanding
Islam). Understanding that one prayer is enough this is ridiculous. It
denigrates the fact that there are better works. It denigrates good works.
BOOKS CONSULTED
An Introduction to Asian Religions, E G Parrinder, SPCK, London, 1957
Answering Islam, The Crescent in Light of the Cross, Norman L Geisler and Abdul
Saleeb, Baker Books, Grand Rapids, 2002
Concise Guide to Today’s Religions, Josh Mc Dowell and Don Stewart, Scripture
Press, Bucks, 1988
God Is Not Great, The Case Against Religion, Christopher Hitchens, Atlantic
Books, London, 2007
In Defence of the Faith, Dave Hunt, Harvest House, Eugene, Oregon, 1996
Islam, Christianity’s Greatest Challenge, Misc. International Publications,
Lubbock, Texas, undated
Muhammad: A Western Attempt to Understand Islam, Karen Armstrong, Victor
Gollancz Ltd, London, 1991
Muhammad in the Bible, Prof ‘Abdu ‘L-Ahad Dawud, Bina, Singapore, 1978
Religion of Peace? Why Christianity is and Islam Isn't, Robert Spencer, Regnery
Publishing Inc, Washington, 2007 - a curious book in that it simply doesn't
mention how Christian Scriptures incited believers, eg Calvinists, to attack and
destroy other believers who were thought to be heretics and doesn't mention the
infallible decrees of the Roman Catholic Church commanding the violent
destruction of heretics but wants to give the impression that unlike the Quran,
the Christian Scriptures and the Christian religion do not make calls for
religious violence
Studies on Islam, Jack Budd, Red Sea Mission Team, Northants, 1994
The Case Against God, Gerald Priestland, Collins, Fount Paperbacks, London, 1984
The Collection of the Qur’an, John Burton, Cambridge University Press,
Cambridge, 1977
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The Light Shineth in Darkness, Udo Schaefer, George Ronald, Oxford, 1979
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London, 1995
The World’s Religions, Lion, Herts, 1982
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Publications, Illinois, 1982
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Why I am not a Muslim, Ibn Warraq, Prometheus Books, New York, 1995
Why I Became a Christian, Sultan Muhammed Paul, Gospel Literature Service,
Bombay, 1981
THE WEB – these sites have been consulted in my research
The site I want attention drawn to is Answering Islam Home Page. It’s strength
is that it proves that the Quran is just a human book with errors and that the
current Quran is not the one that Muhammad would have said is the word of God
while it gives Muslim theologians and scholars a hearing. The Quran is not the
word of God made text.
http://answering-islam.org/index.html
The Missing Chapters of the Quran
http://answering-islam.org/Gilchrist/Jam/chap4.html
The Early Surviving Quran Manuscripts
www.answering-islam.org/Gilchrist/Jam/chap7.html
What is the Quran?
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/99jan/Quran.htm
Christians Refute Islam
http://www.muhammadanism.org/default.htm
Abrogations, Allegations, and Alterations in Islam by Chad VanDixhoorn
www.rim.org/muslim/clear.htm
Contradictions in the Quran
http://answering-islam.org/Quran/Contra
This site replies to Islamic rebuttals to its assertion that the Quran is just a
human document
The Muslim Threat by Bible Theology Ministries Swansea UK,
www.christiandoctrine.net/doctrine/outlines/outline_00046_the_muslim_threat_web.htm
Errors in the Quran
http://www.souldevice.org/quran2.htm
Islam’s Prophet, The Test for a Prophet
http://www.souldevice.org/islamprophet.htm
Truth Unchanged, Texts Unchanging? The Text of the Bible and the Text of the
Quran
http://www.um-islam.nm.ru/chad.htm
