An interesting polemic that has been lodged by a Christian missionary in a Facebook comment recently:
Response:
“I think this phrase of “go at each others’ throats” should be more appropriate to use between Sunni and Sh’ia”: Very sneaky of you to attack the Muslims indirectly, while at the same time gloss over the dispute between the Catholics and Protestants, not to mention the brutal wars they have fought against each other in Europe in the past. So that phrase is more applicable to you and your brethren, since the Sunni / Shi’a dispute has never resulted in major wars between each other.
“On Jesus and Isa, do you know, how this ‘Isa’ name in Arabic come from?”: Please don’t bore me with that stale story about it coming from Esau, the rejected brother of Jacob. That is a common polemic which I have heard too many times from ignorant Christian missionaries such as yourself. Suffice to say that the origins of the word ‘Isa is Aramaic and it is much more accurate than the atrocious Hebrew name “Yeheshua” which you attribute to Jesus, son of Mary.
This video was directed by a Dutch brother as a response to Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s “Submission”. It was never uploaded to YouTube for some reason and a few days ago, I found the original .avi file. So I have taken the liberty of uploading it and I am now posting it here for everyone to view it. Please do spread the word of this movie to everyone you know, we need everyone to know about its existence and to present the real picture of Islam.
From the grave, Albert Einstein poured gasoline on the culture wars between science and religion this week.
A letter the physicist wrote in 1954 to the philosopher Eric Gutkind, in which he described the Bible as “pretty childish” and scoffed at the notion that the Jews could be a “chosen people,” sold for $404,000 at an auction in London. That was 25 times the presale estimate.
No, I am not interested in the letter. I am more interested in what this brilliant man has to say about God. Unfortunately he never knew about Islam, had he known about it he would have become a Muslim I am sure. Because while the Bible may be viewed as a fictional historical piece of writing with little or no spiritual value, the Qur’an is in toto God’s Revelation verbatim. No one has thus far made any real challenge to deny that either.
You would think that this so-called “Islam Hadhari” government, with all their talk about Islamic values and emphasis on Islam [not!] would actually have a tendency to focus more on Eid Adha, the most important festival in Islam which commemorates the sacrifice that our liege-lord Abraham (peace be upon him) made of his beloved son Ishmael (peace be upon him). Of course the corrupted Babble gives a different account of the story of the Sacrifice by giving the right of the first-born son Ishmael to Isaac (peace be upon him), but that is a different issue for another time. Unfortunately, I do not see any television shows touching on Eid Adha or even the Hajj, if at all.
The only show that I saw last night related to this was a documentary on Discovery Channel entitled Revealed: The Hajj. Very educational and rewarding, but that is not the point of this criticism.
