Christian reactions to Islam are documented from an early date. They are generally categorized as follows:-
a. Those based on the feeling of revenge against Islam, for Islam had first thrived and still thrives enormously at the expense of Christendom.
b. Those inspired by future dangers of Islamic success. Christians were brought up to expect to be in relationship of violence and force with Muslims.
The reactions were formulated in various forms of accusations, but two main accusations stand out: a) the myth that Islam was imposed, and b) the salacity and laxness with which those who could not be compelled were bribed. If Christians could bring themselves together to accuse the strictest monotheistic religion, Islam, of idolatry, it would be difficult for them to relate the spread of Islam to violence and salacity. The Christians were not content with only accusing Islam of being forced upon people, they in fact, fabricated these accusations to entice people and promote violence against Islam. There was little recognition that Christians were inconsistent in advocating the use of force against Islam, while condemning Islam for its theoretic approval of it. They fabricated these charges to stir violence and they naturally retorted to further charges if people did not respond favorably to their call for the use of violence against Muslims. It was almost inevitable that the Christian attitude (the Christians tried hard to prove that Christianity was revealed once and for ever, and not as a religion of power to discredit Islam as the religion of force) to Islam should here be inconsistent.[180]
RE:ACCUSING ISLAM OF FORCING ITSELFUPON PEOPLE
by Secular Indian on Mar 20, 2007 05:25 AM Permalink
I'm sure the Christian and Muslims hate each other, they are both intolerant religions that claim Mr. God is on their side. Both target Hindus as non-believers, Christianity gave up killing a while ago, Islam is still on a war march, perhaps because it's serving your masters, the Arabs well.
RE:RE:RE:RE:PROPHET GETS ONE-FIFTH BOOTY AFTER EVERY WAR
by Secular Indian on Mar 20, 2007 06:32 AM Permalink
The Koran contradicts itself in many places, yes it does make positive noises like "to you yours and to me mine" but then in other suras it contradicts itself.
Some sample for your perusal.
What Qur'an Teaches:
Quran tells us to: "not to make friends with Jews and Christians" (5:51), fight them "until they pay the Jizya (a penalty tax for the non-Muslims living under Islamic rules) with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued" ( 9:29). "kill the disbelievers wherever we find them" (2:191), "murder them and treat them harshly" (9:123), "fight and slay the Pagans, seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem" ( 9:5).
Quran says that all those who disbelieve in Islam go to hell (5:10), they are najis (filthy, untouchable, impure) (9:28), and orders us to fight the unbelievers until no other religion except Islam is left (2:193). It prohibits a Muslim to befriend a non-believer even if that non-believer is the father or the brother of that Muslim (9:23), (3:28).
It says that the "non-believers will go to hell and will drink boiling water" (14:17). It asks the Muslims to "slay or crucify or cut the hands and feet of the unbelievers, that they be expelled from the land with disgrace and that they shall have great punishment in the world hereafter" (5:34). And tells us that "for them (the unbelievers) garments of fire shall be cut and there shall be poured over their heads boiling water whereby whatever is in their bowels and skin shall be dissolved and they will be punished with hooked iron rods" (22:19-22) and that they not only will have "disgrace in this life, on the Day of Judgment He shall make them taste the Penalty of burning (Fire)" (22:9).
Quran says that "those who invoke a god other than Allah not only should meet punishment in this world but the Penalty on the Day of Judgment will be doubled to them, and they will dwell therein in ignominy" (25:68). For those who "believe not in Allah and His Messenger, He has prepared, for those who reject Allah, a Blazing Fire!" (48:13).
As for him who does not believe in Islam the Prophet says that after he dies it will be announced with a "stern command": "Seize ye him, and bind ye him, And burn ye him in the Blazing Fire. Further, make him march in a chain, whereof the length is seventy cubits! This was he that would not believe in Allah Most High. And would not encourage the feeding of the indigent! So no friend hath he here this Day. Nor hath he any food except the corruption from the washing of wounds, Which none do eat but those in sin." (69:30-37)
RE:RE:RE:RE:PROPHET GETS ONE-FIFTH BOOTY AFTER EVERY WAR
by Secular Indian on Mar 20, 2007 06:34 AM Permalink
How many times do I have to repeat myself ? Hindus have not interest in this comparison contest, regarding which is worse Christianity or Islam! They are both part of the same tradition with the same flaw, "you are with us or against us", Kafir in Islam and Heathen in Christianity.
