RE:islam fastest growing religion
by balaord on Apr 21, 2008 03:58 AM Permalink
The so called character of west and its ideals are inspired by Islam..You seem to love the west more than then next king of britain - Charles The offical british website of prince charles there he says the greatest ideals and scientific concepts of europe were taken from Islamic civilization
...Our judgement of Islam has been grossly distorted by taking the extremes to be the norm. That, ladies and gentlemen, is a serious mistake. It is like judging the quality of life in Britain by the existence of murder and rape, child abuse and drug addiction. The extremes exist, and they must be dealt with. But when used as a basis to judge a society, they lead to distortion and unfairness...
...Many of the traits on which modern Europe prides itself came to it from Muslim Spain. Diplomacy, free trade, open borders, the techniques of academic research, of anthropology, etiquette, fashion, various types of medicine, hospitals, all came from this great city of cities....
...Islam is part of our past and our present, in all fields of human endeavour. It has helped to create modern Europe. It is part of our own inheritance, not a thing apart....
RE:islam fastest growing religion
by balaord on Apr 21, 2008 04:22 AM Permalink
You need to understand this first
There is Quran-Which we belive as infalliable and keep that as a benchmark to verify any event in Prophet Muhammed history Then there is Hadith - which are narrations of people who saw things as happened.There are several hundred thousands of them and there are many fabrications as they are just narrations by human beings.Muslims have a very sophicated technique and apply many consistent characteristics to filter these things out. 1.If it violated with Quran -It is a fabriation 2.If there are many contradictaing events -this is a fabrication 3.If the narrator is found be unreliable and lying-This is deemed to be fabrication 4.Analaysis of text and pattern (which gave birth to crptoanalysis )and if it deviates then it is a fabrication
The last source is biographies - They are not hadiths-There are hundreds of them.The so called biographers like Tabari have writen their version of history 400 years after the death of Prophet Muhammed.We are talking about a age when there is no concept of printing.
There are many biographies and Muslims take the incidents as true only when all the major narrations corroborate with each other.
Some how islamic critics take anything that has a arabic name as a legitimate source and ask muslims to belive in it.which is wrong.
RE:islam fastest growing religion
by balaord on Apr 21, 2008 04:38 AM Permalink
the issue of Rahyana doesnt exist.where is the sex slave allegation. Just because some book has arabic name doesnt mean it is infalliable-I explained this that this is not Quran,not hadith but a biograpgy written 400 years after Prophet Muhammed by hearing it from people..How can just one ofthis book can be a evidence when all other biographers have omitted this?
The people hostile to religion always tried to slander prophets - This is not happened to Prophet Muhammed alone.
Look at one of the mightiest prophet of Old testament - DAVID
But the jews have writeen using their own hands that David was seduced by a bathing women and committed adultery
Check this in Samuel 11:1
How can a prophet be a adulterer?This perverted version of the event got into bible because there is no systematic way of filtering historical events and those who want to justify their acts (esp priests) managed to attribute such heinious things to him.
RE:islam fastest growing religion
by Arif on Apr 21, 2008 04:50 AM Permalink
It is never about becoming dominant. It is about surviving the impacts. For e.g. take your religion, it did not survive cultural and religious impacts over the years. If you read history you will notice that your religion exised in a big part of the world but it was not able to survive and its breathing its last in a small part of the world called India. Nepal was another place which has already succumbed. So wishful thinking is one thing and reading history and understanding the present is another. :-). Wars take place and its not the body count that decides the outcome, its the will to prevail and stop the enemy from attaining its objective that wins wars.
