As Islam garners attention lately, I have noticed Christians being derided for intolerance. Allah is the same as Jehovah, say many. Is he? To define Christianity there is the Bible, the foundation and source of divinely revealed truth for faith and practice. For the Muslim, there is the Koran, the book Muhammad gave to his disciples.
Consider this from the Koran: Allah considers the Trinity blasphemy; Jesus was not God nor did he die on the cross for our sins. Sins are not forgiven due to Christ's perfect sacrifice of himself; by our good works we enter heaven. Using force to convert people to Islam is acceptable, and Allah sanctions deception if it advances Islam. Can Islam's founder be considered a radical? Wouldn't he rather be the typified Muslim, just as Christ set forth the Christian life for those who claim to follow him?
Allah was one of many gods in an Arabic shrine hundreds of years before Muhammad was born. Islam rejects everything the Christian faith confirms.
It is highly ignorant to profess similarity between these faiths without comparing the teachings of their mutual founders. Salvation is only through Christ, says the Bible. The Koran utterly disagrees. The Bible says Christ is Jehovah. Again, Allah disagrees and says he has no son. They fail to agree on who God is and how men are saved.
Do we pretend there is no difference, when we know differently, for the sake of political correctness? This isn't acceptance; it's deception.
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Islam does not mean "peace," as we hear so often; it means "submission," as it was in the days of Muhammad, when he used duplicity and the sword to subdue those who opposed him.
This is fundamental Islam as the Koran describes it. Why do we blatantly ignore the facts?
Ian Curtis
Duluth
