The Religion of Islam

Nothing, that is not readily available in a Google search, will be said here. I’m joining a number of voices that have gone before, albeit with my own thrust on things. The issue of angst is the constant barrage that anything that is socially unpalatable, that is associated to Islam, is immediately qualified as not Islam. I read only yesterday that 99% of all Muslims would not consider Osama Bin Laden a Muslim. I’m sure he would beg to differ but that discussion can no longer take place.
Muslims who are involved in murder and violence are “extremists” and don’t represent the moderate, more prevalent, more properly ‘Muslim’, believers. A great example was Whoopi Goldberg’s meltdown on the View when Bill O’Reilly didn’t qualify the perpetrators of 9/11 as extremists, just Muslims. You’d think he shot her mother. Both her an Joy Behar walked off the show rather than discuss the issue.
Yet, a Muslim in Tulsa was kicked out of his Mosque for “criticizing Islam in front of non-believers”. He received numerous violent advances and had to take out a restraining order to deal with death threats. Basically the moderates are not allowed to criticize the extremists. Why? I recently watched Dennis Miller rant about the same thing. If these ‘extremists’ aren’t representing Islam, then why the huge silence? Moderates need to kick these guys out or straighten them out, but they’re not doing either. (that was Miller’s point)

While that’s not really what I’m here to address it is an evidentiary offshoot. Anders Nygren once said there are no contradictions. If you think there are then you simply haven’t dug deep enough. Love that.
My point is that I think the so called extremists are accurately representing the religion of Islam. Where do I get such a preposterous concept? Well from the Qur’an and the spiritual logic that follows. Believe me, it isn’t a stretch. My real rant in this whole dog fight is the gross ignorance of the implications of what is recorded in the Qur’an. And this isn’t just a gospel or a letter written by an apostle, these are the very words of God.
There are many but I only need site a few.

They do blaspheme who say: "Allah is Christ the son of Mary." But said Christ: "O Children of Israel! worship Allah, my Lord and your Lord." Whoever joins other gods with Allah,- Allah will forbid him the garden, and the Fire will be his abode. There will for the wrong-doers be no one to help. 5:72 (Yusufali)
...Christ Jesus the son of Mary was (no more than) a messenger of Allah, and His Word, which He bestowed on Mary, and a spirit proceeding from Him: so believe in Allah and His messengers. Say not "Trinity"... 4:171 (Yusufali)
That they said (in boast), "We killed Christ Jesus the son of Mary, the Messenger of Allah";- but they killed him not, nor crucified him, but so it was made to appear to them, and those who differ therein are full of doubts, with no (certain) knowledge, but only conjecture to follow, for of a surety they killed him not:- 4:157-56 (Yusufali)
O ye who believe! Take not the Jews and the Christians for friends. They are friends one to another. He among you who taketh them for friends is (one) of them. Lo! Allah guideth not wrongdoing folk. Sura 5:51 (Yusufali)
They desire that you should disbelieve as they have disbelieved, so that you might be (all) alike; therefore take not from among them friends until they fly (their homes) in Allah's way; but if they turn back, then seize them and kill them wherever you find them, and take not from among them a friend or a helper. Sura 4:89 (Shakir)


According to Muslim’s these are the very words of God. I don’t make a distinction here between extremists, moderates or whatever other political types there might be. That the Qur’an is God’s direct words to Mohammed is the fundamental defining feature of the religion of Islam. If someone classifies themselves as a Muslim, it means they accept the Qur’an as the unimpeachable source of God’s directions in all their doings.
From the 5 direct Qur’an quotes above what can we take to be God’s true view of reality?

1) It is blaspheme to consider Christ the son of Mary as God. If you do so, you will end up in Hell.
2) Jesus Christ was a messenger of God, but not God. Therefore don’t use the word Trinity.
3) Jesus was neither crucified nor killed. It was all staged. For sure, he was never killed.
4) Don’t be friends with Jews or Christians.
5) Killing them is a good idea. (Jews/Christians)


If you’d like further evidence of the views Muslims must conform to, feel free to read the Qur’an and you will only be further convinced. The level of violence towards infidels is bottomless. I’m not a big linker but this site is focused on the Qur’an and what it says and means regarding Islamic behavior. www.religionofpeace.com 
So what’s my point? Just this: So called Muslim extremists are actually the norm. They are carrying out the directives that God has laid before them. The moderates are the anomalies and will have their heads handed to them if they don’t watch out. Their most holy of books makes this crystal clear. Thus when innocents (infidels) are slaughtered by the thousands (women/children, doesn’t matter) nothing is denounced or even mentioned. But the most (relatively) minor things they find irrationally offensive, book burning or cartoon drawing, the prescription is death to any and all, whether they’re related to the actual offenders or not.

Most of the civilized world is still protecting this seething evil as it spreads its shadow around the globe. They all scream that this is not a representation of a true Muslim. All the while the core message of the Qur’an is not mentioned or brought into the conversation. The first question to a moderate is “Do you hold that the Qur’an, in its entirety, is God’s word to man”? Then the relevant passages that support, encourage and demand the murderous activity should be quoted. This simply doesn’t happen. No one wants a clear definition of the religion of Islam because the “world community” would have to agree that it is no religion at all, let alone the true religion.
And what should Christian believer’s view of this alternate belief system be. The view of Islam is that Christianity is a lie and a sham. They pander to us by stating Jesus was a prophet but deny the heart of reality that he is God become man and was crucified and resurrected for us. As to him being a prophet this makes no sense at all. Do prophets go around claiming to be God? What’s the evidence that he did not die? There is none, just something made up 600 yrs later with no eye witness accounts to refute the primary evidence.
C.S. Lewis answers this feigned respect for Christ to which I’ve never heard a rebuttal:
“I am trying here to prevent anyone from saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him [Jesus Christ]: 'I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept his claim to be God.' That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic—on a level with a man who says he is a poached egg—or else he would be the Devil of hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come up with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that option open to us. He did not intend to.”
It’s even worse to call him a prophet as any prophet would clearly know the distinction between himself and the God that he is prophesying about. But rather than draw conclusions from the historical evidence that has been left behind, the Qur’an has its own story that everything must align with. And since there’s no real evidence to support their view it turns into blind fanaticism. It’s not about apologetics or logic or reason; there is no room left for dialogue. Those who pander to these wolves in sheep clothing need to have a hard look at the Qur’an then check the premises of their beliefs. This truly is a jihad (holy war) and it’s always the same two sides. The enemy’s best weapon is to blur the differences.