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Author: WWW (---.dip.t-dialin.net) Date: 05-29-04 19:49 It is often said "muslims and jews believe in the same supreme being they just call him by different names" They are not. Islam's concept of God is quite different from Jewish or Christian God. While claiming to stay in a line of prophets and to complete Jewish and Christian religion or to correct "false believes" in Jewish and Christian religion, Islam creates a complete new concept, Quran is a book completely different from e.g. the bible. Islam is a completely different religion. In Islam, there is no link between God and human beings like in Christianity with Jesus as God's son. All of Jewish religion is changed as well. Basically, Islam is a religion of total submission to Allah. The Kaba as a preislamic holy place was integrated into Islam by Muhammed. The same Muhammed fought wars to establish Islamic societies, Islamic dominion. While Allah/God of Islam is seen as the absolute ruler over everything with arbitrariness and no reliability regarding human logic, reason or rationality, Jewish and Christian images of God vary from that. In practise total submission to Allah is often total submission to a mullah, dictator or some other tyrann. That is a problem in Islam. Because Islam was always political, always included the idea of not only practicing Islam as a private religion but as a system, including Islamic law (Sharia) and the Islamic state. When Islamic extremists pursue this target, they only follow Muhammed and his successors, the Caliphs. So the extremists' ideas have to do with Islam. Denying that is simply propagating a lie! Therefore, Islam as a religion on the one hand and as a political concept on the other hand is very different from Christianity and Jewish religion. Violence is allowed according to Islam to defend the religion and to fight for its victory over the disbelievers. The fight (also called Jihad) does not only include violence. And violence in the struggle for Islam is only allowed when religious leaders or the whole Muslim society say that Islam is at stake. (Jihad's true meaning is not "holy war", but struggle for Islam) So personal Jihad of a Muslim cannot be doing whatever the Muslim likes, violence with selfmade excuses or fatwas (religious judgement) and any crime he or she desires. That is not "Islamic". But, yes, under certain circumstances, Islam allows violence and teaches intolerance regarding other religions, which are not willing to cooperate. Basically, Islam aims at world dominion. That does not have to be achieved with war. It may happen peacefully. But after all, coexistance and equality does not fit together with Islam's absolute claims of the only true religion. Nevertheless, most muslims today are ordinary people without great motivation to establish an Islamic state or support terrorists. While many obviously have sympathy for Bin Laden or Hamas, others don't. Muslims shouldn't be lumped together here. We shouldn't be on a level with Islamic fanatics, dividing the world into black and white. Whether Islam can bring out something useful or not, the world is much more complicated than that. Conflicts have many reasons and aspects resulting from social, historical, political and traditional peculiarities as well as from interests for which religion / ideology is only a means to an end.

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