"If Jesus isn't a Muslim prophet, what is he to Muslims?"
Muslims believe he is everything the new testament says he is, they also believe Christians exaggerate and proclaim emphasis at a ridiculous level to the point of error. Christian sects say the same of each other and it comes from a competion to own God.
"I don't have to prove it. The Islamic siras and hadiths say it."
I am not going to argue about Mohammad with you. You have chosen to parse and attack out of ignorance, with little or no knowledge or concern for gaining an understanding of circumstance. You know and I know the same thing could be done and has been done throughout history to demonize and persecute innocent people. You just choose to deny that for your own purposes. What are those?
It occurs to me that Christianity has an element of persecution complex. I could say just persecution because persecution has been a real factor since the beginnings of the movement in Roman times and up to this day, but I'm adding the word complex. So what do I mean by complex?
I mean Christianity has become the greatest defensive/reactor/perpetrators for persecution for all times. The greatest mass slaughters of innocent Christian men, women, and children have been at the hands of competing Christian denominations and sects. The cruelest oppressions like wise. Deaths to Martyred Christian leaders and reformers have been at the hands of Christina religious authoritarians. Religious immigration to America has been for the most part to flee Christian Authority perpetrating religious persecution, while the earliest religious acts of these colonialists included brutal persecutions of other Christians in America. It doesn't stop with Christian on Christian though. Then we have demonization of peaceful native people precluding their mass tortures, and genocidal annihilations. This is the tip of the iceburg for which you should and probably have no hesitation expressing regrets.
But what has changed? Nothing. This attack on Mohammad is not scholarly it is defensive/aggressive with preconceived agenda ... it is based in fear and ignorance and could not possible result in anything good. Christianity, you, continue to identify a new demonic group outside of Christianity, make your case and wage a war against the evil of that group, for which Christianity generally expresses remorse at some point in the future as they are moving on to another group...you know the list as well as I do. Hand ringing, regrets, wash, lather, rinse, repeat. Within Christianity not much has changed either, the other sect is not acceptable to Christ, the same sect across the street doesn't have it right, some of those in your congregation are in error, within your own family, OMG the priest got busted, just get a new less evil one. It is endemic. And you are reminding me lest I should have forgotten.
Call it what ever you want but does calling oneself a Christian automatically mean having little tolerance for those of other beliefs? It doesn't have to and I know too many wonderful saintly people who call themselves Christian to assume as much. It is definitely normal however. |
