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To: Nukeit who wrote (1976)	7/6/2002 4:35:18 AM
From: uu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2926

I found it rather interesting when I heard today on CNN that the Egyption guy who shot 2 people yesterday at LAX had a sign on his door that said: "Read Quran"! And even more interesting, apparently he had that sign by his door a few years back but he then removed it, till recently when he put it back! Conclusion: I think (based on what has proven to be the case) they should perhaps re-name the book of Quran to: "How to Kill people for Dummies"! On a related subject, I saw Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom yesterday (it is a classic Indiana Jones movie)... Anyway, there is a part where Indiana Jones is forced to drink something which makes him into a some sort of devil worshipper with desire to sacrifice a human being... Watching that, I wondered about the similarities between what he was forced to drink and the Book of Quran!

To: Nukeit who wrote (1976)	7/6/2002 6:25:28 PM
From: IN_GOD_I_TRUST	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2926

Nukeit, "Yeshua of Nazareth was never called ‘Isa, the name the Koran gives to him." "'Isa is the name given to Jesus in the Quran. Both Christians and Muslims have wondered for centuries why He is not called Yesu' as the Gospels have it in Arabic. Here is the reason. Muhammad used the name "'Isa" in good faith after hearing it from the unbelieving Jews in Medina. In their hatred, the Jews ridiculed Jesus by calling him Esau, the rejected brother of Jacob who lost the blessing. They declared that the soul of Esau had been transformed into Jesus. Muhammad picked up this name and put it in his Arabic tongue and applied it to Jesus without carrying with it the derogatory meaning given by the Jews." [Islam Revealed, A Christian Arab's View of Islam - Dr. Anis A. Shorrosh, pg. 82] By the way, anyone truly trying to understand Islam should read this book. It is excellent and written by an Arab with first hand experience of Islam. God Bless, IGIT