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To: Alan Markoff who wrote (1021)9/13/1998 2:31:00 AM
From: Raymond James Norris  Respond to of 1542
 
I am sorry but Muslim respect for Christians is in theory only. There is much brutality and persecution in the world from Muslims to Christians right now.

Nancy,

It seems you're convinced of this one minded thinking and will refuse to believe otherwise. I can tell you firsthand that Christians are treated with the most respect and love. To offend or hurt a Christian goes totally against the entire religion. And no, this isn't a "Theory," but practiced all around the world.

The fact that you can find one site that is anti Islamic in this respect proves nothing other than the validity of your sources. I don't go around claiming Catholics hate Protestants and sticking the IRA's websites around here now do I?

Why not? Because I know its not true and I also am sure to not go to bias sources (look at the provider of the website you provided!). It's easy to find animosity towards an anteater if you ask the ants (bad example, but it gets my point across).

I know first hand of the love towards Christians and if you won't believe Muslims themselves, you'll only believe yourself.

Peace be unto You,
Norris



To: Alan Markoff who wrote (1021)9/13/1998 2:49:00 AM
From: Raymond James Norris  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1542
 
Some beliefs of the Qur'an and Bible towards God:

Bible: For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he RESTED, and was REFRESHED. [Exo. 31:17]

Quran: We created the heavens and the earth and all between them in six days, nor did any sense of weariness touch us. [50:38]

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Bible: I am the Lord, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generations. [Deut. 5:7] Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers.
[Isiah 14:21]

Quran: Every soul draws the meed of its acts on none but itself: no bearer of burdens can bear th burden of another. [6:164]

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Bible: Let us make man IN OUR IMAGE, after our likeness. [Exo. 1:26]

Quran: There is nothing whatever like unto Him, and He is the one that hears and sees. [41:11]

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Bible: How long will you forget me, O Lord. [Psalm 13:1]

Quran: My Lord never errs, nor forgets. [20:52]

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Bible: Awake. Why do you sleep, Oh Lord? [Psalm 4:23]
Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty
man that shouts by reason of wine. [Psalm 4:23]

Quran: God! There is no god but He, the living, the Selfsubsisting
Supporter of all. No slumber seizes Him nor Sleep. [2:255]

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Bible: And the Lord said, "Go through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have you pity. Slay utterly old and young both maids and little children, and woman. [Ezek. 9:5]

And the Lord sain unto Moses, "Avenge the children of the Mid'-an-ites They warred against the Mid'-i-an-ites, as the Lord commanded Moses, and they slew all the males. And they TOOK ALL WOMEN OF CAPTIVES, AND THEIR LITTLE ONES, and took the spoil of all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods. And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt and all their goodly castles, with fire. Moses said "Have you saved all the women alive?
17 NOW KILL EVERY MALE AMONG THE LITTLE ONES, AND KILL EVERY WOMAN that has known a man by lying with him, But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves. [Num. 31:1]

Muslim Hadeeth: The Prophet Muhammad (Pbuh) said to his army before going to a fight "Depart in the name of God, and by his help. And kill not any old man nor young boy nor child, nor woman, But be good doers for God loves those who do good.

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Bible: O Lord, how long shall I cry, and you will not hear? [Hab. 1:2]

Quran: Truly my Lord is he, the Hearer of prayer. [14:39]
If you pronounce the word aloud, (it is no matter) for verily
He knows what is secret and what is yet more hidden. [20:7]

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Bible: We conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. [Roman 3:28]

Quran: Do men think that they will be left alone on saying we believe and they will not be tested! But We did test those before them and God will certainly know those who are true from those who are false. [29:1]

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Bible: O Lord of hosts, how long will you not have mercy on
Jerusalem. [Zech. 1:12]
Will the Lord castoff forever? and will he be favourable no
more? Is his mercy clearn gone forever? does his promise fail
for evermore? Has God forgotten to be gracious? [Psalm 77:7]
My hope is perished from the Lord. [Lamen. 3:18]

Quran: O my servants who have transgressed against their souls!
despair not of the mercy of God: For God forgives all
sins: for he is Oft-Forgiving most Merciful. [39:53]

************************************ Bible: O Lord, bow down your ear: open your eyes and see.
[2King. 19:16]

Quran: Verily, God knows the unseen of the heavens and the earth:
and God sees well all that you do. [49:18]

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Bible: The Lord said, "I will break my covenant with them"
[Levi. 26:44]
You said O Lord: My covenant will I not break..
38 But you cast off and abhorred, you have been wroth with
your annointed. You have made void the covenant of your
servant.
43 You have made all his enemies to rejoice, you have also
turned the edge of his sword, and have made him to stand in
the battle
46 How long will you hide yourself forever? [Psalm 89:19]

Quran: It is the promise of God. Never does God fail from His
promise but most men know not. [30:6]

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Bible: With the pure you show yourself pure, and with the crooked
you show yourself perverse. [2 Sam. 22:27]

Quran: O you who believe stand out firmly for justice as witnesses to God even as against yourselves or your parents or your kin. [4:135]

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Bible: God said to Jesus, "You are my son today I have begotten you"
[Heb.5:5]
God said to David, "You are my son today I have begotten you"
[Psalm2:7]

Quran: Say: He is God, The One; God, The Eternal Absolute; He begets
not nor was He begotten, and there is none like unto Him.
[112:1]

Quran: No son did Allah beget, nor is there any god along with him. [if so] then behold, each god would have taken away what he had created, and some would have lorded it over others! Glory to Allah! (He is free)from (the sort of) things they attribute to Him. [23:91]

And they say, "The Most Gracious Has betaken a son!" Indeed you have put forth a thing most monstrous! At it the skies are bout to burst, the earth to split asunder, and the mountains to fall down in utter ruin: That they attributed a son to the Most Gracious. For it is not consonant with the majesty of the Most Gracious that He should beget a son. Not one of the beings in the heavens and the earth but must come to the Most Gracious as a servant. He does take an account of them [all], and numbered them exactly, and everyone of them will come to him singly on the day of judgment. [19:88]

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Bible: Resist not evil: But whosoever shall smite you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also. And if any man will sue you at the law, and take away your coat, let him have your cloak also. [Math. 5:38]

Quran: The recompense for an injury is an injury equal thereto (In degree): but if a person forgives and makes reconciliation his reward is due from God: For (God) loves not those who do wrong. [42:40]
Let them forgive and overlook, Do you not wish that God should forgive you? For God is Oft-Forgiving, most Merciful. [24:22

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Bible: Then Mary said unto the angel, "How shall this be [that she'll have a son] Seeing I know not a man? The angel answered and said unto her, "The Holy Ghost shall come upon you, and the power of the highest shall overshadow you". [Luke 1:34]

Quran: Then [Mary] said, "How shall I have a son, seeing that no man has touched me, and I am not unchaste? He said, "So (it will be) Your Lord said, "That is easy for me: and we wish to appoint him as a sign unto men and a mercy from us. It is a matter (So) decreed. [19:20]

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Bible: God said to the children of Israel, "Every woman shall borrow of her neighbour jewels of silver and gold, and remaint, and you shall put them upon your sons, and upon your daughters and you shall spoil the Egyptians. [Exo. 3:22]
So they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels and remaint: And the Lord gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent them such things as they required. And they spoiled the Egyptians.[Exo.12:35]

Quran: Say: "Nay, God never commands what is indecent: Do you say of God what you know not? " [7:28]

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Peace be unto you,
Norris