After posting a comment regarding the tragic death of 12 staff members at the French Satirical Magazine Charlie Hebdo condemning the attack by Islamic Radicals I have been approached by several people to write a small article on my own thoughts of Islam…………………. In order to comment on the Islamic Faith we firstly have to understand the basic fundamentals of the Islamic Religion. Yes! We all know that Islam is the faith of Muslims, and all Muslims follow Mohammed and Mohammed was born in what is now Saudi Arabia, but let me try and explain a little further the basic tenants’ of Islam and we can all move on from that point. Islam definition. A religion, founded by Muhammad, whose members worship the one God of Jews and Christians (God is called Allah in Arabic) and follow the teachings of the Koran. Islam means “submission to the will of God”; adherents of Islam are called Muslims. According to Muslim belief, Muhammad did not create Islam. Rather, he was the latest prophet of the monotheistic religions prevalent in the region at the time, and was inspired to restore the monotheistic faith to its true, uncorrupted form through the Quran. This monotheistic faith had earlier prophets, including Jesus, Abraham and Moses; many of the fundamental aspects of Judaism and Christianity are likewise part of Islam. It was in the 7th Century that Muhammad lived and began to work on spreading Islam throughout the Arabian Peninsula. Prior to that, the different Arabian tribes followed a number of different religions, Judaism among them. In fact, various Jewish tribes of the Arabian Peninsula play quite prominent roles in the biography of Muhammad, and he had a considerable amount of interaction with them. Arab prophet and founder of Islam. Muslims regard him as Gods messenger through whom the Koran was revealed. Muhammad established a theocratic state at Medina after 622 and began to convert Arabia to Islam. The sacred text of Islam is divided into 114 chapters, or suras: revered as the word of God, dictated to Muhammad by the archangel Gabriel, and accepted as the foundation of Islamic law, religion, culture, and politics. There are 929 chapters in the Old Testament and 260 chapters in the New Testament. This gives a total of 1,189 chapters (on average, 18 per book). Psalm 117 is the middle chapter of the Bible, being the 595th Chapter. Psalm 117 is also the shortest chapter of the Bible. Ok that’s the fundamentals out of the way, what we see is that Islam is in fact a compilation of the religion practiced in the Middle East at that time, Judaism, the Emerging Western (Roman Catholic) Christianity, Zoroastrianism, Buddhism, although I doubt that many Muslim’s will agree with that premise………….. Mohammed even received the same Angel Gabriel that visited all the Christian Prophets, Moses, Jesus, even Mary so honestly not much Mohammed talked about is new. In fact, most of Islam is more akin to the Old Testament than the New Testament, more than one wife, stoning, the removal of limbs for crimes, the clapping of hands is prohibited in the house of God. In fact it isn’t until Saladin comes on the scene in the Twelfth Century that we even have problems with Islam Saladin drove the Christians from Jerusalem but still permitted Pilgrimages by Christian’s. The rest is history……….. The reality is that it isn’t until the British gave the land known as Palestine, which was formally occupied by the British to the then Jews who were stateless. On November 29, 1947, the United Nations General Assembly voted 33 to 13, with 10 abstentions, in favor of a Partition Plan that created the State of Israel. The British relinquished their mandate over Palestine in 1948. War broke out between the Arabs and Jews soon after. That war has continued under whatever guise is appropriate at the time, Palestine Liberation Order, Hezbollah, etc., do I agree that Palestinian Arabs should give up land to placate the guilt of Europe and the USA because of the suffering of the Jews, the answer to that is a categorical NO, should Jews be given land occupied by others in the Middle East, again NO the Arabs were not the cause of the problem it’s more the fact that Europe realized that the Middle East was where the oil lay, and if they placed a controllable entity in the region they could manage things in the area. It’s often forgotten that The Shah of (Persia) Iran was a “Puppet” of both the UK and USA Governments so another Puppet in the area would help, unfortunately things didn’t work out quite as planned, the UK lost control of Egypt when in 1956 Nasser overthrow King Farouk of Egypt and on October 29, 1956, Israeli armed forces pushed into Egypt toward the Suez Canal after Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918-70) nationalized the canal in July of that same year, initiating the Suez Crisis. The Israelis soon were joined by French and British forces, which nearly brought the Soviet Union into the conflict, and damaged their relationships with the United States. In the end, the British, French and Israeli governments withdrew their troops in late 1956 and early 1957. In January 1963, the Shah announced the White Revolution, a six-point program of reform calling for land reform, nationalization of the forests, the sale of state-owned enterprises to private interests, electoral changes to enfranchise women and allow non-Muslims to hold office, profit-sharing in industry, and a literacy campaign in the nations schools. This resulted in the Ayatollah Khomeini head of the Islamic religion in Iran being deported or sent into exile to France as he disagreed with all the points of the White Revolution. Robert McAngus The Next Chapter will be following within 24 hours
Posted on: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 12:45:13 +0000
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