Re: Blasphemous film ready to release
Tegs! you are mixing what a book says vs. how people follow that book.
Ubs is talking about how Muslims practice, while you insist on explaining away the metaphysical concepts of Islam.
Even a freshman student of Quran knows that it says a lot nice things. However the "vocal Muslims" of today have selectively picked Quran to say nasty things about others.
Yes the original message in Islam was pretty inclusive. Over the years Muslims have tried very hard to make Islam very exclusive down to individual firqas (sects).
If one goes by your logic "By faith and religion all the prophets and messengers have been Muslim", then anyone claiming to be the follower of those messengers should be treated as Muslim too.
Another hole in your logic is that if Jesus Christ was Muslim, then a Muslim should follow him and accept him as a savior aka messenger. Thus a Muslim should not get agitated if someone calls him Isaaee (or in the same vane a Yahoodi).
Yes i do believe Jesus (a.s.) was muslim, but name one christian that follows the original message. Heck, you cannot even find the orginial bible anymore (Injeel as it is/was known). Which version do you follow? There is no one/original bible, hence it's been injected with man-made text.
Quran has no version. It's ONE and ONLY and has remained like that since it was revealed. Islam does not prohibit the inter-relations between 'people of the book'. Quran revealed the stages of embryo and development of a fetus, long before Science picked up on it. Everything that is discovered, is in perfect coordination with Quran. Jeez...how did thaaaaaaaat happen? Bedouins didn't know about "science".
But, yes i do agree that it is some muslims who make the entire religion look like a joke. That is why it ties into the topic at hand here....that it should be those muslims that don't follow Islam or misrepresent it who should be highlighted. Don't go around labeling the religion or Quran as the book that promotes terrorism.
Islam and Quran actually recognize the other prophets. So there's no question of well mozlems don't accept Jesus. Mozlems do accept Jesus (a.s.) as a prophet, not as a savior. Because if he was a savior, then why would he need to pray to God?