Ah, good. Another idiot who’d already decided what the Quran meant before he read it and probably relies exclusively on the myriad little “We’re going to tell you what the Quran means so you don’t actually have to read it or think about it” books that the American right has been turning out since 9/11. And feels somehow that he’s qualified to tell a lifelong Muslim, for whom this is actually a faith and a way of life rather than a talking point, what he believes. It’s always nice when that happens.

“Have you ever compared Mohammed to Abraham, Moses, Jesus, or Buddha?”

Clearly, you haven’t. Maybe you should start with the Bible before you look into the Quran.

“The differences are vast. Mohammed was a mass murderer, bandit, oath breaker, and pedophile.”

As opposed to Moses whose God murdered Egyptian children for the sins of their parents. Who in the desert, murders 3,000 of his own Hebrew people for the crime of not following his god. Who has no problem walking into a country which his ancestors left voluntarily and where there were already people living, stealing their land and killing them off. Hell, the Bible condones genocide up to and including the murder of women and children (look up “Amalekites”).

When speaking of your own prophets in public, say only the good and gloss over the bad. When speaking of someone else’s prophet, say only the bad and ignore the good. Identity politics are so refreshing in their stupidity…

A lot of Muslims dislike and fear the Wahhabis, and think of them as heretics. But the Saudis have been more or less buying up world Islam for the last three decades, and money talks. Islam is becoming more Wahhabi, and less local, every year. The spread of Wahhabi Islam is a greater triumph of globalization than the spread of McDonalds, as Mark Steyn pointed out.

I’m not scholarly enough to debate Islam. More to the point, I’m not a Muslim myself. But this essay on Wahhabism will make clear why the Wahhabi are heretics to Islam. This website is my window onto the Muslim world outside of Israel. My own window looking out over the mountains of Samaria is my window on the Arab world in Israel.

shavúa tov
Have a good week!

Ruvy

The Turkestani Muslims have been mostly influenced by the Sufi school of thought, and you will find among the Sufi the largest number of Muslims who actually are peaceful and peace-loving. In addition, you will find in Central Asia, where these Muslims live, the Muslim countries that are friendliest to Israel.

Actually Ruvy these people are the “heretics” not the Wahhabi. If you look at the Koran (or Quran) and Sunnah you’ll see that this is true. Have you ever compared Mohammed to Abraham, Moses, Jesus, or Buddha? The differences are vast. Mohammed was a mass murderer, bandit, oath breaker, and pedophile.

Yes the earlier passages of the Koran are “peaceful” and present ideas similar to the Christian New Testament, however later passages abrogate these earlier verses and urge Muslims to conquest and oppresion. Also much of what is preached that is “good” applies only to other Muslims, kafir however can be treated horribly without it being immoral. In fact it is the duty of a Muslim to subjugate or convert non-believers by any means necessary.