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The secret of Islam’s success

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Mouhanad Khorchide* analyses in his book “God’s False Lawyers”:

“If you follow Muslim tradition, the Prophet Mohammed began preaching Islam in 610.” “The main medium was the poetic form. The suras were not read aloud, they were recited, their aesthetic sound was supposed to make the voice of God (which is the content of the Quran) an emotional event” (page 21).

“The poetic form of the lecture was supposed to exude a certain sublimity and authority, the instructions could not simply be read out, they had to be recited ceremonially. This form of communication served in the first place the fortress of unconditional obedience”.

“It was precisely the poetic form of communication that tried to get in the way of critical thinking. Because it aimed to move people’s emotions. There was no need to think about it, on the contrary. This allowed the creeping consolidation of authoritarian structures in society to proceed unhindered” (page 35).

Actually, it is a countermovement to what, according to Khorchide, the basic intention was to make independent subjects out of externally determined objects. Because obedience to the rulers was equated with obedience to God, as far as Khorchide. Continue reading The secret of Islam’s success →

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Manipulated Islam

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Mouhanad Khorchide, head of the Center for Islamic Theology at the University of Münster, writes:

Islam, as it is presented to most Muslims as well as non-Muslims today and as it is practiced by many believers, is a manipulated version of this religion. We are confronted with a manipulation that goes back to the Muslims themselves and whose roots go deep into the early history of Islam shortly after the death of Muhammad.

The main intention of Islam, however, was to free people from their status as externally determined objects and to offer them the way to self-determined subjects.

However, the political power struggles led to a reversal movement shortly after the death of Muhammad. Again man became the object of submission, again he was forced to unconditional obedience to despotic rulers. Continue reading Manipulated Islam →

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God loves me even when I’m not perfect

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Roman wanted to prove his faith to Allah. He loved to disturb Christians with questions in order to unsettle them. He planned to disrupt a Baptist church service in Kazakhstan during Ramadan. For him, Christians with a Muslim background were “betrayers of the real faith”.

But things turned out differently. “For the first time I heard about a God who loved me,” he says. “I never knew the Almighty God loved me even though I am not perfect.” 

“For the first time I heard of a God who loves me,” he says. “I hadn’t known an almighty God who loves me even though I’m not perfect.” “That thought [of being loved even though I’m not perfect] seriously never entered my mind. I always felt guilty. I felt that I had to earn His attention.”

And then something happened he never expected: tears, prayers to Jesus, repentance and joy. Sitting in that church service in a Baptist church, the man who had devoted his life to persecuting Christians became a follower of Jesus.

And today he says: “I never want to go back to the Muslim faith.”

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Growing number of conversions from Muslims to Christianity

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According to the study published in February by the “Arab Barometer”, the religious awareness of Muslims is clearly declining.

The survey of 25,000 people in ten Arab countries shows that the proportion of atheists is increasing sharply – in Tunisia it even exceeds the 45 percent mark among 18 to 29-year-olds.

At the same time, a growing number of Muslims converting to Christianity is observed, which is not surprising to some. For example, for the American Jesuit priest Mitch Pacwa. “We are currently seeing the first mass conversions of Muslims to Christianity,” he confirms. For the Middle East expert, “the violence of Islam in its most widespread form – among the Islamists – is the reason of the increasing number of individual withdrawals.” Of the 4,468 adults who, according to Figaro, were baptized Catholics in France in 2020, which corresponds to an increase of 43 percent within ten years, the French Catholic Bishops’ Conference estimates that six percent came from Muslim families. Ten years ago this proportion was still four percent – even though the newly baptized adults were fewer at the time.

Father Gérard de Martigues from the Diocese of Nice comments: “The new converts come mostly from North Africa, to a small extent from Sub-Saharan Africa and not at all from Asia Minor”. Unfortunately, however, the Catholic Church is “often helpless, even half-hearted” towards these people. According to the priest, most of the new converts would join Protestant churches, the accessibility of which would attract the Muslims concerned. With 35 new churches opened annually in France (according to the Conseil national des évangéliques de France), mainly in problematic neighborhoods, they sometimes exceed the number of newly opened mosques.

The “conversion scenarios” observed were often similar: They begin with a “rejection of Islam, followed by an atheistic phase that ultimately ends in a gradual discovery of the Christian faith”.

Not only the “bloodthirsty Islam of jihadist movements” shakes the convictions of some Muslims, but also “the contradictions of the Koranic narrative: the massacre of the Jewish tribe Banu Quraiza or the marriage of Muhammad to the six-year-old Aisha weaken the ‘beautiful example’ of the Prophet, like him been hammered since childhood ”.  https://www.obrist-impulse.net/wachsende-nummer-von-konversionen-von-muslimen-zum-christentum

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What drives Muslims into terror?

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Violence is a result of black and white thinking. Wherever peaceful tolerance fails, the situation escalates. When Jesus ask to love our enemies, he required extreme tolerance.

In France, the causes of terror have been debated for many years. The 65-year-old Gilles Kepel says: The terror is a consequence of the radicalization of Islam. The 71-year-old Olivier Roy says: Terror is an expression of the Islamization of violent radicalism. Continue reading What drives Muslims into terror? →

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Muslim dreams of a cross

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By Zeenat, Morocco

In 2011, I wanted to learn Russian so I went to a website to register for online learning. On that website, I found an advertisement that was a link to click on to know God’s plan for your life. I clicked the button, filled out the form and received a downloadable version of Matthew’s Gospel. At that time, I became distracted with other things and forgot about it.

A month later, my internet service stopped working. In that moment, I remembered what I had downloaded and began reading Matthew. When I came to the section about the sermon on the mountain, I began to have lots of questions.

My beliefs about Christianity were entirely based on what I had been taught as a Muslim. I thought that Christians believed everything (drinking, sex, etc) was permissible at all times. I did not realize that Christians believe that Jesus was God in human form, truly the Messiah. Continue reading Muslim dreams of a cross →

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Jesus as a bridge between Islam and Christianity

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The Islamic theologian Mouhanad Khorchide told domradio:

Jesus serves as a bridge between Islam and Christianity.

In the Koran, Jesus is valued much more strongly, is much more central, than Mohammed himself. Very few people know that.

Jesus is referred to in the Koran as the Word of God, Spirit of God. The miracles of Jesus are also described in the Koran.

So I think: Muslims should also honor this day. When I say that one congratulates one another or even celebrates Christmas, it doesn’t mean that Muslims become Christians, but they remind us of this appreciation.

In contrast to Khorchide, it should also be noted: In the Koran, Jesus is referred as “the son of Mary”, as the Arabic name ʿĪsā ibn Maryam shows. To difference oneself from the term “Son of God”.Isa is a prophet in the Koran and Jesus the Son of God in the New Testament.

Mt 16:16 Simon Peter answered, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.”

Mt 27.43 He trusts in God. Let God rescue him now if he wants him, for he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’

Lk 22.70 They all asked, “Are you then the Son of God?” He replied, “You say that I am.”

Jn 10:36 what about the one whom the Father set apart as his very own and sent into the world? Why then do you accuse me of blasphemy because I said, ‘I am God’s Son’?

 

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Pro-Islam banners on buses

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In at least five cities in England large banners have appeared on public buses reading: “Muhammad Dawat-e-Islami, a mercy to the entire creation.”

The charity spokesman told Coventry Telegraph: Dawat-e-Islami UK put the ads on buses to enlighten the public with a peaceful message about the Prophet Muhammad being a mercy to the entire creation. It’s the first time it’s been done, and there are a lot of Muslims in that area and we’ve had a fantastic reaction from the public.

The question is to what extent Muhammad is mercy? Does this formulation not raise Muhammad to a divine status? Wouldn’t the divine Koran be Islam’s offer of mercy from a Muslim perspective?

When the Asia Bibi case came up in Pakistan, Muslim protesters demanded execution for blasphemy. What she supposedly said that Jesus was the true prophet of God was not a statement about God, but about Mohammed. Since this is called blasphemy, Muhammad attains divine status in practical matters.

In sura 33,36 the decisions of Muhammad are seen on the same level as those of Allah himself. Whoever has not followed them has left the right path. Mohammed seems to be not just a prophet.