No word on the anti-Osama fatwa yet, but give them time, optimists! Tiny Minority of Extremists Update from AFP, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist:
DOHA (AFP) - Islamic scholars are to meet in Doha next week to draw up a fatwa, or religious edict, obliging the Muslim faithful to help the internationally isolated Palestinian government headed by Hamas.Influential cleric Yussef al-Qardawi said the May 10-11 meeting would help both the Palestinian people and their government, hit hard by US and EU funding cuts because of the Islamist faction's refusal to recognize Israel.
Ulemas (scholars) as well as other Muslim and Palestinian leaders will "draw up a fatwa on the duty of the ummah (Muslims) and of governments" toward the Palestinians and the Hamas cabinet, Qardawi told a press conference Saturday.
The fatwa will refer to financial aid to the Palestinians as well as offering them moral support, Qardawi said.
could this be the fatwa that declares war on the west? when you speak honestly and declare war?
let them get their money from their own such as iran, sauds, they are rolling in western oil money!
Let the mos take care of the mos.
Away ye prophets of doom! Enough ye nay-sayers! Must we keep on predicting our own demise? Say YES to life and NO to death of body or spirit that comes with THEIR triumph. Do you not see? By allowing ourselves to think that THEY can win, we do what THEY want us to do? Face it, it is US and THEM, not only "some of them." They, our enemies, have defined themselves, by their ideology, their scriptures, their actions.
They are deceptive. By allowing us to believe that only "some of them" want to defeat us, we hesitate to do what must be done. An example, the "Iraqi people," so grateful to us for having delivered them from a tyrant, cheer with joy when our soldiers die at the hands of "some of them--the 'insurgents.'" They are all of the same cloth. They are the enemy.
Yes, there were "moderate" Nazis, at least moderate Germans and Austrians, in Nazi Germany and Austria. Did we hesitate to defeat this evil that threatened our liberty because of them? No! We defeated all. We must not hesitate now because there might be "moderates" amongst our enemy.
We have allowed ourselves to follow their program--fatalism. when we accede to the inevitability of their victory, we are doing what they want: "It is written" or "Allah wills it." We need not follow their program. Never mind that we have a President who counts a Bandar Bush amongst his extended family. (Yes, I voted for him too, because the other idiot was more reprehensible.) Ignore that in the US we have a State Department sympathetic, for reasons financial or otherwise, with our enemies.
It is not written--at least not in OUR scriptures--that our fate has been preordained. Take heart, raise the voice, write the words, and when the time comes take harsher measures to assure that we will win, and they will be crushed again and driven to smolder in resentment for millenia in their wastelands.
We have come a long way from that grim day in 2001 when a strike worse than Pearl Harbor sent most of us wondering "why have they done this?" " What have we done to them to merit this?" The answer is "nothing" of course. It is they who were carrying out their plan--set forth in their ideology--one of brigands bent on plunder and rape.
We have made huge advances in this fight against our enemy. No longer is "the religion of peace" commonly accepted because it was mouthed by a President assuring our enemies that they were not the enemy in a mosque. Because of people such as Robert Spencer, Hugh Fitzgerald and you others all know who you are, as well as the unafraid authors of books, raising the alarm that this is the same enemy that we of Western civilization fought before, there is an awareness among us of the West--yes even in Europe--that Islam is not what its adherents want us to believe it is.
It is the enemy--not "a miniscule percentage of Moslems" -- determined to subjugate us whether with weapons, words, our laws, and our own gullibility. The enemy has a name, it is an ideology made flesh by its adherents. "Oh no!" too many still exclaim. "It is a religion, how can that be evil?" or the tired old saw about the "fundamentalists--we have those too" and the nauseating "only a few bad apples."
But take heart, never despair, we are making progress, and we will win.
off topic... sorry.
Hello my friends:-
let me go straight to the apple:
So god has to show us to sin first, then he will forgive us? i see. I learned something new... Go sin Mike, then god will forgive you.
How come you acuse prophets of such ill things? Prophets are supposed to be a perfect example to mankind (isnt this what you guys tell me? prophets are not people who are bad examples and then "repent"... of course, we as moslems know that god is "the most mercifull" and of course, he can forgive all sins "39:53 Say: "O my Servants who have transgressed against their souls! Despair not of the Mercy of Allah. for Allah forgives all sins: for He is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful."
But of course, God shows us good examples to follow and then punishes whoever sins and does not repent. Not by giving you a bad example first, and then telling you to do good!
We know David, Noah and all the other prophets who the bible makes them look like terrorists and rapists never did such bad deeds. Those are prophets for God's sake.
the bible is exatly like my father (who is supposed to be a good example for me) rapes women, drinks and makes people drunk at our house today, and after he finishes, he tells me this is wrong my son, don't do it! well, of course we know this is wrong. DUH!
where is the good examples? in the new testament? What about the old Testament? You dont believe in it? Isn't both the new testament and the old testament called the "holy bible?".
or as God discribed in his Quran:-
"Then is it only a part of the Book that ye believe in, and do ye reject the rest? but what is the reward for those among you who behave like this but disgrace in this life?- and on the Day of Judgment they shall be consigned to the most grievous penalty. For Allah is not unmindful of what ye do."
So when we take a quick look at the bible, we notice very bad examples for people...
bible:-
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genesis 9
20 Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded [a] to plant a vineyard. 21 When he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and lay uncovered inside his tent. 22 Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father's nakedness and told his two brothers outside. 23 But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it across their shoulders; then they walked in backward and covered their father's nakedness. Their faces were turned the other way so that they would not see their father's nakedness.
prophet Noah getting drunk? fear God people, fear God.
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Lot and His Daughters :-
his doughters made him drunk, seduced him and then got pregnant from him to "preserve his family"?
30 Lot and his two daughters left Zoar and settled in the mountains, for he was afraid to stay in Zoar. He and his two daughters lived in a cave. 31 One day the older daughter said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is no man around here to lie with us, as is the custom all over the earth. 32 Let's get our father to drink wine and then lie with him and preserve our family line through our father."
33 That night they got their father to drink wine, and the older daughter went in and lay with him. He was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up.
34 The next day the older daughter said to the younger, "Last night I lay with my father. Let's get him to drink wine again tonight, and you go in and lie with him so we can preserve our family line through our father." 35 So they got their father to drink wine that night also, and the younger daughter went and lay with him. Again he was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up.
36 So both of Lot's daughters became pregnant by their father. 37 The older daughter had a son, and she named him Moab [g] ; he is the father of the Moabites of today. 38 The younger daughter also had a son, and she named him Ben-Ammi [h] ; he is the father of the Ammonites of today.
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Nice... Truly God has said in the Quran: "18:56 We only send the apostles to give Glad Tidings and to give warnings: But the unbelievers dispute with vain argument, in order therewith to weaken the truth, and they treat My Signs as a jest, as also the fact that they are warned!"
Why are prophets sent to people?
Answer:We only send the apostles to give Glad Tidings and to give warnings.
Not to rape, drink, steel, kill, then repent as in the holy bible.
Look... look.. how beutifull the quran is:-
"But the unbelievers dispute with vain argument, in order therewith to weaken the truth, and they treat My Signs as a jest, as also the fact that they are warned!"
NC (No comment!) lol. You guys are arguing with me using vaine, weak arguments. Saying to me things that you don't even know... or linking me to different websites...or telling me to look on CNN or or...
Well. This is the Quran. Where is your bible?
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Deuteronomy 14:21
21 Do not eat anything you find already dead. You may give it to an alien living in any of your towns, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. But you are a people holy to the LORD your God.
Do not cook a young goat in its mother's milk.
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We know you may not give me a dead animal to eat, but this is what your bible tells you to do... right? its from your bible, not from the quran.
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So basically God has to show us that we must sin first, then we can repent. Most the prophets (if not all) who are in the bible made big sins, one more example:- Read the whole story, i dont want to fill up the space in there...
15 When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face. 16 Not realizing that she was his daughter-in-law, he went over to her by the roadside and said, "Come now, let me sleep with you."
"And what will you give me to sleep with you?" she asked.
17 "I'll send you a young goat from my flock," he said.
"Will you give me something as a pledge until you send it?" she asked.
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Read Ezekiel 23
2 prostitute sister? Fear God people... Is this a good example?
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Drugs for Sex?:-
"If you give me your son's drugs I'll let you sleep with my husband."
(Genesis 30:14-17)
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I can sit until tomrrow to show you sex, rape, porn stories in the bible? i Dont think God would teach his people from such book.
or wait... i forgot, one more thing:
samuel 4:12
12 So David gave an order to his men, and they killed them. They cut off their hands and feet and hung the bodies by the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-Bosheth and buried it in Abner's tomb at Hebron.
So also not enough prophet David (peace be with him) is accused of rape, also he is a mass murderer who kills people in the uglies ways?
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2 Samuel 13
raping his sister, then dumping her.
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13 After he left Hebron, David took more concubines and wives in Jerusalem, and more sons and daughters were born to him. 14 These are the names of the children born to him there: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon, 15 Ibhar, Elishua, Nepheg, Japhia, 16 Elishama, Eliada and Eliphelet.
Also prophet David (peace be with him) is a lustfull? God forgive me for saying this about him.
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samuel 12:11
11 "This is what the LORD says: 'Out of your own household I am going to bring calamity upon you. Before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to one who is close to you, and he will lie with your wives in broad daylight. 12 You did it in secret, but I will do this thing in broad daylight before all Israel.
So, to punish David, God uses sin with sin? Isnt it wrong to sleep with other women? So do you think God will punish David by making his wives sin? and the men who slept with them also by sinning? nice nice...
Also, isnt it a degrace for women? Why did his women have to pay for his sin? it doesnt make sense people. It doesnt make sense, please read and learn from it. please.
God is great, he is the most mercifull, he is just, he is kind.
"Quran:4:96 Ranks specially bestowed by Him, and Forgiveness and Mercy. For Allah is Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful."
Does it makes sense that God, who is just, will punish people for other's mistakes? and punish Sin with Sin?
Fear God people. Quran:-39:7 If ye reject ((Allah)), Truly Allah hath no need of you; but He liketh not ingratitude from His servants: if ye are grateful, He is pleased with you. No bearer of burdens can bear the burden of another. In the end, to your Lord is your Return, when He will tell you the truth of all that ye did (in this life). for He knoweth well all that is in (men's) hearts.
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Fear God. Everyone is responsible for his/her own sins.
PO (peace out)
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Prophets are supposed to be a perfect example to mankind - moslemguy
Islam considers Adam a prophet, right? Speaking of "going straight to the apple," Adam did eat the apple and get expelled from the Garden of Eden in the Quran, too.
http://www.afghanland.com/islam/adam.html
That's sin, my friend. And if you believe this to be true, how can you discard the notion of original sin, as Islam does? Original sin, then if it affected humankind from the beginning, affects all of us: I'm a sinner. You're a sinner. Muhammad was a sinner. And all of the biblical prophets were sinners. (Duly note here that, as Messiah and Son of God, the biblical Jesus is not simply a prophet, as the Quran claims.)
Some of these prophets had cleaner records than others, but the very fact that the biblical God chooses sinners and calls them to something better only begins to show how unfathomable the Divine Mercy is.
Is "Allah" not that merciful?
"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine
whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves;
whether they are to have any property they can call their own;
whether their houses and farms are to be pillaged and destroyed, and
themselves consigned to a state of wretchedness
from which no human efforts will deliver them.
The fate of unborn millions will now depend on God,
on the courage and conduct of this army.
Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only
the choice of brave resistance,
or the most abject submission.
We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die."
George Washington
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream.
It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same,
or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children
what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
Ronald Reagan
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear
and obstacles vanish into air.
John Quincy Adams
Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.
John Wayne
To the mos:
Man and woman were made by God. Man and woman have shown from the beginning of time that they will sin their whole life but salvation is theirs by just asking for forgiveness.
God will forgive you and save your souls from hell by just asking for forgiveness through Jesus Christ the only Son born from God.
This is more frightening to the mos than war and nukes to think that salvation can be obtained by just asking for forgiveness.
I have been saved and reborn and I will defend my God, country and world from the filth that is islam.
Prepared, armed and ready.
The Texican.
Freedom, the only choice at any cost and the cost will be immense.
There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
Socrates
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Aldous Huxley
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Abraham Lincoln
Don't be afraid to see what you see.
Ronald Reagan
Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried.
- Winston Churchill
"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over
and expecting different results."-Benjamin Franklin
"Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready."Teddy Roosevelt
A fatwa has to be issued to get Muslims to help the "Palestinians"? That tells me that Muslims don't care enough about their "Palestinians brothers" to spend any money on them. Which tells me alot about the "religion" of Islam. Think about it, people were willing to give of their time and money to help Katrina victims,spontaneously with no fatwas needed.
I issue my fatwa: all muslims are doomed to live in an endless loop of death, violence and they will never progress, mentally or spiritually. So says, Imam Ronin.
Imam Ronin, I doubt a fatwa is necessary to simply state the obvious.
Imam Ronin, I doubt a fatwa is necessary to simply state the obvious.
Posted by: skyking77
Infidel you dare question an Imam? :-P
The relentless Jihad against Israel, combining intermittent warfare, constant terrorism (stopped only when it is stopped by the Israelis), economic warfare, diplomatic warfare, has been going on and will continue forever, with greater or lesser degrees of enthusiasm by governments sometimes keen to let other Arab states bear the main burden, but always with popular support.
Such a fatwa, however, would possibly clarify, for Infidels who have been taken in to first believe deeply in the existence of a separate "Palestinian people," and then to ignore the historic, legal, and moral claims of the Jews to Western Palestine. The more detailed the demographic and cadastral study of the area of Palestine and of the Middle East one undertakes, the stronger those claims appears, and they are further strengthened when one recalls, and does not deliberately forget, all the rules that have governed the territorial readjustments made after wartime (consider how, after World War I, despite having a population that was 97% German-speaking and desirous of remaining as part of Austria, the Sudtirol, now the Alto Adige, was handed over to Italy -- and rightly)).
The declaration of such a fatwa would help end this fake-nationalist "two tiny peoples" business, bring us back to the pre-1967, Ahmed-Shukairy days of Infidel clarity, and show just what it is -- Islam, its tenets, its requirements, its attitudes, its atmospherics, that make, and what's more have always made, the conflict, or rather the Lesser Jihad against Israel, a relentless siege not to be raised,and the Muslims not to be in the slightest assuaged, by further Israeli concessions.
Such a fatwa should clarify matters in the Western world, and perhaps make Western Europeans more and more aware of their own horror-in-the-making. Whether Israel itself can save itself, given the confusion or, still worse, the misconceived certainties of many of its leaders (such as the one in charge now, preparing yet another self-inflicted and quite unnecessary disaster) from that relentless Arab siege, a Lesser Jihad ("lesser" because merely a sub-set of the Greater Jihad waged world-wide against all Infidels sooner or later) -- is unclear.
I do not think we need to reply to moslemguy. We only have to look at the obvious. 95% of the world's conflicts involve muslims. There are 59 islamic countries in the world. None produces enough to feed its population. No muslim has made ANY contribution to science whatsoever. Almost ALL the muslim countries have destroyed all the signs of the great civilazations that they destroyed. Where are the Hindu,Christian,Jewish,Buddhist terrrorists? NONE. When we retaliate,we are fundamentalists.What they do,is but natural for our dhimmis.There is only one difference between the zombies of Resident Evil and them : these zombies can use tools: knives,guns. Though killing painfully and dismembering with a knife they prefer over all other. Google for a while to see the records of killings of all the innocent people and the hostages including those of 9/11,they enjoy slitting throats and dismembering humans alive. THIS is what we are up against.
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"Islamic scholars are to meet in Doha next week to draw up a fatwa, or religious edict, obliging the Muslim faithful to help the internationally isolated Palestinian government headed by Hamas."
"...as well as offering them moral support...."
Correction. That should be immoral support.
moslemguy1 is the same person as moslemguy and is an incoherent, uninformed troll. He does not begin to understand the Tanach and is just shooting off. There are answers to his accusations but I don't think he wants answers. He's simply fishing to irritate.
moslemguy has gone directly from taqiyya to tu-quoque: all the sins of David, Lot and some others. Only problem - In addition to the fact that acts such as David & Bathsheeba were punished, Jews have a host of leaders, so almost no Jew follows the example of Lot, or for that matter David. But Muslims have only Mohammed to follow, and he is uswa-hasana. So you have things like the minimum marriage age for Muslim girls in Iran being 9, among other things. (Good that the Iranian government wasn't as extreme as the Taliban, or it would have been 6).
"Scholars" must be the ones who master all that the big mo said and did. Since he only killed and raped, these are the biggest threat to us. Why can't we simply bomb and forget?
As usual, half a lie is better than none at all. The muslim creed:"No lie too small, no tale too tall".
EU and US funding was stopped because Hamas intends to wipe Israel from the face of the earth, not because it doesn't "recognize" Israel.
As far as Allah being a forgiving god. The Bible says there is something as "the unforgivable sin". In Allah's case, the unforgivable sin is not being muslim.
moslemguy-
Verily I say unto He of the Believers who ranteth on and on and unto this thread - Allah will make his home in Fire.
To start with:- more child abuse in the church. Why do you think this happens? Its because of the bad examples that are in the bible.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0605070383may07,1,1326549.story?coll=chi-news-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true
Anyways:
arjun.sevak:- Actually the start of this great civilization we see today came from Islam. Islam gave a boost for Mathematics, medacin, astonomy...
Read :-
http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/introduction/woi_history.html#12
"Muslims excelled in art, architecture, astronomy, geography, history, language, literature, medicine, mathematics, and physics. Many crucial systems such as algebra, the Arabic numerals, and the very concept of the zero (vital to the advancement of mathematics), were formulated by Muslim scholars and shared with medieval Europe. Sophisticated instruments that would make possible the later European voyages of discovery were invented or developed, including the astrolabe, the quadrant and navigational charts and maps. The Muslims of the early period of the Islamic era were pioneers in medicine, chemistry, physics, geography, navigation, arts, poetry, mathematics, algebra, logarithms, calculus, etc. They contributed to the Renaissance of Europe and world civilization. "
Where did the word "Algabra" come from? do some googling...
http://www.sfusd.k12.ca.us/schwww/sch618/Medicine/Medicine_and_Health.html
Do some googling...
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So we can say that basicaly Islam gave a huge boost to the civilization we see today. End. Whats the secret in Islam that made it so powerfull?================================================================
Infidel Pride :-
How are you? I have a question:-
"fact that acts such as David & Bathsheeba were punished, Jews have a host of leaders, so almost no Jew follows the example of Lot, or for that matter David."
Me and you know that Lot and David (peace be with them)... are all prophets. So why did the jews have to follow the other "host of leaders"? I have a question, what are prophets for?
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Greetings henry :-
* 2 Samuel 13
I dont want write the whole text here... But read it on your own.
ill just quote this:-
12 "Don't, my brother!" she said to him. "Don't force me. Such a thing should not be done in Israel! Don't do this wicked thing. 13 What about me? Where could I get rid of my disgrace? And what about you? You would be like one of the wicked fools in Israel. Please speak to the king; he will not keep me from being married to you." 14 But he refused to listen to her, and since he was stronger than she, he raped her.
15 Then Amnon hated her with intense hatred. In fact, he hated her more than he had loved her. Amnon said to her, "Get up and get out!"
Henry: It's clear that he raped her "stronger than she, he raped her" then he dumped her ""Get up and get out!" .
*"don't you know what you post? "
I Do: "39:53 Say: "O my Servants who have transgressed against their souls! Despair not of the Mercy of Allah. for Allah forgives all sins: for He is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful."
people can make sins and they can repent. Repentance has conditions to be exepted also. God knows if you repent from your heart and accourdingly he forgives or doesnt forgive.
Prophets dont make big sins like raping, killing, drinking... Because God wouldnt want a bad example for us to follow. Those are "chosen" people because they are good examples for us. Not rapers and killers and drunkards and then repent, as in the bible. i hope this helps abit.
Could it be that the only good moslem is a . . .*
As far as we are concerned YES!
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*non-existing moslem
"Non-Muslims in societies conquered by Islamic invaders excelled in art, architecture, astronomy, geography, history, language, literature, medicine, mathematics, and physics. Many crucial systems such as algebra, the Hindu numerals, and the very concept of the zero (vital to the advancement of mathematics), were formulated by non-Muslim scholars in Muslim conquered countries and shared with medieval Europe. Sophisticated instruments that would make possible the later European voyages of discovery were invented or developed, including the astrolabe, the quadrant and navigational charts and maps. The subjugated non-muslims of the early period of the Islamic Empire were pioneers in medicine, chemistry, physics, geography, navigation, arts, poetry, mathematics, algebra, logarithms, calculus, etc. They contributed to the Renaissance of Europe and world civilization. "
There, fixed it for ya.
You can pay at the desk.
BTW - Algebra is a collection of the work of Hindu, Greek, Babylonian, Byzantine, and Persian mathematicians over the span of two millenia. Just because the name is Arabic, doesn't mean the mohammedans came up with it. You can repeat the line that you people invented it 'til the sun burns out, but that won't make it so.
moslemguy1..for a Muslim who practises the abrogation of the Koran, what ever gave you the idea that the OT is/was relevant to christianity
and the ethics of christians?
Go away, read up on your subject matter and then come back and we will discuss it on a possibly acceptable level of knowledge.
In other words: it would appear that the average JW poster knows more about the Koran than you do while you "flick" through the Bible but have no idea about what you are reading, and it isn't even in Arabic!!!
Why are you people so stupid???
Is that why you are so violent?
Because of frustration?
moslemguy1
The point of the Tanach is to show the good, the bad, and the ugly, in other words, the truth. If you read the Tanach with any depth you will discover that:
1)people who do good acts are rewarded
2)people who do bad acts are punished
You can pull out all the examples of ugly behavior in the Tanach that you want to. They generally serve as examples of what not to do. For instance, the Pirke Avot (Ethics of the Fathers), part of the Talmud, says of Amnon, in Avot 5, Mishnah 16:
"If love depends on some material cause, and the material cause passes away, the love vanishes too; but if it does not depend on some material cause, it will never pass away. Which love was it that was dependent on a material cause? This was the love of Amnon and Tamar. And that was not dependent on a material cause? Such was the love of David and Jonathan."
You wrote:
"Prophets are supposed to be a perfect example to mankind...."
Actually, prophets make mistakes too. Also, although many people in the Tanach had prophetic powers, neither Lot, Noach, nor Dovid are generally considered "prophets", in the sense of people who spent all (or most of )their time prophesying, as did Yeshayahu and Yirmiyahu. I don't know where you got the idea that prophets were perfect but that is simply not the case.
HaMal'akh,
it really is too much that the Muslims want to see Muhammad as "perfect." Yes, he was an "insan" [=ish, enosh] but hardly perfect, rather insatiably bloodthirsty, in fact, although not necessarily insane. By the way, are you aware of how much the Muslims brought into the Quran from Jewish and Christian writings, not only the Bible [Tanakh] but the Midrash, Mishnah and Talmud [such as the famous quote "he who saves a single soul is as if he ..."]? And then they twist the meaning to mean the opposite, or, if it is a narrative, they leave out part of the story or even pervert it. For example, the Quran story of the Queen of Sheba which is taken from the Midrash. It is chopped up somehow in the Quran, but then the Hadith on that Quranic passage takes the story in a perverse direction. By the way, that Hadith is the only ancient or medieval source that I know of that identifies the Biblical Sheba with Saba in southern Arabia. Actually, the queen who visited King Solomon was Queen of Egypt and Ethiopia [northern Sudan of today], according to Josephus, and Sheba was Saba in Ethiopia [northern Sudan], the Ethiopian capital at an early stage, which later changed its name to Meroe [according to Antiquities of the Jews by Josephus] downstream from Khartoum. So the Queen was Black, not an Arab.
Hey Halmalakh
You are the most stupid nieve person I have ever heard from. Man you sound sooo illiterate. what planet are you from?? Why can't you just reply in a polite manner. Anyway, just like there were many prophets before thier's there were two more prophets after, which are Jesus and MOHAMMED peace be with them. and prophet MOHAMMED was the last of them all. Each and every book was changed to fit the lifestyles of the times but the QURAN which is the truthful of all books. It was never and it will never be changed. I think that the QURAN since it was never changed has the key to any kind of problem since it is sincerely from GOD. It is just so logically obvious. When you have a smarter brain to understand what the heck I am trying to say here then reply until then to heck with you.
peace on earth
I'd like to ask the repulsive previous commenter, p..r.., why the Quran calls the Land of Israel "Holy Land" [Sura 5:20-22] instead of "palestine"? Why is the Land of the Jews called "blessed land" and other favorable descriptions in other places in the Quran? How come the Quranic version of the tale of the Queen of Sheba is a plagiarism of the story of the Queen of Sheba in the Jewish Midrash? [You can check the Midrash in Ginzberg's edition]. If you read French, check the parallel passages in the Quran and in the Jewish and Christian writings, in the very scholarly --yet clearly read-- edition of Denise Masson.
How come the Quran's version of the Queen of Sheba story is a partial plagiarism of the Midrashic tale [which in the Quran is cut short for some reason].
Another, more general question. If all these imams and faqis and muftis and so on rush to the aid of the Hamas govt, then doesn't that mean that there is no distinct, separate lonely, unloved "palestinian people"??
Yes Eliyahu,
I am aware of the copying and distortion of Jewish texts by the Muslims but I chose not to go into that in the general postings that I have written. We seem to have had this conversation before. I don't use the machine gun approach initially.
"palestine" rules
Don't get your knickers in a twist. You might just explode.
To the Moslem Trolls:
Don't confuse naivete with biding my time, although it is natural since you lie so much, that you are confused.
I thank Borg for turning me on to this formerly Muslim author:
http://www.childrenofmillennium.org/heroes/downfall.htm
"I visited a holy place where people came to feed a holy crocodile and doing so gained redemption for their sins. I would have arrived a day earlier but a policeman arrested me for possession of an illegal document; a roadmap of the country.... But always fresh and on guard was our ability to lie. At school, at home, or on the street. Everywhere the lie was the basis of our daily lives. If we were asked for directions, our name, what kind of work our father did, how we paid for something, if we came with the bus, if we were hungry, even if a doctor asked where it hurt; on each question you came up with a fitting lie. Not only because lying had become a second nature, but because we often had started to believe in our own lies without realizing that we lied, but also our fear to lose prestige. We depleted our family members quickly because we used their deaths as an excuse for being late. But afterwards the dead family members praised us for our ingenuity when it came to lying."
Holy crocodiles, fellas (or fellaheen)--gals, other varieties of trolls...it's all that lying that has to be picked apart, piece by piece.
Eisenhund,
You sure gave it to the moslemguy.
I was thinking, if the muslims could navigate, and reached South America, who would have won ? The natives or the muslims? Anyhow, good ol' Anaconda does not know how lucky it was for him the men of mo could not sail beyond a limited distance. Africa was not so lucky.
HaMal'akh,
the comments above about plagiarisms from the Midrash in the Quran were not meant for you. Look again.
Moslemguy does not understand 1) that the prophets were not necessarily perfect men in all ways; 2) that David and Lot and Noah were not prophets. It is Islam that calls them prophets. So your argument is irrelevant.
Moses is considered a prophet but he too sinned by disobeying God in the case of striking the rock to get water.