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the Koran re-wrote many of the stories in the Hebrew Bible in the spirit of Islam’s doctrine that Muslims are Allah’s true chosen people. The early Christians left Jewish Scripture intact; the Muslims did not. Christianity wanted to hold onto Jewishness to a degree; Muslims dismissed it as a pack of lies.
Moreover, in plagiarizing the Jewish Bible instead of adding to it -- which makes of the Koran a form of copyright infringement or intellectual property theft -- Muslims claim that the discrepancies between the two versions are the result of the Jews’ theft of the Koran. And never mind that the God of Israel bestowed upon the Israelites the Five Books of Moses in the year 1313 b.c.e. and the Koran dates to the late 7th and early 8th centuries c.e., almost two thousand years later. When a Muslim is confronted with the contradictory narratives of the same incidents, he answers that Musa (the Arabic mispronunciation of the Hebrew name Mosheh) brought the Koran down from Mt. Sinai but the perfidious Jews then re-wrote it and called it their Torah until Muhammad came along and restored the original text. In Islam’s moral universe, the Torah is a stolen, plagiarized version of the Koran (which tracks with the contemporary charge that the Jews also stole the Promised Land from the “Palestinians.”)
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And as for the third cliché, viz. the Arabs as Semites too: no, they are Hamites. Yes, Muhammad was an Arab descended from Ishmael, one of Abraham’s eight biological sons, but Judaism also makes clear that Ishmael was not his father’s spiritual heir. Ishmael is even expelled (Genesis 21:9) from his father’s tents for being a “wild ass of a man” (16:12). His expulsion at age sixteen or seventeen came about when he jealously mocked his little half-brother Isaac at the latter’s weaning party -- whose wise and perceptive mother Sarah, who had watched Ishmael grow up, realized he was capable of murdering her son.
Furthermore, Abraham and Sarah were descendants of Shem, son of Noah (whence the word “Semite”) but Ishmael was not. While many nations hold that a son inherits his nationality from his father, the Jews do not. For them, it passes through the mother. Thus because Ishmael’s mother Hagar was an Egyptian, and Egypt was one of the four sons of Noah’s other son Ham, so Ishmael was a Hamite.
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Indeed, to this day, sexually speaking, an abyss separates contemporary Judeo-Christian society from Islamic, and that is most apparent in the Judeo-Christian insistence on monogamy versus Islam’s polygamy. It is part of the Western respect for women, versus Islam’s abuse of them. (Feminists in the West can complain all they want about men, but compared to the life of women in Islam, they are living in paradise.)
Osama bin Ladin’s father sired children with fifty-six separate females. Ibn Saud, the tribal chieftain who founded the Saudi Arabia where he grew up, produced today’s four thousand princes who monopolize that country’s wealth and vie among themselves for power. Polygamy famously leads to rivalry among wives, among mothers fighting for their sons, and among half-brothers. One could make the case that Islam’s attitudes toward women are at the root of its many social pathologies and why it does not belong in America.
American culture also enshrines Patrick Henry’s “Give me liberty or give me death”; the Statue of Liberty in New York and the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia engraved with the Bible’s Hebrew phrase marking the Jubilee Year, “Proclaim liberty throughout the Land.”
By contrast, Islam is no friend of liberty. It means “submission,” and when a Muslim prays, he assumes the position of a slave, face to the floor. There are fifty-six officially Muslim states, most of them dictatorships and not one is a liberal democracy that any red-blooded American man or woman would want to live in.
Until Islam reforms itself or is forced to reform, it cannot be regarded as consistent with American values.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/05/islam_and_the_great_religions.html
May 17, 2015
Islam and the 'Great Religions'
By Sha'i ben-Tekoa
