Muslims do not know their own book! Mohamed please pray for us.
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Read anything you can by Dominican Priest, Fr. Jacques Jomier. There is no better introduction to the Qur'an in English. The Bible and the Qur'an is the best book. The results are surprising, deeply disturbing and yet offer hope infinite. For any Christian who dismisses the significance of Mary!!!!!!! The truth of what Fr. Jomier reports to us is staggering yet most Catholic priests are probably ignorant. The entrance to the bridge we are accessed to is in fact much, much more narrow than the proverbial 'eye of a needle'. This book is for Christians and others seeking to understand the Qur'an and its people. It is written from the point of view of creating credibiliy with Islam in the hope of honest and sincere dialog. Compare this point of view with the Muslims who fear dialog because it may lead them more completely to Jesus and the truth.
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"Jesus, Prophet of Islam" is an excellent example of just how un-level the playing field is between so-called Islamic scholarship on Christianity and Christian scholarship on Islam. A Christian scholar is expected to have major university degrees in Islamics and Arab history, as well as a solid working knowledge of Arabic. A Muslim scholar has no such expectations; it is sufficient that he references biblical texts and then lays on his interpretation of them based solely on Islamic teaching.

Any Christian scholar claiming that the Qur'an is a forgery that is completely divorced from the true teaching of Muhammad would be shown the door by every academic institution in the West. Ur-Rahim, however, can assert that the Bible is a forgery (3500 years of Jewish history, and nearly 100 years of Christian history) and be presented as a daring, dispassionate and thoughtful scholar!

This is utter nonsense. There is not a single shred of evidence to support the supposed forgery of either the Old or the New Testaments. More important, there is not a shred of evidence that the Apostle Paul led a European Trinitarian movement in opposition to a Peter-led Semitic Unitarian movement. One reading of Peter's final letter to the churches he pastored (and probably founded) in the Black Sea (Pontic) and central Anatolian region of what is today Turkey puts the lie to Ur-Rahim's central thesis.

Peter writes, regarding the letters of Paul which are part of the New Testament record, "Remember, our Lord's patience gives people time to be saved. This is what our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you with the wisdom God gave himspeaking of these things in all of his letters. Some of his comments are hard to understand, and those who are ignorant and unstable have twisted his letters to mean something quite different, JUST AS THEY DO WITH OTHER PARTS OF SCRIPTURE."

So, Peter the Unitarian (according to Ur-Rahim) blesses the writings of Paul the Trinitarian (as defined by Ur-Rahim) and declares those writings to be scripture (on the same level of authority as Genesis, Isaiah, Psalms, and the other 36 books of the Jewish canon).

Read Ur-Rahim if you wish to see the lies Islam uses to discredit the Christian scriptures. But if you want to see what the Bible really says, read the Bible and let it stand or fall on the strength its own testimony.
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Although I found this book informative, I would not use this book as the sole source of information about Muhammad.  As the author states in his book "this is not a comprehensive biography of the Prophet of Islam" - I could not agree more.  More disturbing, is that his selection of quotes from the Quran and his interpretation of these quotes seem, in my opinion, to portray Muhammad in the worst possible light.  Again - recommend this be one of the books you read about Muhammad - not the only one.
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Dear Raheel, I did enjoy your book and I think you are an inspiration to all of us.
However, I unfortunately do not think that you represent a "silent majority" or any kind of "mainstream islam".

Anyone who has read for himself the Coran, and the Sunnah, will realize this:

For every peaceful, tolerant and loving quote that you give in your book, there are at least 2 hateful, violent, xenophobic and intolerant quotes in the doctrine.

Yes, there are perhaps positive directives in the doctrine.  There are also many, many very un-ambiguous incitations to war, violence, intolerance, deceit and degradations to women.

Anyone who reads the Coran will perhaps be shocked that in the first verses, the difference between Muslims and non-believers is firmly established, and this is a leitmotiv that threads through the rest of the book.

Not to mention the verse early on that declares wives are the tilth of men, and men can use them sexually whenever they command (the woman cannot refuse).  Or even earlier where the Coran distinguishes the values of lives: a life for a life, a slave for a slave, a woman for a woman.

There are so many verses, quotes, stories that go against our moral values.

The only way to have a view of political Islam that is compatible with human rights and democracy, is to disregard or re-interpret at least 50% of the written doctrine.

I would love to believe that it woud be possible to re-direct this ideology, back to the one you experienced in childhood, but given the nature of the written trilogy underlying this "religion", I am afraid it may not be possible.
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Today what we see and what we hear about Islam are two very different things. We are constantly told that Islam is a peaceful religion, and that the radical Muslims are small in number. Yet we see attacks in this country and in others, and even more threats of violence if we don't conform to terrorist agenda. We see violent protests to cartoons. We see Hamas elected into power in Palestine, the extremist Ahmadinejad elected in Iran.

In order to fight terrorism we need to truly understand Islam and why so many Muslims are radicals. Unfortunately today it is difficult to get honest information. Today's Universities are filled with extreme left-wing Muslim apologists, and even with Muslim radicals themselves. Why is that? Funding. Harvard's Middle Eastern Studies program, for example, is funded with Saudi money (yes the same country that funds and promotes Wahhabism, and produced most of the 9-11 terrorists). And the Danish paper which published the Muhammad cartoons proved its point that media is indeed censoring itself when it comes to Islamic issues. How many papers in the U.S. published the images, even on their website, for those people who wanted to be fully informed about the issue? Not many.

That is why this book is so important. It unapologetically states the truth about Islam, and why there is such a large violent and extreme element within it. Spencer discusses the history of Muhammad, the reasons for Islamic expansion (here's a hint: it wasn't peaceful), its theology, and its impact on the world today, all in a clear concise manner.

I would also recommend reading The Sword of the Prophet by Serge Trifkovic (ISBN: 1928653111), which is similar to this book, but goes into slightly more detail; The Legacy of Jihad by Andrew Bostom (ISBN: 1591023076), which goes into detail about Muslim expansion and growth; While Europe Slept by Bruce Bawer (ISBN: 0385514727) about Islamic extremists in Europe and the threat they pose; and Future Jihad by Walid Phares (ISBN: 140397074) about terrorist motives and strategies (this one is frightening). Also I would encourage people to visit jihadwatch.org for truthful and uncensored daily updates on Islamic extremism throughout the world.
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I know the title and subheading for this video sounds exciting, I fell for it. This video is just a head shot of a pea brain Baptist preacher talking over constant, unrelenting background music. Anything interesting about this video is in the title and subheading. Other than being mentioned in name only, there is nothing about Kabbalah, mystical visions, death curses, or esoteric Judaism in this video. As a lifelong evangelical Christian I know very well that the God we worship is 3 in 1 (Father, Son, Holy Spirit) so the preacher's argument in this video that Islam is not a Monotheistic faith but Christianity is (We as Christians worship a Trinity, not a single entity), ringed a bit hollow as Islam rejects the 3 in 1 theology and repeatedly insists that God is one, never adding other persons to Him. I pray Israel expands to the lands promised to it by God himself: From the Nile to the Euphrates! On another note YHAVSVO does not equal YEHOSHUA, so the claims that the Rabbi was a Christian are not valid.
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The author, Michael Youssuf, is a Christian Believer who was born in the Middle East and raised in a Christian home begins by stating that he is against Muslim terrorism, not the Muslim people, who need to be saved.
He points out that the blood of the 21 Coptic Christian men who were beheaded by ISIS terrorists was spilled into the Mediterranean Sea was to flow towards Rome as a declaration of war against Christianity. They want to take over the world with political Islam.
The Muslim refugees are barbarians who want to take over our culture and religious freedom with their religion, Sharia Law and kill anyone who will not do what they want them to do. They do not want to assimilate into European or American culture as some immigrants do.
Muslims commit sexual terrorism against European women by raping and terrorizing them in order to conquer them and to eventually make them wear a veil as Muslim women do.
Michael points out that the Christian Church needs to be purified,stop compromising with the world and Christians need to preach the forgiveness of sin by Jesus' blood,  and that He is the only way to reconcile us with God.
He points out the parallels between the fall of Rome and the United States such as the perils of entertainment, political corruption, war, slave labor, no borders and moral decay.
Michael points out many examples of people in the Bible who stood up for God and obeyed His Laws, even when their lives were at stake.
He challenges Christians to do the same and to preach and live the Gospel so that the world will desire to follow Jesus and not Satan
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This is most bigoted thing I ever reviewed. No understanding of Islam. People, if you really want to know about Islam, speak to a Muslim in your town, go to a local mosque and just talk to them about Islam. You will learn far more than you will get from this trash.
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As for a "problem" with the story of the man of Gadara the scripture say's they were in the "country" of the Gadarenes not in Gadara. Had the author actually read the scripture he might have seen there is no problem with this. Another huge issue I have is with this statement: "Perhaps this is one more clue in our contention that, despite parasites and scary cryptids, the ultimate message of the paranormal is one of unity and love" I almost fell out of my chair when I read that statement! It shows just how ignorant and out of touch the authors are if they really believe that! We are witnessing the greatest deception in the history of mankind at this moment. It is a deception that has been planned for thousands of year and is about to be sprung on a spiritually ignorant populace. This book in my opinion helps to confuse the ignorant just that much more. The author call's unbelievably  powerful and extremely intelligent fallen angels "parasites" These angels have an agenda and the authors (wittingly or not) are helping to push their agenda. There is an evil world system coming, these paranormal manifestations are bursting forth for the specific purpose of deceiving. Jesus said that deception would be the main sign of  the end of the world and just about everyone will be deceived...if possible, even the very elect! This book is just another piece of that deception. It's a very poor time in history to be spiritually ignorant!
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Muslims who believe it's okay to kill non-believers, to kill apostates, to carry out religious justice clearly don't believe Allah can handle these things himself.  The Koran is riddled with gruesome punishment rituals for all non-believers, and these are all punishments that will be meeted out when the person who dies is judged by his works, deeds, etc., while on earth. After all, Islam is based almost entirely on the old testament, despite recognizing Jesus as a prophet, and for all religions with this common root belief system, it is God (or Allah) that is the judge, NOT some Muslim cleric or fanatical lunatic with a sword who thinks he's God, and should start behaving like one to kill everyone that doesn't submit to his or her brand of religious beliefs.

Jesus was a teacher, Mohammad was a warrior. There is a HUGE difference in methods used to spread prophecy and beliefs.

The arab world produced some great knowledge in the past, but ever since Islam took hold in that area, most of the progress stopped. Why did this happen?  Think about why Muslims don't want their women to be educated, why they don't want them to be visible to others, why they hate music, democracy, etc.  Why is this?  They don't trust anyone, and they most of all don't trust Allah, so they have to inflict their beliefs while they can, and kill anyone who disagrees with them, if they can.

Yes, Islam is the world's most Intolerant Religion, and Muslims prove it every day.

Spencer's book provides readers with a LOT to consider, with many quotes and lots of references. True, it's not in Arabic, the language that Muslims believe is the only language that can be used to convey the wonders of the Koran, but translations work fine for non-arabic speakers, and there are many translations that all translate the Koran into the same collection of surahs riddled with hate and intolerance, and inconsistencies. Even the satanic versus that talk about tolerance were removed, why? Because they undermined the message of Islam, kill anyone who doesn't believe, especially those who once believed, but converted to a more tolerant religion, like Christianity.
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If I could give you no stars I would...I can't believe Amazon would support the sale of such an awful book.  Mohammed's Koran and why Muslims kill author knows nothing about Islam and doesn't know Arabic and has never spent time in a Muslim country...I am disheartened that Amazon would sell and support racism for a profit. May Allah give ignorant people guidance Ameen.
I wish this author would read at least once  what Quran says about other people's rights. May he be guided with the truth and who knows one day he will be spreading truth instead of false assumptions 

Please stop the sale of this book as it's false and especially today with the way the world is going with racism and islamophobia you Amazon is encouraging and supporting this? Have some shame!
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A much needed warning on how `stealth jihad' is slowly overtaking America. Not by the armed invasion, but by using the freedoms granted by our Constitution and secularization to seize huge grants of power. The powers that be in Washington blithely try to appease Islam, not realizing that doing so shows not only weakness in Muslim eyes but submission as slaves to Muslim superiors. In Revelation we are shown that Christ wins in the end, yet there will be lots of persecution and temporary losses along the way. So learn to persevere, if need be in underground churches, as persecution grows.
Yet while many demand shariah law be put in place, the majority of Muslims left their own countries to escape shariah and are really 'Muslims in name only`. You know, like the `Christians' who attend church only to be baptized, married and buried or complain how dull the services are that they sleep through.
So learn how to present the true word of God without watering it down into "Chrislam" the fake synergistic attempt to befriend Muslims by throwing out every part of the gospel that they may not like since it clashes with the Koran. (Like Christ is the only savior, is God come as a human, that you can't erase your own sins, etc.) Nor going the opposite direction of blaming every one them of being a follower of every radical sheik and balming them for every crime and atrocity committed by Muslims since the 500's.
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It is clear that the author lacks command of the subject. He have no formal credentials in Islamic studies and he deliberately use certain interpretation to serve his political view. He is either misinformed or ignorant on the issue.

For example, in Islamic law, non-Muslims who live with Muslims need to pay a fee (jizyah)for securing their lives, and by paying this 'jizyah' the non-Muslims are not serving in the country's army. This 'Jizyah' is valid upon the non-Muslims (zimmi) to guarantee also their loyalty toward the country and the Islamic government protecting their security.

However, non-Muslims living together with Muslims from the very first time in their country are freed from jizyah, since they are not involved in the process of war and subjugation. Even non-Muslims subjugated through the war, if they are not involved directly in a war, are freed also from jizyah, like children, women, and old people. And also the farmers and breeders who only do their job and are not involved in war, according to Imam Ahmad in sunnah books, are not subjected to jizyah.

But do not forget that Muslims must pay 'Zakah', which is much more than the 'Jizyah' and non-Muslims do not pay it.

If you want to read on that issue, pick a reliable source, that written by a real scholar. Do not waste your money with a politically motivated author.
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I urge all readers not to waste their time in purchasing and reading this book, this is not the real/true Quran. Real Quran can be ontain from any Islamic Center or Mosque.

For the past 1400+ years the Quran has remained unchanged and God (Allah) has taken responsibilty to protect the true identity of this book.

Please do not misunderstand Islam. It is not what we're seeing in the news media. I hope you all will make a smart move.
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Mustafa, the intolerant christian you are.  Nice try but no one is fooled.  Your anti Islamic stance is craftily hidden in your intolerance to anything that doesn't conform to your missionary world view.  If you are Muslims you would know that Islam doesn't tolerate your attitude.

Notice how this mustafa located himself in Pakistan and said come to my country and then he said, better yet, do it here in a local mosque..where is here for you Mustafa? usa, canada..you got caught in a lie.  You good christian you.

The Quran is a light to guide this world from the intolerance that was prosecuted on it by pseudo religion like Christianity and Judaism.  Your intolerance harkens to the middle ages when the church forbade every lay person from reading the bible or anything religious.  It reminds the world if an era when the church was a torture den for heretics.

Anyway, read the Quran and see.
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The beginning and end are pretty bad, the middle is good.  The Meccans persecuted Mohammed - as primitive people often do when their religion is deprecated. Looting and pillage have been a core business of Islam from day one. Mohammed's attack on Kayhbar was totally unprovoked and  motivated solely by desire for plunder. Amid all the detail, Ansary forgot to mention this. Mohammed raped Rayhana, ordered the execution of the Median poetess Asma who wrote mocking verses, massacred a Jewish tribe in Median after they surrendered to him, had sex with children, allowed his army to engage in wholesale rape of the Bani Mustaliq, and initiated war against unbelievers with the intention of stamping out their religion - all unworthy of Ansary's notice. Muslims always answer "They all did these things back then", so we don't do them anymore? Where is the fatwa against looting? Against non consensual sex (aka rape)? Against wife-beating,  sex with minors killing unbelievers until all religion is for Allah? These are the moral gall stones of Islam. As long as sensible people like Ansary are afraid to talk about them, Islam will belong to the Jihadis.  Fast forward to the end, where Ansary describes the 1967 6-day war. "On June 5, without warning, Israel attacked Egypt, Jordan and Syria simultaneously". `Without warning' is qualified somewhat. Ansary provides minute detail, so the reader thinks `if he even knows that the attack was planned for 8:45 am when the leaders would be caught in traffic, then surely we are surely getting the real story". And yet one detail is beneath Ansary's notice - Egypt had massed 100,000 troops and 1000 tanks on Israel's border.  Oh yea, forgot to mention that.  That said, its one of the better books by a Muslim author, and I recommend reading it.
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READ THIS BOOK!

Many people would have you believe that America's and Britain's foreign policy in Iraq is what caused the recent train/bus bombings in London. Horse puckey! The hard, cold, scary truth is that many immigrants from North Africa and Pakistan, and other Islamic countries, allowed "pious" imams into England to brainwash the 2nd and 3rd generation immigrant children into a hatred not seen since Nazi Germany!

After 9/11 many Muslims cited that if America would just stop funding Israel and help out the Palestinians, September 11th would have been avoided. Before 9/11, the Islamic world told America and Europe to apologize for the Crusades, a war that happened well over 1,000 years ago, that caused the deaths of miliions of "innocent" Muslims. Theo van Gogh was shot 6 times and had his throat slit b/c he made a movie that criticized the treatment of women in Islamic countries. The culprit? A "pious" young Moroccan Muslim who told van Gogh's mother in court that it's his religious duty to do what he did b/c anyone who insults Islam must be killed and he would do it again if he had the chance. You do know where I'm going with this right?

Robert Spencer lays it all out in plain language. Can a religion be so violent? The answer is yes. All relgions have had their bout with extremism, but Robert Spencer says that often it goes against the scriptures of the religion (especially Christianity). The sad part of Islam, Spencer, meticulously, points out is that the Quran is peppered with calls of violence against non-believers (infidels) and in today's day and age of technology (aka weaponry), one needs to examine the ideaology that inspires the Muslim muhajideen today, and well as yesterday and the last 1,400+ years. To combat terrorism without truly getting to what inspires the terrorists, is a huge waste of time, energy and especially money. And no one wants to seem to tackle the problem that most likely the problem is in the religion itself.

Robert Spencer even asks readers to pick up the Quran and read it and judge for yourself. Robert Spencer argues to much success that the Quran speaks for itself.

Read Robert Spencer's book. It describes the sad reality of our times.

One more thing. How does "Islam" mean "peace" in Arabic????

"Salaam" means "peace". "Islam" means "submission" or "surrender". Many Arabic speakers must surely get a kick out of this when our ever so astute American politicians repeat this over and over again all over the place.