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FORT HOOD SHOOTING

Muslim Groups Condemn Hasan, Rush to Judgment

Groups preach tolerance as hate mail pours in

By Kevin Spak| Posted Nov 6, 09 12:28 PM CST|

(Newser) – With hate mail already pouring in, Muslim American groups rushed to condemn the Fort Hood shooter today as a criminal who doesn’t represent Islam. “You wouldn't take a Christian or a Jewish soldier who did something like this and look at other Christians and Jews and say, 'Can we trust them?'” the executive director of the Muslim Armed Forces and Veterans Affairs Council said of the reaction to Nidal Malik Hasan. “It’s ludicrous.”

An imam from a large Northern Virginia mosque announced that he’d be collecting donations for the shooting victims, and decried religious violence in general. “You do this, you go to hell,” he said. “You don’t go paradise.” Groups around the country have been reporting a backlash since the shooting; the Michigan branch of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee got an e-mail reading, “We know where you are, you have nowhere to hide.”

This photograph taken on Friday, Nov. 6, 2009 in Killeen, Texas, shows the Quaran and business card that Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan gave to his neighbor a yesterday. (AP Photo/Jack Plunkett)

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citygirl
Nov 6, 09 12:51 PM CST

This is a very healthy reaction from the Muslim community. Reply

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dontlikeyou
Nov 6, 09 1:02 PM CST

If Muslims are willing to edit their Koran and remove the commands to kill Jews and Christians, then I will take them at their word. Until then, I and anyone who has read the Koran realizes Islam will never be a religion of peace.

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dontlikeyou
Nov 6, 09 1:06 PM CST

Koran 8:12 -- "Remember Thy Lord inspired the angels (with the message): "I am with you: give firmness to the believers, I will instill terror into the hearts of the unbelievers, Smite ye above their necks and smite all their finger tips of them."

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dontlikeyou
Nov 6, 09 1:07 PM CST

Koran 22: 19-22 "... as for those who disbelieve, garments of fire will be cut out for them, boiling fluid will be poured down their heads. Whereby that which is in their bellies, and their skins too, will be melted"

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dontlikeyou
Nov 6, 09 1:08 PM CST

Koran 5:54: "O believers, take not Jews and Christians as friends; they are friends of each other. Those of you who make them his friends is one of them."

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Chitrix
Nov 6, 09 1:13 PM CST

Not in any case, it is a religion that teaches the poor are poor because they are oppressed and to end that to kill the oppressor (the identity of the oppressor can change at any moment) Islam is the religion of violence and hatred, if you do not believe me get a copy for free and read the trash yourself for free, hell you can even download an electronic version here: http://www.freequran.com/html/front.htm

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dontlikeyou
Nov 6, 09 1:15 PM CST

SURA 4:91: If they keep not aloof from you nor offer you peace nor hold their hands, then take them and kill them wherever ye find them. Against such We have given you clear warrant.

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johntitor
Nov 6, 09 3:00 PM CST

Exodus 2:11-12 One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to where his own people were and watched them at their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people. Glancing this way and that and seeing no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.

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johntitor
Nov 6, 09 3:00 PM CST

Exodus 21:15-17 Anyone who attacks his father or his mother must be put to death. Anyone who kidnaps another and either sells him or still has him when he is caught must be put to death. Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.

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johntitor
Nov 6, 09 3:03 PM CST

Leviticus 26:14-16 But if you will not listen to me and carry out all these commands, and if you reject my decrees and abhor my laws and fail to carry out all my commands and so violate my covenant, then I will do this to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting diseases and fever that will destroy your sight and drain away your life. You will plant seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.

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johntitor
Nov 6, 09 3:05 PM CST

Deuteronomy 7:1-5 When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations--the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you-- and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy them totally. Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy. Do not intermarry with them.

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johntitor
Nov 6, 09 3:08 PM CST

The Nazi's were christian, the Russians were christian, most enslavement in the history of mankind has been done by those calling themselves christian, lets not forget the crusades. Fuck you dontlikeyou. Go read a fucking book.

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Netstorm2k9
Nov 6, 09 3:09 PM CST

@johntitor, if you're attempting to compare the old testament with the koran to show Judaism as being as intolerant as Islam, you picked all the wrong verses. The verses from the koran tell muslims to kill unbelievers of Islam. The Exodus verses tell Jews to kill criminals- it was against the law to disrespect your parents. Still should be.

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Netstorm2k9
Nov 6, 09 3:12 PM CST

Actually johntitor, the Nazi's were Darwinist atheists. They practiced Eugenics. How is that possibly Christian. And the Soviets were atheists as well - "Religion is the opiate of the masses." Why don't you go read the RIGHT books. Moron.

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johntitor
Nov 6, 09 3:15 PM CST

My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded only by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God's truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was His fight for the world against the Jewish poison. To-day, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before in the fact that it was for this that He had to shed His blood upon the Cross. As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice.... And if there is anything which could demonstrate that we are acting rightly it is the distress that daily grows. For as a Christian I have also a duty to my own people.... When I go out in the morning and see these men standing in their queues and look into their pinched faces, then I believe I would be no Christian, but a very devil if I felt no pity for them, if I did not, as did our Lord two thousand years ago, turn against those by whom to-day this poor people is plundered and exploited. -Adolf Hitler, in his speech in Munich on 12 April 1922

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davjc09
Nov 6, 09 3:16 PM CST

Happy is he who repays you for what you have done to us. He who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks. (Psalms 137:8-9) The people of Samaria must bear their guilt, because they have rebelled against their God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to the ground, their pregnant women ripped open. (Hosea 13:16) Now go and attack Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and do not spare them. But kill both man and woman, infant and nursing child, ox and sheep, camel and donkey. (1 Samuel 15:3) So the children that were to be killed, were they criminals too?

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RockyPneumonia
Nov 6, 09 3:17 PM CST

don'tlikeyou, are you willing to edit the Bible to take out similar passages? What? Speak up; I can't hear you.

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Netstorm2k9
Nov 6, 09 3:23 PM CST

@jt, just because Hitler claimed Christianity doesn't mean his actions bear out personal evidence of such a belief. Bush calls himself a Christian, too. But no one believes that he really believes it. Jesus said that "Why do you call me Lord, and do not do as I say?" An appellation means nothing, unless you're gullible enough to believe it - like the German Christians who mistakenly put Hitler into power before realizing the depths of his deceit.

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johntitor
Nov 6, 09 3:23 PM CST

Actually I was aiming for the same god argument, but its ok. Yes I could have picked better, I was simply demonstrating that the level of violence is exactly the same, if not more so. These verses were the foam off the top. Also the Leviticus verse works pretty well.

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johntitor
Nov 6, 09 3:27 PM CST

So our nation ruled by consumerism, and greed is christian moral? You just evidenced the double standard here...

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Netstorm2k9
Nov 6, 09 3:39 PM CST

Actually, greed is most un-Christian. "Love of money is the root of all evil." Jesus himself said that it was "easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into heaven." Consumerism is the way of the greedy.

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johntitor
Nov 6, 09 3:44 PM CST

Exactly and we are a consumer society. Through and through. Even the American dream is disproportionate to how most of the world lives. We have been blinded by our luxuries for a long, long time. Nestle still uses slave labor in Africa for christ's sake! We move into a country with nothing, exploit their labor, give them just enough to survive and then call ourselves humanitarian. Think about how rich you are in comparison to most of the world...now go fit through that needle.

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cedarkey
Nov 6, 09 7:12 PM CST

Had this been a shooting by a so called white or black male christian ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, NYT, CNN, Washington Post would be show casing story after story about right-wing extremists. Once again, the lame-stream press goes out of their way to protect muslims who kill innocent people. It's no wonder these news organizations are failing and going into the tank.

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johntitor
Nov 6, 09 9:43 PM CST

Anyway I got trolled..we should judge by actions

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Robert_Dada
Nov 6, 09 10:19 PM CST

All religions are equally worthless.

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Spudsy
Nov 6, 09 11:10 PM CST

Denying the christianity in the nazi regime is one of the great whitewashes of history. Hitler never renounced his catholic upbringing and so many speeches invoked christ. The hatred of jews comes from other religions, not atheism. You are all just a bunch of superstitious fools to the atheist as it is atheism vs religion, not atheism vs jews. You christians bug the cr@p out of me when you try to dump that one on us. The vatican is in the middle of Italy. Which side was Italy on? Quit reading hate filled books.

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vwsmurfy
Nov 6, 09 12:52 PM CST

This is a very obvious reaction from the Muslim community. Hot salami and bacon my brother. Reply

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jamerican
Nov 6, 09 12:56 PM CST

Wake up America and get educated...islam is a cult of violence and has not problem killing us. Sura 9:5 “And when the sacred months are passed, kill those who join other gods with God wherever ye shall find them; and seize them, besiege them, and lay wait for them with every kind of ambush: but if they shall convert, and observe prayer, and pay the obligatory alms, then let them go their way, for God is gracious, merciful.” contenderministries.org This is just one of the many Qur’anic passages and writings of Muhammad that instruct Muslims to slaughter en masse any who will not convert to Islam. Reply

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Snarfeh
Nov 6, 09 2:09 PM CST

Fundie christians have that credo; they just don't have the balls and ovaries to die supporting it. They applaud other people going to Iraq, et al, to do the killing for them, but they don't step up to the plate.

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johntitor
Nov 6, 09 3:13 PM CST

I refer you to my above posts.

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Netstorm2k9
Nov 6, 09 3:15 PM CST

Actually, Christianity is about turning the other cheek and leaving judgement to God. Warfare is the most Uun-Christian thing there is.

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davjc09
Nov 6, 09 3:21 PM CST

If your own full brother, or your son or daughter, or your beloved wife, or you intimate friend, entices you secretly to serve other gods, whom you and your fathers have not known, gods of any other nations, near at hand or far away, from one end of the earth to the other: do not yield to him or listen to him, nor look with pity upon him, to spare or shield him, but kill him. Your hand shall be the first raised to slay him; the rest of the people shall join in with you. You shall stone him to death, because he sought to lead you astray from the Lord, your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that place of slavery. And all Israel, hearing of this, shall fear and never do such evil as this in your midst. (Deuteronomy 13:7-12 NAB)

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newsrmandan
Nov 6, 09 1:00 PM CST

Christians and Jews don't have as part of their religious goals a hatred for people who don't believe like they do. Rather with Christianity a compassion for those who don't believe. And that can be seen by the numbers of universities and hospitals and aid organizations and non profits who's aim in the beginning was to help the non believer, believe. Its a logical outflow for people to be angry with Islam because all these types of things happen under its flag. Truth always has a way of coming out and revealing itself, the truth here is that Islam is not truth, nor peaceful at least not in this case. Reply

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dontlikeyou
Nov 6, 09 1:19 PM CST

No, Islam certainly is NOT truth. Mohammed married a 7 year old girl. What would happen in America if a man married a 7 year old girl? What would we call him??

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Snarfeh
Nov 6, 09 2:15 PM CST

Your religion ain't truth, either. There are religions far older than christianity from which christianity stole. There are a minimum of 13 religions that came before christianity that have a virgin birth and a savior who performs miracles, heals, is sacrificed and is resurrected. All religions of today have stolen something from religions of the past. All major religions have murder in their past as well as their present.

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whitwoo
Nov 6, 09 3:03 PM CST

dontlikeyou, you do realize what century Muhammad lived during?! There are many things in the Bible, also a different time period, that would not be appropriate today, but you apparently don't realize this.

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Netstorm2k9
Nov 6, 09 3:17 PM CST

@ Snarfeh, "There are a minimum of 13 religions that came before christianity that have a virgin birth and a savior who performs miracles, heals, is sacrificed and is resurrected." Name them.

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davjc09
Nov 6, 09 3:19 PM CST

Whoever sacrifices to any god, except the Lord alone, shall be doomed. (Exodus 22:19 NAB)

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davjc09
Nov 6, 09 3:20 PM CST

Suppose you hear in one of the towns the LORD your God is giving you that some worthless rabble among you have led their fellow citizens astray by encouraging them to worship foreign gods. In such cases, you must examine the facts carefully. If you find it is true and can prove that such a detestable act has occurred among you, you must attack that town and completely destroy all its inhabitants, as well as all the livestock. Then you must pile all the plunder in the middle of the street and burn it. Put the entire town to the torch as a burnt offering to the LORD your God. That town must remain a ruin forever; it may never be rebuilt. Keep none of the plunder that has been set apart for destruction. Then the LORD will turn from his fierce anger and be merciful to you. He will have compassion on you and make you a great nation, just as he solemnly promised your ancestors. "The LORD your God will be merciful only if you obey him and keep all the commands I am giving you today, doing what is pleasing to him." (Deuteronomy 13:13-19 NLT)

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Snarfeh
Nov 6, 09 3:51 PM CST

@netstorm - Hang in there for me. I will try to find my best source on that as it will save me some time since it listed them. I fear it may be in a box in storage, but let me go through my books. If I can't find that book, I will spend the time finding them for you.

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Netstorm2k9
Nov 6, 09 4:32 PM CST

That's perfectly fair, Snarfeh.

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Jes
Nov 6, 09 6:37 PM CST

Not that I'm trying to really get in on this debate, Snarfeh and Netstorm, but if you want to see some big parallels look at Egyptian mythology, especially the story of Horus and contrast it with Jesus. Virgin birth (according to most surviving stories about Horus at least), annunciation by an angel, birth heralded by "a star in the east", and more than is fit for a tl;dr post.

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Snarfeh
Nov 7, 09 8:41 PM CST

NET! I am not sure which book it was...I'm re-reading one that I think addressed it. I also called my ex because she might remember. We both read a lot of the same books and she may even have the one I am seeking. Some I know off the top of my head and I always thought there were only a few until I read the book I am seeking. It didn't even list them like, 1, 2, 3...it just covered them and i went back and counted them. In the meantime, here is a good and fairly short dissertation on some of that to which I am referring. This covers some of the resurrection myths specifically: http://www.2think.org/hundredsheep/bible/library/myth.shtml. Off the top of my head, I know of Mithraism which has a lot of similarities. Hinduism has more than one tale of a virgin/miraculous birth. Greek mythology has some as well. Hercules was born of a virgin and was also resurrected after death. Attis is the name of a god/hero and I think he was pagan, but I could be wrong on that. Some say Attis and Tammuz are the same, but some say not. If not, Tammuz is another and so is Adonis. That's all I can think of now, but when I find THE book that listed several, I will be back or I'll catch you on another thread or let you know to return here via another thread. Thanks for the patience! I am always glad to spread this kind of stuff as I find it fascinating as hell!

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Snarfeh
Nov 8, 09 3:07 PM CST

@ Jes - Can't believe I forgot the Egyptian myths. From my readings, I am fairly convinced the Jewish faith borrowed most of its tenets from the Egyptian faith. You can even look at pictures of seraphims and see resemblances in the art. Damn, now I gotta find *that* book for reference...

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Jes
Nov 8, 09 9:04 PM CST

@Snarf, when you do pass on the title, I'd like to try and find it some time.

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lumina
Nov 6, 09 1:13 PM CST

Why does there have to be a Muslim Armed Forces and Veterans Affairs Committee? Does this not create even further tension and marginalize more and more groups? Reply

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dontlikeyou
Nov 6, 09 1:21 PM CST

The armed forces does not allow members of the KKK to serve in the military because they pose a danger to our people. Islamists pose a danger to America much more insidious than the KKK. Why shouldn't there be a rejection of those who have faith in a book which tells them to kill us???

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Shannonals
Nov 6, 09 7:33 PM CST

You have no working knowledge of the Dept of Defense do you dontlikeyou? There is no questioning if an applicant is or was a member of a hate group. And well your at it, McVeigh, a Christian, has killed more American people than any other American citizen, so your tin foil hat theory is proven bunk.

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RogerMohajir
Nov 6, 09 1:43 PM CST

While I shouldn't be, I still find myself surprised by the ignorance and venom toward Islam displayed by commenters on this story. Get educated and calm down. And by "get educated" I don't mean using an online Koran to find offensive passages. You can do that with both the Old and New Testaments, too, you know. Go out and meet some American Muslims. If it makes you feel better, pretend you're going undercover. What you'll find are people just like you, with a religion remarkably like your own (not surprising given the common origins). Defining someone by YOUR PERCEPTION of his/her religion is un-American, and beneath contempt. Reply

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jamerican
Nov 6, 09 2:17 PM CST

The Old and New Testaments do not condone killing people who do not believe the way they do. islam is a cult of violence and murder and the religious leaders in the world do virtually nothing to stop the extremists which in reality is condoning terrorism. And why the hell should we get to know muslims when they are commanded to lie to us because we are no better than dogs...the point is that you cannot trust them...they will be nice and smile and want to kill you because you are in infidel.

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newsrmandan
Nov 6, 09 2:23 PM CST

Rog... What you'll find are people just like you, with a religion remarkably like your own (not surprising given the common origins)... the commonality we may have is we are monotheists, after that there is nothing that we could have that is called in common beside of course humanity which is the issue here. I understand as has been stated umpteen times that islam is not what it has been pictured...etc.etc. I am sure thats the case with you but unless we start see overwhelming evidence contra then we are led only to follow the evidence. Don't bemoan our "perception" americans are keenly perceptive people and please telling americans to calm down and get educated is very very well offensive. Which kind of proves the point. There are limits to tolerance.

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whitwoo
Nov 6, 09 3:06 PM CST

I agree Roger. and newsrmandan...how is what he's saying any more offensive that what these other people are saying...

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RogerMohajir
Nov 6, 09 3:12 PM CST

@newsrmandan: The commonality goes way beyond monotheism -- after all, it is the same "one God" that Jews, Christians, and Muslims worship. Muslims recognize all the Jewish prophets and recognize Jesus as a prophet. When I speak of perceptions, I mean things like your assumption, based on my name and/or image, that I am Muslim and not American. You happen to be wrong on both counts. I wonder if it was that assumption that made it seem offensive for me to advise my fellow citizens to calm down and educate themselves? American Muslims are as patriotic as citizens of any other religion. What is the overwhelming evidence of innocence that you want them to present, and why should they have to present it and not Jews, Mormons, Scientologists, and other minority religions?

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newsrmandan
Nov 6, 09 4:27 PM CST

My bad "assuming" your muslim, I can only make assumptions based on what I read. You seem to be pleading with us to get educated about what it really means to be Islamic so.... unless your just being deceptive... but I'll assume better of you. You said ... it is the same "one God" that Jews, Christians, and Muslims worship. And after telling us to get educated I'll point that mirror at you and tell you the same. When Sarah had a child by her hand maiden That Child was technically Abrahams first born, Ishmael, but it was his brother Isaac who was the child of promise. So in one sense your correct in saying these three world religions come from the same but your incorrect regarding christianity because the biblical narration continues into the new testament. Judeism does not accept the new testament and so they don't accept Christ as the Messiah. Islam would be foolish not to acknowledge Jesus so they call him a prophet and that he was but theres much more to him then just that. He claimed to be God in the flesh by claiming that before Abraham was, (I am) If you remember your new testament that claim is why the Jewish authorities had him killed. So to the extend that these three religions are based on the monotheistic idea there is only one that is the real continuation of the narrative. Christianity. Jews, Mormons and Scientologist have their own problems but non have the problem of being know for blowing themselves up for the sake of Allah.

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vendetta
Nov 6, 09 1:56 PM CST

To be honest chief all the religions from Christianity to Islam to Hindu's all have violent passages calling for terrible things. They are all nonsense and we will be better off when people grow up and stop believing in an invisible sky wizard because we are scared of what happen after death. Reply

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Cat-Lover
Nov 6, 09 3:12 PM CST

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0001tr
Nov 6, 09 3:12 PM CST

Bottomline..This country was founded and prospered on Christian beliefs (right or wrong) and when we moved away from them, we opened ourselves to vunlerbilites that today are DESTORYING this country...NOW is the time to take it Back and take care of our own...we can not afford to open our borders, no more than anyone of us could afford to open our homes to the community and provide for them all their needs.. Reply

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passinthru
Nov 7, 09 1:38 PM CST

so says you...in case you slept through history, this country sected from the church because of its religious beliefs. then somehow you freaks got onto burning people at the stake which quickly became your patsy to remove certain people from society. EVERY SINGLE ONE of our forefathers thought that religion was causing more problems than they were worth. they wanted no part in religion...and as for you thinking that its time to take back a country that you somehow helped create...go sit your crazy ass down and turn off the bullshit youve plugged yourself into...in my opinion, i say NO BORDERS, let the people who want to come to this country for a better life come...its not our place to say who can come and who cant...whatever happened to bring me your poor, your tired, your hungry??? ill tell you what happened, you people became so selfish that you somehow took for granted what was being given to you and now you want what never was yours back when its someone elses turn to make a life for themselves...times are changing...either change with them or get back in line with the rest of the selfish pricks.

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Enoughie
Nov 6, 09 5:44 PM CST

Oh great, now we started a religious war (and by we I mean the people on Newser). "Islam preaches violence.. Christianity is all about peace and love"... "No, Christianity is just as bad... but the Old Testament is even worse"... "You're not a 'real' Christian.. I am"... "Islam is the religion of peace... what about atheists?!... Stalin was an atheist!"... Guys, stop this nonsense... all religions texts have some vile passages, the idea is to cherry-pick the good ones, or to avoid religion altogether. Reply

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passinthru
Nov 7, 09 1:41 PM CST

all religion should be illegal...but it wont, know why? M-O-N-E-Y. religion is one of the most powerful tax-free businesses in the world, and as long as they have idiots standing in line to give away thier money, it will never change.

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Enoughie
Nov 7, 09 3:00 PM CST

@passinthru: that's exactly the WRONG attitude. People should always have a choice (even - and especially - to make the wrong decisions). Not only that, but most atheists or nonreligious people don't really present a good enough alternative to religion. So before your [unenlightened] self goes on telling people what they can and can't believe in, ask yourself: do you have a good enough substitute? [I know I do]

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passinthru
Nov 7, 09 1:42 PM CST

sorry, but im more worried about the christian threat thats sitting right at my doorstep.

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