tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19795707.post1015093823080453766..comments2024-03-22T16:09:48.895-04:00Comments on Beggars All: Reformation And Apologetics: Submit or Die! Early Islamic Da'waJames Swanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16136781934797867593noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19795707.post-31588499164079927192011-06-10T14:46:25.729-04:002011-06-10T14:46:25.729-04:00Just to be clear about the video and the Iranian l...Just to be clear about the video and the Iranian lady in the video. This was not broadcast from Iran. The Iranian government does not allow women to have their hair uncovered in public, must less on any kind of TV broadcast. The Iranian Islam regime also does not allow low cut tops or tight fitting clothes, according to Islamic law.<br /><br />She is Iranian, and was probably born in Iran, but she and family fled the oppression in her country and immigrated to the west, as many Iranians have done since the 1979 Islamic Revolution led by Ayatollah Khomeini. This is a broadcast by Iranians living in the west, USA, Canada, etc. <br /><br />The modern women of Iran of today are especially longing for equal rights and the freedoms of the west provide that for them.Kenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17824685809003307918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19795707.post-59200405489382135082011-06-09T11:35:58.413-04:002011-06-09T11:35:58.413-04:00Hey "Peace by Jesus"
Thanks for the li...Hey "Peace by Jesus" <br /><br />Thanks for the link to that article about American Mosques and the tendency towards violence.<br /><br />This quote below about the Khalif is key to understand - only a caliph (or Khalif, خلیفه = a successor to Muhammad, Sunni leader of the whole Islamic Ummah, can call for a Jihad against pagans, infidels and Jews and Christians. The first problem is that Sunnis and Shias have disagreed over the proper and legitimate Khalif since the death of Muhammad in 632 AD. <br /><br />2nd Problem:<br />Since there has been no Khalif since 1924 (Abolished by Ataturk, the secular founder of modern Turkey), and the islamic Ummah was divided up into different countries lead by various secular or monarchy or Islamic (more or less) governments since that time; a Muslim in the west can look you straight in the face and declare that all the Jihadist movements like Al Qaedah and everything else are all wrong, because there is no Khalif right now. <br /><br />They would say the only legitimate Jihad is self-defensive Jihad warfare when another country attacks them. <br /><br />But if they work to re-establish the Khalifate (the office of the successor to Muhammad); and they accomplish that, THEN they can according to the doctrines and interpretations of (Sunni) Islam declare a Jihad of aggressive warfare against the pagans and Christians and Jews. <br /><br />Since there is no Khalif now, the Jihadist movements are saying that because the Ummah is so oppressed by the west (democracy, capitalism, freedom of women, freedom of speech, lack of application of Islamic law, the Jewish state, etc.) - they tend to inspire people to take the law into their own hands and declare and act on Jihad. <br /><br />"The caliph … makes war upon Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians … provided he has first invited them to enter Islam in faith and practice, and if they will not, then invited them to enter the social order of Islam by paying the non-Muslim poll tax.[21]<br /><br />Quoted from the Reliance of the Traveler, a classical manual of Sunni Fiq (Islamic jurisprudence of Shariah (law) )Kenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17824685809003307918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19795707.post-63666483452555323032011-06-09T03:51:52.600-04:002011-06-09T03:51:52.600-04:00Related: More than 80% of mosques advocate or prom...Related: More than 80% of mosques advocate or promote violence<br /><br />"Of the 100 mosques surveyed, 51 percent had texts on-site rated as severely advocating violence; 30 percent had texts rated as moderately advocating violence; and 19 percent had no violent texts at all," said the <a href="http://www.meforum.org/2931/american-mosques" rel="nofollow"> survey compiled by Mordechai Kedar and David Yerushalmi and published by the Middle East Quarterly</a> <br /><br />http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=308857PeaceByJesushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08754948549904895669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19795707.post-76340186808378327372011-06-08T13:56:01.055-04:002011-06-08T13:56:01.055-04:00Yes, Rhology - you noticed that Common Word letter...Yes, Rhology - you noticed that Common Word letter and wrote on it soon after it came out.<br /><br />I did not know about it until the Yale Reconciliation Response was being written.<br /><br />I was surprised at the naivety of the authors of the "Loving God and Neighbor" Evangelical document, especially those that composed it.<br /><br />Both sides were good in that they both expressed a desire for peace and dialogue, but the Muslim side hides the context of the Qur'an verse that is in the Hadith; and they hide the Muslim interpretation of "do not call anyone else Lord" - which means "don't call Jesus Lord either". The Evangelical side was positive and friendly in commending their outreach in friendship and dialogue; and they did mention that Islam needs to allow human rights and freedom of religion; but, as Piper mentioned, they did not attempt to explain the gospel at all, and that was sad.<br /><br />There are Emergent types, seeker sensitive types, heretics and liberals along with good Evangelicals who signed it. (The Yale R. response) The good ones, according to them, are hoping to "get in the same room with Muslims and have opportunity to talk to them" about the harder truths of the gospel and who Jesus really is. I hope that works, but . . . Muslims respect strength and being up front. <br /><br />A lot of avoiding the hard issues of the gospel at the beginning can be interpreted by Muslims as deception later, or at least weakness.<br /><br />I am not keeping up with their continuing dialogues, but I hope the Evangelicals are actually not avoiding the hard truths of the gospel in their "dialogues", but they seem to keep emphasizing "being nice" and are unwilling to say that the god of Islam is a false god, because of its denial of the Trinity and the Deity of Christ. Islam is a false message because of its denial of the crucifixion and the way of salvation, by grace alone apart from works, through faith alone.<br /><br />But in most parts of the Muslim world, an equal time debate and dialogue is not even allowed.Kenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17824685809003307918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19795707.post-48414141142456388262011-06-08T12:49:31.740-04:002011-06-08T12:49:31.740-04:00And also.<a href="http://rhoblogy.blogspot.com/2007/10/common-word-between-us-and-you.html" rel="nofollow">And also.</a>Rhologyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14245825667079220242noreply@blogger.com