A controversial Islamic lobby group has published an ad in California newspapers seeking to win acceptance with the message that Muslims "respect and revere Jesus" as do Christians.
The ad by the Southern California office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, is headlined "More In Common Than You Think," with a photograph of the old city of Jerusalem.
CAIR has launched an advertising campaign called "Islam in America," which in the wake of tensions resulting from the 9-11 terrorist attacks aims to dispel stereotypes and portray Muslims as ordinary citizens who love their country.
The "Jesus" ad, quoting from Islam's book the Quran, reads:
'''Behold (O Mary!)' The Angel said, 'God has chosen you, and purified you, and chosen you above the women of all nations. O Mary, God gives you good news of a word from Him, whose name shall be the Christ (Masih or Messiah), Jesus son of Mary, honored in this world and in the hereafter, and one of those brought near to God.' (Holy Qur'an, 3:45)
"Like Christians, Muslims respect and revere Jesus. Islam teaches that Jesus is one of the greatest of God's prophets and messengers to humankind.
"Like Christians, every day, over 1.3 billion Muslims strive to live by his teachings of love, peace, and forgiveness. Those teachings, which have become universal values, remind us that all of us, Christians, Muslims, Jews, and all others have more in common than we think."
Muslims point out, however, that they reject Christian belief in Jesus' divinity and regard him only as a prophet.
Muhammad, in fact, is considered by Muslims to be superior to Jesus because Islam's founder is believed to have brought God's final revelation.
CAIR claims to be a civil-rights group that represents mainstream Muslims in the U.S., but the group is a spin-off of the Islamic Association For Palestine, labeled a "front group" for the terrorist organization Hamas by two former heads of the FBI's counterterrorism section.
CAIR issued a condemnation Monday of Israel's assassination of Hamas leader Sheik Ahmed Yassin that made no mention of Hamas or Yassin's responsibility for countless terrorist attacks against Israel, which were part of his stated objective to destroy Jews and the Jewish nation.
I have no problem with that, in fact, it gives me as a Christian some common ground to work with a muslim. The problem is, if Jesus Christ is "Like Christians, Muslims respect and revere Jesus. Islam teaches that Jesus is one of the greatest of God's prophets and messengers to humankind. Like Christians, every day, over 1.3 billion Muslims strive to live by his teachings of love, peace, and forgiveness. " Why do they turn a blind eye when hate, killing, and destruction rules the radical Islam we all have come to know?
Muhammad, in fact, is considered by Muslims to be superior to Jesus because Islam's founder is believed to have brought God's final revelation - I don't get it... did God change his mind? How does Muhammad trump Jesus's teaching?
Muhammad, in fact, is considered by Muslims to be superior to Jesus because Islam's founder is believed to have brought God's final revelation - I don't get it... did God change his mind? How does Muhammad trump Jesus's teaching?
This is not how I feel, but putting myself in a Muslims shoes I would counter that with "How did Christ trump Judiasm?"
We as Christians should be aware of the beliefs of Judiasm & Islam as well as our own. Christianity sprang forth from Judiasm, Islam sprang from both Judiasm & Christianity.
I am surprised in that ad that they did not mention that Islam also teachs that Mary was still a virgin when she gave birth to Christ.
Think about what we hear in the news about religion, we never hear about good priests or Imams, we here about pedophile priest and radical Imams.
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We also sometimes forget that the radicals who preach against us and try to harm us are not true believers of the Islamic faith . No real muslim would side with trash like that , much less support them .
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Think about what we hear in the news about religion, we never hear about good priests or Imams, we here about pedophile priest and radical Imams
Because there good works should speak for themselfs- they are acting as guiders of society & there kind.But alsoit is true - We love the good child & sometimes foreget him.
aslowe know that the media mnipulates all we recive- be it guns, poltices whatever.... what there agenda is i dont know...it dosnt seem like it could just be moneys.
But when you see a wrong dont hid from it- the pediafile /homo priests etc make it look bad- but worse is protecting it& letting it go on.
Yes its pretty odd how they dont like each other much---- muslims&Jews- but have common roots of origin& they are very close to being brothers- dna shows they are very close- reality shows us diffent.
But if someone is calling for your distruction & makes it there lifes tasks to kill you& can not exist with you, like the Jews& muslins...i hope the Jews kick there A$$
Taz - Jews do not believe Jesus was a prophet, son of God, or anything else other than a teacher (though they acknowledge he did exists) As a Christian, I believe Jesus was the son of God and man - fulfilling the prophecies of the old testament. So, I would imagine a Jew wouldn't think that Jesus trumps Judaism...
The point I was trying to make was that muslims believe Jesus was more than just a teacher, but an actual prophet (which is more than the Jewish religion accept).
If God is all knowing, all seeing, and all truth - Why would he contradict what he said with a prophet who's teaching fly in the face of a prophet he previously sent?
As a Christian, I believe that Jesus did do everything the old testament required - therefor as a Christian, that is why I know longer need a priest to sacrifice an animal in order to cleanse my sins (I'm not sure how the Jewish religion deals with sin now) because Christ was my sacrifice. Most importantly, God was true to his word given in the old testament through Jesus.
All 3 religions stem from Abraham - Jews, Christians, and Muslims all reconize him as a father of their religion - he is the splitting point.
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If God is all knowing, all seeing, and all truth - Why would he contradict what he said with a prophet who's teaching fly in the face of a prophet he previously sent?
I hope this brings more light to the question I was trying to get at -
There was an interesting blurb on CAIR today on the Boortz site, I think it's worth sharing.
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OH .. HE WAS JUST AN ISLAMIC RELIGIOUS LEADER
How do you feel about the killing of Ahmed Yassin?
It's about time
I don't know. I have mixed feelings about it.
It was excessive. He should have been captured instead.
You've heard of CAIR, haven't you? That's the Council on American-Islamic Relations. This is a group that spends most of its time trying its best to ignore Islamic terrorism while searching for any incidents of insensitivity shown toward Muslims by weary Americans.
CAIR has now made its feelings known on the death of Hamas terrorist Ahmed Yassin. CAIR, of course, condemns Israel for the killing of Yassin, and calls Yassin an "Islamic religious leader." Wait ... it gets more ridiculous than that. CAIR says that the international community has to "take concrete steps to help protect the Palestinian people against such wanton Israeli violence."
Thanks to James Taranto's Opinion Journal column, we can now take a look at the Covenant of the Hamas. This document was issued on August 18, 1988. It is the founding document of Hamas. CAIR calls Yassin an "Islamic religious leader?" Yeah .. the leader of Hamas.
Let's take a look at a few excerpts from the Covenant of the Hamas
Article 7: "The Day of Judgment will not come about until Moslems fight Jews and kill them. Then, the Jews will hide behind rocks and trees, and the rocks and trees will cry out: 'O Moslem, there is a Jew hiding behind me, come and kill him."
Article 13: "So-called peaceful solutions and international conferences are in contradiction to the principles of the Islamic Resistance Movement ... There is no solution for the Palestinian problem except by Jihad [holy war]."
Now just what was it that CAIR said in their statement on the death of Ahmed Yassin? Oh yeah ... "The international community must now take concrete steps to help protect the Palestinian people against such wanton Israeli violence." Read those bits from the founding document of Hamas ... and then spend a few of your precious moments thinking about how idiotic it is for CAIR to be imploring the international community to talk about "wanton Israeli violence." Didn't we read something about "fight Jews and kill them" and "there is a Jew hiding behind me, come and kill him"? And the world needs to protect these goons from those bad, bad Israelis?
CAIR is a joke. When will the media start treating it as such?
Muslims publish 'Jesus' ad Campaign
