Benevolent Vs. not benevolent.
Islam calls itself a religion of peace. I saw an interview of a Muslim man once that summed it up nicely. He was asked how Islam could be a religion of peace with all this terr orism. He told us that of course it is. There is only conflict because there are differences. Once the whole world is taken over and becomes Muslim, there will be peace everywhere, so they are spreading peace. He went on to taunt that Muslims will out breed us. That they have many wives when westerners have only one. They have many children and we have few. They will marry our daughters and all their children will be Muslim. He did not mention enslaving people or the engineering of the collapse of nations and… a bunch of different things that apparently were still secret back then.
But Muslims don’t care whether they’ve converted people to their notion of God. They care about your lip service and outward appearance of conversion, to stop any push back to them having their way. They aren’t trying to save other people from the evil one. Which is kind of a huge difference, they’re only after power and consolidation of their control.
It’s my understanding that the moderate Muslims are basically backslid according to their ways and the extre mists are actually the correct ones when it comes to their doctrine.
Christians, like them or not, are trying to help other people, trying to save them from going to hell, in short, which is kindly meant whether anyone agrees with it or not. They do it by talking to people, not enslaving them and trying to do forced conversions and the like. There’s certainly none of this forcing someone into sex slavery until they convert to Islam thing. Christians are waiting for God to come and for HIM to impose His rule on the world. Muslims are trying to take over themselves. There’s really no equating the two.
As for the bible quote up there in this long conversation people have had, the one that talks about stoning people who try to secretly convince you to come worship other ‘Gods’ than God, that’s regarding someone trying to entice you to become an apostate to God. That does not imply ‘let’s find people of other faiths and stone them for thinking different than us!’. That sounds like an intentional misunderstanding to me. And no one does it anyways. When was the last time someone got stoned to death, outside of a Muslim country?
Christians are the ones who turn the other cheek and forgive people. Muslims are the one’s who declare a ‘fatwah’ when they are offended, putting a price on the offending person’s head in hopes someone will do them in. Christians are commanded to not lie, Muslims are allowed to lie to promote their faith, in fact I think it might be required in some circumstances. Christians marry grown women, Muslims can marry infants even and consummate the marriage ‘as long as she’s determined to be able to tolerate it’, by which I believe they mean they estimate that she won’t die from it. They figure. And the 9 years old age is when she’s considered old enough for no one to refuse her groom anymore, even if the girl doesn’t want to. Let’s not forget the ‘tea boys’. The Catholic church being infiltrated by pedos in a long smear campaign is not the same thing as a culture that thinks that’s standard practice, normal, and okay… which is weird since they stone gays. I guess if a man shags a juvenile boy it’s somehow not the same as shagging a grown man? Stoning the child rapist makes more sense to me but then I’m not a Muslim (thanks be to God).
I’m not sure how their Abrahamic roots can make their religion work as they blow off almost half the commandments, 6, 7, 9, 10. Well, the Christians DO blow off that stoning people for enticing them away from God thing, naughty us. Though it’s not one of the 10.
I simply felt the need to clarify the above points. Thankyou for listening, carry on.