When I was a christian we were encouraged to ignore other cults as much as possible. Islam is one of the cults I ended up knowing very little about. In fact I didn’t really know it was called islam until some years ago.
I thought it reasonable to conclude though that if Christianity is a fraud, and islam is based on christianity, then islam must also be a fraud. Not to mention the historical fact that islam was at one time the dominant religion on the planet. But then it failed.
The true religion can’t possibly fail, can it?
To their credit though, while part of the world was trying out a new thing called “christianity” and its by-products “the dark ages” and burning libraries full of priceless literature, the Islamic world was actually saving books and studying them.
If islam had survived it most likely would be very different from what we have today.
This is because whenever they conquered a new land they did not, as the Christians did erase all trace of the previous culture. They preserved the work of all the great minds of the lands, and shared their knowledge with the captured territories. Even freedom of religion was allowed, and they may be single handedly responsible (in my opinion) for bringing the christian world out of the dark ages, and in to the so called age of reason.
Modern religions however seem to have shifted the burden of driving human advancement to the sciences. This is an unfair burden for such a small group whose work gets very little recognition from the religions, even thought they gladly reap the benefits.
It sickens me to think how far we could have advanced if science was not retarded by the christians’ “dark ages” and the real-life hell they visited on mankind.
Because the maturation of islam was cut short by its own monumental failure, it has reverted to its primitive state and is now no better than christianity. Its adherents like christians continue to follow the most insane teachings. Consider the following passage:
The only reward of those who make war against Allah and His messenger and strive after corruption in the land will be that they will be murdered or crucified, or have their hands and feet on alternate sides cut off, or will be expelled out of the land. Such will be their degradation in the world, and in the Hereafter theirs will be an awful doom; 005.033 [AL-MAEDA (THE TABLE) HOLY QURAN]
It even appears that the prophet Muhammad had a child for a wife.
[Scriptural Evidence] Volume 7, Book 62, Number 64: Sahih Bukhari [the most venerated and authentic Islamic source]
Narrated ‘Aisha: that the Prophet married her when she was six years old and he consummated his marriage when she was nine years old, and then she remained with him for nine years (i.e. till his death).
What could he possibly want with a six year old wife?
Aisha became Muhammad’s favourite wife, and the sexuality in the relationship was predominant [ SAHIH BUKHARI .1.270, 3:36, 7:6, 3:148, 3:149, 3:150, 7:142, IbnSa'd 1pg165 ].
How merciful. It make you wonder how closely his fundamentalist followers emulate him today, eh?
