1. ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY: CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS Session 12:
What Do I Need to Know
About Islam?

2. In the U.S., citizens are guaranteed freedom of religion and freedom from religion. In most Islamic countries, there is no freedom of religion nor freedom from the religion of Islam. By Islamic law, a person cannot criticize the Koran or the Prophet. In a few Islamic countries, leading a Muslim away from Islamic religion is punishable by death.
In the U.S., authority has been vested in secular government and law ,whereas the authority of the moral and spiritual has been vested in the sacred institutions.

3. Each is influenced by the other and the spiritual aspect of the citizen is expected, through conscience and belief, to guide the laws and impact the decisions of persons in government.
In the U.S., culture evolves. In Islamic countries, cultural values hearken back to 7th century Arab Islamic culture.
Many adopted beliefs are not divine but cultural in origin. The once in a lifetime pilgrimage to Mecca was adopted from a pagan Arab ritual to worship the gods represented in the Kabah and support the trade with Meccan merchants.

4. Matters of diet, dress, and family lifestyles are only vaguely referenced in the Koran, but vigorously taught and enforced from a 7th century model to a 21st century Islamic society.
Nearly all societies have a history of violence and barbarism. When Muhammed wrote the Koran in the 7th century, indirectly, of course, he incorporated many of the punishments prevalent in Arab tribal rivalries. U.S. law is based upon the morality of the Bible and the secular principles evolved from 18th century English common law.

5. Many of the ritually oriented practices mentioned in the Koran are pagan in origin.
These include: the black stone in the Kabah, which was venerated by pre-Muslim society; the orientation of fasting of Ramadan from the crescent moon lunar cycle; and daily prayer oriented toward the astral position of the moon, both originating in the Sabean astral religion.

6. The term Allah is a pre-Islamic Arabic name for god, believed to have originated in Babylon, and referring to the ancient pagan god, known as Baal.
This was the moon god in real terms. Allah, therefore, has no connection to the God of Judaism and Christianity.
In simple terms, the God of the Bible and the Allah of the Koran are vastly different. These differences include: knowable vs. unknowable, personal vs. impersonal, spiritual vs. non-spiritual, trinitarian vs.unitarian, feeling vs. non-feeling, positive attributes vs. no attributes, and grace vs. merit.

7. Merely believing in one God does not mean it is the right God nor the same God.
Muhammed was forced to flee Mecca because he sought to appease pagan family members by accepting the idea of praying to the three daughters of the moon god, Allah. This is referenced in Sura 53:19, and popularly known as the satanic verses.
Several deficiencies in the person of Muhammed reflect the true status of this person.

8. These include: no previous prophecy of his coming, no supernatural birth, no sinless life (Suras 18:110, 40:55, 48:1-2), no miracles performed, no divinity claimed, engaged in taking property and lives of others, not a mediator or intercessor between God and mankind, and has no future role in the resurrection of the dead or final judgment.
Muslims do not allow research, criticism or corroboration of the Koran, but insist on it for the Bible.
There are numerous historical errors in the Koran.

9. These include:
claiming both six and eight days for creation,
one of Noah’s sons died in the flood, numerous errors about Abraham and Moses mixing persons of different countries and different times together erroneously, fictional speeches attributed to Biblical characters, events which don’t conform to known secular history, conflicting contradictions within its own text.
Some accounts are borrowed from pre-Islamic Arab legends, Jewish folklore, Christian heretical sources, Sabean sources, Eastern mysticism sources.

10. The Koran contradicts the person of Christ,
mistranslates the concept of the Trinity, and shows a worldly view of heaven more fitting to a carnal 7th century male than to a holy God.
Archaeological finds in Arabia suggest that the dominant pagan worship prior to Muhammed was of the moon god known as Allah. The concept of Allah sources from paganism rather than Judaism or Christianity. It is astral idol worship at its source.

11. Errors in the Koran are as follows: (100 in all)
1. Noah’s ark came to rest on Mt. Judi. (Sura 11:44) Ararat
2. Abraham’s father was Azar. (Sura 6:74) Terah
3. Abraham sought to sacrifice Ishmael. (Sura 37: ) Isaac
4. Pharaoh’s wife adopted Moses. (Sura 28:8-9) Daughter
5. Noah’s flood occurred in the time of Moses. (Sura 7:136) 1000 years earlier
6. Mary gave birth to Jesus under a palm tree. (Sura 19:22) stable
7. The Jews returned to Egypt after the Exodus. (Sura 2:56-57) remained

12. 8. Zechariah was speechless for three days. (Sura 3:41) 9 months
9. God took eight days to create the world. (Sura 41:9-12) 6 days
10. Abraham was cast into the fire by Nimrod. (Sura 21:68-69) Daniel’s 3 friends
11. The Egyptian Aziz bought Joseph. (Sura 12:21) Potaphar
12. Haman was Pharaoh’s minister. (Sura 27:4-6) Ashaheuras
13. Test of water-drinking by lapping of Saul’s army. (Sura 2:24) Gideon