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>The Truth About Islam
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>Ted Haggard
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>November 22, 2002
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>A close study of the Quran makes very clear the violent spirit fueling
>what is being spun as a 'peaceful religion.'
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>(Ministries Today) Our missionaries working in Islamic countries are
>often shocked at some of the ideas being promoted in the West about
>Islam. What we hear in the press is a confusing mix of relativistic
>propaganda and wishful thinking, so I thought I'd clear the air with
>some information explained to me by my friends working with Muslims in
>the Middle East.
>
>First, there are 1 billion Muslims in the world--not 2 billion--as
>many reporters have falsely reported. The most generous estimate is
>1.2 billion.
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>Second, most Muslims interpret the Quran by the principle of nasikh,
>which essentially means that the later passages supercede the earlier
>passages and totally negate them.
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>The Quran was written over a 22-year period. In the early years, when
>Muhammad's following was small and he was militarily weak, he wrote
>the 114 verses that speak of living peacefully with others. By the end
>of his writing, when he was militarily strong and had a larger
>following, he penned verses that declare that all infidels must be
>destroyed or submit to being totally subjected and humiliated.
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>Sura 9 appears at the beginning of the Quran, but it is one of the
>last texts written. It declares that all infidels should be killed or
>completely subjugated. These later verses, which overrule the 114
>peaceful verses, are what drive the current jihad movement.
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>According to Muslim scholars, the Arabic words nasikh and mansukh are
>both derived from the same root word nasakha, which carries meanings
>such as “to abolish, to replace, to withdraw, to abrogate.” The nasikh
>(an active participle), “the abrogating,” while mansukh (passive)
>means “the abrogated.” In technical language, then, mansukh refers to
>certain parts of the Quranic revelation that has been “abrogated” by
>the others. In other words, for fundamentalist Muslims, the most
>virulent passages of their sacred text have priority.
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>So, when we Westerners talk about Islam by quoting the early
>“revelations,” we are not communicating the truth about fundamentalist
>Islam and the Quran but are actually inoculating and misleading those
>within our spheres of influence against the true nature of Islam. No
>doubt, a few Muslim scholars have tired to negate the “annihilate the
>infidel” passages, but their arguments are weak, convoluted,
>unconvincing and considered non-mainstream to the most vocal and
>influential fundamentalist Muslim scholars throughout the world.
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>These scholars are the equivalent of those in liberal Christianity who
>try to manipulate the Bible to make a case for homosexual marriage or
>“save the whales” instead of “save the people” ideologies. These
>liberal interpretations are, to most of us, easily identifiable
>distortions of the biblical text. Likewise, many Muslims view the
>peace-loving Muslim clerics the way we would view our own liberal
>theologians.
>
>Al-Hazar University in Egypt, the highest regarded Muslim theological
>seminary, teaches the nasikh principle and its inevitable application
>to jihad. Most of the radicalized leaders have been trained there,
>including Sheik Omar Abdul Rahman, the blind cleric who is imprisoned
>in Minnesota for his role in the World Trade Center bombing in 1993.
>
>Simply put, it’s time for all of us to learn more details about Islam.
>As we do, we’ll discover that the sinister spirit of violence and
>hatred that inflames so many fundamentalist Muslims is indeed the
>attitude taught in the Quran.
>
>Article reprinted with permision from the December 2002 issue of
>Ministries Today
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>Ted Haggard
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>November 22, 2002
>
>
>A close study of the Quran makes very clear the violent spirit fueling
>what is being spun as a 'peaceful religion.'
>
>
>(Ministries Today) Our missionaries working in Islamic countries are
>often shocked at some of the ideas being promoted in the West about
>Islam. What we hear in the press is a confusing mix of relativistic
>propaganda and wishful thinking, so I thought I'd clear the air with
>some information explained to me by my friends working with Muslims in
>the Middle East.
>
>First, there are 1 billion Muslims in the world--not 2 billion--as
>many reporters have falsely reported. The most generous estimate is
>1.2 billion.
>
>Second, most Muslims interpret the Quran by the principle of nasikh,
>which essentially means that the later passages supercede the earlier
>passages and totally negate them.
>
>The Quran was written over a 22-year period. In the early years, when
>Muhammad's following was small and he was militarily weak, he wrote
>the 114 verses that speak of living peacefully with others. By the end
>of his writing, when he was militarily strong and had a larger
>following, he penned verses that declare that all infidels must be
>destroyed or submit to being totally subjected and humiliated.
>
>Sura 9 appears at the beginning of the Quran, but it is one of the
>last texts written. It declares that all infidels should be killed or
>completely subjugated. These later verses, which overrule the 114
>peaceful verses, are what drive the current jihad movement.
>
>According to Muslim scholars, the Arabic words nasikh and mansukh are
>both derived from the same root word nasakha, which carries meanings
>such as “to abolish, to replace, to withdraw, to abrogate.” The nasikh
>(an active participle), “the abrogating,” while mansukh (passive)
>means “the abrogated.” In technical language, then, mansukh refers to
>certain parts of the Quranic revelation that has been “abrogated” by
>the others. In other words, for fundamentalist Muslims, the most
>virulent passages of their sacred text have priority.
>
>So, when we Westerners talk about Islam by quoting the early
>“revelations,” we are not communicating the truth about fundamentalist
>Islam and the Quran but are actually inoculating and misleading those
>within our spheres of influence against the true nature of Islam. No
>doubt, a few Muslim scholars have tired to negate the “annihilate the
>infidel” passages, but their arguments are weak, convoluted,
>unconvincing and considered non-mainstream to the most vocal and
>influential fundamentalist Muslim scholars throughout the world.
>
>These scholars are the equivalent of those in liberal Christianity who
>try to manipulate the Bible to make a case for homosexual marriage or
>“save the whales” instead of “save the people” ideologies. These
>liberal interpretations are, to most of us, easily identifiable
>distortions of the biblical text. Likewise, many Muslims view the
>peace-loving Muslim clerics the way we would view our own liberal
>theologians.
>
>Al-Hazar University in Egypt, the highest regarded Muslim theological
>seminary, teaches the nasikh principle and its inevitable application
>to jihad. Most of the radicalized leaders have been trained there,
>including Sheik Omar Abdul Rahman, the blind cleric who is imprisoned
>in Minnesota for his role in the World Trade Center bombing in 1993.
>
>Simply put, it’s time for all of us to learn more details about Islam.
>As we do, we’ll discover that the sinister spirit of violence and
>hatred that inflames so many fundamentalist Muslims is indeed the
>attitude taught in the Quran.
>
>Article reprinted with permision from the December 2002 issue of
>Ministries Today
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>"I wouldn't want to create the impression that I wouldn't like the
>government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future."
>- Ibrahim Hooper, director of communications, Council on
>American-Islamic Relations.
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