1) Allah is the arabic word for god...
2) there are FIVE pillars of islam, testifying your belife that there is a god and that mohammed is his prophet, fasting, praying 5 times a day, pilgrimage to mecaa for anyone who has the means and is of able body and mind, and Charity... Jihad is not one of the pillars, even though it is mentioned in the koran..
3) the defination of islam I gave is from a muslim imam, and he said that's why Abraham is a muslim (in the eyes of the muslims)... It's a bit like a doctor, when we say doctor now a days we see someone who's gone to medical school, works in hospital, uses medicine, reliese on a diagnosis prognosis method towards deciding what methods to follow, but hypocraties was the first doctor, and he doesn't really strike too much of a resemblance, but both run on the same principals... so Abraham is kinda the first muslim, but he's not too similar to the modern muslim..
4) muslims belive is god's word, not a representaition, not a translation, just god's word brought down by the angel gabriel...
5) Jihad: I've said this before, Jihad means to do for the sake of god, which includes comunity... It does have a military aspect, and it's governed by 2 ideas... You dont retreat, and you take and treat well prisoners. This means that their warefare has an incredible edge, as it means that opposing soldiers are more likely to give up... Suicide is condemed no matter the cirmumsatnces, but there is reward for patients during difficult time (for those who are pro euthenasia)...
6) Where did you get the idea that muslims believe that "infedels" should die? I think you've been watching too many films... Cos by that policy islam wouldn't have got into countries like malasia, but it has, and it wasn't by force, or by invasion... it was by bright and chirpy traders...
7) Destroy islam? How come when kill 6.5 million jews you are seen as (quite rightly) as a monster, and we still have cemomeration days 50+ years on? and here we have someone advocating the same thing, but it's ok cos it's to another religion...
I'll try to get you some quotes from the koran about jihad... Jihad is no secret, it's a military policy for combatants against combatents, and it's all above board by intrenational law... ANyway can you say the muslim have ever been responsible for a holocaust, pol pot killing fields, Stalins Siberia. I mean come on!!
[Edited by educatedfilm on 10-25-2001 at 06:14 PM]