Ranking of Religions
Western culture tolerates religion but is known to have certain groups
that discriminate against race and colour. Whereas in the Islamic states
of the Abode of Peace, they are more likely to tolerate race and colour
but discriminate totally against religion. Recognition and practicing of
religion, in a limited capacity, in the Middle East, other than the
Jewish and Christian faiths, is unlawful and forbidden. Other native
religions, whose countries had been conquered, still remain but are
diminishing. Islam considers them as false religions and intends to
phase them out anyway. This applies to all Islamic states of the Abode
of Peace, including the dwindling indigenous religion, namely, the
Yezidi, known as the devil worshippers in Iraq. This sect arose out of
the general She’ah movement around the 11th century (it confines its
practice to a few villages in northern Iraq). Other native religions
like those that follow Zoroastrianism (Zardoshti) in Iran, Buddhism and
Hinduism in other Asian, Far Eastern and South Pacific countries like
Pakistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia and Indonesia are looked at objectionably
and with cautious indifference. The ultimate aim is to strip these
native religions of their economic power, restrict their practice, and
gradually lessen their religious influence to extinction. In Iran, the
Zardoshti and Baha'i already feel the pinch. Indonesia and Malaysia have
already begun to curb the trading activities of the successful
non-Muslim Chinese to limit their wealth under the pretext of
even-handedness with the natives. To survive, other religions consider
themselves offshoots of Islam such as Al-Alawi, Ismaili, The 12s (known
as Al-Ithna Ashar) and Durzi (the latter exists in Syria, Lebanon and
Israel). Such minority religions adopt Muslim names and more often side
with the Muslims rather than Christians and live under the shadow of
Islamic culture. Their survival depends on their gradual integration
into the Islamic crucible melting pot (Hiro, 1989: p 91).
Islam recognizes the two Holy Books of the Old and New Testaments, but
only to a certain degree. In Islam, Jews and Christians (the People of
the Book of the Torah and the New Testament, as they are known to Islam)
stand second in rank to the Muslim religion. According to Islam, the
purpose of the two Books has been fulfilled in the appearance of Islam.
Islam claims supremacy and supersedes all other religions in conclusion
of all things and fulfilment of the world to come. It also recognizes,
among other prophets, the Patriarch Abraham and the Prophet Moses. Yet,
the Muslims decline to recognise JEHOVAH publicly also as their living
God. They connect (Id-Al-Adha) Immolation Feast to Ishmael, not Isaac.
They substitute Ishmael for Isaac. Ishmael was Abraham's son from his
maidservant Hagar. Isaac was Abraham's son from his wife Sara. Islam
relates the story of Abraham taking his son to the land of Moriah to
offer him as a burnt offering to Ismael and not Isaac, contrary to the
Holy Bible (Genesis 22:1-3). Muslims call Jacob 'Abana Ya'coub', our
father Jacob, but avoid mentioning his God given name Israel. To them,
Israel is an offensive name. As a skinhead fascist and member of an
anti-Semitic organization that cannot respect and embrace a Jew and
treat him as equal, so, too, does a Muslim. He cannot love and revere
the name Israel. Muslims detest it to the point of calling the State of
Israel – the divinely bestowed name on Jacob - the 'illegitimate'
Israel, rejecting its existence as an independent state. The Arab League
supports the Palestinian Authority in its claim that the Holy Land falls
within the (Dar Al-Silm) States of the Abode of Peace, and that it is
Arab. It considers such land, including the territory of the legitimate
State of Israel, as an integral part of the Islamic (Umma) Nation, and
that it should remain so.
They worship Allah which name is the literally translation for God (Alaha
- Assyrian Eastern dialect, or Alaho - Assyrian Western dialect). True,
they recognise Abraham and Moses, yet they fall short of accepting
Jehovah as their God (the acronym YHWH I AM THAT I AM – YAHWEH, the name
of the Old Testament God) – the true God of Israel. They insist on
calling the name of their god, Allah, attributing to him all the
benevolent adjectives they can think of (presumably 99 names in all),
sidestepping the name Jehovah, the God of Israel. The religious, social
and political status of the Christian and Jew is classed below that of
the Muslims. They are elevated to higher status, in level with
themselves, only after their conversion.
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