COMPARING JESUS AND MUHAMMAD Prt 1

COMPARING JESUS AND MUHAMMAD!!

Pastor Anthony Fawole

You can welcome me back to my apologetical ministry after a long break! Never mind me, I was much more into issues and mattes of national concerns. If you can't welcome me back, it's your problem!

I had to go for the break 'cos it's incumbent upon me as a preacher to speak out on politics and to politicians.

Now that I'm back, I'd start with addressing the question: ''Did Muhammad and Jesus preach a morally equivalent message or that all religion is the same?'' My good universalist friend, Paul Good-News Minter, would say YES! 

Please, let's gradually flow with the line of thoughts as I compare Jesus' own words with Muhammad's. No insult is permitted please. God bless you all!

NUMBER ONE:

"Fight everyone in the way of Allah and kill those who disbelieve in Allah." - Muhammad (Ibn Ishaq 992) 

"Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." - Jesus (Matthew 5:14) 

Even though many Muslims regard terrorists who kill in the name of Allah as criminals, they cannot deny that Muhammad also killed in the name of Allah. What example of Jesus do Christians emulate which has them confused them with terrorists and criminals? 

Each year, thousands of Christian homes and churches are torched or bombed by Muslim mobs, and hundreds of Christians, including dozens of priests, pastors, nuns and other church workers are murdered at the hands of Islamic extremists. The so-called justification varies, from charges of apostasy or evangelism, to purported "blasphemy" or "insulting" Islam. Innocent people have even been hacked to death by devout Muslims over cartoons. 

Yet, there is little if any violent retaliation from religious Christians to the discrimination, kidnapping, rape, torture, mutilation and murder that is routinely reported from nations with Muslim majorities. Neither is there is any significant deadly terrorism in the name of Jesus, as there is in the stated cause of Allah each and every day. 

Muslim clerics in the West do not fear for their safety as do their Christian counterparts. The "Christian world" and the Islamic world contrast sharply in other ways as well, from the disparate condition of human rights and civil liberties to economic status. 

An astonishing 70% of the world's refugees are Muslims - usually seeking to live in Christian-based countries. While Western societies take seriously "scandals" such as Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo (where no one has actually been killed), Muslims routinely turn a blind eye to their own horrible atrocities, even those committed explicitly in the name of Allah. The Muslim world has yet to offer a single apology for the tens of millions of lives consumed by centuries of relentless Jihad and slavery. 

These sharp differences are almost certainly rooted in the underlying religions, which begin with the disparate teachings and examples set by Jesus and Muhammad. They are incomparable!!!

To be continued........