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Making. the. Case. Making the Case for Jesus not Muhammad. All are “Christian” (In Muslim Eyes), But Do All Believe and Practice Alike?. Beyonce. Mother Teresa. Andrew Roberts. Billy Graham. Jerry Falwell. Gene Robinson. Benny Hinn. Pope Benedict XVI.

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  1. Making the Case

  2. Making the Case for Jesus not Muhammad

  3. All are “Christian” (In Muslim Eyes), But Do All Believe and Practice Alike? Beyonce Mother Teresa Andrew Roberts Billy Graham Jerry Falwell Gene Robinson Benny Hinn Pope Benedict XVI

  4. All are “Muslim” (In Christian Eyes), But Do All Believe and Practice Alike? Yusuf Islam/ Cat Stevens Queen Rania Al-Abdullah Salman Rushdie Osama Bin Laden Ayatollah Khomeini Malcolm X Muhammad Ali

  5. Making the Case for Jesus not Muhammad

  6. Islam in America • 2.35 million Muslims in U.S. • 65% of Muslims in U.S. are foreign born • 26% of Muslims age 18-29 believe that suicide bombing can be justified • 39% of Muslims age 18-29 believe that newly arrived Muslims should remain distinct from the society at large Source: Pew Research Center, “Muslim Americans: Middle Class and Mostly Mainstream.” May 2007

  7. “There are so few homegrown Muslim clerics in America today – and almost no institutions for training them – that prayer in most mosques is led by a scholar fresh off the plane from Lebanon, say, or Saudi Arabia, someone with no connection to America and no affinity for its culture….The danger is obvious: if Saudi Arabia is exporting its Wahabi Islam to this country via imams, pamphlets, Qur’ans and buildings, how long before a warped version of this extremist ideology intersects with a vulnerable group of teenagers?” - Lisa Miller, “American Dreamers,” Newsweek, July 30, 2007

  8. What If... A Popular Book Declared “Muslims are the worst of creatures” “Show compassion to one another but be severe to Muslims” “Muslims are perverse” “Fight the Muslims around you” “The punishment for Muslims is to kill or hang them, or have a hand on one side and a foot on the other cut off”

  9. What If... A Popular Book Declared “Muslims are the worst of creatures” COMPARE Surah 8:55,“Verily the worst of creatures in the sight of God are those who deny (the truth), and will not believe”

  10. What If... A Popular Book Declared “Show compassion to one another but be severe to Muslims” COMPARE Surah 48:29,“Muhammad is the Prophet of God; and those who are with him are severe with infidels but compassionate among themselves.”

  11. What If... A Popular Book Declared “Muslims are perverse” COMPARE Surah 9:30,“…The Christians say: “Christ is the son of God.” That is what they say with their tongues following assertions made by unbelievers before them. May they be damned by God: How perverse are they!”

  12. What If... A Popular Book Declared “Fight the Muslims around you” COMPARE Surah 9:123,“O believers, fight the unbelievers around you, and let them realize that you are firm…”

  13. What If... A Popular Book Declared “The punishment for Muslims is to kill or hang them, or have a hand on one side and a foot on the other cut off” COMPARE Surah 5:33,“The punishment for those who wage war against God and His Prophet, and perpetrate disorders in the land, is to kill or hang them, or have a hand on one side and a foot on the other cut off, or banish them from the land.”

  14. Making the Case for Jesus not Muhammad

  15. I. These Religions Are Not Sister Faiths – They Cannot Both Be True • Ways to Eternal Life • Confess Christ or Deny Him? Different and Exclusive

  16. Islamic doctrine of “shirk” • Means “association” • Associating anything created with creator • Shirk is idolatry

  17. Surah 4:48 God does not forgive that compeers be ascribed to Him, though He may forgive aught else if He please. And he who ascribes compeers to God is guilty of the greatest sin.

  18. Surah 5:72-73 Whosoever associates a compeer with God, will have Paradise denied to him by God, and his abode shall be Hell; and the sinners will have none to help them. Disbelievers are they surely who say: “God is the third of the trinity;” but there is no God other than God the one.

  19. Surah 3:59 For God the likeness of Jesus is that of Adam whom He fashioned out of dust and said “Be” and he was.

  20. Surah 9:30 The Christians say: “Christ is the son of God.” That is what they say with their tongues following assertions made by unbelievers before them. May they be damned by God: How perverse are they!

  21. I. These Religions Are Not Sister Faiths – They Cannot Both Be True • Ways to Eternal Life • Confess Christ or Deny Him? • Gospel or Death in Jihad? Different and Exclusive

  22. The Hope of Suicide The closest thing to assurance in Islam is death in Jihad! Surah 47:4-6, “So, when you clash with the unbelievers, smite their necks until you overpower them, then hold them in bondage. Then either free them graciously or after taking a ransom, until war shall have come to end. If God had pleased He could have punished them (Himself), but He wills to test some of you through some others. He will not allow the deeds of those who are killed in the cause of God to go to waste. He will show them the way, and better their state, And will admit them into gardens with which he has acquainted them.”

  23. The Hope of Suicide The closest thing to assurance in Islam is death in Jihad! Surah 3:157-158, “If you are killed in the cause of God or you die, the forgiveness and mercy of God are better than all that you amass. And if you die or are killed, even so it is to God that you will return.”

  24. The Hope of Suicide The closest thing to assurance in Islam is death in Jihad! Surah 3:195, “And those who were deprived of their homes or banished in My cause, and who fought and were killed, I shall blot out their sins and admit them indeed into gardens with rippling streams.”

  25. I. These Religions Are Not Sister Faiths – They Cannot Both Be True • Ways to Eternal Life • Written Revelations Different and Exclusive

  26. Islamic doctrine of “tahrif” • The corruption of Jewish & Christian scriptures. • Jews/ Christians disregarded and polluted their scriptures, “Allah’s” word

  27. Surah 22:52 We have sent no messenger or apostle before you with whose recitations Satan did not tamper. Yet God abrogates what Satan interpolates; then He confirms His revelations, for God is all-knowing and all-wise.

  28. I. These Religions Are Not Sister Faiths – They Cannot Both Be True • Ways to Eternal Life • Written Revelations • Gods • Different Natures Different and Exclusive

  29. Surah 4: 171b So believe in God and His apostles, and do not call Him ‘Trinity.’ Abstain from this for your good; for God is only one God, and far from His glory is it to beget a son. All That is in the heavens and the earth belongs to Him; and sufficient is God for all help.

  30. Surah 17:111 And say: “All praise be to God who has neither begotten a son nor has a partner in His kingdom; nor has He need of any one to protect Him from ignominy. So extol Him by extolling His majesty.”

  31. I. These Religions Are Not Sister Faiths – They Cannot Both Be True • Ways to Eternal Life • Written Revelations • Gods • Different Natures • Different Affections Different and Exclusive

  32. Surah 3:32 Say: “Obey God and His Messenger;” and if they refuse (then remember) God does not love disbelievers.

  33. I. These Religions Are Not Sister Faiths – They Cannot Both Be True • Ways to Eternal Life • Written Revelations • Gods • Ways of Dealing with Enemies Different and Exclusive

  34. Different & Exclusive Ways of Treating Enemies Personal Enemies

  35. Surah 22: 39-40 Permission is granted those (to take up arms) who fight because they were oppressed. God is certainly able to give help to those who were driven away from their homes for no other reason than they said: “Our Lord is God.”

  36. Different & Exclusive Ways of Treating Enemies Personal Enemies Spiritual Enemies

  37. Surah 47:4 So, when you clash with the unbelievers, smite their necks until you overpower them, then hold them in bondage. Then either free them graciously or after taking a ransom, until war shall have come to an end. If God had pleased He could have punished them (Himself), but He wills to test some of you through some others. He will not allow the deeds of those who are killed in the cause of God to go to waste.

  38. Different & Exclusive Ways of Treating Enemies Personal Enemies Spiritual Enemies National Enemies

  39. Surah 9:5 But when these months, prohibited (for fighting), are over, slay the idolaters wheresoever you find them, and take them captive or besiege them, and lie in wait for them at every likely place. But if they repent and fulfill their devotional obligations and pay the zakat, then let them go their way, for God is forgiving and kind.

  40. Surah 9:29 “Fight those people of the Book who do not believe in God and the Last Day, who do not prohibit what God and His Apostle have forbidden, nor accept divine law, until all of them pay protective tax in submission.

  41. II. Who Are These Religions For? • Islam is for Arab Men

  42. Limited by Language: Arabic • Surah 26:192, 195 “This (Qur’an) is a revelation from the Lord of all the worlds…In eloquent Arabic.” • Surah 16:103, “Yet We know they say: ‘It is only a man who instructs him.’ The speech of the man they imply is obscure while this is clear Arabic.”

  43. Limited by Geography: Holy Sites • Ka’bah in Mecca • Prophet’s Tomb in Medina • Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem

  44. Inequality of Polygamy Surah 4:3, “Marry women who are lawful for you, two, three, or four; but if you fear you cannot treat so many with equity, marry only one, or a maid or captive. This is better than being iniquitous.”

  45. Inequality in Punishment for Adultery Surah 4:15, “If any of your women is guilty of unnatural offence, bring four of your witnesses to give evidence; if they testify against them, retain them in the houses until death overtakes them or God provides some other way for them.”

  46. Inequality in Rights Surah 2:228, “Women also have recognized rights as men have, though men have an edge over them.”

  47. Inequality in Inheritance Surah 4:11, “As for the children, God decrees that the share of the male is equivalent to that of two females.

  48. Inequality in Credibility Surah 2:282, “And have two of your men to act as witnesses; but if two men are not available, then a man and two women you approve, so that in case one of them is confused the other may prompt her…”

  49. Paradise is for Men Islam’s Carnal Picture of Paradise

  50. Surah 47: 15 The semblance of Paradise promised the pious and devout (is that of a garden) with streams of water that will not go rank, and rivers of milk whose taste will not undergo a change, and rivers of wine delectable to drinkers, and streams of purified honey, and fruits of every kind in them, and forgiveness of their Lord.

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