To all you Muslim haters, have you read the Koran? read on...?

Question

I am a Christian who has read both the Bible and Koran (spelling may differ)but there is no real difference between the books. After all in NI there was/is problems between prods and caths and they study the same book, before yo all rant and rave about Muslims, check how you treat others cefore blaming religion!!

Answer 1

you know, the quran can never be translated exactly into english because the true arabic meaning will be lost- which is why some of u people have read different translations and your views are messed up! *eh hem steve*... i suggest u learn arabic and then come back.

Answer 2

I have read both as well. There are alot of similarities. I think most religions are comparable. Everyone picks what they chose to abide by. But generally the idea is the same. BE good. Worship. I actually like the Muslim religion. I too am christian, However this question seems more of an argument starter than anything else. Why not promote the Muslim religion through peacful ways rather than come off as hypocrite? Just merely my opinion.

Answer 3

Peace!! Koran is just a 'current default document' , a beacon for those who believe in the previous scriptures likes Torah etc. (check The Koran: Al Baqara 2-7) Every messenger brings the same message and teachings. The peoples who claims they are the keepers (such as scholar/saints) are the real evil. They create religion and claims it is from the messenger/God. With or without them, as long as we life in harmony, do all good deeds..we are actually follow and submit to the God's system. Christians, Jews, Muslims - we are the people of the Books, God of Abraham-he is a monotheist. There is no religion. We only have one God, The Lord of Universe.

Answer 4

Dude, a lot of educated people doesn't hate Muslims. It's just the rednecks who're easily manipulated and brainwashed by Bush who does. Aside from the people I just mentioned, Muslim people are the same as you or me; we're all human beings. I've never took the time to read the Koran, but I do have a lot of Muslim friends and they've all told me that the terrorists have extremely misinterpreted it and that's why they're doing all these suicide bombings. I've also learned that the Koran and the Bible are very similar, so both of them could be variants of the original thing (whatever, if ever, that existed). So don't worry about what others think about the Muslim people, dude, they're so stupid, their opinions doesn't count.

Answer 5

There are similarities between the Bible stories and the Qur'an (Koran), but not that many (and some of those are adapted)
To give one example there are references to the unity of Father Son and Holy Spirit which Christians call the Trinity. The Qur'an states something like, " ...say not Trinity, or you will...."

It is puzzling at first, why these similarities, especially of the characters involved, do exist. On reading some history of those times you will find out that Mohammad and his contemporaries were exposed to much Christian and Jewish culture, practices and preaching. Many of his fellow Arabs were Christian. It was his cousinn who supplied the name of the angel (Gabriel) that he said had appeared to him. This exposure would have continued after he started receiving dreams which went on for quite a few years before the Qur'an was written by a group of Mohammed's fellow believers.

The word Qur'an means something like, 'he collected things together" . This is, I think, what happened. Some of the Christian and Jewish beliefs and many Jewish religious practices like the prayer hat, facing a particular direction, fasting, seperaation of women during prayers, etc., were collected and (vaguely, because they were not properly understood by the Arabs, and inaccurately) included in the Qur'an together with alot of Arabic culture and wise teaching.

Answer 6

True. aknowledge before u make decision. once a spanish priest read the Quran (Koran) and found the shocking similarities it has with the Bible. Rather then converting to islam, he protested in his community and asked any person, priest, etc to challenge him with ideas in the Bible (challenge on what's right or wrong)... reading the Quran has made him more knowledgable on the Bible and it helped him find more than a 1000 laws, duties, manners, that christians neglect.... he also didnt need to use the Quran to present his evidence. he had it easily shown in the Bible... and he asked... why do christians not memorize a single line of their Bible when a 7 year old muslims memorizes every chapter of the Quran. that's amazing. People. u need to discover, travel,a and explore. open ur minds.

Answer 7

Koran reads: "Mohammed is Allah's apostle. Those who follow him are ruthless to the unbelievers but merciful to one another." it goes on to tell how believers are like seeds that grow and "Through them Allah seeks to enrage the unbelievers." Sounds like what they are doing today through terror doesn't it getting the unbelievers enraged. But is this the best course of action? To enrage others doesn't really persuade them to the religion now does it. And these are the kind of statements in the Koran that extremists use in teaching new converts to terrorism. Most Muslims don't act this way. But where in the Bible does it say anything like this? Where does the Bible encourage you to kill nonbelievers? I haven't seen it. I don't consider myself much of a Christian either I pick and choose from each religion what I feel is right. I sometimes think Buddhism is the better of the main religions of the world.

Answer 8

From the outset I dont hold any major religious beliefs. I dont disike any particular group of people based on creed or colour. Each to their own - I actually admire people who live by a belief system. However, no matter who or where you come from, or what you believe it is morally wrong to promote hatred /war / terrorism because you dont share a belief system or cultural identity.

Yes - you do get the crazy Muslim clerics preaching hatred and Jihad. But lets not forget the millions of Muslims worldwide who condem this.

Christians are not blameless - the British invented Concentration Camps, the Jews have been persecuted by most major religions throughout history.

Let us not be quick to judge but quick to try and understand.

Answer 9

Lets stop talking about who is the terrorist
(I am sick of it... Its not the religion but It is the follower.... But you also have to noted down that Religion affects the follower)
Lets talk about who would be the Messiah
On Koran, Mohammed ask his follower to pray for him
On the Bibble Jesus assure us that we would go to Heaven if we follow his teaching

Answer 10

It's not Islam that's the problem. It's radical Islam that's the problem. If you can't see that by now, I wouldn't suggest testing their tolerance. Most Christians I know will tolerate other people. Try walking through the mid-east wearing a cross once - probably not so tolerant would be my guess.

Answer 11

although i have not read the "quran" its not so much that i hate muslims, its just that terrorists have given the religion a bad name and because of that i will openly say that whenever i see a muslim in my home town of chicago i wonder if they're there to blow up something...i know that they r probably law abiding citizens but in todays age it makes u wonder