Does Islam depend on discrediting other faiths in order to be true?

Question

Certainly there are mentions of other religions of other tribes in the Bible, but it doesn’t harp on them over and over again.

Answer 1

Muslims (and Islam) say Jesus was a prophet but they reject all His teachings ....that is hypocrisy.

They reject Christ's diety;
they deny his claim to be the Son of God;
they deny his death on the cross...
they deny His resurrection..
They deny Jesus is the Christ/ Messiah...
In fact, the Quran says : "Allah has no son".
Need I say more...?

Don't be deceived. The Islamic god is totally different than the God of Jesus Christ.

The Bible calls Muhammed and those like him false prophets:
"Who is a liar but he that denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is anti-Christ, that denies the Father and the Son. He that denies the Son, the same has not the Father." (I John 2:22)

Answer 2

All religions depend on discrediting other faiths. It is a huge game of 'My god is better than your god' because there is nothing else to go on.

Hinduism does not mention Judaism because it was not around when it started. Judaism does not mention Christianity and Christianity does not mention Islam - for the same reasons.

Because Islam is the new kid on the block, as it were, it has the other established religions there to heft a couple of bricks at. Just like Christianity has a go at the Jews (Changing the blame for Jesus' crucifixion to them rather than the Romans, for example) Judaism has a blanket swipe at all other religions - 1st commandment or Moses' competition with Pharaoh's 'magicians' (AKA priests) who actually manage to duplicate most of Moses' miracles. I wonder what god they were using that:
1) granted their requests for a miracle.
2) Omnipotent Yahweh was unable to prevent the request from being granted.

Edit:
Proud to be a muslimah:
It is a shame then that many Islamic countries make it illegal to convert from Islam. A lot of Muslims seem to take a different stance than you do. (I am not saying that they read the Quran correctly or that other religions are any better.)

Rev Albert:
Well Duh. That is why it is a different religion. And once again you debase a great man who had nothing in common with you.

John R
What jail time did Fallwell or Buchanan serve for spewing their vitrol?

Dreamdress
You need to look at the history of Christianity. That is exactly what they did for the first 1500+ years of the religion.

Answer 3

Sort of.

Only with the understanding that monotheistic religions depend on discrediting other faiths.

Judaism was still pretty much monolatry/henotheism at the alleged time of Christ, but even today there are Jews who say my god is the only god there is, so it's all the Abrahamic religions, including Islam, Christianity AND Judaism.

Answer 4

Yes. When Jesus said " It is finished", that does not mean that there is going to be another guy after Him to wipe the sacrificial death off and you are left with doing deeds again.

Answer 5

Islam claims to be a restoration or upgrade from Christianity which is an upgrade form Judaism.

Answer 6

American boxer, Three times World Heavyweight Champion, embraced Islam in 1965.

"I have had many nice moments in my life. But the feelings I had while standing on Mount Arafat (just outside Makka, Saudi Arabia) on the day of the Hajj (the Muslim pilgrimage), was the most unique. I felt exalted by the indescribable spiritual atmosphere there as over one and a half million pilgrims invoked God to forgive them for their sins and bestow on them His choicest blessings.

It was an exhilarating experience to see people belonging to different colours, races and nationalities, kings, heads of state and ordinary men from very poor countries all clad in two simple white sheets praying to God without any sense of either pride or inferiority.

It was a practical manifestation of the concept of equality in Islam."

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One of the first public figures in America to be identified with Islam was boxer Muhammad Ali, to whom more media attention has been given than to any other athlete. He has appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated more than thirty times, and his name and face are known to people all over the world.

Ali was born Cassius Marcellus Clay in 1942 in Louisville, Kentucky, of a Baptist mother and Methodist father. He started boxing at a young age so as to be able to buy his parents a car; by the time he was in his twenties, many considered him the greatest fighter of all time. After winning the Rome Olympics in 1960, he became the darling of the American public-handsome, charming, and greatly successful. In 1963 he recorded an album in which he extolled his own merits ("I am the greatest") in a stunt that brought him even greater publicity but also earned him some ridicule.

Eighteen days before he defeated Sonny Liston to become heavyweight champion of the world, Clay joined the "Black Muslims," influenced by Malcolm X. After his conversion he seems visibly to have changed, bragging less about his accomplishments and stressing the importance of Islam as a spiritual force in his life. Adopting the Muslim name Muhammad Ali, he has always insisted, was one of the most important occurrences in his life. He did it, however, at a time when the Nation of Islam was unpopular in the United States. The boxing commission was furious, and from a hero Ali quickly became the object of suspicion, Meanwhile, when the rift in the Nation occurred between Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm, Ali to the deep disappointment and hurt of his friend Malcolm, sided with Elijah, whom he believed to be God's messenger. In 1967, in opposition to the Vietnam War, Ali refused to be inducted into the armed forces on the grounds that he was a minister in the religion of Islam. The New York State Athletic Commission suspended his boxing license and withdrew his recognition as champion.

Muhammad Ali's later career has been extremely checkered, and it is generally recognized that he fought well beyond the time that his physical condition allowed. He was finally diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease. Meanwhile, he also did a great deal of public speaking about his life and about Islam, while the government continued surveillance on him as a member of the Nation of Islam. Never a strong advocate of the Nation's racist doctrines, he did preach racial pride and became a hero of Black Americans.

Today, Ali continues to practice Islam, lending his name to the distribution of Islamic education materials. He has been a significant contributor to the financing of Islamic institutions such as Masjid al-Faatir, the first mosque built from the ground up in the city of Chicago. The truly great men of history, he has said, want not to be great themselves but to help others and be close to God.

Answer 7

Have you noticed how Islamic sites ALWAYS have a 'why other religions are false' section.

Answer 8

Extreme Islam seems to depend on converting or eliminating other faiths. Not my words, read their own statements, and read the Quran (Koran or however you spell it.)

Answer 9

Where are the voices of those who are ashamed of what has happened to what they call a peaceful religion? Where oh where is the voice of Condemnation from the Muslim Community...the silence is deafening......

If you don't speak out about a sin, you by your very silence, condone it.

Answer 10

All religions depend on belittling other religions. Either through words or battle. My god is better than your god.

Free yourself from religion. Open your mind.