The Koran [and yes i have read most of it] recognizes Jesus as just another prophet, and he is the second most important prophet in Islam, the first most important being Mohammed of course. They believe the christians had it right until they started focusing on the prophet jesus and on other prophets/saints. This is why there are no pictures of Islam's important people in the mosques, just landscapes and things like that. Allah is the same as the Christian and Jewish god, but with a more recent book atached, 'allah' is just the arabic word for god. Yahweh, the Jewish version of god has the old testament, the christian version tacks on the new testament after that, and the islamic version of god just tacks on their more recent holy scriptures, and their prophet mohammed. The Koran interprets god diferently from the old testament and new testament, but also reminds of the fact that its the same god. Islam, Judaism and Christianity all look at the same god, but its like a department store mirror, each religion sees a different angle.
Islam is nicer though I think, first of all because of their emphasis on personal clenliness, and they who invented Islam were more advanced than the rest of the world at the time. Facing east in order to pray toward Mecca is an example of this, as they knew the world was round, and you would eventually hit Mecca if you walked long enough; they also invented algebra.
Islam is nicer though I think, first of all because of their emphasis on personal clenliness, and they who invented Islam were more advanced than the rest of the world at the time. Facing east in order to pray toward Mecca is an example of this, as they knew the world was round, and you would eventually hit Mecca if you walked long enough; they also invented algebra.
Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys" - P.J. O'Rourke
"Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't." - Margaret Thatcher
"Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success." - Christopher Lasch
"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys" - P.J. O'Rourke
"Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't." - Margaret Thatcher
"Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success." - Christopher Lasch
