Nothing In Common

Nothing In Common
By Abdullah Al Araby
Islam, in the West, is fighting its battle of acceptance and legitimacy. Muslim activists are working fervently trying to improve Islam's image. Their goal is to create an environment in which Islam can be easily propagated. Their tool is as old as Islam itself, but they have just rediscovered it. This tool is telling Christians that Islam and Christianity have a lot in common. They cite Islam's belief in the Bible, God, Jesus, Mary, the prophets, the day of judgment and Paradise.

This tactic is not new to Islam. Fourteen centuries ago, Mohammed, the prophet of Islam, used it when he started preaching his new religion in Mecca. At the beginning when Mohammed was weak, he was conciliatory and appeasing to Christians. He told them, "We believe in what has been sent down to us (The Quran), and sent down to you (The Bible). Our God is the same as your God." Surah 29:46. Later, in Medina, after Mohammed became strong, all this changed. Allah, allegedly, tells him then, "Fight people of the Book (Christians and Jews) who do not accept the religion of the truth (Islam) until they pay tribute by hand, being inferior." Surah 9:29

The fact is that the differences between Christianity and Islam are very deep, and irreconcilable. The space limitation will enable us to list just a few.

Our God
is not
their Allah
Our God is a loving Father, who, along with the Son and the Holy Spirit, is One God.

To Muslims, the concept of a triune God is a blasphemy.

" They do blaspheme who say God is one of three..., for there is no God except one God." Surah 5:73

Allah of Islam is changeable.

"Our revelations we abrogate or cause to be forgotten, we substitute (with) something better or similar. Knowest thou not that God (Allah) hath power over all things." Surah 2:106

Allah of Islam is temperamental.

"If we had so willed, we could certainly have brought every soul its true guidance, but the word from me will come true "I will fill Hell with Jinns (demons) and men all together." Surah 32:13

Allah of Islam is a deceiver.

"They plot and plan, and God, too plans, but the best of planners (deceivers) is God." Surah 8:30

Allah of Islam is frightening.

"It is God whom ye should more justly fear, if you believe." Surah 9:13
Our Jesus
is not
their Isa
Our Jesus is the Son of God who died on the Cross to save the whole world. (In the Quran Jesus ' name is Isa. )

Isa is a created human being.

"The similitude of Isa before God is as that of Adam; He created him from dust, Then said to him: "Be" : And he was." Surah 3:59

Isa is just an apostle.

"O people of the book (Christians) commit no excess in your religion: nor say of God aught but truth, Christ Isa the son of Mary was (No more than) an apostle of God." Surah 4: 171

Isa was not crucified.

"That they said (in boast) "we killed Christ Isa, the son of Mary"...but they killed him not, nor crucified him." Surah 4:157

Isa will return to earth to destroy the Cross.

" The hour will not be established until the son of Mary (Jesus) descends amongst you as a just ruler, he will break the Cross.." Hadith vol. 3:656