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Originally Posted by Izzibeth
Of course I am not condoning the treatment of women by Islam. But how some people can sit here and say "barbaric!" and then go home and choose to read specific chapters in a book that they are supposed to be living by in it's entirety that happens to have the exact same things written in it... makes no sense to me. Yes. Islam is barbaric in the way it treats women and expects women to behave. But the Bible says the same thing. What does that make you?
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Islam is barbaric! Seventh century barbaric! Whereas for centuries Christianity and Judaism were also barbaric and held back the progress of mankind for centuries like Islam, they eventually both underwent reformations that allowed for the further evolution of mankind into modernity. The harmful and inferior aspects of Christianity and Judaism were cast aside while the beneficial and superior aspects were retained.
Further, the holy books of Christianity and Judaism never purported themselves to be the direct, divine, and immutable word of God, so they never were understood to be taken literally, whereas, on the other hand, the holy book of Islam, the Quran, has always been said to be the direct, divine, and immutable word of God and so can only be taken literally.
Islam in effect is a bastardization of both Christianity and Judaism and to make his religion supreme over all other religions, Mohammed claimed that he was God’s final prophet and that his message superseded the messages of all other prophets before him and also that there would be no prophets after him. To further make his religion supreme above all others, Mohammed also claimed that his message was the direct word of God as delivered to him by the archangel Gabriel.