“O you who have believed, do not ask about things which, if they are shown to you, will distress you….A people asked such before you; then they became thereby disbelievers.” (Qur’an 5:101-102)
Such a passage hardly ... read full comment
“O you who have believed, do not ask about things which, if they are shown to you, will distress you….A people asked such before you; then they became thereby disbelievers.” (Qur’an 5:101-102)
Such a passage hardly inculcates a spirit of free inquiry and intellectual curiosity. And this is the wave of the future: since the Western government and media elites are now dedicated to avoiding offending Muslims at all costs, and even asking theological questions can offend Muslims, we all just must accept the dictates of our new overlords without question. Wan Sulaiman Wan Ismail should have known better.
“For seeking answers on Islam, Muslim gets charged with blasphemy,” by Zurairi Ar, Malay Mail Online, May 29, 2015:
KUALA LUMPUR, May 29 — “I bear witness that there is no god but Allah,” is the first part of the shahadah, a declaration of faith for Muslims, which has its origins in a verse in the Quran.
“I bear witness that Muhammad is the messenger of God,” is the second part, but unlike the first, it does not appear in any of the holy scriptures.
So, where did it come from?
This was the question on the mind of Wan Sulaiman Wan Ismail, 53, when he sought clarification in 2013 from religious teachers on the origin of a practice considered as one of the key pillars of Islam.
The former businessman from Perak said he raised that question to several religious teachers, including scholars in the Ipoh mufti office, the Perak religious authorities and even state mosque imams. Many of these clerics, he said, were familiar with him as he met with them regularly for the past 15 years.
None, however, were able to answer him, so Wan Sulaiman stopped asking a year later.
But for seeking answers, Wan Sulaiman earned the attention of the Perak Islamic Religious Department (JAIP). He was summoned several times in 2014 by the authority, whose officers he claimed tried to dissuade him from posing his questions and to convince him to abandon several Quranic practices he has adopted.
The matter came to a head on January 21 this year when state religious enforcers raided his home in Ipoh and confiscated his handwritten personal notes, in addition to screening his personal computer and mobile phone.
On the same day, Wan Sulaiman was charged in the Ipoh Shariah High Court under Section 15 of the Perak Shariah Criminal Enactment 1992, with “mocking, ridiculing or insulting Quranic or hadith texts”.
According to a copy of his charge sheet sighted by Malay Mail Online, the Perak religious enforcers claimed that Wan Sulaiman possessed notes, some of which were hung on his wall, that allegedly “ridicule” the hadith — the collections of Prophet Muhammad’s sayings and deeds.
Wan Sulaiman, however, insisted that the notes were meant only for his personal use.
The prosecution also accused him of disputing authentic hadith for failing to interpret the Quran, and of rejecting the shahadah as taught by Muhammad by allegedly only accepting the first part.
He was also accused of translating the terms “fajar prayers” and “wusto prayers” by “using his own intellect without referring to the Prophet’s hadith”.
His case was set to be heard on May 21, but it was postponed to July 2. If guilty, Wan Sulaiman can be fined not more than RM5,000, jailed not more than three years, or both….
Culled from the Jihad Watch.
AJARA SAMANTHA 8 years ago
Man decapitated in suspected French Islamist attack
Saint-Quentin-Fallavier (France) (AFP) - At least one suspected Islamist launched a daylight raid on a gas factory in eastern France Friday, pinning a decapitated head to ... read full comment
Man decapitated in suspected French Islamist attack
Saint-Quentin-Fallavier (France) (AFP) - At least one suspected Islamist launched a daylight raid on a gas factory in eastern France Friday, pinning a decapitated head to the gates and injuring at least two others with explosive devices.
"The intent was without doubt to cause an explosion. It was a terrorist attack," said President Francois Hollande in Brussels, cutting short an EU summit to hold emergency meetings in the French capital.
Hollande said a vehicle driven at high speed by "one person, maybe accompanied by another" smashed into the factory, around 40 kilometres (25 miles) from France's second city Lyon.
"At the time I am speaking, there is one dead and two injured," said a grim-faced Hollande, calling for "solidarity" for the victim, who was found with Arabic inscriptions on him.
The 35-year-old attacker, identified as Yacine Salhi, had been known to security services for a number of years but did not have a criminal record, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said.
He was taken into custody and an anti-terrorist probe has been launched, he said.
French security stand next to the enclosed area where a decapitated body was found, near the Air Pro …
The gruesome killing came nearly six months after the Islamist attacks in and around Paris that left 17 people dead and started with a shooting at satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
For months, Europe has been on high-alert for so-called "lone wolf" attacks that are very difficult to prevent after Islamists urged supporters to carry out assaults wherever they could.
"There was a decapitated body with inscriptions," said Hollande, although sources close to the enquiry said it was not clear whether the victim was transported to the site or whether the beheading was carried out at the factory site.
"A flag with Arabic writing on it was found at the scene," said Cazeneuve, and the text was being translated.
The suspect entered the factory owned by American group Air Products and set off several small explosive devices, sources close to the investigation said, with at least two people hurt in the assault.
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls ordered security measures stepped up at all sensitive sites in th …
Police said it was unclear whether the attacker was acting alone, or had accomplices.
Security services drew up a file on the suspect in 2006 for radicalisation, but he had no criminal record, said Cazeneuve, who went immediately to the scene.
He had a "link" to the Salafist movement, an extreme form of Sunni Islam, Cazeneuve added, stressing that the investigation was in its early stages.
Prime Minister Manuel Valls, who is on an official trip in South America, ordered security measures stepped up at all sensitive sites in the area.
The attack occurred around 10:00 am local time (0800 GMT), according to local media, in the small town of Saint-Quentin-Fallavier, near Lyon.
French police secure the entrance of the Air Products company in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier, near Lyon …
"This is a small town and a large industrial zone. There's never been any concern in the region. We're all surprised. We're really in shock this morning," an employee at a nearby business told rolling news channel BMFTV.
- 'March against terrorism' -
France has been on high alert since January 7 when two Islamist brothers attacked Charlie Hebdo, killing 12. A policewoman and four hostages in a Jewish supermarket were also killed during the three-day attacks.
The January attacks drew record crowds onto the streets of Paris in a historic "march against terrorism".
Nearly four million people marched through the streets of France and more than 1.5 million in the French capital along with dozens of world leaders to express defiance in the wake of the attacks.
A flag with Arabic writing on it was found at the scene of the attack in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier (AF …
World leaders began reacting to the news only a few hours after the attack, with Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy saying that "barbarism will always be confronted by unity among democrats."
France has a high proportion of people that have gone to fight alongside Islamists in Iraq and Syria and has the biggest Muslim population in Europe.
Earlier this week, the country passed a controversial new spying law granting sweeping powers to snoop on citizens.
The new French law allows authorities to spy on the digital and mobile communications of anyone linked to a "terrorist" inquiry without prior authorisation from a judge, and forces Internet service providers and phone companies to give up data upon request.
Intelligence services will have the right to place cameras and recording devices in private dwellings and install "keylogger" devices that record every key stroke on a targeted computer in real time.
USMAN 8 years ago
Just when you thought you'd heard it all: A report circulating throughout the Arabic-language media claims a leading Saudi cleric has issued a fatwa (religious ruling) permitting husbands to eat their wives (yes, eat them) in ... read full comment
Just when you thought you'd heard it all: A report circulating throughout the Arabic-language media claims a leading Saudi cleric has issued a fatwa (religious ruling) permitting husbands to eat their wives (yes, eat them) in the event that they are really, really hungry.
The report appeared among other places in the major pan-Arab, London-based Al Quds Al-Arabi, which cited the alleged edict by the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia Abdul Aziz ibn Abdullah Al-Asheikh permitting a husband to eat his wife if he is afflicted with "severe hunger".
It claimed Al-Asheikh clarified that the husband could choose to eat her entirely or, if he wasn't that hungry, to limit himself to a limb or two, or a "portion of flesh."
According to the report, the ruling's basis was that it exhibited the degree to which a woman should be devoted to her husband and desire for them to become "of one flesh."
The alleged ruling provoked a storm of criticism and mockery in equal measure in Saudi Arabia and across the Arab world, particularly on Twitter, which is widely used throughout the gulf kingdom.
However other Saudi Twitter users quickly cast significant doubt on the authenticity of the story, noting that it first originated in Rai Al Youm - a paper considered pro-Iranian and hostile to the Saudi regime, without any corroboration.
Moreover, the alleged ruling does not appear anywhere on the Mufti's official website,
Either way, the controversy has generated some fairly hilarious responses on Twitter, including this one suggesting Al-Asheikh change his title to "Mufti of the Zombies."
Fake or not, i[t] would be far from the first extreme or controversial ruling issued by the mufti.
In 2012, he infamously ruled that all churches in the region should be destroyed.
And according to Al Quds Al-Arabi this most recent ruling by Al-Asheikh comes just weeks after he ruled that marrying a girl younger than the age of 15 was permitted according to Islam - another controversial ruling, particularly in light of the growing concern over the phenomenon of child brides in the Muslim world.
Culled from the Arutz Sheva.
ALISHATHA BABA 8 years ago
Man decapitated in suspected French Islamist attack
French police secure the entrance of the Air Products company in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier, near Lyon, central eastern France, on June 26, 2015 after a suspected Islamis ... read full comment
Man decapitated in suspected French Islamist attack
French police secure the entrance of the Air Products company in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier, near Lyon, central eastern France, on June 26, 2015 after a suspected Islamist attack
Saint-Quentin-Fallavier (France) (AFP) - At least one suspected Islamist launched a daylight raid on a gas factory in eastern France Friday, pinning a decapitated head to the gates and injuring at least two others with explosive devices.
"The intent was without doubt to cause an explosion. It was a terrorist attack," said President Francois Hollande in Brussels, cutting short an EU summit to hold emergency meetings in the French capital.
Hollande said a vehicle driven at high speed by "one person, maybe accompanied by another" smashed into the factory, around 40 kilometres (25 miles) from France's second city Lyon.
"At the time I am speaking, there is one dead and two injured," said a grim-faced Hollande, calling for "solidarity" for the victim, who was found with Arabic inscriptions on him.
The 35-year-old attacker, identified as Yacine Salhi, had been known to security services for a number of years but did not have a criminal record, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said.
He was taken into custody and an anti-terrorist probe has been launched, he said.
French security stand next to the enclosed area where a decapitated body was found, near the Air Pro …
The gruesome killing came nearly six months after the Islamist attacks in and around Paris that left 17 people dead and started with a shooting at satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
For months, Europe has been on high-alert for so-called "lone wolf" attacks that are very difficult to prevent after Islamists urged supporters to carry out assaults wherever they could.
"There was a decapitated body with inscriptions," said Hollande, although sources close to the enquiry said it was not clear whether the victim was transported to the site or whether the beheading was carried out at the factory site.
"A flag with Arabic writing on it was found at the scene," said Cazeneuve, and the text was being translated.
The suspect entered the factory owned by American group Air Products and set off several small explosive devices, sources close to the investigation said, with at least two people hurt in the assault.
View galleryFrench Prime Minister Manuel Valls ordered security …
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls ordered security measures stepped up at all sensitive sites in th …
Police said it was unclear whether the attacker was acting alone, or had accomplices.
Security services drew up a file on the suspect in 2006 for radicalisation, but he had no criminal record, said Cazeneuve, who went immediately to the scene.
He had a "link" to the Salafist movement, an extreme form of Sunni Islam, Cazeneuve added, stressing that the investigation was in its early stages.
Prime Minister Manuel Valls, who is on an official trip in South America, ordered security measures stepped up at all sensitive sites in the area.
The attack occurred around 10:00 am local time (0800 GMT), according to local media, in the small town of Saint-Quentin-Fallavier, near Lyon.
French police secure the entrance of the Air Products company in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier, near Lyon …
"This is a small town and a large industrial zone. There's never been any concern in the region. We're all surprised. We're really in shock this morning," an employee at a nearby business told rolling news channel BMFTV.
- 'March against terrorism' -
France has been on high alert since January 7 when two Islamist brothers attacked Charlie Hebdo, killing 12. A policewoman and four hostages in a Jewish supermarket were also killed during the three-day attacks.
The January attacks drew record crowds onto the streets of Paris in a historic "march against terrorism".
Nearly four million people marched through the streets of France and more than 1.5 million in the French capital along with dozens of world leaders to express defiance in the wake of the attacks.
View galleryA flag with Arabic writing on it was found at the scene …
A flag with Arabic writing on it was found at the scene of the attack in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier (AF …
World leaders began reacting to the news only a few hours after the attack, with Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy saying that "barbarism will always be confronted by unity among democrats."
France has a high proportion of people that have gone to fight alongside Islamists in Iraq and Syria and has the biggest Muslim population in Europe.
Earlier this week, the country passed a controversial new spying law granting sweeping powers to snoop on citizens.
The new French law allows authorities to spy on the digital and mobile communications of anyone linked to a "terrorist" inquiry without prior authorisation from a judge, and forces Internet service providers and phone companies to give up data upon request.
Intelligence services will have the right to place cameras and recording devices in private dwellings and install "keylogger" devices that record every key stroke on a targeted computer in real time.
BELLO BELLO 8 years ago
ISIS sells 42 Yazidi women to fighters in Syria:
THIS is how women are treated in ISLAM. Women are less important in quran and in the eyes of Islamic Allah. ISIS has sold these 42 women to its fighters as sex slaves. If ... read full comment
ISIS sells 42 Yazidi women to fighters in Syria:
THIS is how women are treated in ISLAM. Women are less important in quran and in the eyes of Islamic Allah. ISIS has sold these 42 women to its fighters as sex slaves. If you are a black African Muslim, think of what you are getting yourself in. Islam is demonic religion. It has no respect for human beings. It is a violent religion.
Beirut (AFP) - The Islamic State group on Thursday sold 42 Iraqi women it had abducted from the Yazidi religious minority to its fighters in eastern Syria, a monitor said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the women were being treated as "slaves" by the jihadists and were sold "for between $500 (447 euros) and $2,000 dollars (1,785 euros)".
The women were kidnapped last year in the Sinjar region of northern Iraq where IS had launched a wide offensive, the Britain-based monitor said.
Earlier this month they were brought to the IS-held town of Mayadeen in Syria's eastern Deir Ezzor province.
"Some were abducted with their children but we do not know their fate," said Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman.
The Yazidis, a religious minority which lives mainly in Iraq's Sinjar region, are neither Muslims nor Arabs and follow a unique faith. They are considered infidels by the jihadists.
In 2014, the jihadists massacred Yazidis, forced tens of thousands of them to flee, captured thousands of girls and women as spoils of war and used them as sex slaves.
The UN has said the atrocities committed against the small community may amount to gen
ABULAI JATO 8 years ago
IS kills 120 civilians in 'massacre' in Syria's Kobane
Beirut (AFP) - At least 120 civilians have been killed by the Islamic State group since it entered the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobane just over 24 hours ago, a monito ... read full comment
IS kills 120 civilians in 'massacre' in Syria's Kobane
Beirut (AFP) - At least 120 civilians have been killed by the Islamic State group since it entered the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobane just over 24 hours ago, a monitoring group said Friday.
Thousands flee as Syria Kurds advance on IS-held border town AFP
IS 'executes 23 Kurds' in village near Syria's Kobane AFP
IS attacks Syria's Kobane in new offensive after setbacks AFP
Thousands flee as Kurds advance on IS-held Syria town AFP
Islamic State commits major massacre in Syria's Kobani: monitor Reuters
"According to medical sources and Kobane residents, 120 civilians were executed by IS in their homes or killed by the group's rockets or snipers," said Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
He described it as one of the group's "worst massacres" in Syria.
Another 26 civilians were executed by IS on Thursday in a village near Kobane, on the border with Turkey, the Observatory said.
"When they entered the town, the jihadists took up positions in buildings at the southeast and southwest entrances, firing at everything that moved," Abdel Rahman said.
He said the bodies of civilians, among them women and children, were found in their homes and in the streets.
"The jihadists knew that they could not stay and control the town in the face of the Kurdish forces. They came just to kill and strike a moral blow to the Kurds," Abdel Rahman said.
Kurdish activist Arin Shekhmos said: "Every family in Kobane lost a family member on Thursday."
IS launched a surprise attack on Kobane on Thursday involving three suicide bombers, just over a week after Kurdish militia ousted it from Tal Abyad, another border town further east.
A wounded child is brought to the hospital in Suruc in Turkey's Sanliurfa province on June 25, 2 …
Analysts said the assault was revenge for the loss of Tal Abyad.
Backed by US air strikes and Syrian rebel groups, Kurdish militia had pushed IS out of Kobane in January in one of the jihadists' most dramatic defeats.
The Islamic State group killed 120 civilians in a 24-hour rampage through the Kurdish town of Kobane in what a monitor said Friday was one of the jihadists' "worst massacres" in Syria.
The killing spree in the town, which has become a symbol of Kurdish resistance, was widely seen as vengeance for a series of defeats inflicted on the jihadists by Kurdish militia in recent weeks.
It began after three IS suicide bombers blew up vehicles at the entrances to the town on Thursday clearing the way for fellow jihadists to enter.
Women and children were among the slain civilians whose bodies were found in their homes and in the streets, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
"According to medical sources and Kobane residents, 120 civilians were executed by IS in their homes or killed by the group's rockets or snipers," Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP.
"When they entered the town, the jihadists took up positions in buildings at the southeast and southwest entrances, firing at everything that moved."
View galleryPeople in Suruc in Turkey's Sanliurfa province …
People in Suruc in Turkey's Sanliurfa province look across the Syrian border on June 25, 2015 at …
Local journalist Mostafa Ali said that there was no military dimension to the IS assault on Kobane.
"IS doesn't want to take over the town. They just came to kill the highest number of civilians in the ugliest ways possible," he told AFP.
The jihadist group also executed 26 civilians in a village outside Kobane on Thursday, the Observatory said.
"Every family in Kobane lost a family member on Thursday," Kurdish activist Arin Shekhmos said.
- 'Human shields' in Kobane -
The jihadists had entered Kobane at dawn on Thursday disguised as fighters of the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), said journalist Ali.
They then took up positions in buildings in the south of the town, using civilians as "human shields," he said.
"There are at least 70 civilians in these various neighbourhoods that have been taken hostage by IS," he added.
View galleryPeople wait at the border fence across from Suruc in …
People wait at the border fence across from Suruc in Turkey's Sanliurfa province, on June 25, 20 …
"The YPG has sent reinforcements and have encircled the buildings, but the situation is difficult. The YPG doesn't want to hurt the women and children there."
More than 1,000 fleeing civilians waited on the Syrian side of the frontier with Turkey on Friday, carefully watched by the Turkish troops and police on the other side.
Relatives who had made it to the Turkish side waved their hands and cried in despair, an AFP photographer reported.
Kobane was the scene of one of IS's most dramatic defeats in January when it was ousted by Kurdish militia backed by US-led air strikes after four months of heavy fighting.
Kurdish fighters have gone on to seize Tal Abyad, another border town farther east, in a heavy blow to the jihadists' supply lines.
- Civilians flee Hasakeh -
IS has hit back with an offensive against the city of Hasakeh in the northeast, capital of the mainly Kurdish province of the same name.
"Thousands of civilians have fled the two neighbourhoods taken by IS on Thursday," Abdel Rahman said.
He said Syrian government forces were carrying out air strikes against jihadist positions in the city, where they share control with Kurdish forces.
At least 20 jihadists and 30 pro-government fighters were killed when IS captured southern parts of the city.
Shekhmos, the Kurdish activist, said civilians from those neighbourhoods had fled to the Kurdish-controlled parts of the city, but that the YPG had yet to get involved in the fighting.
The jihadists previously advanced to the southern edge of Hasakeh in May but were pushed back by government forces.
In southern Syria, a rebel alliance pressed an assault on the city of Daraa which it began on Thursday.
Some 40 people have been killed in the fighting for the city, a provincial capital.
President Bashar al-Assad's regime has already lost two provincial capitals in the four-year-old civil war: IS-held Raqa in the Euphrates valley and Idlib in the northwest, which is held by a rebel alliance including Al-Qaeda.
At least 230,000 people have been killed since the conflict erupted in 2011.
ISMAEL MOHAMMED 8 years ago
Tunisia Beach Gunfire Kills 'At Least 27' As Man Decapitated In French 'Islamist' Attack
THIS IS how Jihadists MUSLIMS observe their holy month called Ramadan. These jihadist Muslims know that Ramadan is not holy. It is ... read full comment
Tunisia Beach Gunfire Kills 'At Least 27' As Man Decapitated In French 'Islamist' Attack
THIS IS how Jihadists MUSLIMS observe their holy month called Ramadan. These jihadist Muslims know that Ramadan is not holy. It is time for Muslims to kill their enemies.
Separate attacks see gunman open fire on beach in Tunisian tourist resort, as man is decapitated in 'Islamist attack' near Grenoble
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Two separate attacks have caused chaos in Tunisia and France today as a gunman opened fire on a tourist beach hours after a man was decapitated in a French factory.
ASANA KADIJA 8 years ago
Somali militants attack African Union peacekeepers' base
Car bomb aimed at UAE officials kills three Somali soldiers in Mogadishu Reuters
Four militants killed in raid on Somali government site, attack over Reuters
S ... read full comment
Somali militants attack African Union peacekeepers' base
Car bomb aimed at UAE officials kills three Somali soldiers in Mogadishu Reuters
Four militants killed in raid on Somali government site, attack over Reuters
Security forces foil suicide attack in Somali town: police Reuters
Blast heard in Somali capital, cause unknown: Reuters witnesses Reuters
Somalia soldier, 4 militants killed in training site attack Associated Press
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Al Shabaab militants battled with African Union (AU) troops in Somalia on Friday after exploding a car bomb at a peacekeepers' base south of Mogadishu at dawn, military officials and a rebel spokesman said.
The attack in Leego, some 130 km (80 miles) south of the Somali capital, came as residents gathered for morning prayers. It was the latest of several assaults since the Islamic holy month of Ramadan began a week ago.
The Islamist militants fighting to overthrow the Western-backed Mogadishu government have often launched attacks during Ramadan and officials had deployed additional security because of the heightened security risk.
"A car bomb rammed into the AU base," Somali Major Nur Olow said. "AU forces opened fire at the speeding car bomb (but) the car forced its way in."
"AMISOM confirms there is an ongoing attack at their Leego Somalia base that started this morning," the African Union Mission in Somalia peacekeeping force (AMISOM) said on Twitter.
The fighting was still raging three hours after the assault began, said Abdikadir Mohamed Sidi, governor of the Lower Shabelle region where Leego is located on the main road connecting Mogadishu and the inland city of Baidoa.
"There is still heavy fighting between Burundian forces and al Shabaab at the Burundi base in Leego town," he said, adding it was "too early to know casualties."
The peacekeeping force is made up of troops mainly from Kenya, Uganda and Burundi.
Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, a spokesman for the al Qaeda-aligned group, said the militants had rammed the car bomb into the base and that "heavy fighting goes on inside the base."
He said the militants had killed 35 soldiers. The group often gives higher death tolls than officials do.
Last week, al Shabaab attacked an African Union convoy with Ethiopian soldiers along the same route.
It also launched two attacks in Mogadishu in the past week. On Sunday, militants stormed a national intelligence agency training site and on Wednesday targeted military instructors from the United Arab Emirates with a car bomb.
No Emirates citizens were killed but at least three Somali soldiers died in that attack.
An AMISOM and Somali army offensive last year pushed al Shabaab out of its major strongholds. But the group still controls some rural areas and stages regular attacks in Somalia and neighboring Kenya.
Shebang 8 years ago
"Do you not see how Allah has created the seven heavens one above another; And made the moon a light in their midst, and made the sun a lamp." --- Q-71:15-16
Wishful thinking myths circulating in villages and some pagan re ... read full comment
"Do you not see how Allah has created the seven heavens one above another; And made the moon a light in their midst, and made the sun a lamp." --- Q-71:15-16
Wishful thinking myths circulating in villages and some pagan religions are sometimes judged to be credible enough to be included in holy books such as we see in Koran's Allah's creation of seven heavens!
"The notion of seven heavens is a part of religious and mythological cosmology found in many major religions such as Islam, Judaism, Hinduism and Catholicism, [1] as well as in some minor religions such as Hermeticism and Gnosticism and also in some ancient religions like Mesopotamian religion." source :wiki
Kano 8 years ago
The worst of all lies is the lie mixed with the truth, and living that lie. You and I can never fool God for even a fraction of a second. He reads each one of us like an open book. It is His infinite love for us in Christ tha ... read full comment
The worst of all lies is the lie mixed with the truth, and living that lie. You and I can never fool God for even a fraction of a second. He reads each one of us like an open book. It is His infinite love for us in Christ that He is calling us from the sinful lifestyle to a Christlike living of holiness. Let's not allow anything to come between us and His call--not even family, friends, household gods, or the religious gods we have come to know.
"And I saw another angel (God's people) fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters."
Revelation 14:6-7.
This call to true worship going on now comes at the time of the one and only investigative judgment. It is different from the executive judgment which takes place in the second resurrection-- the hell fire (Revelation 20:6). The last warning to leave idol worship "and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters" is now. When we pay heed to the warnings, and we repent of our sins, God also honors us with His forgiveness and peace.
"If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." (1 John 1:9).
"There is therefore now no condemnation(no guilty charge) to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit."
Romans 8:1
"Therefore being justified (declared righteous) by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
God keeps a faithful record of our deeds. These records are as transparently true as His own character, and it is by our deeds He will judge us. None needs to be there in heaven while the investigation of the records of the dead is going on.
The investigation of the records of the works of the living is yet future. It will take place shortly after Christ's work as the High Priest is finished, and He is ready to come and resurrect his faithful to heaven (first resurrection--1 Corinthians 15:51-53; 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17).
"And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie."
Revelation 22:12-15
“O you who have believed, do not ask about things which, if they are shown to you, will distress you….A people asked such before you; then they became thereby disbelievers.” (Qur’an 5:101-102)
Such a passage hardly ...
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Man decapitated in suspected French Islamist attack
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Man decapitated in suspected French Islamist attack
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ISIS sells 42 Yazidi women to fighters in Syria:
THIS is how women are treated in ISLAM. Women are less important in quran and in the eyes of Islamic Allah. ISIS has sold these 42 women to its fighters as sex slaves. If ...
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IS kills 120 civilians in 'massacre' in Syria's Kobane
Beirut (AFP) - At least 120 civilians have been killed by the Islamic State group since it entered the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobane just over 24 hours ago, a monito ...
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Tunisia Beach Gunfire Kills 'At Least 27' As Man Decapitated In French 'Islamist' Attack
THIS IS how Jihadists MUSLIMS observe their holy month called Ramadan. These jihadist Muslims know that Ramadan is not holy. It is ...
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Somali militants attack African Union peacekeepers' base
Car bomb aimed at UAE officials kills three Somali soldiers in Mogadishu Reuters
Four militants killed in raid on Somali government site, attack over Reuters
S ...
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"Do you not see how Allah has created the seven heavens one above another; And made the moon a light in their midst, and made the sun a lamp." --- Q-71:15-16
Wishful thinking myths circulating in villages and some pagan re ...
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The worst of all lies is the lie mixed with the truth, and living that lie. You and I can never fool God for even a fraction of a second. He reads each one of us like an open book. It is His infinite love for us in Christ tha ...
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