Jihad in the Bible
It a is cliché in the West to criticize Quran and Islam due the concept of Jihad. Even the Pope Benedict while criticizing Islam said, “Violence is incompatible with the nature of God and the nature of the soul”.
When you read Bible, you come to the conclusion that those who criticize Islam due to its concept of Jihad are ignorant of the teachings of Bible. Here is an excerpt from Bible:
“When you come near to a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace to it. And it shall be, if it make you answer of peace, and open to you, then it shall be, that all the people that is found therein shall be tributaries to you, and they shall serve you. And if it will make no peace with you, but will make war against you, then you shall besiege it: And when the LORD your God has delivered it into your hands, you shall smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword: But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shall you take to yourself; and you shall eat the spoil of your enemies, which the LORD your God has given you. Thus shall you do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations. But of the cities of these people, which the LORD your God does give you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes: But you shall utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD your God has commanded you.” (Deuteronomy, Chapter 20, Verses 10-17)
So those Jews and Christians who criticize Islam due to Jihad, should first criticize their own faith and Bible and Torah, because Jihad is also in the Bible. If they do not criticize their own faith and Bible and Torah, they are evidently hypocrites.
When you read Bible, you come to the conclusion that those who criticize Islam due to its concept of Jihad are ignorant of the teachings of Bible. Here is an excerpt from Bible:
“When you come near to a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace to it. And it shall be, if it make you answer of peace, and open to you, then it shall be, that all the people that is found therein shall be tributaries to you, and they shall serve you. And if it will make no peace with you, but will make war against you, then you shall besiege it: And when the LORD your God has delivered it into your hands, you shall smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword: But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shall you take to yourself; and you shall eat the spoil of your enemies, which the LORD your God has given you. Thus shall you do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations. But of the cities of these people, which the LORD your God does give you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes: But you shall utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD your God has commanded you.” (Deuteronomy, Chapter 20, Verses 10-17)
So those Jews and Christians who criticize Islam due to Jihad, should first criticize their own faith and Bible and Torah, because Jihad is also in the Bible. If they do not criticize their own faith and Bible and Torah, they are evidently hypocrites.
Interesting. For the death of innocents, should one blame the authors who wrote these books in ancient times.
ReplyDeleteOr should one blame the people who are reading and acting on such passages in the present ?
In this article I have addressed to believer, whether Muslim, Christians or Jews. I do not address here to nonbelievers.
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