Do Muslims 17 Times a Day(in their 5 Daily Prayers) actually say Allah,in Effect,says Christians and Jews are Evil?Technically-speaking,Yes
The situation is the following:
1.Good Muslims pray 5 times a day.
2.One of the prayers is the first chapter of the Koran,called Al-Fatiha(the Opener),which is only 7 verses.
3.Muslims pray it no less than 17 times a day.
4.And more than 5,000 times a year.
Sources
http://www.islam.com/questions/1468/al-fatiha-17-times-a-day-whyy
http://numerical19.tripod.com/al-fatiha_omer.htm
The critique regarding Al-Fatiha
1.Now and then you hear that the 17 times Muslims pray it they are speaking bad about Christians and Jews,saying that Allah is angry with the two groups,and says they have gone astray.
2.Many Muslims say that is NOT true,that Al-Fatiha in no way says that.The phrase “not of those against who You(Note:Allah) are angry, nor of those who are astray” refers ONLY to evil people everywhere,whatever their beliefs.What is the real situation?
Chapter 1 of the Koran(it is only 7 verses)
“In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
Praise belongs to God, the Lord of all Being,the All-merciful, the All-compassionate,the Master of the Day of Doom.
You(Note:you,Allah) only we serve(Note:we,the Muslims)
To You(Note:you,Allah) alone we(Note:we,the Muslims) pray for succour.
Guide us(Note:us,the Muslims) in the straight path,the path of those who You have blessed,
Not of those against who You(Note:Allah) are angry, nor of those who are astray.”
In the Koran Christians and Jews are cursed “till the Day of Resurrection”
And so what?What does that have to do with Al-Fatiha?
The detail is that because of THAT:
1.Then “not of those against who You(Note:Allah) are angry, nor of those who are astray” would,by logic, include not only evildoers of all shades and colors,beliefs and non-beliefs
2.But even more so Christians and Jews.
Regarding Christians
1.Allah felt anger toward Christians for X reason and decided to curse them all “till the Day of Resurrection“.
2.Where is the justice/equity in that?Why curse a group for generation after generation?
Chapter 5:14:
“And with those who say:
1.“We are Christians” We took compact; and they have forgotten a portion of that they were reminded of.
2.So We(Note:Allah) have stirred up among them enmity and hatred, till the Day of Resurrection; and God will assuredly tell them of the things they wrought.”
In the Koran Jews are also cursed “till the Day of Resurrection”
1.Some Jews of Muhammad’s time said that Allah was powerless,impotent,”his hand was shackled/fettered/chained“.
2.So Allah felt anger and cursed them all “till the Day of Resurrection“.
3.Notice it is in the very same chapter as the curse against the Christians(chapter 5).
Here is the crime of judeophobia,xenophobia,intolerance,bigotry.
Chapter 5:64:
“They (Note:the Jews) have said, “God’s hand is fettered/chained.” Fettered are their hands, and they are cursed for what they have said. No, but His hands are outspread; He expends how He will. And what has been sent down to you from your Lord will surely increase many of them in insolence and unbelief;
and We(Note:Allah) have cast between them enmity and hatred, till the Day of Resurrection. As often as they light a fire for war, God will extinguish it. They hasten about the earth, to do corruption there; and God loves not the workers of corruption.”
Why is there Christianophobia and Judeophobia?
1.Ok,Judaism and Christianity are ideologies,a set of ideas,like communism,atheism,capitalism.
2.But chapter 5:14 and chapter 5:64 curses the people who believe in those ideas,the Christians and the Jews.Real people who have feelings.
3.There is a difference,to be against the ideology would be Judaismophobia and Christianityphobia,and there is nothing wrong with being intellectally against a belief system,even cursing it,why not? But the situation is not like that.
To verify the Koranic citations to be cited go to quranbrowser.com, which has:
1.Six translations by Muslims.
2.Four translations by Non-Muslims.
3.The text in Arabic,with Latin letters.
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