The New American Quran: A Dangerous Trick

[Anyabwile]

Yeh i read about this, look at the responses in that link. I read through all of them, these ones i liked....


<i>Intellectually, I can't make sense of this book (and I like to think I'm reasonably intelligent). </i>


Are the authors implying that the Bible lacks the power to change hearts? If it is meant to bring Muslims closer to Christianity -- then why not simply translate the Bible to Arabic? Is it only through subterfuge and plagiarism (taking existing verses from the Quran and altering them to preach Christian theology) that Christians can communicate with Muslims? A religion as enduring as Christianity surely must have more honest methods to perpetuate itself.


Also, the verses are written as if it is the voice of God speaking -- so are the authors acknowledging the Quran as divine revelation and proclaiming themselves prophets, receiving direct messages from God to update the Quran?


There simply is no way to rationalize this book as an honest intellectual effort and the existence of the book actually argues against itself. It proves itself to be nothing more than a political tool. If anything, it insults the Bible -- implying that a book that Christians consider pagan can be easily modified and be used to replace the Bible itself.


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This world is a transit place for all beings for there is life after death. I ask the authors to take some time and think what preparation have you made for your after lives?


Allah knows best.


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I can understand why Muslims are agitated after reading this silly book.. But honestly, this book was obviously written by Dr Anis Shorrosh, a devout ex-muslim arab christian..(look up the owner of the domain (islam-exposed.org, which is the book's official website.. use the WHOIS facility in www.netsol.com or any other domain WHOIS website).. A quick google search will reveal what this person has been up to for the last 10 years, writing books such as 'Islam Exposed' or some other nonesense.. It really comes as no surprise from him.. I'd recommend everyone to watch/read the Deedat/Shorrosh debate to fully understand how this christian missionary thinks.. He's basically anti-muslim.. thats all there is to it..


This book is meaningless. It only exists to push christian ideas into the minds of its (Muslim, mostly) readers. I'm not biased because I'm Muslim.. you don't need to be Muslim to comprehend the sillyness of this book.. It's THAT obvious from either the Arabic or English texts contained in this book.


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Cursory review of this book reveals that it is nothing but a mere attempt to vent the fury and rage against Islam and the Muslim. The only conceivable cause of this lambasting and condemnation is perturbation and bewilderment over Islam's resurgence and revival and its victory in winning the hearts of millions of adherents of the Christian faith who have forsaken the doctrines of trinity and atonement and have embraced Islam like the early centuries of Islamic history.


The following fundamental and intriguing questions, which find no answer from this book, arise out of the study of this book:


1- Is there any prophecy in the Gospels about revelation or inspiration of this book in the later days? Has Jesus Christ, Saint Paul or any of the four authors of canonical Gospels ever hinted about future revelation or inspiration of this book and its anonymous authors?


2- Do the Christian Churches, Roman Catholic, Anglican, Evangelists, or Greek Orthodox or any other Christian denomination accept this book as the inspired book of God and accept these two anonymous personalities as the sacred authors of this book equal in status of Gospel writers?


3- Has this book written keeping in mind that present Gospels and the Christian literature is not sufficient to combat the Islamic revival and that the Christian clergy and spiritual/scholastic heirarchy has become unable to combat the beautiful Islamic teachings?


However, this book never claims that the Christian clergy have become demoralized, victimizing young kids and sacrificing them on their vicious sexual altars, and are unable to advance the Christian faith, therefore, God has decided to revoke and annul the present promiscuous system and inspire a new book upon two unknown persons.


4- Why did not the authors of this book exposed their true identities?


The content of this book is outrageous and resentful, full of diatribe and diametrically opposed to style and form of the Gospels though it claims to promote the teachings of the Gospels and their apparent message of love. Quite contrary to this claim, this book has endeavourd to spread hate and sow the seeds of enmity between the Muslims and the Christians. It is a reviling attempt to arouse the feelings of dedicated Christians against the Muslims and to create the atmospheres of Crusades. Out of 77 chapters, 40 chapters and the Epilogue start with the address to Muslims by calling them with contemptuous and scolding titles such as people having enmity in them, who have gone astray, who have corrupted the verses of The Gospel etc and interestingly in the last sentence of the last chapter, i.e., epilogue, it has been urged to use wisdom and love to propagate the Christian teachings.


In electronic media reports and introductions about this book, it has been boastfully claimed that this book is a plausible response to 1400 years old challenge of the holy Quran. But paradoxically, this book is silent about that rhetoric and never even alludes about responding to challenge of the Holy Quran about its unparallel-ness. There is no claim, whatsoever, found in this book that it has been written, revealed or inspired by any human being or Divine in response to the aforesaid challenge of the holy Quran.


As far as the Quranic challenge about its uniqueness is concerned, the authors of this book have miserably failed to show any similarity or resemblance to the sublime and lofty principles and enlightened wisdom of the holy Quran. They have done nothing but merely copying the language, style, phraseology and even passages of the holy Quran and, ridiculously at the same time, have branded Quran as the product of God forbid Satan's mind.


It has also been claimed that it presents biblical truth to Muslims, which is also wrong. It does nothing but spitting out venom against Islam. The headings of every chapter like Love; Peace; Light; truth; Repentance; Women; Marriage etc are mere titles and do not impart any divine knowledge and guiding principles about these subjects but merely censure Islamic teachings about these topics. A divine book has the duty to provide alternate guidance about the human problems if the previous teachings are deemed improper. This book rebukes Islamic teachings but do not provide any alternative to replace them.


A strikingly manifest testimony of the fact that All Knowing God has not revealed or inspired this book is found interalia in Chapter-31 called "Murder" wherein the Muslims have been alleged, rather charged of assaulting houses of worship and destroying churches. This allegation shows that the author of this book has no knowledge about the history of the world and just following the whims and desires of narrow-minded priests who wish to project a distorted image of Islam and the Muslims before the world. The un-biased and fair-minded historians of west have acknowledged that these allegations on the Muslims are un-founded and baseless and that these were leveled by clergy of dark ages who used these false charges to arouse the sentiments of laity and made them take part in the crusades.


A horrible picture of Islam and the Muslims has been portrayed and all kinds of sins like adultery, fornication, murder, outrageous immorality and rape have been attributed to the Muslims but schism between different Christian denominations and their diametrically opposed beliefs have not been even mentioned in this book as if the inspirer of this book is totally oblivious or indifferent to what's happening in the Christian world. He has no concern, anxiety and apprehension about blood-shedding of Catholics and Protestants in Ireland, the deteriorating ethics in west like spread of gays and lesbians movements, abortion, molestation of kids by Catholic priests, rise of atheism and other vices. The whole focus of the so-called inspirer of this book is to show his fury and rage for Islamic teachings.


The deceptive nature and fake contents of this book be exposed to the world, particularly emphasizing on the fact that at this critical juncture of the history, where all the nations are combating against terrorism, particularly religious terrorism and fanaticism, the publication of this book is a vicious act to foil all such attempts and to plunge the world into dark ages.


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- Christians