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Islam, the youngest of the major faiths, was influenced by Judaism and Christianity. Muslims are "people of the book," accepting the Jewish Bible and the New Testament as Holy Scripture while maintaining that the Koran's famously elegant and expressive Arabic is God's final and inerrant word. Similarly, followers of Islam believe Moses, John the Baptist and Jesus were prophets but the final messenger was Muhammad, to whom, they say, the angel Gabriel dictated the Koran. Like Christians and Jews, says Jamal Badawi, a religion professor at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, N.S., their core concerns are "moral...
...innocent civilians? Far from being endorsed by the Koran, this killing violates some of its most sacred precepts. But during the 20th century, the militant form of piety often known as fundamentalism erupted in every major religion as a rebellion against modernity. Every fundamentalist movement I have studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced that liberal, secular society is determined to wipe out religion. Fighting, as they imagine, a battle for survival, fundamentalists often feel justified in ignoring the more compassionate principles of their faith. But in amplifying the more aggressive passages that exist in all our scriptures, they...
...Like Judaism and Christianity, its close religious relatives, Islam honors all humanity--not just believers--as created by God, who is referred to as "the compassionate and merciful." The Judeo-Christian respect for the widow and the orphan is amplified by the fact that the Prophet Muhammad was himself an orphan, notes Georgetown's John O. Voll. And for all the conflict depicted in the Koran, its recognition of pluralism is embodied in a verse that explains that God created humans different from one another so that they can learn from one another...
...Those who practice extreme ideologies and beliefs have used Christianity, Judaism and Islam as a political tool in a bad way, and I hope that tonight we’ll use religion for what its supposed to do,” she said. “As something that brings comfort, and brings unity...
...well as a mortar attack on a Jewish settlement in Gaza. And Sunday's clashes at Jerusalem's holy sites - Israeli police entered the Muslim compound atop the Temple Mount after Palestinian youths threw stones down on Jewish worshippers gathered on the plaza below, at the Western Wall of Judaism's holiest temple - have added gasoline to the embers...