December 10, 2010

Quote for today.

‘Someone has said that most of us don’t think, we just rearrange our prejudices.’

Frank Knox

Many countries in the Middle East have a track record of religious tolerance; in Jordan Muslims live right next door to Christians and in colleges, Muslim children bring the Koran to school and Christian children bring their Bibles.

As the second largest religion, Muslims (adherents of Islam) comprise 25% of the world’s population, living mostly in South East Asia, the Middle East, Indonesia and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Islam formally began with Mohammad (570-632 AD) who was a trader, later becoming a religious, political and military leader. For the last 22 years of his life, beginning at age 40, he received revelations from God, and as he could neither read nor write, he used scribes who were political prisoners, quite possibly of Jewish descent.

Although the Koran holds to the historical account of figures such as Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses and Jesus, among others, it repudiates the Christian Trinity and the claims of Jesus as the sent Son of God. However, in an unusual twist, Muslims believe that it will be Jesus Christ who returns at the end of the age to save them.

~ by ashleighmanley365 on December 10, 2010.