Rehmat
01-25-2008, 02:57 PM
Islam is not a religion of peace in literary sense - but it has very severe restriction on Islamic warfare - regarding the safety of non-combatant civilian population, infrastructure, food-growing and processing facilities, religious places, water sources, graveyards, etc.
On the other hand - Judeo-Christian religious literature, the Old Testament and the Book of Deuteronomy in particular, contain menacing ideologies, and racist, and materialistic tendecies - while the Book of Joshua is a collection of racist writings. The morally scandalous teachings are given a ‘divine coating’ by mentioning Yahweh more than 561 times in the book.
Deuteronomy has provided intellectual and moral authority for the Jewish and Christian Establishments to colonize and carry-out the ethnic-cleansing of native people - Nazarene in early period of Christianity, the Iberian devastation of Americana in the late mediaeval period, the crusade against Bosniac Christians, the Afrikaner exploitation of non-Whites in Southern Africa right upto the 1990s and the current Zionists barbaric treatment of native Palestinians.
The Book of Joshua, too, has its Zionist admirers. For example, William Foxwell Albright, admitted that historically ethnic-cleasing have been the only reliable mean for the survival of the fittest. Albright also judged that through Zionism Jews would bring to the Near East all the benefits of European civilization.
The land traditions of Bible predicate a god, who is a racist nationalist and materialistic ethnic-cleanser. It was due to such biblical statements which incited racial hatred. On moral grounds, one is forced to question wether the OT in fact provides divine legitimacy for occupation of other people’s land, and the virtual annihilation of the indigenous peoples.
The seminal works of Thomas Thompson (1974) and John Van Seter (1975) have proven that the story told in Genesis 15 has no historical background. Furthermore, the evidence from archaelogy and extra-biblical literature points the historical events in a direction altogether different from that implied by Joshua 1-12.
The so-called Jewish right to return mantra - the people, who were never displaced from Palestine - without Bible, such a claim of legitimacy would have no currency in the wider world, wherein, for one, a communal right of return only applies when a defined community has been subjected to recent expulsion - which is native Palestinians.
Dr. Michael Prior, Chairman, Holy Land Research Project, University of Surrey (UK) wrote in his 2002 article:
My own ‘exegetical place’ in Jerusalem imposed certain obligations upon me. It was one thing to learn that the majority of the indigenous Arab population of some 77% of Palestine (some 750,000 people) had been expelled in 1948, and that a further 300,000 had been expelled in 1967, since which year the remaining 23% of Palestine had been under Israeli military occupation. It’s quite another to realise that the Bible, allegedly, supplied the moral legitimisation for such activity.
The question of race has always constituted an important consideration in western Judeo-Christian psyche. For example, the macine gun though possessed by European armies earlier, was used first time against the spear-carrying Sudanese Muslims at the close of 19th century. US president Truman has admitted in his diary that even if the atom bomb had been ready in time, he would not have used it to force Germany’s surrender on racial grounds. However, he had no such qualms about dropping two of them on Japan - killing 200,000 civlians of non-White colour - even though many at that time considered it unnecessary from military point of view.
The cruel and inhuman treatment meted out to the natives in Americana and Australia, at the hands of western governments and Christian/Jew elites, even well into 20th century, could fill a full book.
The western religious bigotry is quite obvious too. While Nazis brutalities to Jews have been enshrined in the name of Holy Halocaust - but the genocide of Gypsies, the largest victims of Nazi-Zionist collaboration is never mentioned - or the Polish Christians for that matter.
On the other hand - Judeo-Christian religious literature, the Old Testament and the Book of Deuteronomy in particular, contain menacing ideologies, and racist, and materialistic tendecies - while the Book of Joshua is a collection of racist writings. The morally scandalous teachings are given a ‘divine coating’ by mentioning Yahweh more than 561 times in the book.
Deuteronomy has provided intellectual and moral authority for the Jewish and Christian Establishments to colonize and carry-out the ethnic-cleansing of native people - Nazarene in early period of Christianity, the Iberian devastation of Americana in the late mediaeval period, the crusade against Bosniac Christians, the Afrikaner exploitation of non-Whites in Southern Africa right upto the 1990s and the current Zionists barbaric treatment of native Palestinians.
The Book of Joshua, too, has its Zionist admirers. For example, William Foxwell Albright, admitted that historically ethnic-cleasing have been the only reliable mean for the survival of the fittest. Albright also judged that through Zionism Jews would bring to the Near East all the benefits of European civilization.
The land traditions of Bible predicate a god, who is a racist nationalist and materialistic ethnic-cleanser. It was due to such biblical statements which incited racial hatred. On moral grounds, one is forced to question wether the OT in fact provides divine legitimacy for occupation of other people’s land, and the virtual annihilation of the indigenous peoples.
The seminal works of Thomas Thompson (1974) and John Van Seter (1975) have proven that the story told in Genesis 15 has no historical background. Furthermore, the evidence from archaelogy and extra-biblical literature points the historical events in a direction altogether different from that implied by Joshua 1-12.
The so-called Jewish right to return mantra - the people, who were never displaced from Palestine - without Bible, such a claim of legitimacy would have no currency in the wider world, wherein, for one, a communal right of return only applies when a defined community has been subjected to recent expulsion - which is native Palestinians.
Dr. Michael Prior, Chairman, Holy Land Research Project, University of Surrey (UK) wrote in his 2002 article:
My own ‘exegetical place’ in Jerusalem imposed certain obligations upon me. It was one thing to learn that the majority of the indigenous Arab population of some 77% of Palestine (some 750,000 people) had been expelled in 1948, and that a further 300,000 had been expelled in 1967, since which year the remaining 23% of Palestine had been under Israeli military occupation. It’s quite another to realise that the Bible, allegedly, supplied the moral legitimisation for such activity.
The question of race has always constituted an important consideration in western Judeo-Christian psyche. For example, the macine gun though possessed by European armies earlier, was used first time against the spear-carrying Sudanese Muslims at the close of 19th century. US president Truman has admitted in his diary that even if the atom bomb had been ready in time, he would not have used it to force Germany’s surrender on racial grounds. However, he had no such qualms about dropping two of them on Japan - killing 200,000 civlians of non-White colour - even though many at that time considered it unnecessary from military point of view.
The cruel and inhuman treatment meted out to the natives in Americana and Australia, at the hands of western governments and Christian/Jew elites, even well into 20th century, could fill a full book.
The western religious bigotry is quite obvious too. While Nazis brutalities to Jews have been enshrined in the name of Holy Halocaust - but the genocide of Gypsies, the largest victims of Nazi-Zionist collaboration is never mentioned - or the Polish Christians for that matter.