Islam does not hate christianity

Faith, not Fact writes:Islam spread originally by the sword.

gain, apples and oranges. The OT massacres were ordered by the true god ...

... Jehovah for the purpose of:
1. Establishing a nation for his chosen people who would eventually establish his kingdom on earth.
2. Destroy the false gods and worshippers of those gods occupying that land, i.e. Caanan.
3. When Israel, God's own people messed up and began worshipping false gods, guess what? God used other pagan nations like Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon to massacre them and take the remnant captive for punishment and eventual world wide dispersement. Why? For the same reason. The land of Israel was to be God's place for his eventual kingdom and not to follow false gods.

When the Protestants and Catholics of Ireland were at odds, the clergy of other nations did not incite their able-bodied to join the fight and they did not plead for money from their members to finance killing.

But, that is true with Islam. Its wars and terrorism are very openly supported by Muslim groups everywhere and are encouraged from the Mosques.

Why?

Is Allah the god of Christians?

Faith writes:They believed they worshipped the same God, yes, but that their new revelation cancelled out the Biblical revelation and is intended to conquer the world, and those who stick to the Biblical religions are now infidels for rejecting the new revelation.

This is a message written by Muhammad ibn Abdullah, as a covenant to those who adopt Christianity, far and near, we are behind them. Verily, I defend them by myself, the servants, the helpers, and my followers, because Christians are my citizens; and by Allah! I hold out against anything that displeases them. No compulsion is to be on them. Neither are their judges to be changed from their jobs, nor their monks from their monasteries. No one is to destroy a house of their religion, to damage it, or to carry anything from it to the Muslims' houses. Should anyone take any of these, he would spoil God's covenant and disobey His Prophet. Verily, they (Christians) are my allies and have my secure charter against all that they hate. No one is to force them to travel or to oblige them to fight. The Muslims are to fight for them. If a female Christian is married to a Muslim, this is not to take place without her own wish. She is not to be prevented from going to her church to pray. Their churches are to be respected. They are neither to be prevented from repairing them nor the sacredness of their covenants. No one of the nation is to disobey this covenant till the Day of Judgment and the end of the world."

Faith writes:The Crusades were European wars to repel the Muslims who had invaded Europe and the Holy Land.

Many Islamic nations do not allow missionaries to proselyte for converts in their nations. I believe Syria, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Andya's Indonesia, would be just a few. Correct me if I'm wrong. In many nations it would be dangerous to do so, regardless.I have friends who are translators in Indonesia, but my understanding is that they may go only as translators and not as missionaries perse.

Foreign Office
November 2, 1917Dear Lord Rothchild,I have much pleasure in conveying to you, on behalf of His Majesty's Government, the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations which has been submitted to, and approved by, the Cabinet."His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.I should be grateful if you would bring this declaration to the knowledge of the Zionist Federation.Yours sincerely,Arthur James Balfour

Indeed, and this is a point us Muslims are always proud of. After the end of Muslim rule in Spain, Jews were oppressed. So some of them fled to North Africa--under Ottoman Turk rule at that time.

... in fact there is affinity between Islam and today's Left, at least the Left is very supportive of Islam, a very odd thing but there it is ...

though many Muslim leaders also supported Hitler

Sorry, I'm aware of the whole context and should have been more specific, but I have to say that ANY accommodation to Sharia Law WHATEVER in the West is a very very bad trend,...

Faith writes:{Edit because I always think of stuff after I post -- "Prophet" in the Bible doesn't only refer to prophecy of future events, but to those who hear directly from God, as in "The word of the LORD came to me." There is NOTHING like this in any other religion.

OK, foiled by my imperfect knowledge of the Bible.