Allah just means god, though. Christians and Jews believe in the same god as Muslims. Why explicitly state that it's ok, if it's not?
the internet according to zuckerman the popuklation in 1991 based on surveys was over 20%. Greely and Jagodinsky found it to be 26%, in 2005 it was up to 37% you can look at the Jerusalem Centre for Public Affairs or your favourite wikki As of 2009, 8% of Israeli Jews defined themselves as Haredim; an additional 12% as “religious”; 13% as “religious-traditionalists” ; 25% as “non-religious-traditionalists” (not strictly adhering to Jewish law or halakha); and 42% as “secular” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Israel
I'm perfectly capable of answering intelligent and concise questions, but something like, "what is your view on existence?", is rather vague and all encompassing. You didn't say that the bloke said that the 'fella' was a new prophet. Nothing in what you've said suggests that the 'fella' couldn't be Jesus, so your question fails again. al-Baqarah, 221? That starts: Do not marry unbelieving women until they believe. That would appear to contradict Quran 5.5, wouldn't it? I asked you to clarify some of your points. Feel free to go back and have a look if you need to refresh your memory. Repetition of that is unnecessary. The topic is irrelevant as to whether you address the Quran. It's basically the lens through which you view the world. If I provided something that contradicted the Quran, then you would try to work out why it was wrong, rather than if it was right or not. I'm going to guess that you draw the line at your own religion. Correct? Compared to who? Nobody has an all-encompassing knowledge of the world's religions, so your logic would dictate that we all should be agnostic. Nope. You kept replying with the same thing when pressed about something that you couldn't answer and I've seen you do it with other posters, too. I couldn't even get you to say what I should put into the Google search. It already says that. It's clearly a separate point. What's his name and when was he selected for this task? Wikipedia uses the source that I mentioned before. http://www.adherents.com/largecom/com_atheist.html The stats for Britain, for example, seem quite different to those of the UK Census of 2001, claiming that the country has up to 26.5m atheists. Not sure how accurate the whole thing is, to be honest. Could you clarify what you mean here? I can see how the concept of Jesus could conflict with it, but not how Judaism would. A Muslim man marrying a woman that's one of the People of the Book.
I was just pointing out that the repeated references to Allah in the passage that you quoted would've just been referring to the same god that the Christians and the Jews worship, too. That shouldn't be relevant, unless you think that Allah may not have seen that coming. It doesn't say that you can marry the People of the Book, but stop doing that in about 1,000 years, does it?
You're talking about yoghurts, aren't you? (Chrome doesn't recognise the correct spelling of yoghurt. WTF?)
So all that the passage appears to be saying is not to marry polytheists. Don't you think that Allah might have seen this coming? Wouldn't he have mentioned it if it was a problem? I've never understood this idea that someone could be tempted away from the faith. Surely that's their decision and therefore their fault?
