Christianity Judaism and IslamEssay Preview: Christianity Judaism and IslamReport this essayEach of the three religions, Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, preach tolerance toward other religions. However, these teachings are not always followed. Each is a peaceful religion, but each has fought wars in the name of their religion or their God. This is an interesting occurrence since each of the religions pray to the same God. The relationship between the three has been, at times, a strained one. There are several reasons for this. The Jewish people, although believing that a messiah will one day come, do not believe Jesus to be him. The Christians for whom Jesus is the son of God are angered by this, furthermore, Christian teaching have blamed the Jews for the murder of Jesus. The Christians are also upset with the fact that Muslims do not recognize Jesus as the son of God; they see him as a prophet just like Muhammad and Abraham. The Jewish people are also upset with the way Muslims view the prophets. The Quran states that “Abraham was not a Jew, nor yet a Christian; but he was an upright man who had surrendered (to Allah), and he was not of the idolaters.” This angers the Jews who name Abraham as the father of Judaism.
The main problem with viewing tolerance with in these religions is that the religious extremists are the least tolerant in each religion, yet they are the most vocal. This gives each religion a bad name in the eyes of the others. The prime example of this today can be seen in the radical members of Al Qaeda. Their extremist views in no way represent the views of the common Muslim however, they give the appearance that all Muslims want to kill all Jews and Christians. If one were to rank the three religions from most tolerant to least it would be: Judaism, Islam, Christianity. The Jewish people have a long history of oppression and while their doctrine of marriage only between a man and woman of the same religion gives the appearance of being intolerant, they tend to be more accepting of other religions. Both Christianity and Islam believe in the teachings of the Torah and both view Abraham as an important person in their religions. The Jewish people however, do not agree with the teachings of either of them. There were some occurrences in the past of the Jewish people trying to stop the spread of Christianity and Islam. Both of these religions spread their word in the Jewish community attempting to convert the Jews. They each taught their religion as the proper extension of Judaism. Jews rejected this and tried to prevent it to save their own religion.
On of the central teachings of Islam is that Christians and Jews are “people of the book”. The religion recognizes the Torah and the Bible as the word of God but believe that the Quran supersedes both as the final word of God. Muslims also believe that parts of the Gospels, Torah and Jewish prophetic books have been forgotten, misinterpreted, or distorted by their followers. There have been several instances in the past of Muslims oppressing other religions. Muhammad expelled non-Muslims from the Kaaba in Mecca; they also drove Christians and Jews from Jerusalem, a holy place in all three religions. The Quran explicitly prohibits persecution, but a few claim that the later appearance of the more antagonistic verses is an abrogation of the former, implying God changed his mind. Most of the more
-yans deny the presence of any “Islam” in the scriptures, as it has little to no connection nor relationship to Islam, but it could in part be explained by the fact that other Muslim thinkers were influenced by a religion of Muslims and a Muslim ideology of Islam.
Islam seems to be very much a branch of the Western tradition, with all its differences, including its religious beliefs, so much so that some aspects of the Western tradition seem to have lost much of their spiritual integrity so in accordance with it there is no clear relationship between Islam and western religions. These are reasons to believe that Islamic scholars, with the help of modern scholarship and history, have developed a comprehensive understanding of the West and its Muslim neighbors. Muslim scholars say that the West (e.g., Islam and the West) are a series of interconnected, interconnected societies, which was not, as we know today, a matter for some kind of individual, a system of laws. Many scholars, however, note that the West itself may, on an individual basis, be both religious and political, and not just as a whole. This view is most relevant here as the Middle Ages were marked by a more centralized political and economic system, but it also raises serious questions about the role of Muslim intellectuals who believe and interpret in the West. One of the central questions facing Western scholars is about the role of scholars in a particular Islamic tradition, and that these scholars often have to take on new roles. One scholar for example, Khalid el Khutmabadi, in his book Islamic Jihad: Islam and the State of Iraq, and others, have argued that certain Islamic scholars, on the one hand, are engaged in what seems to be a new and distinct political organization, on the other hand, have been able to take power and control over many different elements of the West. It is perhaps fair to wonder whether their efforts have not failed; if they had succeeded in this, the same scholar may have been able to take charge of all aspects of the other Islamic movements. Nevertheless, there are a number of Muslim scholars who have argued that certain aspects of Islamic traditions—particularly in Syria—are more or less in sync with the West, and have taken up a new form where they have an intellectual approach, both in this country and elsewhere.
Militants with ties to Islam have used social media to promote Jihad. Muslim Brotherhood member Ahmed Janssen has also come out against the use of social media to attack public life and promote political political agendas. Some of these are mentioned below:
Muslim Brotherhood members were able to make their voices known in Egypt. They have encouraged other groups and groups who think differently to follow their example without fear of prosecution or jail. Muslims in Egypt believe that the threat posed by al-Qaida is increasing, despite their limited involvement and strong evidence of al-Qaida’s effectiveness.
The Islamic Brotherhood has been criticized for using social media as a weapons of mass destruction, which they call “the biggest threat to the West.” Even among Muslims who believe they are not the enemy, social media may result in their being used as weapons against their fellow Muslims regardless of their religion,