Is Ezra or Uzair The Son of God?

<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">After you finish reading this article, for much more examples and elaborations please visit:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><big><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.answering-christianity.com/bible_quran_differences.htm" target="_blank">Differences between the Noble Quran and Bible only prove Islam's Truthfulness and Divinity.</a></span></big></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz4ttr_sdX-kcsvBOqCUNs6TdiNfKiwuWh_nZZp4lWoYCqUVmywLGuAPLMLFVjyY1n0Wjqm_FvMoH6QWt38KNNoBffPMR9XDGo54DstPyjxSsFolHm6KU-Dh4-aNKhk1AkE9x9Spp4kWbF/s1600/ezra+uzair.jpg" imageanchor="1" style=""><img border="0" data-original-height="604" data-original-width="1080" height="auto" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz4ttr_sdX-kcsvBOqCUNs6TdiNfKiwuWh_nZZp4lWoYCqUVmywLGuAPLMLFVjyY1n0Wjqm_FvMoH6QWt38KNNoBffPMR9XDGo54DstPyjxSsFolHm6KU-Dh4-aNKhk1AkE9x9Spp4kWbF/s280/ezra+uzair.jpg" width="280" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">Is Uzair the son of God?</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Let us look at the <span style="color: blue;">Noble Verse 9:30</span><br /><span style="color: red;"><i><b>"The Jews call 'Uzair a son of God, and the Christians call Christ the son of God. That is a saying from their mouth; (in this) they but imitate what the unbelievers of old used to say. God's curse be on them: how they are deluded away from the Truth!"</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">There is no error or contradiction in the above Noble Verse!  Ezra was regarded as a very important figure in Judaism.  By many Jews, he is believed to have never even died:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">From: <big><a href="http://wesley.nnu.edu/biblical_studies/noncanon/summaries/2esdras-notes.htm" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;">http://wesley.nnu.edu/biblical_studies/noncanon/summaries/2esdras-notes.htm</span></a></big></div><div class="Section1"><h1 style="margin-left: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Second Esdras</span> </h1><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in;"><b>Summary:  <o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify;"><i>The Second Book of Esdras</i> is an apocalypse that attempts to explain why God allowed the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem to be destroyed by Gentiles in AD 70. The book claims to report seven visions of Ezra the Scribe concerning ethical issues and the problem of evil and suffering. The first three revelations (3:1—9:25) concern the angel Uriel’s instructions to Ezra about the spiritual-moral realm. In the fourth revelation (9:26—10:59), Ezra witnesses a mourning woman change into the heavenly Jerusalem. The fifth and sixth revelations (11—13) condemn the Roman Empire and forecast its destruction along with other evil Gentile nations by a messiah. The seventh revelation (14) describes Ezra’s role in producing the books included in the canonical Scriptures (the 22 books in the Hebrew Bible) and the (70) apocryphal books. <big><b><span style="font-size: small;">This revelation closes with Ezra being taken into heaven without dying. </span></b></big>Chapters 1 and 2 and 15 and 16 are generally recognized as subsequent Christian interpolations.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="Blockquote" style="margin: 0in 0.25in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><b><br />Titles and Nomenclature:</b><br /><br /><div class="Blockquote" style="margin: 0in 0.25in 0.0001pt 1in; text-indent: -0.25in;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "wingdings"; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal;">      </span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Also known as:</span></div><ul><li><i>Fourth Esdras in the Vulgate</i></li><li><i>Third Esdras in the Slavonic Bible</i></li><li><i>Fourth Ezra</i></li><li><i>The Apocalypse of Ezra</i></li></ul><span style="font-family: "wingdings"; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal;">    </span></span><br /><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Its component sections are referred to as:</span><br /><ul><li>Chapters 3—14: 4 Ezra</li><li>Chapters 1—2: 5 Ezra</li><li>Chapters 15—16: 6 Ezra</li></ul><b></b><br /><div class="Section1"><b><b><br /></b></b></div><b>Canonical Status:</b><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "wingdings";">§<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal;">    </span></span>Among the Deuterocanonical Books of the Old<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify;">Testament of the Russian Orthodox Church<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "wingdings";">§<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal;">   A</span></span>mong the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha of the Greek Orthodox, Roman Catholic, and Protestant Churches<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><b>Authors:</b><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "wingdings";">§<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal;">  </span></span>Chs. 3—14:<b> </b>Anonymous Palestinian Jew<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "wingdings";">§<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal;">  </span></span>Chs. 1—2: Anonymous Christian<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "wingdings";">§<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal;">  </span></span>Chs. 15—16: Anonymous Christian<b><o:p></o:p></b></div><br /><b>Dates:</b><br /><ul><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><b></b><li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">      Chs. 3—14: late 1</span><sup style="text-indent: -0.25in;">st</sup><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">century AD (after AD 70)</span></li><li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">      Chs. 1—2: 2</span><sup style="text-indent: -0.25in;">nd</sup><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">century AD</span></li><li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">      Chs. 15—16: 3</span><sup style="text-indent: -0.25in;">rd</sup><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">century AD</span></li></span></ul><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><b>Original Languages: </b><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"></div><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"></span><br /><ul><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">     Chs. 3—14: Hebrew or Aramaic</span></li><li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">     Chs. 1—2: Greek</span></li><li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">     Chs. 15—16: Greek</span></li></span></ul><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"></span><br /><ul></ul><o:p></o:p><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><o:p></o:p></div><b>Manuscripts: </b><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"></div><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"></span><br /><ul><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"></span><li>No original Hebrew or Aramaic manuscripts survive from the central section (chapters 3—14). This section was translated into Greek, but no manuscripts are extant from this version either.</li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"></span><li>A fragment (15:57-59) survives from the third, and latest, section (chapters 15—16) in Greek.</li><li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Translations from the Greek are extant in Syriac, Latin, Arabic, Georgian, Armenian, Ethiopic, and fragments from a Coptic version.</span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span></li></ul><ul><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"></span></ul><ul><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"></span></ul>______________________________________________________________________________________________________________<br /><br /><br /><br /><dd><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Notes prepared by Mark Seitz</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>(Junior Biblical Literature Major)</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>for the Wesley Center for Applied Theology</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>at Northwest Nazarene University</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666; font-size: x-small;">©<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Copyright 2000 by the Wesley Center for Applied Theology</span></span><b><o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Text may be freely used for personal or scholarly purposes or mirrored on other web sites, provided the notice below the horizontal line is left intact. Any use of this material for commercial purposes of any kind is strictly forbidden without the express permission of the Wesley Center at Northwest Nazarene University, Nampa, ID 83686. Contact <a href="mailto:webadmin@wesley.nnu.edu">webadmin@wesley.nnu.edu</a> for permission or to report errors.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></dd></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><big><b><span style="font-size: small;">Continuing with my article....</span></b></big></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Mr. Jochen Katz claimed in his attack on the Noble Quran that since there is no evidence in the Bible that Uzair was called the "son of God", then therefore we can conclude that the Noble Quran is in error regarding this issue.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Few points to notice about Uzair:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><big><big><span style="font-size: small;"><b>1</b></span><b>-</b></big></big>  According to <span style="color: green;">Encyclopedia Judaica, Vol. 6, Encyclopedia Judaica Jerusalem, page 1108,</span> Uzair was called the Father of Judaism by the Jews.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><big><big><strong><span style="font-size: small;">2</span>-</strong></big></big>  According to the same resource in point #1, the Arab Jews in Yemen did indeed consider Uzair as the "son of God".</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;">The two points were taken from <a href="http://www.islamic-awareness.org/Quran/Contrad/External/ezra.html">www.islamic-awarness.org</a>   </div></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The above resources come straight from Jewish books !.  It is quite ironic that the Jewish and Christian (Old Testament) resources disagree and contradict each others, and yet Mr. Jochen Katz claims that the Noble Quran is in error.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Jochen, if the Bible in the Old Testament contradicts what the real Jewish resources say, <span style="color: red;">then what in the world is your point ???!!!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><big>How do Muslims view the Bible of today?</big></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Muslims and Christians both agree that the Noble Quran does not agree with today's Bible in everything. Just because the Bible might disagree on something in the Noble Quran, it doesn't at all negate the claim of the Noble Quran or make it false. There is a certain flow of logic that the Noble Quran presents which we the Muslims believe that it is the truth. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Bible's contents today were not written by their original authors.  For example, we read from the book of Matthew so many verses such as this one:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444;">"...And as Jesus passed forth thence, HE (Jesus) saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom: and HE (Jesus) saith unto HIM (Matthew), follow ME (Jesus) and HE (Matthew) arose, and followed HIM (Jesus).</span><span style="color: green;"> </span><span style="color: blue;">(Matthew 9:9)</span><span style="color: green;">"</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: green;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Did "Matthew" write this about himself? Why then didn't Matthew write for example: "he (Jesus) saw ME, and my name is Matthew. I was sitting at the receipt of custom…" etc.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Similarly, we read in the books of Moses things such as "And the LORD said to Moses...", or "Moses went to that place....", etc...  <span style="color: #444444;">We also read in the Old Testament about Moses's burial.  Now if Moses alone supposedly wrote his books, then how is it possible for him to write about his own burial when he is already dead??!!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: green;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Such evidence can be found in many places throughout the Old Testament and the New Testament.  The so called "Original letters/Gospels" that were written in Greek and Hebrew, were written by third party people!</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Consider the following few examples that consist of historical contradictions in the Bible:</div><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444;">II Samuel 10:18 talks about David slew the men of 700 chariots of the Syrians and 40,000 horsemen and Shobach the commander.</span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444;">I Chronicles 1:18 says that David slew the men of 7000 chariots and 40,000 footmen</span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444;">I Chronicles 9:25 says that Solomon had 4000 stalls for horses and chariots.</span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444;">I Kings 4:26 says that he had 40,000 stalls for horses</span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="color: green;">Ezra 2:5 talks about an exile Arah having 775 sons.</span><span style="color: green;"> </span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444;">Nehemiah 7:10 talks about the same exile Arah having 652 sons.</span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="color: green;">II Samuel 24:13 So God came to David, and told him, and said unto him, shall SEVEN YEARS OF FAMINE come unto thee in thy land? or will thou flee three months before thine enemies, while they pursue. thee?</span><span style="color: green;"> </span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444;">I Chronicles 21:11 SO God came to David, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Choose thee. Either THREE YEARS OF FAMINE or three months to be destryed before thy foes, while that the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee;</span></li></ul><b style="text-align: justify;">How did Judas die?</b><br /><ul><span style="color: green;"><span style="color: #444444;"></span><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444;">"And he cast down the pieces of silver into the temple and departed, and went out and hanged himself." (Matthew 27:5) </span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444;">"And falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all of his bowels gushed out." (Acts 1:18)</span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444;">2 Samuel 6:23 Therefore MICHAL the daughter of Saul had no child unto the day of her death.</span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444;">2 Samuel 21:8 But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bare unto Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of MICHAL the daughter of Saul, whom she brought up for Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite.</span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444;">2 Kings 24:8 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. And his mother's name was Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem. </span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444;">2 Chronicles 36:9 Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.</span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444;">26th year of the reign of Asa I Kings 16:6-8 </span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444;">36th year of the reign of Asa I 2 Chronicles 16:1</span></li></span></ul><span style="color: green;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444;"><b>How old was Ahaziah when he began to reign?</b></span></div><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444;">22 in 2 Kings 8:26</span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444;">42 in 2 Chronicle 22:2</span></li></ul><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444;">Who was Josiah's successor?</span></b><br /><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444;">Jehoahaz - 2 Chronicle 36:1</span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444;">Shallum - Jeremiah 22:11</span></li></ul><span style="text-align: justify;">Also, your original scriptures are all doubtful according to the Bible's own theologians and historians.  It's quite hellarious that even the Bible itself admits that it has been tampered with and corrupted by man's garbage:</span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444;">"`How can you say, "We [the Jews] are wise, for we have the law of the LORD," when actually <u><strong>the lying pen</strong></u> of the scribes has handled it falsely?' </span><span style="color: blue;">(From the NIV Bible, Jeremiah 8:8)</span><span style="color: green;">"</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: green;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;">The Revised Standard Version makes it even clearer: </span><span style="color: red;">"How can you say, 'We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us'? But, behold, the false pen of the scribes <u><strong>has made it into a lie</strong></u>.</span><span style="color: green;">  </span><span style="color: blue;">(From the RSV Bible, Jeremiah 8:8)</span><span style="color: green;">"</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: green;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;">And regarding who wrote the books and gospels of the Bible, well here is a sample of what the NIV Bible's theologians and historians wrote:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444;">"<u><strong>Serious doubts</strong></u> exists as to whether these verses belong to the Gospel of Mark.  They are absent from important early manuscripts and display certain peculiarities of vocabulary, style and theological content that are unlike the rest of Mark.  His Gospel probably ended at 16:8, <strong><u>or its original ending has been lost</u>.</strong> </span><span style="color: green;"> </span><span style="color: blue;">(From the NIV Bible Foot Notes, page 1528)</span><span style="color: green;">"</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: green;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444;">"Although the author does not name himself, evidence outside the Scriptures and inferences from the book itself lead to the <strong><u>conclusion</u></strong> that the author was Luke. </span><span style="color: #007f00;"> </span><span style="color: blue;">(From the NIV Bible Commentary, page 1643)</span><span style="color: #007f00;">"</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #007f00;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444;">"<u><strong>The writer of this letter does not identify himself,</strong></u> but he was obviously well known to the original recipients. </span><span style="color: green;"> </span><span style="color: blue;">(From the NIV Bible Commentary, page 1856)</span><span style="color: green;">"</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: green;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444;">"The letter is difficult to date with precision...</span><span style="color: green;">.</span><span style="color: blue;">(From the NIV Bible Commentary, page 1905)</span><span style="color: green;">"</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: green;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444;">"It seems safe to conclude that the book, at least in its early form, dates from the beginning of the monarchy. Some think that Samuel may have had a hand in shaping or compiling the materials of the book, <strong>but in fact we are unsure who the final author or editor was.</strong> </span><span style="color: green;"> </span><span style="color: blue;">(From the NIV Bible Commentary, page 286)</span><span style="color: green;">"</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444;">"Although, according to tradition, Samuel wrote the book, <strong>authorship is actually uncertain.</strong> </span><span style="color: green;"> </span><span style="color: blue;">(From the NIV Bible Commentary, page 322)</span><span style="color: green;">"</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: green;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444;">"The date of the composition is also unknown, but it was undoubtedly during the monarchy.  </span><span style="color: blue;">(From the NIV Bible Commentary, page 322)</span><span style="color: green;">"</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: green;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444;">"<strong>The author is unknown.</strong> Jewish tradition points to Samuel, but it is unlikely that he is the author because the mention of David (4:17,22) implies a later date. </span><span style="color: green;"> </span><span style="color: blue;">(From the NIV Bible Commentary, page 360)</span><span style="color: green;">"</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: green;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444;">"<strong>Who the author was cannot be known with certainty</strong> since the book itself gives no indication of his identity.</span><span style="color: green;">  </span><span style="color: blue;">(From the NIV Bible Commentary, page 368)</span><span style="color: green;">"</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: green;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444;">"There is little conclusive evidence as to the identity of the author of 1,2 Kings. </span><span style="color: green;"> </span><span style="color: blue;">(From the NIV Bible Commentary, page 459)</span><span style="color: green;">"</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: green;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444;">"<strong>Whoever the author was,</strong> it is clear that he was familiar with the book of Deuteronomy. </span><span style="color: green;"> </span><span style="color: blue;">(From the NIV Bible Commentary, page 459)</span><span style="color: green;">"</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: green;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: green;"><span style="color: #444444;">"According to ancient Jewish tradition, Ezra wrote Chronicles, Ezra and Nehemiah (see Introduction to Ezra: Literary Form and Authorship), <strong>but this cannot be established with certainty.</strong></span><span style="color: green;">  </span></span><span style="color: blue;">(From the NIV Bible Commentary, page 569)</span><span style="color: green;">"</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: green;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444;">"<strong>Although we do not know who wrote the book of Esther,</strong> from internal evidence it is possible to make some inferences about the author and the date of composition. </span><span style="color: green;"> </span><span style="color: blue;">(From the NIV Bible Commentary, page 707)</span><span style="color: green;">"</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: green;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444;">"<strong>The unknown author</strong> probably had access to oral and/or written sources....</span><span style="color: blue;">(From the NIV Bible commentary, page 722)</span><span style="color: green;">"</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: green;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: green;"><span style="color: #444444;">"</span><strong><span style="color: #444444;">Regarding authorship, opinions are even more divided...</span><span style="color: green;">.</span></strong></span><span style="color: blue;">(From the NIV Bible Commentary, page 773)</span><span style="color: green;">"</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;">etc...</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><big><big><big><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><big>How do you respond to this?</big></span></big></big></big></strong></div></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Please visit: <a href="http://www.answering-christianity.com/authors_gospels.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Just who were the original authors of the Bible?</span></a> to see the book's bibliography to the above quotes.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Also, why don't you visit: <a href="http://www.answering-christianity.com/contra.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Contradictions and proofs of Historical Corruptions in the Bible</span></a><span style="color: black;">, and see exactly what I mean, instead of acting like a total fool and saying things that even the Bible refutes in it!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It is quite obvious that Christians today believe in third party authors' words as the words of GOD.  This is a very serious corruption in the Bible that must be taken into deep consideration by the Bible's followers.  <a href="http://www.answering-christianity.com/sake.htm">Please visit "Is the Bible the true word of GOD?" to see a full and complete paper about the logical corruptions in the Bible, along with many Christian famous priests and ministers appinions that agree with the Bible's corruption.  I have their personal quotes in that site.</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It is quite obvious that Christians today believe in third party authors' words as the words of GOD.  This is a very serious corruption in the Bible that must be taken into deep consideration by the Bible's followers.  <a href="http://www.answering-christianity.com/sake.htm">Please visit "Is the Bible the true word of GOD?" to see a full and complete paper about the logical corruptions in the Bible, along with many Christian famous priests and ministers opinions that agree with the Bible's corruption.  I have their personal quotes in that site.</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">You can not disprove Islam by presenting stories from the Bible that are not narrated the same from the Noble Quran. We Muslims believe that there are many disagreements in today's Bible, and that the Noble Quran should be the Bible that the Jews and the Christians should follow.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Allah Almighty said in the Noble Quran in Noble Verse <span style="color: blue;">11:110</span> <span style="color: red;">"We (Allah) certainly gave the Book To Moses, but <u>differences Arose therein</u>: had it not been That a Word had gone forth Before from thy Lord, the matter Would have been decided Between them: but they Are in suspicious doubt Concerning it."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Previous revelations have been corrupted and deprived of their spiritual value by their followers' vain controversies and disputes. It was possible to settle such disputes under the flag, as it were, or the old Revelations, but Allah's Plan was to revive and rejuvenate His Message through Islam, amongst a newer and younger people, unhampered by the burden of age-old prejudices.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">There is always in human affairs the conflict between the old and the new, the worn out system of our ancestors, and the fresh living spring of Allah's inspiration fitting in with new times and new surroundings.  The advocates of the former look upon this latter not only with intellectual doubt but with moral suspicion, as did the People of the Book (Jews and Christians) upon Islam, with its fresh outlook and vigorous realistic way of looking at things.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-family: "arial";">After you finish reading this article, for much more examples and elaborations please visit:</span></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><big><big><strong><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.answering-christianity.com/bible_quran_differences.htm" target="_blank">Differences between the Noble Quran and Bible only prove Islam's Truthfulness and Divinity.</a></span></strong></big></big></div><span style="font-family: "times";"></span><span style="background-color: white;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">[Sources: <a href="http://www.answering-christianity.com/quran/qb005.htm">Answering Christianity</a>]<br /><br />.</div>

Is Ezra or Uzair The Son of God?

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Is Ezra or Uzair The Son of God?

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My Analysis Of This Murtadin-Kafirun Blog

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlH0vZYVmxhU4u3mn6ZMs2fdc2i9n5EPIMQ7KleRaNRoxdbfKhK8fCkyjU0fOwMuK-4Aym9tQarrtLYUHVQZvxtf8-Vo4iWw3Rd7sKZcM6Fji38jC4UXhSZfJdhBdxou78deRwh_-pDYtF/s1600/situs+murtadin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style=""><img border="0" data-original-height="650" data-original-width="650" height="auto" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlH0vZYVmxhU4u3mn6ZMs2fdc2i9n5EPIMQ7KleRaNRoxdbfKhK8fCkyjU0fOwMuK-4Aym9tQarrtLYUHVQZvxtf8-Vo4iWw3Rd7sKZcM6Fji38jC4UXhSZfJdhBdxou78deRwh_-pDYtF/s280/situs+murtadin.jpg" width="280" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><div>These are what Angela thinks about it,</div><ol><li>To trap unsuspecting Muslims into a guided dialogue, where the Muslims will be cornered and lose in the cleverly articulated (aggressive Christians are well trained, and they are given all the counter arguments – they have a full load of toxic verbiage arsenal against the Muslims)</li><li>To make some weak Muslims leave Islam by the clever manipulation of the dialogues and the statements of Muslims – which will be twisted in such a way that the Muslims will look silly.</li><li>The blog was set up with a very carefully calculated purpose that would favour the murtadin-kafirun.</li><li>I HAVE ALL THE AMMUNICATIONS TO FIGHT YOU PEOPLE, BUT IN THE END YOU WILL TWIST ALL THE FACTS AND MAKE ME LOOK SO SILLY.</li><li>By that way, you will win the hearts of weak Muslims who may murtad to your brand of kafirun religion.</li><li>I have read many of the murtad blogs, e.g. that of Ali Sina etc., and also answering.islam.org etc., I have followed some of the debates – and Alhamdullillah there are some real converts to Islam who are there to the defence of Islam. This is about converts, so let the converts of Islam say their opinions as ex Christians – they are in a good position to argue back. Of course there are knowledgeable Muslims who are fighting this cyber infowar.</li><li>Murtad is a phenomenon that will go on. We are here not to stop the murtad people. They have their own opinions.</li><li><img alt="Cool" longdesc="30" src="https://illiweb.com/fa/i/smiles/icon_cool.gif" /> But, at the same time, there is also a growing phenomenon of conversion to Islam in especially western countries that is a big worry to the Christian church. THE KAFIRUN ARE URINATING UNDER THEIR PANTS OUT OF FEAR. Islam is not very missionary like Christrianity from Allah. I HAVE MET MANY OF THEM! They convert after they receive HIDAYAH FROM ALLAH.</li><li>IBLIS REBELLED WHEN ADAM WAS CREATED. And Iblis made a vow to BRING THE CHILDREN OF ADAM ASTRAY. ONLY THOSE WHO RECEIVE HIDYAH WILL GET THE TRUE MESSAGE. IT IS FROM ALLAH AND ALLAH ALONE.</li><li>The Christians are fighting back with their murtad program – they have all the resources – funding etc at their disposal.</li><li>It is undeniable that many Muslims go murtad – but my analysis show that they murtad for the wrong reasons – and not for the love of Allah and the Truth, but for some worldly gains.</li><li>In the light of this Christian aggression, and the effort to trap Muslims like me, I do not wish to go further in this blog.</li><li>Christians in their seminaries have designed this type of dialogue, and they are well supported. If you want to play the ball, you need 2 sides. I am not going to play it.</li><li>IT IS WELL DOCUMENTED THAT CHRISTIAN HAS PAGAN ROOTS, AND THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE IS NOT AUTHENTIC. I HAVE SHOWN SOME OF IT TO THEM IN THIS BLOG. THERE ARE SO MANY, I CAN GO THROUGH THE ENTIRE BIBLE AND SHOW YOU WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE BIBLE.</li><li>AND THERE ARE MANY WRITINGS ON THIS SUBJECT WRITTEN BY WESTERNERS, BY FORMER CHRISTIANS. I HAVE READ THESE FOR MANY MANY YEARS. SO THE ATTACK ON CHRISTIANITY AND BIBLE ACTUALLY DID COME FROM THE EX CHRISTIANS THEMSELVES – AND NOT THE WORK OF MUSLIMS</li><li>SO, I MUST SAY, YOU WILL NEVER SUCCEED IN YOUR EFFORT TO DESTROY ISLAM. READ THE HISTORY OF ISLAM, HOW IT SUCCEEDED AGAINST ALL ODDS. MURID RABBI SAID THE JEWS WERE IN MEDINA BEFORE THE PROPHET – BUT HE DID NOT TELL YOU THE TRUTH!</li><li>THE TRUTH IS .... IT IS WRITTEN IN THE OLD TESTAMENT OF THE PROPHET OF ARABIA, AND FOR THAT REASON, THE JEWS HAD COME TO SETTLE IN MEDINA TO WAIT FOR THAT PROPHET.</li><li>BUT WHEN THE PROPHET DID NOT FULFILL THE WISHES OF THE JEWS, THUS THEY BECAME THE GREATEST ENEMY TO ISLAM – AND THESE ARE THE ISARAELIIYA WHO HAVE COME UP WITH ALL THE BAD STORIES ABOUT THE PROPHET – MANY OF THESE APPEAR HERE IN THIS BLOG.</li><li>THEN THE VATICAN LAYS CLAIM THAT ISLAM WAS CREATED BY THE VATICAN. THIS LIE WAS CREATED BY CARDINAL BEA – AND IT WAS TOLD TO THE WEST BY ALBERTO RIVIERA – AND THE STORY WAS PUBLISHED BY CHICK PUBLICATION. THESE ARE ALL FABRICATED TO BELITTLE ISLAM.</li><li>FOR CENTURIES AND AFTER MANY CRUSADES, THE ENEMIES OF ISLAM FAILED TO DESTROY ISLAM. THE JESUITS DESIGNED COMMUNISM TO DESTROY ISLAM IN RUSSIA AND CHINA. But failed. Islam in Russia is very strong now, and it is coming up in China. Of course Christian missionaries now flock to China in India – to turn these countries into Christian nation. Indonesia has been target as well. Today, India has the highest number of Jesuits!</li><li>YOU HAVE NOT SEEN THE MUSLIM SIDE OF THE STORY – BECAUSE YOU ARE SO OVERWHELMED BY THE WHITE PEOPLE. THE WHITE PAGAN CHRISTIAN WHITE PEOPLE ARE PART OF THE DAJJAL. I HAVE READ WHAT HAVE BEEN WRITTEN HERE ABOUT DAJJAL, BUT YOU DONT GET IT RIGHT. YOU HAVE MINSINTERPRETED SURAH AL KAHFI – AND YOU SAY THAT THE RABBI WAS TEASING THE PROPHET WITH SOME LEGENDS. THIS IS ANOTHER TOPIC.</li><li>TODAY, THE MUSLIMS ARE MADE TO APPEAR TERRORIST. IN FACT, THIS IS A PROJECT – AND THIS WAS DONE BY THE JESUITS AND THEIR SLAVES THE ZIONISTS.</li><li>AT ONE TIME, THE JEWS WERE THE GREAT ENEMIES – BECAUSE THE JEWS WERE BLAMED FOR THE CRUCIFIXION. SO THE PROJECT WAS THAT OF ANTI-SEMITISM. Even the Protocols of the Zionist Elders were written by Jesuits, but blamed the JEWS!</li><li>Today, the project is to smear Islam with this “terrorism” brand. Many of the bombingswere done by some innocent people who are not aware that they carry bombs that are detonated by Jesuit agents using remote control. And the news quickly point to the Muslims.</li><li>Bali micronuke was done by Jesuit-CIA-Mossad agents. The bomb pointed to micronuke, not C$ or potassium chlorate stuff. It formed a crater and produced a mushroom, and it pulverizes concrete a few hundred feet away. But the blame went to the Muslims.</li><li>I have researched all these, and I discovered the HIDDEN HANDS, but the blame goes to the Muslims.</li><li>WE MUSLIMS ARE THE OPPRESSED PEOPLE. SO WHY SHOULD THE CHRISTIANS, THE MIGHTY NATIONS, THE AGRRESSIVE NATIONS – GET HELP FROM JESUS? YOU DO NOT NEED HELP! YOU HAVE ALL THE WEALTH, THE MONEY, THE WEAPONS, THE IN DUSTRY.</li><li>THE JEWISH HOLOCAUST WERE EXECUTED BY JESUITS/VATICAN – and the Khazar Jews were used in mind control experiments in concentrations camps.</li><li>The Nazi mind control programmers were brought to the US through the Vatican ratlines (operation paperclip) – and in the US they set up CIA and other government agencies – and the continued mind control programming there until today.</li><li>Many children were taken through the orphanages – many children were stolen from war zones. These are used in mind control programmes to create MPDs/DIDs.</li><li>These children are sent to mind control centers in the US.</li><li>The end time project is to build THE THIRD TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM. The Vatican wants Jerusalem badly – and they are the ones who created Zionism for that purpose. The Vatican is behind all these Freemasonry, Illuminati, Knights stuff. They want to be THE KING OF THE WORLD. THIS IS A VERY VAST SUBJECT!</li><li>There is the Blue Beam project – you will see signs in the sky – and voices in your head – all the religious stuff. Don’t be fooled.</li><li>THIS IS THE TIME FOR THE COMING OF THE ANTICHRIST. BUT THE CHRISTIAN-JEWISH ELITE WILL STAGE A FAKE SECOND COMING!</li><li>I HAVE A LOT MORE TO SAY, BUT I STOP HERE FOR NOW, OR FOREVER.</li></ol>Meet more <a href="http://www.turntoislam.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1947">Angela.</a><br /><br /></div>

My Analysis Of This Murtadin-Kafirun Blog

These are what Angela thinks about it, To trap unsuspecting Muslims into a guided dialogue, where the Muslims will be cornered and lose in t...

My Analysis Of This Murtadin-Kafirun Blog

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Internet Sites That Spread Hates

<div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzj-U26D7Bbn0lOJPMQOiEQDwD4Z38A6iBsfwHSecvh9RyrZN9dGZorQHndRE0G5QB_xGiB76d_oBsNj5R8feMIvvs_jCtt9I3ep1EAbDu3c0xo9Q3MUvRPDgZawelC1DzM04O4tAESkZh/s1600/islamophobia.jpg" imageanchor="1" style=""><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><img border="0" height="auto" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzj-U26D7Bbn0lOJPMQOiEQDwD4Z38A6iBsfwHSecvh9RyrZN9dGZorQHndRE0G5QB_xGiB76d_oBsNj5R8feMIvvs_jCtt9I3ep1EAbDu3c0xo9Q3MUvRPDgZawelC1DzM04O4tAESkZh/s280/islamophobia.jpg" width="280" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />This is the list of some sites on the internet which are <span style="font-style: italic;">highly recommended</span> by worldwide <span style="font-style: italic;">anti-Islam netters</span> to their followers. I'd like to share this with you, my fellow Muslim brothers and sisters, for your good perusal only</span><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />I'm not suggesting you to open and observe any of them except for your info only. Unless you think otherwise, please do not let your little children open and dive into any of these sites without your assistance. I have reasons to believe that our young generation may easily be misled since some of the sites were intentionally built for this purpose from the very beginning. For this concerns please let me recall what Allah Subhana wa Ta'Ala has said in the <a href="http://fakir-al-yatim.blogspot.com/2010/04/al-quran-surah-al-baqarah-1-9.html">Noble Quran, Surah 2: 1-20.</a><br /><br />May we all be enlightened.<br />Amin.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="more"></a></span></div><div face="georgia" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: bold;">THE LIST</span></div><ol><li><a href="http://historyscoper-islamwatch.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Historyscoper's Islam Watch Blog</span></a></li><li><a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Robert Spencer's Jihad Watch</span></a></li><li><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">David Joel Horowitz's FrontPageMag.com</span></a></li><li><a href="http://www.wnd.com/"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">WorldNetDaily</span></a></li><li><a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Daniel Pipes' Campus Watch</span></a></li><li><a href="http://sheikyermami.com/"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sheik Yer'mami</span></a></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://www.islamist-watch.org/">Islamist Watch</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://www.actforamerica.org/">Act for America</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://americancongressfortruth.com/">American Congress for Truth, by Brigitte Gabriel</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://www.nationalterroralert.com/">National Terror Alert</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://www.radicalislam.org/">Fighting Radical Islam</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/">Creeping Sharia</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://www.terrorismawareness.org/">Terrorism Awareness Project</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="https://www.familysecuritymatters.org/">Family Security Matters</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://loganswarning.com/">Logan's Warning</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/">Atlas Shrugs by Pamela Gellar</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://www.anti-cair-net.org/">Anti-CAIR: In Defense of the Constitution</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://www.radiojihad.org/">Radio Jihad</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://www.steveemerson.com/">Steve Emerson's Site</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://www.omdurman.org/">Cool Site on the Dangers of Islam to the West</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://counterterrorismblog.org/">Counterterrorism Blog</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://www.inthenameofallah.org/">In the Name of Allah - Anti-Islam Site</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://www.stopshariahnow.org/">Shop Shariah Now in the U.S. and Elsewhere</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://womenagainstshariah.blogspot.com/">Women Against Sharia</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://tmqblog.com/">The Muslim Question</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://www.muslimfact.com/">Muslim Fact</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://www.focusing-on-islam.com/">Focusing on Islam</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://www.investigateislam.com/english/">Investigate Islam</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://www.islam-watch.org/">Islam Watch</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://www.bible.ca/islam/islam-start.htm">Islam: Truth or Myth?</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://www.nazaninafshinjam.com/">Nazanin Afshin-Jam - Iranian-born Canadian heroine fights Islam's mistreatment of women</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://www.steynonline.com/">Mark Steyn - Canadian journalist warns of coming Muslim takeover of Europe and the U.S.</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/">Melanie Phillips - Coiner of the term Londonistan</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://bnp.org.uk/">British National Party - of interest even if you're an American</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://historyscoper.angelfire.com/www.englishdefenceleague.org/">English Defence League - against Islamization of Britain</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://infidelsarecool.com/">Infidels Are Cool</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://ibloga.blogspot.com/">Infidel Bloggers Alliance</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://prophetofdoom.net/">Prophet of Doom: Islam's Terrorist Dogma</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/">The Religion of Peace (and a big stack of dead bodies)</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://islamicterrorism.wordpress.com/">Islamic Terrorism in India</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://europenews.dk/">EuropeNews</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://www.meforum.org/topics/27/radical-islam">Middle East Forum - good articles on the radical Muslim threat</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2009/10/geert-wilders-at-columbia-university-october-21.html">Great speech by Dutch politician Geert Wilders on the threat of Islam to the West</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://www.mybnp.co.uk/newsletter/chairman18.html">Trafalgar Club Speech 2009 - How Muslim immigration is destroying Britain</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://apollospaeks.blogtownhall.com/">Apollo Speaks</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://crusader-rabbit.blogspot.com/">Crusader Rabbit</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/">The Gates of Vienna</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://islamizationwatch.blogspot.com/">Islamization Watch</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://israelagainstterror.blogspot.com/">Middle East and Terrorism (pro-Israel)</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/">Islam in Europe</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://killingzone.blogspot.com/">The Killing Zone</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://theopinionator.typepad.com/">The Opinionator</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://thewestislamandsharia.blogspot.com/">The West, Islam and Sharia</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://infidelsunite.typepad.com/">Counter Jihad: News for Infidels</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://sioanetwork.com/">Stop Islamization of America (SIOA)</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://www.newenglishreview.org/">The New English Review - The Iconoclast</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://zunnar.blogspot.com/">Tear off the Zunnar</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://uppompeii1.uppompeii.com/">Up Pompeii</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/">Bare Naked Islam</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://www.islamreview.com/">Islam Review</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://www.historyofjihad.org/">History of Jihad</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://www.cspipublishing.com/">Center for the Study of Political Islam</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://muslimsagainstsharia.blogspot.com/">Muslims Against Sharia</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://www.americansagainsthate.org/">Americans Against Hate</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://foehammer.net/">Foehammer Net</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://alwaysonwatch2.blogspot.com/">Always On Watch</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://www.militantislammonitor.org/">Militant Islam Monitor</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://thelastcrusade.org/">The Last Crusade</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://crazyislam.typepad.com/">Crazy Islam</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://azzaqqumislamicscholartotheinfidel.blogspot.com/">Az Zaqqum Islamic Scholar for the Infidel</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://islam-the-monster-unchained.blogspot.com/">Islam the Monster Unchained</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://crombouke.blogspot.com/">Trencherbone</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://www.apostatesofislam.com/">Apostates of Islam</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://www.antijihadresistance.com/">The Anti-Jihad Resistance</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://translating-jihad.blogspot.com/">Translating Jihad</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://avideditor.wordpress.com/">Avid Editor's Insights</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/">The Jawa Report</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://www.chroniclewatch.com/">Chronicle Watch</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://onislamicfascism.wordpress.com/">On Islamic Fascism</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://babbazeesbrain.blogspot.com/">The Outraged Spleen of Zion</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://reportonarrakis.blogspot.com/">Report on Arrakis</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://www.ummat-al-kuffar.org/">Community of the Kuffars</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://anti-islamistcoalition.blogspot.com/">The Anti-Islamist Coalition</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://9-11domorethenneverforget-stopislam.blogspot.com/">9-11 Do More Than Never Forget - Stop Islam</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://steynian.wordpress.com/2008/12/10/steynian-295/">Free Canuckistan</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://smoothstoneblog.com/">Smooth Stone</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://www.markedmanner.com/">Marked Manner</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/">Elder of Ziyon</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://holgerawakens.blogspot.com/">Holger Awakens</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://watson37.com/">Watson 37, by D.C. Watson</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://www.geertwilders.nl/">Geert Wilders</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://pajamasmedia.com/phyllischesler/">Phyllis Chesler - Jewish-American feminist</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://www.mudvillegazette.com/">The Mudville Gazette - monitors the War on Islamic Terror</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://www.australianislamistmonitor.org/">Australian Islamist Monitor</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://newstime.co.nz/">New Zealand Newstime</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://www.asianews.it/en.html">AsiaNews</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://www.faithfreedom.org/">Faith Freedom Org.</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://www.thegreenarrow.co.uk/">The Green Arrow - U.K.</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://dgaubatz.blogspot.com/">Dave Gaubatz Blog</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://www.fatherzakaria.net/">Father Zakaria Net</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://www.theahafoundation.org/">Ayaan Hirsi Ali Foundation</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://itsmyview.org/">Stand Up Against Islam</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://www.euro-islam.info/">Euro-Islam.Info</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://factsoverfiction.com/">Facts Over Fiction</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://refugefromislam.com/">Refuge from Islam</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://porkythecrusader.blogspot.com/">Porky the Crusader</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://theproblemwithmostarabmuslims.blogspot.com/">The Problem With Most Arab Muslims</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://www.centerforinquiry.net/isis/">Institution for the Secularization of Islamic Society</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://formermuslimsunited.americancommunityexchange.org/">Former Muslims United</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://www.formermuslims.com/">Ex-Muslims</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://www.palwatch.org/">Palestinian Media Watch</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://www.memritv.org/">Middle East Media Research Institute TV Monitor</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://terrorfreeoil.blogspot.com/">Terror-Free Oil Initiative</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://www.globalincidentmap.com/map.php">Global Terrorism Incident Map</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/">Investigative Project on Terrorism</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://www.salatomatic.com/">Salatomic - Online map showing mosques and Islamic schools in America</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://www.realcourage.org/2009/10/world-gender-gap-worst-in-islamic-nations/">World Gender Gap Worst in Islamic Nations</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://www.revolutionmuslim.com/">Revolutionary Muslim - radical Muslim site calls U.S. traitor Maj. Hasan "an officer and a gentleman" who was settling a score for Muslims everywhere</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://www.mujahideenryder.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/top-500-most-influential-muslims-2009.pdf">The World's 500 Most Influential Muslims in 2009 - by the Muslims themselves</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://www.veteranstoday.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=9641">Good Article Claiming that Osama Bin Laden Has Been Dead Since Dec. 13, 2001</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://www.patenmaedchen.de/en_wycd.php">WHOA! Protect Girls from Genital Mutilation</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://patcondell.net/">Pat Condell - Godless Comedian and Anti-Sharia Crusader</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/2006/09/muslim-humor-muslim-jokes.html">Muslim Jokes</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://www.loonwatch.com/">Funny pro-Muslim site</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=125329">Muhammad the Pedophile by Molotov Mitchell</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://www.muhammadtube.com/videos/13/muhammadtube-here-to-help-you-to-know">MuhammadTube</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://www.truthtube.tv/">TruthTube</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 100%;"><a href="http://www.primechoice.com/philosophy/listIslam.htm">And a few hundreds more.</a></span></li></ol><div face="georgia" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And here is another list of some more sites being reported as <a href="http://muslim1st.com/fake-anti-islamic-web-sites-in-the-world-wide-web/">Fake Islam's Sites</a> on the internet which are potentially misleading both, Muslim and non-Muslim on their way to understand Islam.</span><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />If you found this information worth sharing, please do help us to get more people you know to be well-informed as well.</span><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />Thank you.</span><br /><div><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br /></span></div><ul></ul><h3><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a _base_target="_blank" href="http://www.wnd.com/"></a></span></h3>

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Muslims In China

<div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLTA2X5CSo5d1yIUBy8_pJKvSCYVSEqitM2tCHOutykXZ1IQ-orxAeTOR2IgTs5mihEwCdJ1FrOk_HSUh-ydKorRHZMyeTMX9jDqSGPq8Eo0hdspK2CmxWjjyS_nmPOXeGOG8qvvv_nZBK/s1600/Islam-in-China.jpg" imageanchor="1" style=""><img border="0" height="auto" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLTA2X5CSo5d1yIUBy8_pJKvSCYVSEqitM2tCHOutykXZ1IQ-orxAeTOR2IgTs5mihEwCdJ1FrOk_HSUh-ydKorRHZMyeTMX9jDqSGPq8Eo0hdspK2CmxWjjyS_nmPOXeGOG8qvvv_nZBK/s280/Islam-in-China.jpg" width="280" /></a></div><span style="color: #333333;"><br /></span><span style="color: #333333;">The Muslims of China are a colorful, cosmopolitan people - more varied than the Muslims of any other nation. Where the Muslims of Saudi Arabia, for example, are mainly Saudi Arabs, and those of Turkey mainly Turks, the Muslims of China belong to 10 different ethnic groups: Hui, Kazakh, Kirgiz, Sala, Tajik, Tatar, Tungxiang, Paoan, Uighur and Uzbek, whose customs and cultures add still more flavor to what is already one of the most fascinating countries in the world.</span></div><br /><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;">Ancient, vast, evolving, The People's Republic of China had, according to the last official count, one billion, 130 million people - 1,130,000,000! Of them, ethnic Chinese, or Han, are thought to make up 93 percent of the total, with the remaining millions divided among 55 groups referred to in China as "minority nationalities." Although relatively small in number - the largest of the 10 Muslim groups, the Hui, is said to total only 7.2 million people - these minorities are politically significant because they occupy more than half the country, including such sensitive borders as those of the Soviet Union, Vietnam and Afghanistan. These regions, moreover, are rich in natural resources vital to the economic development of modern China.<br /><br /></div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><span class="pageTemplateBody" id="lBody"> </span></div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;">Totaling 14.6 million - according to official statistics - China's Muslims live mainly in the rugged mountains and desert basins of the northwest, on the central Yellow River Valley plains, in the southern province of Yunnan and among the city populations of the east (See map, pages 10 and 11).<br /><br /></div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;">Some Muslims, notably the Hui, are either descendants of Chinese converts to Islam or of Chinese intermarriages with Muslim immigrants; their appearance, language, and other cultural characteristics, therefore, are distinctly Chinese. Farmers and merchants, they live in compact communities scattered throughout China and doggedly resisting assimilation by the Han.</div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span class="pageTemplateBody" id="lBody" style="color: #333333;"> </span><br /><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9yOL42QMg_GqUODuCcSQMfAcreJ7oKZHFqV_1Xzk9MVi8gOZOY4DJL56lEOYExySgITWlDZFpa2YBadZmb-N-w3XMYqaCVqamzRw8FgQ6vpfl5SopKDHY9oqaermsvpiLbxfOm0IF7bNS/s1600/muslim+xinjiang.jpg" imageanchor="1" style=""><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9yOL42QMg_GqUODuCcSQMfAcreJ7oKZHFqV_1Xzk9MVi8gOZOY4DJL56lEOYExySgITWlDZFpa2YBadZmb-N-w3XMYqaCVqamzRw8FgQ6vpfl5SopKDHY9oqaermsvpiLbxfOm0IF7bNS/s1600/muslim+xinjiang.jpg" /></a></div><span style="color: #333333;">The rest of China's Muslim minorities are mostly Turkic peoples living in the vast Xinjiang (Sinkiang) Uygur Autonomous Region of northwest China, formerly Chinese Turkestan. Descendants of the nomadic "hordes" of Central Asia, many of them are related to the minority peoples of the Soviet Union.</span><br /><br /></div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;">The Persian-speaking Tajiks also live in Xinjiang, which covers one-sixth of the total land area of China, while the Mongol Tungxiang and Paoan inhabit small enclaves in Gansu (Kansu) Province. In Xinjiang, the Uighurs (5.9 million people, according to the government) are the predominant people, and give the region its name. Once the rulers of Central Asia, they are distributed over the chains of oases in the Tarim Basin and in the former trading cities of the old Silk Road.</div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><br /><span class="pageTemplateBody" id="lBody"> </span></div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;">The Kazakhs (907,000) and Kirgiz (114,000) live in Xinjiang too: in the rugged mountains of the northwest, close to the border with the Soviet Union - from which they fled after major rebellions in 1916 against Russian rule. Descendants of Turkic and Mongol tribes, the Kazakhs of China still live a semi-nomadic life, driving their herds into the mountains in summer in search of pasture, and retiring to their camps in the valleys when winter comes. </div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><span class="pageTemplateBody" id="lBody"></span></div><div align="left"><span class="pageTemplateBody" id="lBody"><strong><br /></strong></span></div><div align="left"><span class="pageTemplateBody" id="lBody"><strong>The Kazakhs:</strong></span></div><span class="pageTemplateBody" id="lBody"> </span><br /><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;">The origin of the Kirgiz is obscure, but they were apparently forest people from the upper reaches of the Yenisei River. In 840, the Kirgiz burst onto the Central Asian scene and abruptly overthrew Uighur rule in northwest Mongolia - only to be driven out themselves a century later and relegated to the backwaters of history.</div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;">"Kazakh," a Turkish word meaning "man without master," is an appropriate name for the last of the once-powerful nomadic nations of Central Asia to put up any real military resistance to the Czar.</div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;">The Kazakhs, in fact, yielded to no one until the middle of the 19th century when, trapped between the expanding Russian and Chinese empires, they were forced to accept Russian rule. And even then the Kazakhs were only temporarily quelled. In 1916, they rebelled briefly against Russian rule and in 1917, faced with forced settlement on cattle-breeding collective farms, those with herds fled east to China.</div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;">In 1949, with the Communist takeover in China, some Kazakhs set off again, this time on an epic journey that took them south to Tibet - which refused them entry - then northwest to Kashmir. Of the 40,000 who set off, only 3,000 made it across the 'Roof of the World," and these were eventually resettled in Turkey.</div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;">For those who remained in China, a separate political division was set aside for them in the Tian Shan in northwest Xinjiang - the 111 Kazakh Autonomous District, with its capital of Kuldja - as well as two autonomous districts at Mori and Barkol in eastern Xinjiang. There, today they maintain their traditional nomadic lifestyle, migrating seasonally in tribal groups in search of pasturage for their sheep, goats and cattle.</div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;">In summer, the Kazakhs pitch their dome-shaped felt tents - known as yurts - on the grassy upper slopes of the Tian Shan range, which, with their forests of fir, cascading waterfalls and permanently snowcapped peaks, resemble the Swiss Alps. In winter they stay in the valleys, living, with their livestock, in long, low log cabins, faced with mud to keep out the cold.</div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;">Although the outside of their yurts - with the exception of the brightly-painted wooden door - are drab, the interiors are remarkably cheerful and cosy: the collapsible wooden frame, which supports the felt covering, gaily decorated, colorful bed rolls stacked against the walls and a cheery stove - its chimney sticking through a flap in the roof - sitting in the middle of the felt carpet-strewn floor. In some cases, such as those of newly-married couples, there may also be a four-poster bed, with colorfully embroidered curtains, standing against the wall.</div><span class="pageTemplateBody" id="lBody" style="color: #333333;"> </span><br /><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><br />Although they have all but abandoned their colorful traditional dress - predominantly-red layered skirts, padded jackets and plumed pill-box hats for young women, white embroidered smocks for young men - most Kazakh women still dress in bright colors, and men still wear velvet skullcaps usually decorated with a gold or silver-colored symbol similar to a fleur-de-lis.<br /><br /><br />The Kazakhs are often confused with the Cossacks who played an important military role in medieval Russian history, but there is no real connection. Turkic-speaking, Mongol-looking, the Kazakhs are an ethnic group descended from Turkic and Mongol tribes that occupied the Kazakh Khanate of Central Asia, now the Kazakh Republic of the USSR.</div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><span class="pageTemplateBody" id="lBody"> </span></div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;">Expert horsemen and women, the Kazakhs, even today, delight in showing off their riding skills to visitors - thundering across the grasslands on their short, but sturdy chargers in reenactment of traditional sports such as ulak tartish - in which men try to seize the carcass of a goat from each other - and kiz kholashi, an ancient form of Kazakh courtship. In kiz kholashi, women pursue men and, if they catch them, beat them with riding whips.</div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;">More at home on horseback than on foot, the Kazakhs of China, with their semi-tribal, still-nomadic ways, are one of the last vestiges of the ancient nomadic empires of the steppe.</div><span class="pageTemplateBody" id="lBody" style="color: #333333;"> </span><br /><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><br />Among the other Muslim minorities are the Uzbeks (12,400) and the Tatars (4,100) - both of which, like the Kazakhs, have tribal links within the Soviet Union.</div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;">The Uzbeks take their name from Khan Uzbek, the ruler responsible for the conversion of the "Golden Horde" to Islam at the beginning of the 14th century. In the 16th century, the Uzbeks held sway overall of Transoxania, and were the last of the Central Asian khanates to submit - peaceably - to Russian rule, in 1920.</div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;">The Tatars were the first Muslims to come under Russian rule - in 1552 - and despite efforts to forcibly convert them to Christianity, they remained firmly Muslim - eventually playing a crucial role in establishing Islam in Central Asia, where they served as teachers and administrators in the newly-won eastern territories of the expanding Russian Empire.</div><span class="pageTemplateBody" id="lBody" style="color: #333333;"> </span><br /><div align="left"><hr /></div><span class="pageTemplateBody" id="lBody" style="color: #333333;"> </span><br /><div align="left"><span class="pageTemplateBody" id="lBody" style="color: #333333;"><strong><br /></strong></span></div><span class="pageTemplateBody" id="lBody" style="color: #333333;"></span><br /><div align="left"><span class="pageTemplateBody" id="lBody" style="color: #333333;"><strong>The Uighurs:</strong></span></div><span class="pageTemplateBody" id="lBody" style="color: #333333;"></span><br /><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://ayahaan.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/muslim-china1.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ayahaan.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/muslim-china1.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 204px; margin: 0pt 10px 0px 0pt; width: 270px;" /></a>All these peoples have rich histories, but the Uighurs probably have the richest: their nomadic ancestors once ruled Central Asia, built its first walled cities, created its first literate civilization and "wrote," according to one scholar, "one of the brightest chapters in its history."</div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;">Today, by contrast, the Uighurs are largely a sedentary, village people - their habitat the network of oases in the Tarim Basin of Xinjiang. And although relatively well off by modem Chinese standards - on average Uighur farmers earn more than city dwellers to the east - they no longer enjoy the living standards of their predecessors, described by one scholar as "unparalleled in (medieval) Central Asia."</div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;">In the year 745, the Uighurs emerged victorious from a power struggle among the tribes of the Turkic Empire. Their victory, however, also marked the end of unity among the nomadic Turkic tribes of Central Asia; subsequently, the larger tribal coalitions migrated to the Russian steppe and the Middle East.</div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;">At its zenith, the Uighur empire stretched from the Altai Mountains to Lake Baikal, and was governed from the city of Karabalghasun. Tamim ibn Bahr, a Muslim traveler who visited the city around 821, speaks in admiring terms of this fortified town lying in a cultivated country - a far cry from the barbarian image of Mongolia.</div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;">The Uighurs proved more accommodating to the Chinese than their predecessors, who had constantly harassed China's borderlands and repeatedly threatened its trade. In fact, Uighur troops helped the Chinese recapture the imperial city of Ch'ang-an (today Xian) in 757 during the An Lu-shan rebellion, and after 822 were instrumental in driving the Tibetans out of the Tarim Basin - through which passed the old Silk Road.</div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;">In 840, another Turkic people, the Kirgiz, put an abrupt end to Uighur rule in Mongolia and fleeing Uighur groups settled on the Chinese border in Gansu Province and the Turpan region, a Uighur protectorate since the end of the eighth century. In these regions they set up a capital at Gaochang (Karakhoja), and created a remarkably stable and prosperous kingdom that lasted for four centuries. It was called Khocho.</div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;">The Uighur kingdom of Khocho, multiracial and multilingual, permitted the peaceful coexistence of many religions, though the majority of Uighurs adopted Buddhism. During their rule literature and art - particularly fresco painting - flourished.</div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;">When the Mongol conquests came, the Uighurs, realizing that resistance was futile and would only lead to the destruction of their country, submitted voluntarily to Genghis Khan. Indeed, Uighur officials and scribes wert the first "civil servants" of the Mongol empire and transmitted to it much of their cultural heritage.</div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;">Today, the Uighurs are still the predominant people of Xinjiang, where they maintain their own political leadership - Xinjiang is an autonomous Uighur region - as well as their own language, an ancient form of modern Turkish written in the Arabic script, and their own religion: Islam, which they adopted in the 14th century.</div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;">Among the chief Uighur cities are Kashi (Kashgar) an ancient center of trade near the Sino-Soviet border, and Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang; the world's most landlocked city, it is farther than any other from the open sea.</div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;">Urumqi is a modern metropolis with apartment buildings, factories - and even a roller-skating rink. Kashi too is rapidly changing, but the oases of the Tarim Basin still have a distinctive Central European - and faintly Middle Eastern - flavor. Donkey carts are still the main form of transportation, women still cook on open fires in the walled courtyards of their mud-brick homes and men still gather in large numbers at the mosque to pray - afterwards pausing to exchange gossip.</div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;">The centuries-old system of underground irrigation tunnels - karez - still carries melted snow from the Tian Shan (Celestial Mountains) to the rich grape-growing oasis of Turpan, which at 154 meters (505 feet) below sea level is the lowest place in China - as well as one of the hottest. In summer, families still sleep in open-air bedrooms roofed with cooling vines. And the occasional group of Uighur horsemen can still be seen crossing the Tarim Basin's gravel plains.</div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;">Other links with the past survive too. Uighur men still wear the richly embroidered skullcaps and Uighur women can still be distinguished from the Han Chinese who have moved into the area, not only by their features, but by their brightly colored chiffon head-scarves. But as with the Mongols, the Uighurs have learned to coexist with the region's new rulers; one young girl recently seen sitting by the roadside in Turpan, for example, wore her traditional chiffon scarf underneath a cap with a red star.</div><span class="pageTemplateBody" id="lBody" style="color: #333333;"> </span><br /><div align="left"><hr /></div><span class="pageTemplateBody" id="lBody" style="color: #333333;"> </span><br /><div align="left"><span class="pageTemplateBody" id="lBody" style="color: #333333;"><strong><br /></strong></span></div><span class="pageTemplateBody" id="lBody" style="color: #333333;"></span><br /><div align="left"><span class="pageTemplateBody" id="lBody" style="color: #333333;"><strong>The Huis:</strong></span></div><span class="pageTemplateBody" id="lBody" style="color: #333333;"></span><br /><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://images.china.cn/attachement/jpg/site1007/20080421/00114320c9510976a2df23.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://images.china.cn/attachement/jpg/site1007/20080421/00114320c9510976a2df23.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 165px; margin: 0pt 10px 0px 0pt; width: 251px;" /></a>The largest of China's Muslim minorities, the Hui, is racially Chinese rather than Turkic; and though classified by the government as a "national minority," is not really a "nationality." Generally indistinguishable from the Han Chinese in physical appearance, similar in social and familiar form and speaking only Chinese, the Hui are classified as a "nationality" largely on religious grounds. According to some observers, this is recognition that Islam is a powerful religious force within China today - and may be an attempt by the Chinese Communists to allow Muslims to play a part as a nominally autonomous group within modern China.</div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;">The Hui are descendants of either Chinese converts to Islam or Muslim immigrants who intermarried with the native Chinese: Arab warriors who came to China to help various Chinese emperors resist enemies, or Arab and Persian merchants who got to China via the Indian Ocean or, later, along the Silk Road.</div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;">Because of the diverse routes by which the Muslims entered China, the Hui today are scattered throughout China. They make up, for example, one third of the population of Ningxia Hui, an autonomous region of central China on the edge of the Mongolian plateau. The Hui are also a substantial part of the population of Yunnan Province on China's southwest frontier, bordering Burma, Laos and Vietnam. They also form sizeable communities in the coastal cities of the East and the oasis towns of the West.</div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDmW_mn4ws4daKpuAWuVtPZk9300G5LTclvbxRD4MhCJiiN6ikEIaBHwDGHOgq9O-b0EhSj7cOHMR0mbghCxGmRlhyLTJ7vcaRcQp7roJU6bsEI_v73GptRgKg5WSGKbonE4WH44UK9OQ/s660/masjid+Huaisheng,+China.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDmW_mn4ws4daKpuAWuVtPZk9300G5LTclvbxRD4MhCJiiN6ikEIaBHwDGHOgq9O-b0EhSj7cOHMR0mbghCxGmRlhyLTJ7vcaRcQp7roJU6bsEI_v73GptRgKg5WSGKbonE4WH44UK9OQ/s280/masjid+Huaisheng,+China.jpg" style="cursor: pointer;display: block;margin: 0px auto 10px;text-align: center;width: 280px;height: 175px;" /></a></div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;">One of the largest Hui communities in eastern China is in Beijing: a total of 180,000, according to community leaders, 30,000 of whom live in the Niu Jie district of the capital just a few blocks southwest of the symbol of China's imperial past - the Forbidden City - and its Communist present - the 40.5-hectare (100-acre) Tian'anmen Square, the largest plaza on earth - flanked by the Great Hall of the People and the Mao Zedong Memorial Hall - and spacious enough to hold over one million people. </div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;">In the west, the Hui live in separate, but co-existing communities among the predominantly Turkic Muslims of Xingjiang - where they add to the already exotic mix of colorful Central Asian nationalities.</div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;">Originally, the Muslims in China were called Ta-shih. They called themselves by that name because, according to some scholars, this was the name given by the Chinese to the glorious Golden-Age culture of the Abbasids which was well known and imitated by the T'ang Dynasty; it was natural, therefore, that the Arabs and Persians who settled in China later would, for prestige purposes, identify themselves as members of that glorious empire. But with the Mongol conquests, the Abbasid, or Ta-shih, empire disappeared as a political power and so the Muslims in China adopted the new term "Hui."</div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;">Under the Mongols, nevertheless, Chinese Muslims were given special status, and Muslim migration from Central Asia and the coastal cities of the East carried Islam to all corners of China, laving the foundations of the communities of today and attaining what some modern Chinese Muslim writers call the "Golden Age of Chinese Islam."</div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;">Then, at the time of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), their position began to deteriorate. They lost their special status and under the Ch'ing, or Manchu, Dynasty were so oppressed that they rebelled repeatedly - most notably in the Panthay Rebellion which lasted from 1855 to 1873, but was crushed with great cruelty.</div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;">Because of such repression, the Hui developed a strong sense of community spirit, living in segregated enclaves usually focused on a single mosque. The victory of the atheistic Communist Chinese has further heightened the Hui's ethnic awareness and strengthened their religious bonds.</div><span class="pageTemplateBody" id="lBody" style="color: #333333;"> </span><br /><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><br />No one seems to know the exact origin of the term "Hui." The French scholar Deveria, in his book Origine de l'Islamisme en Chine, suggests that it began purely as a nickname. "Certain Chinese [Muslim] authors of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries have attempted in vain to find the origin and explanation of the term Hui," writes Deveria. "It appears to me to be only a nickname, based on an Arabic word which repeatedly occurs in the common speech, and which would specially have struck the Chinese during their first contact with the Arabs. My learned colleague M. Houdas, suggests to me that the word might be khouya (my brother), plural akhawa [which could have sounded to the Chinese like hu-wee and a-ha-wee]. These terms have been employed from time immemorial in common Arabic. In support of my hypothesis, I recall that during the occupation of Tientsin by the Anglo-French troops in 1860-61, the Chinese nicknamed the French 'dis donc,' and the English 'I say.'"<br /><br />Yet another Turkic - and Muslim minority, the sala (69,100) in Gansu Province, a strategic corridor of land linking Xinjiang - it means "new dominion" in Chinese - to China proper. The Sala are believed to have immigrated to Gansu from the Samarkand region of Central Asia during the reign of the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty at the close of the 14th century. A warlike community, much feared, it was said, by their Chinese neighbors, the Sala now live peaceably in a small enclave south of Lanzhou.</div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><span class="pageTemplateBody" id="lBody"> </span></div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;">Gansu is also the home of the Tungxiang (279,400) and the Paoan (9,000) minorities, both Mongol peoples who converted to Islam, though most Mongols were traditionally Lamistic Buddhists. The Tungxiang and Paoan also live in small enclaves on the fertile Yellow River Valley plain south of Lanzhou.</div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333;"><br />Of all the Muslims in China, however, the Persian-speaking Tajiks (26,500), who live in western Xinjiang, have practiced Islam longer than any other: 1,200 years. The original Iranian population of Afghanistan, the Tajiks were the heirs to the sedentary culture of the Iranian plateau, and transmitted it to Central Asia. They built villages of flat-roofed mud or stone houses and cultivated irrigated fields of wheat, barley and millet, and gardens famous for melons and a variety of fruits. They were also skilled craftsmen and traders, and their settled way of life was copied by many of the nomadic peoples with whom they came in contact.</span></div><div style="color: #333333;"></div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;">Whatever their origins, however, the Muslim minorities help to solidify and strengthen a presence in mainly atheistic China that reflects the past glories of Islamic military victories and the enduring vitality of the faith.</div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333;">Written by <span style="font-weight: bold;">John Lawton </span>- <a href="http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/">Saudi Aramco World</a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333;"><br /></span><span class="pageTemplateBody" id="lBody"></span></div><div align="left"></div>

Muslims In China

The Muslims of China are a colorful, cosmopolitan people - more varied than the Muslims of any other nation. Where the Muslims of Saudi Arab...

Muslims In China

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