The end of WWII was well before I was born. I was only speaking to 30 years ago, at which point no liberal Christians were anti-Semitic.
If you were only speaking of your lifetime, you should say so and not make general proclamations that liberals have never been anti-Semitic. Liberalism in Christianity has a much longer history than your lifetime, and while I generally support it, I know it was and is not perfect.
As to the Koran being demonic, you are aware that Mohammed did not write it, he was illiterate? It was dictated to him by an entity that he only saw twice in his life. In modern terms we would call it channeled material. In one of the Hadiths Mohammed is described as going into a trance when hearing the entity, his lips would move but he would say nothing, and he would perspire intensely. That doesn't sound like a contact with an angel.
It may not sound like contact with an angel to you, but how often have you been contacted by an angel? Let's leave aside personal opinion. The facts are pretty much as you state them except that according to Muslim tradition, Muhammad received revelations from the angel Gabriel over a period of 23 years. Not just twice.
The 1st time Mohammed saw the entity he was so convinced it was an evil djinn that he was still shaking with fear when he got home. I think 1st impressions of spirits say a lot, people in the Bible feel fear briefly and then awe, they don't just keep being afraid when it is a real angel. The entity claimed that it was the archangel Gabriel, but it's words sound like an arch-demon rather than an archangel.
Well, it is interesting that pretty well every encounter with an angel recorded in scripture evokes fear and almost every one records the angel as saying "Fear not...". nor does any scripture say that people did not remain afraid. Awe itself is a form of fear. The sort spoken of when it says "the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom."
The Koran briefly covers many stories from the Old Testament in an extremely terse and scrambled manner, not in order to elaborate on OT stories, no Koran analog gives more elaborate information on any OT story, the stories are lobotomized in the Koran. The only reason for their inclusion is not to pay homage to the OT as they falsely claim. The real purpose is to distort the OT in order to claim that the OT was altered by the Jews.
Again you are putting in unsubstantiated personal opinion. What is in the Qur'an, according to Islamic tradition, is what the angel Gabriel revealed to Muhammad. I agree, it is often truncated in comparison to the account in the Old Testament, but that is easily explained in that most of the Qur'anic references are intended simply as reminders of stories well known, not as a first revelation of them. One that is very different is the account of Jesus' birth.
They are so convinced that both the Jews and the Christians willfully distorted God's message to them that they also think that the New Testament was willfully changed with the intentional desire to contradict God.
That's true. They believe that it is only in the Qur'an that the Word of God has been preserved in purity. They see both the older revelations as corrupted.
As to anti-Semitism, I made no connection between Islam and anti-Semitism.
I know. Unfortunately, Iran is currently promoting anti-Semitism. One can understand Muslim (especially Palestinian) opposition to the state of Israel, but it is only in the last few years that this has started to be linked to anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial as well. And just as with Islamic anti-evolution material, they are borrowing from the Christian playbook.
Their religious bigotry has mainly been directed at different factions of Islam. For example, just 200 years after Mohammed there was a bloody coup in which all but one of the surviving descendants of Mohammed were mass murdered.
Yep, that's the origin of the Sunni/Shia hostility.
Whether Islam is good or bad depends on whether particular Muslims are focus on the character of Mohammed and the story of his life (good) or focused on the Koran. The only centrist or liberal traditional faction of Islam are the Sufis, and not surprisingly Sufis seldom quote the Koran.
Well, 95% of Muslims self-identify as Sunni, but there are large differences among them. The current Islamist extremism originated and is still promoted largely through Saudi Arabia. There are many Sunnis who object to it all over the world. I expect most American Muslims repudiate it. My contacts are largely with Canadian Muslims and I know of many who will have nothing to do with that sort of teaching or behaviour. They don't consider it real Islam.
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