Some Facts on Islam Revealed Here, page 1

Originally posted by Cletus_Lives
How about the "facts" about islam presented? *THIS* is what I wanted to focus on

The tract is not a factual production, its a peice of evangelism, not a history book. Its religious propaganda (in the neutral sense, something that tries to gain supporters). Thus, it can't be looked upon as at all meaningful in relation to the meaning or history of another religion.

which I would like to see backed up with some real, historical works to refute.

Fair enough, what in particular do you think is a fact worthy of discussion in chicks tract?

I can tell you that all I have to do right now to make his explanation of Islam seem true is to Google "beheading".

So you do or you don't have an ulterior motive here?

The "facts" that he tries to present are things like :
'muslim terrorists aren't extremists, they're good muslims'. Thats baloney. Islam is a religion of peace, many of its current members are not peaceful.

"allah is the moon god idol" Utter lie. Mohammed went to the Cubic temple in mecca, and destroyed all the idols. He belevied that the Cubic temple was built originally by Adam, from the bible, and that the arabs had fallen into paganism, but now the god of the bible wanted to reform them to monotheism, and thus he made mohammed a prophet.

"Mohammed was a derranged lunatic who had seizures and delusions, and was probably possessed by the devil who only pretend to be Gabriel and God". Absurd. Firstly, when you start talking about angels and demons, you're talking about faith. Jack Chick has faith that mohammed is wrong, so the devil impersonating gabriel and revealing god's word to mohammed is completely meaningless. Chick is not a muslim, therefore he's not going to beleive that god made mohammed a prophet. As far as mohammed's ecstatic visions being explainable by mental defect, so are the revelations of St. John, or any other religious figure.

"Mo's wife was a catholic". The christian world had already split by that time, into east (orthodox) and west (catholic) churches. Jack Chick is a hateful man, he hates, amoung other groups, catholics. He simply mindlessly bleats, like a goat, the idea that the RCC is satanic, and that the catholics created islam in order to attack christianity. Its an old lie.

Then it claims that mohammed was a bad guy because he was engaged in caravan raids. Fair enough, but so then, of course, was practically everyone else in the bible, excluding jesus, a pacifist who said to love one another. Is chick being very loving? Or is he hateful and a liar? He'd probably say 'its for christ', but whats the bible say about lying for christ?

Mohammed and Islams conquest of the middle east was far less bloody than god's ordering of the hebrews to conquer the levant. If we want to be fair, then critisize Islam for being about as violent as judaism and christianity. Christ was a pacifist, Mohammed was not. That hardly means that Islam can't be a peaceful religion.