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Subject: Islamic View of Crucifixion? |
Bible Note: Taleb, I've also just read your post to EdB, and I'd forgotten how many risk their skins for this faith in which we stand. I know a man, a Ghanaian, who sells discount bibles over the internet. He and several of his Christian brothers were kidnapped by Muslims in Ghana. For 2 weeks they were beaten, tortured and murdered. This friend spent 3 days in a swimming pool among floating corpses. One of his poolmates was a woman 6 months pregnant. On his last day, they cut off his finger, shot several of his remaining friends dead beside him, then shot him point blank in the forehead--and missed! This started a fight between his almost murderers, which culminated in his being thrown in a car and dumped in a town nearby. I asked him how he withstood this monstrosity, how he didn't break down or lose his marbles. He said, I paraphrase: "It was the Holy Spirit. It wouldn't let me speak. I thought, 'It's wonderful, I'm suffering like my Lord Jesus, what an honor.' All they wanted was for me to say I didn't believe in Jesus. If I had, they would have laughed and let me go." That's a testimony not a lot of us will ever claim, thank God, but bang! does it not hit you in the gut? I have no clue how I'd behave under those conditions if asked to recant my belief. In America we risk so little to believe; what a blessing, but a mixed one to be sure. By the way, my friend's bible site is: http://www.bibledata.com/bags/leather_bag_21.htm The Islamic web forums I mentioned are: http://www.islam-online.net/english/index.shtml http://www.thetruereligion.org/forums.htm And this is a recent string I visited which, coincidentally, discusses a question I'd meant to ask of a Muslim: Why does the god of the Koran so often swear by the moon and stars instead of by himself? http://www.understanding-islam.org/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID 750 (Note: There is an equals sign between ID 750. Type it in, the forum web rules disallow equals signs). Your posts really hit the spot, Taleb. Colin |