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"Your zeal for God must be influenced and safeguarded by your knowledge of Him"
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"If you don't pray about it,God cannot do anything about it"

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Pre-Islamic veiling /HIJAB practices

Veiling did not originate with the advent of Islam. Statuettes depicting veiled priestesses precede all three Abrahamic religions (Christianity, Judaism), dating back as far as 2500 BCE.[47] Elite women in ancient Mesopotamia and in the Byzantine, Greek, and Persian empires wore the veil as a sign of respectability and HIGH STATUS.[48] In ancient Mesopotamia, Assyria had explicit sumptuary laws detailing which women must veil and which women must not, depending upon the woman’s class, rank, and occupation in society. Veiling was meant to “differentiate between ‘respectable’ women and those who were publicly available”.[48] FEMALE SLAVES AND UNCHASE WOMEN WERE EXPLICITELY FORBIDDEN TO VEIL AND SUFFERED HASH PENALTIES IF THEY DO. Veiling was thus a marker of rank and exclusive lifestyle, subtly illustrating upper-class women’s privilege over women in lower classes in the Assyrian community.

Strict seclusion and the veiling of matrons were in place in Roman and Byzantine society as well. Between 550 and 323 B.C.E, prior to Christianity, respectable women in classical Greek society were expected to seclude themselves and wear clothing that concealed them from the eyes of strange men.[49] These customs influenced the later Byzantine empire where proper conduct for girls entailed that they be neither seen nor heard outside their home. Like in Assyrian law, respectable women were expected to veil and low-class women were forbidden from partaking in the practice. In Classical Rome, the Emperor Augustus encouraged his citizens all around the Mediterranean to enter temples "capo velato" literally "with their heads veiled", by which he intended clothing that did not differ much from traditional Saudi clothing for men and women today. Augustus himself appeared like this in propaganda pictures and temple portraits (see the Ara Pacis temple in Rome).

The Romans were embedded in a larger Mediterranean/Middle Eastern milieu with roots in Mesopotamia (Iraq) and Egypt, and they transmitted this legacy to both the eastern and western parts of the Roman Empire, which today constitute approximately the Muslim Mediterranean (and parts of the Middle East) and Europe.

THE CONFUSION IN THE MIND OF MUSLIMS

To the Muslim, Jesus Christ is merely one of the many prophets of Allah (Sura: 4:171; 5:74). According to Islam, the prophet Muhammad supersedes Jesus Christ. Islam says Jesus Christ is not the Son of God or part of any Trinity (Surah 5:17; 5:116; 19:35). We are told by Islam that Jesus was the Messiah (Surah 3:45; 4:157; 171), but nothing but a slave on whom God showed favor (Surah 43:59); yet elsewhere in the Qur'an we are told the Messiah is not a slave (Surah 4:172). The Qur'an tells us that Jesus Christ did not atone for anyone's sins, although he was himself sinless (Surah 3:46) and is one of those who are near to God (Surah 3:45). Positively, the Qur'an says that Jesus Christ performed miracles (Surah 3:49; 5:110) and was the Messiah. The Qur'an says Jesus did not die on a cross. Various Muslim traditions say that Jesus either miraculously substituted Judas Iscariot for himself on the cross, or that God miraculously delivered Him from the hands of the Romans and Jews before He could be crucified. Most Muslims believe that Jesus Christ was taken bodily into heaven without having died (Surah 4:157). However, Surah 19:33 says Jesus died and would be resurrected. Muhammad on the other hand died in his wife Aisha's home, not long after he was poisoned by a slave girl. Muhammad's body was lowered into a hole in Medina, and his dead body was covered by dirt and brickwork.
It is interesting to compare Jesus and Muhammad according to the Qur'an. Jesus did miracles (Surah 3:49; 5:110), but Muhammad did not (Surah 13:8: "thou art a warner [of coming divine judgment] only"; also 6:37; 6:109; 17:59 and 17:90-93).
Jesus was sinless (Surah 3:46), but Muhammad sinned and needed forgiveness (Surah 40:55: "Ask forgiveness of thy sin"; 42:5: "Ask forgiveness for those on the Earth"; 47:19: "Ask forgiveness for thy sin" ; 48:2: "that Allah may forgive thee of thy sin").
Jesus was called "the Messiah" by Allah in the Qur'an. And Jesus was even born of a virgin (Surah 3:45-57)! Yet Muhammad who had 12 wives, 2 concubines, and participated in many attacks on innocent caravans and villages, and insisted on 20% of all the b***y from these raids -- is supposed to be the greatest of the prophets.

Both Muslim holy books (Qur'an/Koran and Hadith) contain commands for Muslims to subjugate the world, militarily. Muhammad commanded Muslims to spread Islam through Offensive Jihad; or conquest of non-Muslim lands. Muslims are also commanded to take back any land that was formerly Muslim, such as Israel.

Radical Muslims believe that they are Mujahideen, or "holy warriors of Allah". Their goal, like Islam's goal is to establish the entire world as a pure Islamic state (a Khalifah), which conforms to Islamic laws.

An example of what Muslim children are taught in Muslim schools is this statement, found in a Jordanian/Palestinian school book in 1998:

"This religion (Islam) will destroy all other religions through the Islamic Jihad fighters"

Read the true history of Islam below and then look into your own heart to see if you are missing something; or if you have been lied to regarding Islam itself.
This information on the history of Muhammad and the history of Islam comes primarily from Muslim historians and from the Qur'an (Koran) itself... These and other references/sources used for this study follow below:
Qur'an / Koran itself Abu Dawud (sunnah)(A.D. 832?)
Quote from Imam Muhammad Baqir (676-743 AD) about Imam Mahdi Tirmidhi (A.D. 892)
Ibn Ishaq (A.D. 768) Tabari (A.D. 929)
Ulmar al-Waqidi of Medina (A.D. 822) Zamakhshari (A.D.1144)
Abd al-Malik ibn Hisham (A.D. 828) Baidawi (A.D. 1292)
Ibn Sa'd (A.D. 845) Ibn Kathir (A.D. 1301-1372)
Ahmad ibn Hanbal (A.D. 855) Ibn Khaldun (A.D. 1332-1406)
Amr ibn Sharhabil (Caliph 717-20 AD) Imam al-Mawawy
al-Bukhari (A.D. 810-870) Sahih al-Bukbari
Ibn Hazam (A.D. 994-1064)
Ali Dashti
Ibn Hajar - "Isabah", or "Dictionary of Persons who knew Muhammad"
Muhammad Ibn al-Rawandi, in "The Quest for the Historical Muhammad"
Also, Alfred Guillaume best known/respected Western Scholar on Islam
Also, Shmuel Berkovits' book "How Dreadful Is this Place!"
Also, "The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam and the Crusades"
Also, Ali Dashti: "Twenty Three Years: A Study of the Prophetic Career of Mohammad"
Also, "Islam and Terrorism" and "Jesus and Muhammad", by the former professor of Islamic history at Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt (Born a Muslim in Egypt/name changed to: Mark A. Gabriel, PHD)
"Inside Islam, A Guide for Catholics", Pages 61, 62, 69, Co-wrote by David Ali, Islam Apostate
Quote from Imam Muhammad Baqir (676-743 AD) about Imam Mahdi
Ibn Hisham, The Life of Muhammad, 3rd ed., pt. 6, vol. 3 (Beirut, Lebanon: Dar-al-Jil, 1998), p. 8
The Truth about Muhammad, Founder of the World's Most Intolerant Religion, by Robert Spencer
The Kingdom of the Cults by Walter Martin & Ravi Zacharias, pages 445-447
"Islam Reviewed" by M. Ali, 2nd edition 1999

The Quran Unveiled, by Dave Miller, P.H.D.
The Islamic AntiChrist by Joel Richardson
Prophecies for the era of Muslim Terror - a Torah perspective on world events by Rabbi Menachem Kohen