Ahmadinejad calls Americans to Islam

[Don_1967]

When you meet your enemies who are polytheists, invite them to three courses of action. If they respond to any one of these, you also accept it and withold yourself from doing them any harm. Invite them to (accept) Islam; if they respond to you, accept it from them and desist from fighting against them....If they refuse to accept Islam, demand from them the Jizya. If they agree to pay, accept it from them and hold off your hands. If they refuse to pay the tax, seek Allah's help and fight them.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the President of Iran, said:http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/muslim/019.smt.html#019.4294

Is there not a better approach to governance?
Is it not possible to put wealth and power in the service of peace, stability, prosperity and the happiness of all peoples through a commitment to justice and respect for the rights of all nations, instead of aggression and war?

It is possible to govern based on an approach that is distinctly different from one of coercion, force and injustice.

It is possible to sincerely serve and promote common human values, and honesty and compassion.

It is possible to provide welfare and prosperity without tension, threats, imposition or war.

It is possible to lead the world towards the aspired perfection by adhering to unity, monotheism, morality and spirituality and drawing upon the teachings of the Divine Prophets.


In that is the call to Islam as prescribed by Muhammad -- for Islam in the Islamic view is the only true monotheistic faith.

That call is here too:

We should all heed the Divine Word of the Holy Qur'an:
"But those who repent, have faith and do good may receive Salvation. Your Lord, alone, creates and chooses as He will, and others have no part in His choice; Glorified is God and Exalted above any partners they ascribe to Him." (28:67-68)


He chose a verse that rules out "partners" of Allah indicates that he intended a swipe at Christianity, as in the Islamic view Christians associate "partners" with Allah. Since Christianity is the dominant religion of the U.S., it seems likely that he meant to do this, as part of his call to Islam.

You can read his whole letter here http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/11/29/ahmadinejad.letter/

[Captain Hilts]

1. And miss out on Christmas? I don't think so. nt

[notadmblnd]

2. I wish people would just take their religions and sit down in a corner with it

and leave me alone. Judaism, Christianity and Islam...as far as I'm concerned no religion is worth the paper it is written on. How in the hell is it that this "god" is the creator of all things? Why anyone would want to have a relationship with an evil, jealous, vengeful being is completely beyond my comprehension.

[HappyWeasel]

3. lol...No thanks.

Mahmoud "Immadinthehead" is crazy. We should respond to his letter stating "Thanks, but no Thanks" and that we accept that it is both good and right for them to praise God, but this God is not "right for us". Also, we would be willing to pay them for the forbearing of spritual and faith-based violence within their country. We will immediately withdraw from Iraq and Suadi Arabia and fully accept the Gaza and West Bank (with the Exception of Jerusalem) as an independant Palestine, if and only if they disarm every terrorist cell they are funding. We should do this only with Iran and Syria.

[msongs]

4. fairy tales, myths, & hypocrisy used to justify murder & worse? no thanks nt

[sui generis]

5. Ahmedinajad also called on Iranians to execute gays

as brutally as possible to make examples of our deaths there. Since that open season invitation was issued something like 5000 of us have been murdered in Iran and Iraq.

I would dearly love for him to call. Or even drop by in person. I'd beat the fucker to death with his god damn holy koran.

[Zenlitened]

6. It's called the "Pray, Pay or Die" plan.

Been a very effective marketing model for the religiously insane for quite some time. :eyes:

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

7. Let's learn to honor and respect one another

no matter what our thoughts on God and the hereafter. All holy books teach tolerance and forgiveness-this is the heart of the teachings. Does it matter if you take an interstate or a state highway to New York City? Don't they all reach the destination?

Allow us to recognize Thee in all Thy holy names and forms:
As Rahma, as Krishna, as Shiva, as Buddha;
Let us know Thee as Abraham, as Solomon, as Zarathustra, as Moses, as Jesus, as Mohammed,
And in many other names and forms, known and unknown to the world.....from the prayer Salat, which came through Pir-o-Murshid Haz. Inayat Khan.

[and-justice-for-all]

8. Pass, but thanks for the offer....

...As he can tell, I am sure, America is already polluted with its own Fundmentalism nonsence..XTIANITY.

[Arazi]

9. Jerry Falwell crossed with the pRes.

Gimme your money or I'll blow you the fuck up!

Just another shyster call to the bank and arms....