Notes on Islam

Thanks to Wilfredo Ruiz, Muslem and Lawyer practicing in Florida and Puerto Rico, I have been priviledge to receive valuable information about the Islam , its history and its relationship with Cristianity.
Wilfredo used to be a practicing Catholic until 2002 when his desire to resolve the mistery of the trinity pushed him to study all forms of religion until he found Islam giving him the best answers to questions he had been trying to solve in his religious life. He has honored this country by having served as an Islamic Chaplain in the USA Navy. He is in charge of the Promotions of Islamic-Christian relations and has been in national TV and radio shows such as Maria Elvira Salazar. He has many articles and book written on the subject of the developing islamophobia that has developed in the USA with the proposed Islamic Center near Ground Zero (New York Twin Tower site).

I am going to expose some of the knowledge that I have acquired by reading the material that Wilfredo has been sending me in the hope of a better understanding between Chrisitans and Islamics. Wilfredo's documents clearly show that the Islam religion has great respect of Jesus Christ as a great prophet and that its main prophet Muhammad wrote many time in the defense of the practice of Christian religion with strict orders to defend and protect the practice of that religion at all times and to show due respect to all Christian churches within Islam territory.

The Islam religion is based on the devine inspiration received by Muhammad in close to 632 AD that drove him to write the sacred book that quides all Islamic way of life and is called Quaram (or Coran as we know it). The basic point of this religion believe is the fact that God (Allah) is ONLY ONE and not a trilogy made up of Father, Son and Holy Spirit like the Christians believe. Believing in the trilogy is considered a polyteistic approach to religion and it is strictly prohibited by the Quaram.

This principal of Unitheistic believe gives birth to a big difference between the 2 religious believe and puts Jesus Christ as a prophet and not as the Son of God, the second person of the trilogy like Christians believe.
In some late analysis of Dead Sea Scroll made by Islamic erudites, it is claimed that Jesus never died crucified as stated by the New Testament. It is Judas , the apostle who sells to the Roman guards the information on where to find Jesus, who is captured instead because God makes a magic change on Judas face and makes him look like Jesus and this is how the guards capture Judas and he goes through all of the episodes of the flagelation , judgement and crucifiction instead of Jesus. The resucitation of Christ is also negated and it is the body of Judas that is stolen from the grave. God protects Jesus and takes him to a safe place where 100 angels protect him in heaven. Jesus , later on , shows himself to the apostle and iluminates them and encourage them to follow on their mission of apostolate. A complete and drastic change of the central figure of Christianity !

In my opinion, Wilfredo has a very hard chore ahead of him if he is going to try to convince Christians to live together with Islams because the friction would be constantly unavoidable. This is like Oil and Water, they do not mix !

Christians are told by Jesus to love thy brothers and it is with no exceptions. We need to show consideration and love to the islamics but that does not mean that Christians are going to be silence when their own religion is in jeopardy, their convictions are in question and their faith in the divinity of Jesus and the fact that he is our jenuine savior with his crucifiction is negated in absolute contradiction by the Islamics. This would be too much to ask. Islam seems to be more of a way of life, a government mixed with religion in an inseparable bond that puts the government in a position of forcing the society to practice the religion according to the Quaram with no exceptions and with harsh punishments to the population that does not abide by these rules. There does not seem to be a choice or free will allowed and this is a drastic violation to the american principal of human rights protection by the constitution.

Because Islam can not be considered only a religion and the separation of state and church is not allowed, it violates a principal of the Republican Democracy since the very beginning of the American nation that government and religion must be kept apart ! Islam can not claim to be included in the rights of the practice of religion of the first ammendment of our constitution because the first ammendment does not contemplate a religious practice that violates the principal of separation of state and church and this is crucial to the discussion of the proposed Islamic Center near ground Zero in New York.