{"id":202,"date":"2015-06-03T10:00:41","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T10:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/2015\/06\/03\/coexist-is-this-possible-with-islam\/"},"modified":"2015-06-03T10:00:41","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T10:00:41","slug":"coexist-is-this-possible-with-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/2015\/06\/03\/coexist-is-this-possible-with-islam\/","title":{"rendered":"COEXIST Is This Possible with Islam?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently check out a video from TheFuelProject on YouTube<br \/>\nwhich compared Jesus and Muhammad:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ajfs7Tp35rQ\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ajfs7Tp35rQ<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And immediately I think of the COEXIST bumper stickers that<br \/>\na proliferating the nations cars. They started to appear after 9-11-2001 when<br \/>\nthere was apparent profiling of Muslim profiling. Suddenly the granny grope became<br \/>\nok with TSA while ones who may be profiled walk unchecked so not to offend the<br \/>\nMuslim. As with the previous methods of ensuring our safety on flights, no<br \/>\nthreats have been stopped and granny has been humiliated in the process.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway back to the bumper sticker which is a New Age shot at<br \/>\nChristianity since the implication is often we are the only non-tolerant religion.<br \/>\nAs we can see from the video which takes the \u201cHoly\u201d texts to show the<br \/>\ndifference between Muhammad and Jesus. The bumper sticker means the following. <\/p>\n<p>C \u2013 This is a crescent moon that represents Islam, whose<br \/>\nHoly book says kill non-believers. O \u2013 This is the peace symbol or pagan\/Wiccan<br \/>\npentacle, the interesting thing is these are the most intolerant towards<br \/>\nChristians. E \u2013 It is the male\/female symbol or a scientific equation, science<br \/>\nagain when discussing God become very intolerant of any suggestion of His role<br \/>\nin the universe even though the data suggests His activity. X \u2013 This is the<br \/>\nStar of David and represents Judaism, the Jew has become the focus of the hate<br \/>\nin the Middle East since all the surrounding nations want (and have wanted)<br \/>\nthem obliterated. I \u2013 It is a pagan\/Wiccan symbol used, interestingly this is<br \/>\nthe second use of a pagan symbol. S \u2013 This is a Chinese yin-yang symbol, while<br \/>\ntoday the Chinese seem benign their past has been less than that. Granted this<br \/>\nhas been more because of communism and less about their religion. T \u2013 The cross<br \/>\nis used to represent Christianity, which ironically is the focus of most of the<br \/>\ndisgust by those who \u201cwear\u201d these stickers.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically the C and the T represent the opposite ends of<br \/>\nthe spectrum. Although many point to Christianity as equally violent in their acts,<br \/>\nthis is two misrepresentations. First, as we see in this video, Christianity<br \/>\ndoes not promote violence rather peace. Second, events like the Crusades and<br \/>\nthe Holocaust were pervisions of scripture. Also, the crusades started as a<br \/>\ndefensive measure against a Muslim Caliphate or invasion.<\/p>\n<p>So while the underlying idea of COEXIST seems benign, it<br \/>\nactually is dangerous to all parts, since it diminishes each and their<br \/>\ncontributions to peace or war to a slogan. Also, it is not to open the<br \/>\ndiscussion but rather to END it. COEXIST means no more heated discussions but<br \/>\nrather silence and that is the major problem, since with silence comes<br \/>\nignorance. So COEXIST and stop killing, but also open the dialogue about each<br \/>\nfaith and eventually all can see the T is the end or the ANCHOR!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently check out a video from TheFuelProject on YouTube which compared Jesus and Muhammad: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ajfs7Tp35rQ And immediately I think of the COEXIST bumper stickers that a proliferating the nations cars. They started to appear after 9-11-2001 when there was apparent profiling of Muslim profiling. Suddenly the granny grope became ok with TSA while ones &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/2015\/06\/03\/coexist-is-this-possible-with-islam\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;COEXIST Is This Possible with Islam?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[83],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}