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Nonsense. Judiasm is very different from Islam. Physical proximity means next to nothing.
Sorry, but they aren't very different at all. Religions are tailored to fit the environment in which its adherents live. Semites all live in the same region. They eat the same foods with practically the same dietary restrictions.
It's no coincidence that Mohammed looked to Moses and Paul when inventing Islam. The inventors of Christianity and Judaism looked to local inspiration when they invented their faiths.
You just don't like Islam...but that's irrelevant.
Orthodox Judaism (particularly Hassidic and Haredim) are similar to Islamic viewpoint minus the violence (beheadings) and conversion. Many Orthodox Jews are against secularism, forces people to obey Halacha (strict Jewish law), strict dietary/clothing/customs law, and big problem with secular Jews in Israel. Many Israelis dislike them and always fight occurring between both groups.
Islam is however the worst religion and philosophy in the whole world.
Muhammad beheaded many Jews in his time...
Your first sentence and second sentence contradict one another. No violence means no force. Orthodox Jews can do whatever they want to do because there is no threat of violence for disobeying the rules. Some are indoctrinated from childhood and don't know anything different while others simply choose to be or remain orthodox. I have a cousin who used to be orthodox (lubavich) and now she isn't, and I am happy to report, she was not harmed in any way, shape or form.
Muhammad actually wiped out the Jews living in Saudi Arabia. Sina's Challenge
Muhammed wiped out a heck of a lot of people to achieve his political goals.
At the time, Mecca and Medina were the commercial hubs of what is now Saudi Arabia. The majority of Arab tribes worshiped multiple Gods and made annual pilgrimages to Mecca to celebrate the pantheon of Gods. These pilgrimages were the primary source of income and power for the Meccan community.
Tribal war lords to used religion to achieve political goals, then as most US politicians do now.
Muhammed targeted and attracted the masses who were opposed to the competitive and materialistic Meccan society of the time , whose relative wealth was dependent on these annual celebrations. I seem to recall Jesus using a whip to drive out merchants from temple courts for similar reasons. Economic class warfare is as old as man. He who uses God to rationalize , tends to have more followers.
Most of what is attributed to Jesus or Muhammad was written and translated by others, long after the deaths of their subjects, subject to ongoing interpretations.
Orthodox Judaism (particularly Hassidic and Haredim) are similar to Islamic viewpoint minus the violence (beheadings) and conversion. Many Orthodox Jews are against secularism, forces people to obey Halacha (strict Jewish law), strict dietary/clothing/customs law, and big problem with secular Jews in Israel. Many Israelis dislike them and always fight occurring between both groups.
Islam is however the worst religion and philosophy in the whole world.
Muhammad beheaded many Jews in his time...
Muhammed beheaded many people who got in his way. Some of them were Jews. Most of them would be considered monotheists, worshippers of many gods, the opposite of Abraham religions, who populated the region.
Sorry, but they aren't very different at all. Religions are tailored to fit the environment in which its adherents live. Semites all live in the same region. They eat the same foods with practically the same dietary restrictions.
It's no coincidence that Mohammed looked to Moses and Paul when inventing Islam. The inventors of Christianity and Judaism looked to local inspiration when they invented their faiths.
You just don't like Islam...but that's irrelevant.
They ate the same foods so their religions must be alike? LOL!
Yet more nonsense. Read the Koran and the Hadith. They are nothing like the Old Testament.
Mohammed's mention of earlier prophets doesn't mean he interprets them the same way they are interpreted in the Old Testament. In fact, they are different interpretations. The same applies to the Islamic interpretation of Jesus. In fact, the Islamic conception of God is very different from that of either Judiasm or Christianity.
Actually, there is nothing about Islam that is similar to either Christianity or Judaism. Nothing.
Christianity and Judaism share the same Bible (except, of course, for the New Testament, which is the writings of the Apostles).
The same bible? Which books, versions, translations and editing of either the Old or New Testament would that be?
The Quaran recognizes the Torah as the Word of God. It also accepts some of the Gospels as the Word of God.
Generally speaking however, Islamic scholars believe the Words of God have been corrupted over time.
The Quaran is believed to be the final Word of God. Yet there are tens of thousands of Hadiths ( sayings) and Summas ( actions) attributed to Muhammed that continue to evolve no different than interprtations and editing that continues to happen in Christianity.
Much of what is routinely attributed to the Quaran, are actually Haddiths, including but not limited to Ramaden fasting, prayer protocol, personal hygiene, specific dress codes, treatment of those who leave the faith and so on.
There are tens of thousands of denominations/ sects ( brands) within Islam, Christianity and Judaism and claims of corruption of the Word of God is common stuff.
Thank you for vividly illustrating the idiocy and medieval anti-Semitism of the modern American left.
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