Hi dear follower of Christ, I hope that you enjoy your stay and find it fruitful. I do not know of the book, there are many books authored by Scholars within Islam, our, meaning the Muslim body, Criteria between knowing their accuracy is the Qur'an and Sunnah, sources of Islam, upon the original understandings. We do not allow inovation into the religion as our Prophet Muhammad, sal Allahu alayhi wa salam, did not allow so.

Insha'Allah we will try to find answers for your questions, though we are not scholars nor even full time students of the Islamic faith, so we may be a little slow in our research.

So far it seems the thread has touched upon various matters, i.e. The Mahdi is not a Prophet.

Christians and Jews who hear of the Prophet Muhammad and yet do not follow him, or who make God into Three parts, or who claim God has children and so forth are disbelievers according to Islam and will not enter paradise.

Also, that Almighty God forgives and punishes, and that His justice is not undermined by His willingness to forgive individuals. Also that a Muslim needs Almighty God's mercy to enter paradise. That a part of faith is also action, you may be familiar with the phrase contained in James, faith without deed is dead.

As for the quote which you have asked our thoughts on, then as sister Crayon mentiones, one has to understand the terminology of the author and his methodlogy and reasons behind writing.

I will touch on matters brought about though;

1. Hate for unbelievers, this is true, a Muslim should dislike people choice and actions of disbelief, this is not only in Islam but for example in all three faiths. One must understand though that there are different types of love and hate, I love my mother, because she is my mother, at the same time I truly dislike and detest her choice of not being a Muslim. But this hate should be a positive hate, a hate that makes me want to inform them about the truth, guide them to the straight path.

2. Fighting individuals because of their disbelief, then this again depends of various matters. Do you not agree that we must fight Satan? We should resist the devil and submit to God, as even your scripture claims. Moreover there are individuals who are driven by such evil desires, unlike individuals like you and me, who, God willing, want to worship God, these individuals require different viewpoints. And those learned amongst us with the aid of Almighty God try to look into the cases.

Out of curiosity, could you type the content page of the book you quoted from for us? So we get jist of what the topics are, please.

And Almighty God knows best.

Regards, Eesa