How do you really know that the message was distorted? Just because it says in Quran or something? Have the Christians and Jews confirmed this?
I personally think Christianity has had more positive effect on humanity than Islam.
Ask the christians on which is the book of God, they won't come upon a common agreement. Infact it's not even in the language which Jesus son of Mary spoke. The earliest manuscripts found are in greek whereas Jesus spoke the Aramaic tongue (Syrian.)
By the way, history has proved that Islaam has had a great impact on the world as a whole compared to christianity. When muslims were at their peak - Islaam made Europe what it is today, infact it brought the whole world out of the middle ages.
At a time when London was a tiny mud-hut village that "could not boast of a single streetlamp" (Digest, 1973, p. 622), in Cordova
"there were half a million inhabitants, living in 113,000 houses. There were 700 mosques and 300 public baths spread throughout the city and its twenty-one suburbs. The streets were paved and lit." (Burke, 1985, p. 38)
This rich and sophisticated society took a tolerant view towards other faiths. Tolerance was unheard of in the rest of Europe. But in Muslim Spain,
The only time christianity had an impact at the social level was when they separated the state from the church. In other words - when they threw the bible behind their backs.
You simply assume there is nothing better because you think Quran is word of God and there couldn't be anything better than what it says in Quran.
Yeah, that's what i believe, with billions of others from different races and nationalities also.
Let's take eating meat for example. Could being a vegetarian be practically more merciful than killing a goat? If I understand it correctly what you call Halaam meat, you kill an animal and then you read some religious stuff (Kalam or something). Do you actually think it pleases God to kill, even if it's goat? I think you also something called Bakar Eid when they do the same.
Did you know God made animals out of meat, so we could eat them.
Then He made some cattle which we could use for riding [i.e. horses, donkeys], others for eating and drinking their milk [cows, goats, sheep etc.]
Before sacrificing them - yes we recite Allaah's name over it, this shows that this animal is being sacrificed in the name of God and not any other deity.
The issue of slaughtering it is much more human compared to todays western standards, since they place the animals in water and electricute them till death.
Whereas in Islaam:
This method of slaughtering animals is done by many people around the world.
I think what they do is cut the main artery (the aorta) which is specifically in the neck area. When this is cut, the blood that reaches the other parts of the body is stopped, so the signal sent to the brain is limited to a really short time span only. And once the animal has been slaughtered, it doesn't die a slow death, but instead it dies on the spot. So the pain is kept to a minimum [since the link of pain has been cut off] and the sacrifice is swift without causing too much pain to the animal.
Hope that makes sense.
Also, we are told to sacrifice with a sharp knife [as the example of Prophet Ibraheem] since that causes the least pain to the animal because its swift/quick and to the point.
Regards.
