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The Muslim Debate. There are hundreds of religions in this world. Of them
two are the most prominent. Islam and Christianity. It ...
... such as France and The Netherlands have experienced a huge social debate: there
has ... Secular Muslim States such as Turkey also see headscarves as an element of ...
... and democracy remain in jeopardy.` (Kramer, 1993: 8) The concept provides much of
the debate over the rights of opposition in democratizing Muslim societies. ...
Minimum Wage Debate. ... is important in explaining the dismal employment prospects of
young persons in France, and the huge unemployment rate of Muslim youths there ...
... This fact has sparked a fundamental debate both in the West and within the Muslim
world regarding the link between these acts and the teachings of Islam. ...
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There are hundreds of religions in this world. Of them two are the most prominent. Islam and Christianity. It is averaged that there are 750 million people practicing Islam, and another 1 billion practicing Christianity. The start of Islam is actually derived form Christianity, history books indicates that one night in the year 610, the first of many revelations came to Muhammad from God by way of the angel Gabriel (In Christianity this is the same Angel which brings the news of Jesus' birth, Jesus of course is the founder of Christianity). The message Muhammad received told him that there was but one God (Identical to the inception of the Ten Commandments), not many gods, as most Arabs believed. This God was creator of the world (In Christianity, it's documented in Genesis Chapter 1 verse 1, In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth), and He would one day judge mankind (This is also true in Christianity: "The Lord will judge his people." Hebrews 10:30). Both of these religions share almost the same framework, but they also differ in many ways.
The word Islam means "surrender" or "submission," submission to the will of Allah, the one God. Muslims are those who have submitted themselves. The basic creed of Islam is brief: There is no God but Allah, and Muhammad is the Prophet of Allah. Islam teaches that there is one God, the creator and sustainer of the universe. This God, Allah, is compassionate and just. Because He is compassionate, He calls all people to believe in Him and worship Him. Because He is also just, on the Last Day He will judge every person according to his deeds. On the Last Day, all the dead will be resurrected and either rewarded with heaven or punished with hell. In Christianity one of the Ten Commandments states that "I am the Lord you God.....you shall have no other gods before me", also identical to Islam God is considered the creator of the universe, and he is also just. On the last day, or judgment day, the same...
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