Answering Christianity Research Center

As'salamu Alaikum everyone,

The website was updated today.  You can see the new additions at: www.answering-christianity.com/whatsnew.htm.

I added a new video "Rose from the Dead" is an old Semitic idiom even before Christianity (7 minutes long).  I used video clips, proverbs and verses that thoroughly demonstrated how the term was commonly used for people who survived fatal injuries or accidents, or survived very dangerous situations and close calls.  Also, I proved that the Bible also uses this term metaphorically.  Did you know for example that in the following verse, Isaac was said to have risen from the dead:

Hebrews 11:19
19 Abraham reasoned that God could even raise the dead, and so in a manner of speaking he did receive Isaac back from death.

Yet, Isaac wasn't physically dead.  Similarly, we also find in all of the world's civilizations, terms such as "A cat has 9 lives" and others.  This also metaphorically refers to the person "coming back to life", or "rising from the dead" many times due to his luck.

I hope this helps, insha'Allah.

Take care,
Osama Abdallah

Peace
You should put this as an article on the main website
Peace

As'salamu Alaikum dear brother,

It's linked directly at: http://www.answering-christianity.com/convert_christians.htm, which is THE most important article in the entire website.  And this main article is linked in several places on the main page, and also in several places in the whatsnew.htm page, and also in several places in the 9/11 EYE image.

Take care,
Osama Abdallah

Asalam walaikum warahmatullah

Osama, you are getting information from non trustworthy sources..we all know that CNN invents a lot of lies against Muslims so why would u listen to them?  This is just part of their propoganda, dont trust what they say.  You should know better than that.

Wa Alaikum As'salam Wa Rahmatu Allah Wa Barakatuh,

Akhi, we keep hearing this from Muslims and others who lived there and worked there.  And it's not CNN that I am trusting.  The Human Rights Organizations are trustworthy.  It is our governments and many of our people who are liars and hypocrites, and covering up and lying is very easy for them.

What kind of a country that would sentence somebody to DEATH, and execute him/her, without that person having a lawyer to defend them?!  What if it was the parents who killed the child and wanted to frame the maid?  What if it was the mother who did it?  Did the defendent have a lawyer to CROSS-EXAMINE the evidence and claims?  Did they involve scientific experts in this to give their opinions?  Absolutely not.  Did not Allah Almighty Command us to CROSS-EXAMINE claims:

[049:006]  O ye who believe! If a wicked person comes to you with any news, ascertain the truth, lest ye harm people unwittingly, and afterwards become full of repentance for what ye have done.

The whole case just stinks!  You don't carry out justice like this.  It's beyond ridiculous.  This is more like gangs and thugs and warlords type of justice man.  Not a country, let alone the biggest Islamic country in economy and prestige and integrity.  Pristige and integrity my rear end.

Osama Abdallah

Although i might be biased i would like to express my opinion
If she had a trial, been found guilty, was found mature and sane, then she should be executed.
I believe she was mature and sane, and she DID get a trial, i think, however, im not certain in she had a lawyer, and if thts the case then i believe it was unfair.
But ONLY if she didnt have a trial

What kind of "trial" did she have on her own and without a lawyer, when she probably hardly knew how to read and write.  Also, it was pretty much her words against theirs.  She claims that the baby died from choking on milk.  I am not taking her side here, but I don't see any evidence here to support a complete death penalty.  Babies are fragile, and that moron who gave him birth shouldn't have given her fragile baby to anybody from the first place, especially an untrained maid.  But because they're Saudi nationals, the court had to side by them.

Here is what Human Rights said:

"Human rights groups said Nafeek did not have access to a lawyer during her pretrial interrogation, during which she said she was assaulted and forced to sign a confession under duress. Philip Luther, director of Amnesty International's Middle East and North Africa program, said last week that the case shows the Saudis are "woefully out of step ... with their international obligations regarding the use of the death penalty.""

I am sorry, I'll believe the Western Human Rights Organizations anytime anyday over our corrupt courts and governments.

You say that she got a trial.  What kind of trial did she get when:

1-  She had no lawyer.

2-  She was tortured and forced to confess a crime that she said she didn't commit: "....during which she said she was assaulted and forced to sign a confession under duress...."

And why should the court let her life be determined by the baby's parents?  It's not like she killed him by a sword and everyone witnessed it.  I understand the BLOOD-MONEY LAW IN ISLAM, where the murdered person's family can have a choice to forgive and take blood money instead of an all out war or a life-for-life punishment.  I understand that.  But there is no clear-cut smoking gun proof that the baby was indeed murdered.  He could've very well died from choking on milk.  How does the court know??  And again, why should her life be put under the mercy of the baby's parents in this situation?

Clear injustice!

Osama Abdallah

As'salamu Alaikum dear brothers,

Ok, Mr. Obama had been unbanned.  Just please, 'There is only one God', don't use 'Obama Abdullah' again.  And don't use foul words.

Take care,
Osama Abdallah

Is "the one and only God" Banned?

Yes. 

Wa Alaikum As'salam Wa Rahmatu Allah Wa Barakatuh dear brother Khan,

Welcome to the board akhi.  I ask Allah Almighty that you'll find all of your answers here, insha'Allah.

In regards to your concern, the eye itself is not a sin akhi.  The eye on the US-Dollar bill is the eye of GOD Almighty, according to them, which is of course blasphemy.  So, not only it's an image of GOD Almighty, which is forbidden in the Bible and in Islam, but it is also the official symbol of the USA.  Or it's one of the TOP AND OFFICIAL SYMBOLS of the USA.

The eye in the images that you showed seems to symbolize that the police doesn't sleep .  That's they're ever watching to guard the country and the society from evil.  If this symbol is an official Saudi government one, then it probably would be a different story.

But nonetheless akhi, the land of Saudi Arabia was prophesied by Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, to be part of the anti-Christ (dajjal) regime.  Not the people of Saudi Arabia, but the rulers of Saudi Arabia.  I of course advise you to not push this too far with your government or the police over there, because these countries over there are police states and dictatorships.  But here is what the Prophet of Islam said about Arabia in general:

"O Allaah bestow your blessings on our Shaam. O Allaah bestow your blessings on our Yemen." The people said, "O Messenger of Allaah, and our Najd." I think the third time the Prophet, sallallaahu alayhi wa sallam, said, "There (in Najd) will occur earthquakes, trials and tribulations, and from their appears the Horn of Satan." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadith_of_Najd)

Some Muslims tried to say that this Hadith is referring to Iraq.  This is complete nonesense, because Najd is geographically and historically known to be in Saudi Arabia.  In fact, there are many Hadiths that refer to Najd during the Prophet's days in the lands that he lived in: http://www.answering-christianity.com/cgi-bin/hadiths/hadith_search.cgi?search_text=najd&search_type=Exact+String&B1=Search.

I hope this answers your question, dear brother.  It would be nice to remove the eye symbol from the Saudi police, but again, it seem from the images that you gave that the eye represents the police, and certainly not GOD Almighty.  The eye on the US-Dollar bill represents GOD Almighty's eye, which is blasphemy.

Take care,
Osama Abdallah