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Learning Arabic

I went to Abu Dhabi in the UAE (United Arab Emirates), on the Persian Gulf, during the first Gulf War.

My group worked two shifts; and, I had to share a car with the night shift between our hotel and the Gulf Air hanger, where we set up our equipment.

We had to share that car, everywhere we went.

I was fascinated by the Emirati‘s culture and language. But, had no opportunity to go exploring on my own; until the war ended and I volunteered to insure our equipment returned.

I then had a car to myself, half of the time

Later, the Saudi’s bought 12 of their own Apaches.

Lockheed asked for volunteers, to maintain them.

So, I had a chance to get funds for a land deal; and, return to explore the Arabian peninsula.

I became friends with an Arab who invited me into his home, to help me become better at speaking and writing Arabic.

He taught from the Koran; and, I believe he was trying to convert me to Islam.

I bought my own Koran with English and parallel Arabic text, and read it and other Korans many times.

There were many contradictions in a book that was supposed to be the unchanging word of God, preserved or guarded at His throne in the seventh heaven.

In spite claiming that the Koran was already complete, the Messenger revealed that the further revelations would be sent down gradually, in stages.” to “strengthen your heart”… whatever that means.

In the Satanic Verses, Allah (if he exists) refers to pagan goddesses. This revelation is supposedly from the Koran guarded in the seventh heaven.

If the Mighty and All-Knowing is real; Is He stupid, for allowing pagan goddesses to be mentioned in his “guarded” Koran? Abrogation should NOT happen in a “guarded” Koran; however, in “Mecca” it was revealed that verses could be replaced.

After the Messenger’s followers returned from refuge with the Christians in Ethiopia, they were forced live apart from the pagans of Mecca/Becca/Petra.

It was a time of famine and drought for the Muslims. The Messenger was also troubled, and one morning “revealed” that the Angel Gabriel, had given him a mythical steed to carry him to a distant mosque.

Al Buraq, which is supposed to have legs, that could stretch to the horizon, carried the Messenger to the rubble of the second Jewish temple (now the Muslim Dome of the Rock). After hitching Buraq, the Messenger alleged that he preached a moving sermon, and then Gabriel helped him take a ladder to the heavens.

Below, is an artist’s conception Al Buraq with its rider.

After pagans laughed at his yarn, calling him crazy, the Messenger added wings to Al Burak, enabling him to go the distance much more quickly.

An Anthony Quinn movie “The Message” fills in much of the story of Islam, not mentioned in the Koran. It shows Muslims going to a Christian King for refuge while the Messenger stayed behind, under the protection of his Uncle.

When his Uncle passed, the Messenger fled toward Yathrib (now Medina).

The pagans wanted to kill the Messenger and hired an expert tracker, who led them to an undisturbed cave. They left the cave without noticing the “Prophet” or his white camel’s tracks.

To get the Messenger to negotiate peace between the King of Yathrib’s Arab and Jewish residents, Muslims were also allowed to stay and wait for, what the Jews were told, was a “prophet”.

Later, the Jews allied with the pagans, after evidently realizing that the Messenger was less of a “prophet” and more of crazed fanatic… leading to the slaughter of Jews, which continues to this day.

In Medina, the Messenger tried to get his followers to go on a raid; but, they were not interested.

A new verse was “revealed” from the “guarded” Koran allegedly from the seventh heaven; but, the followers evidently did not like the odds. A new revelation quickly followed from that “guarded” Koran, saying in effect “Did Allah say ten to one? What he REALLY meant was you could overcome twice your number.”

Also in Medina, it was revealed again that guarded and supposedly unchanging verses could be replaced, by a Knowing and Wise God that evidently seemed to be too stupid to realize that Satan had cast something into what the Messenger would reveal.

Later in Medina, the Messenger revealed another verse in the Koran that says in effect, that if he had made up false sayings, his aorta would have been cut.

Since he was still standing, the evidently stupid Allah and his angels must have approved the Satanic and other verses.

Of course, if Allah was NOT real, nothing would have happened either.

In addition to the above, my greatest concerns about the Koran, were physical reality. The earth was not rolled out on a flat plane with mountains to hold it in place. The heavens were not held up, with no visible means of support (or by Allah, if he exists).

Shooting stars were not flaming missiles hurled at satins, to keep them from listening to what was being said in heaven, as in the Koran 072-008

Allah’s Apostle knew about eclipses, but neither he (or Allah, if he exists) understood what was happening.

After the last sunrise of the old moon, some time during that day, the sun WILL pass by the moon.

We usually can’t see that happen because of the bright sun; unless, very rarely the moon will cause a ground track on part of the earth, showing a partial or even total solar eclipse.

Allah (if he exists) does NOT ordain the orbits of the sun and moon (below the lowest heaven). Allah (if he exists) does NOT decree that the sun may not approach the moon.

My friend was not interested in Koran contradictions. Instead, he produced a Bible, with 2 pages bookmarked.

I simply responded, by opening my Koran to 003-003, and asking him how to pronounce “injeel” (shown below, which the Arabs called the New Testament, after a Greek word meaning “good news”). My friend was not happy, because that entire line said Allah sent down “the book” (“kitab” كتاب), which means any divine scripture, like the Bible or Koran chapter 25, (al-Furqan or Criterion), AFTER previously revealing both the Torah (Old Testament) and New Testament,

This meant that Allah (if he exists) had “revealed” BOTH Matthew AND Luke with DIFFERENT stories of what happened to baby Jesus, just after he was born.

I kept glancing up to a corner behind my friend. He finally turned around, to where a very young woman or teenager in normal house dress was sneaking a peek at the American in her home. I do not know if it was because I saw his Wife without a burqa; or, if she could understand that I had just humiliated her Husband…

Because I showed that, while Christians had thousands variations in their Bible (because they were made by fallible men) before its versions were fixed, it takes only ONE uncontestable fact to prove that the Koran was NOT revealed by Allah, if He even exists.

My Arab friend ordered me to leave his home; and, would never talk with me, afterwards.

Was Matthew or Luke right about baby Jesus?

See “The Messengers” beginning on page 132, by past life regression hypnotherapist Julia Ingram, for an interesting insight about life in the time of Christ; and why Jeshua/Jesus asked Saul/Paul for help, outside the gate of Damascus, Syria.

If you read The Messengers to the end, Paul describes his peaceful passing, and meeting his beloved Jesus.

Another book by Nick Bunick, “Time for Truth” has on the cover, what he described as the best portrait of Jesus that he has ever seen, by Bette Myers.

Bette said that she clinically died and met Jesus, who asked her to study his face, before sending her back to paint his portrait.