Islam and Christianity

[Misguiding Muslims’ children with lies and slanders and with
promises pertaining to money and position, the British and their
Jewish collaborators demolished the Muslim Ottoman state. They
popularized irreligiousness and spread it as a fashion among
younger generations. They rationalized women’s going out
without properly covering themselves in a manner prescribed by
Islam, indecencies, alcohol parties, immoralities, and irreligiosness
by calling them modern life styles. They annihilated Islamic
scholars and Islamic knowledge. British spies and masonic agents
disguised themselves as men of religion and ruined Islam’s
beautiful ethical entity and its original system of religious
practices. Islam was gone in essence, although it survived in name.
In the time of the Party of Union, even the legislators, beys and
pashas became enemies of Islam. They passed laws destructive of
Islam. Adherence to one’s religion and belief was represented as
a misdemeanour. Numbers of Muslims were hanged and
butchered. Pious acts such as promulgating Islam’s
commandments and avoiding Islam’s prohibitions were
stigmatized as separatism. Those who performed emr-i-ma’rûf, i.e.
who taught the true essence of Islam, were called enemies of the
regime. Al-hamd-u-lillah (may praise and gratitude be to Allah)!
The Christian aggressions have come to an end. The Islamic sun is
shining again in our blessed country, (Turkey). The enemy’s lies
and treacheries have come to light. True religious teachings are
being written freely. Today every Muslim has to show gratitude
for this freedom and do his best to learn the true essence of our
sacred religion for whose sake our ancestors sacrificed their lives.
If we do not teach our religion to our children and discipline them
to adapt themselves to the Sharî’at (way of life prescribed by
Islam), the enemies lying in wait and the idiots bought by them
will resume their aggressions and begin to deceive our children.
All the peoples of Europe and America believe in rising after
death, in the existence of Paradise and Hell. Every week they fill
their churches and synagogues. Their school curricula contains
compulsory religious lessons. If a person says that Europeans and
Americans are wise, modern and civilized and boastingly imitates
them in lying, drinking, indecency and fornication, on the one
hand, and does not believe as they do, on the other, is not he a
liar? We Muslims say that Christians are ignorant, idiotic, and
regressive. For they divinize Îsâ ‘alaihis-salâm’ and his blessed
mother. They idolize him, worship him, and thus become
polytheists. Among them there are people who work compatibly
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