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As a Muslim I believe that there is only one God and that Muhammad is his prophet. I also know that there were tons of other prophets sent to other people and those people have devised various religious traditions around those prophets. All I know is that Jesus is a revered figure in Islam and I owe him the same respect I owe all other messengers sent to humanity.[b] If my husband and others of the catholic faith revere Jesus and give him some extra attention, they can go ahead and do so.[/b]

LOL, so let me get this straight, believing that Jesus is God is just some extra attention. Ask Christians if this is just a little extra attention.

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God certainly has no problem with their interpretation, I don't see why you're so upset:

{Those who believe [in the Quran], and those who follow the Jewish [scriptures], and the Christians and the Sabians,—any who believe in God and the Last Day, and work righteousness, shall have their reward with their Lord; on them shall be no fear, nor shall they grieve.} (Al-Baqarah 2:62)
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Because that's not what it says. My first Google result is from Quran.com and it reads:

"Indeed, those who believed and those who were Jews or Christians or Sabeans [before Prophet Muhammad] - those [among them] who believed in Allah and the Last Day and did righteousness - will have their reward with their Lord, and no fear will there be concerning them, nor will they grieve."

I don't read Arabic, and even if I did, I lack the cultural context to fully appreciate a foreign language. I do speak two languages and have two cultural backgrounds so I understand the difficulty of capturing nuances in translation of literary works. With this in mind, I read the above with as much neutrality as I can muster. To me, the outward purpose of this passage is obvious: those Jews or Christians who convert to Islam and serve Allah, will be fine. This in no way means they can go on believing in their own religion. Thinking I have missed something since the language is somewhat ambiguous (is Allah only the Islamic God, or could it also be a Christian God? Does the "before Prophet Muhammad" part refer only to Sabeans, or also Christians and Jews?), and I am also missing context, I clicked on the second Google search result link:

http://www.ayubhamid.com/reflections/qur-aan/examples-of-misinterpretations/335-the-misconceptions-about-verse-62-of-al-baqarah

And the third one:

http://wikiislam.net/wiki/Christians_Jews_and_Muslims_in_Heaven

None of these support your claims.[/quote]
So you are engaging in a theological argument about Islam with a born Muslim after fifteen minutes with Sheikh Google?[/quote]

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