Friday, November 08, 2024
Elder of ZiyonIt found that in general they were good, but there were some problems.
They noted this table from Inspire - Wisdom of the World. Junior Cycle Religious Education. 7th–9th Class. by Michael Purcell & Ailís Travers, (2020), that compared how the five major religions looked upon peace and war.
While they framed Christianity and Islam as always striving for peace, Judaism is the only one that believes in violence and war for "justice."
In a separate section, the book takes pains to say that jihad means primarily "spiritual struggle" for most Muslims:
Jihad or Jihad in the way of Allah is an Islamic term that means all actions or words that are done to spread Islam, or to repel an enemy targeting Muslims, or to liberate a Muslim land , or to help a Muslim or Muslims in general....Jihad has levels, some of which are obligatory for every accountable person, and some of which are a communal obligation ... Jihad against the self and jihad against Satan are obligatory for every accountable person, and jihad against the hypocrites , infidels , and the masters of injustice, innovations, and evils is an individual obligation . Jihad against the infidels by hand may be obligatory for every capable person in certain situations. Ibn al-Qayyim said : “ Jihad has four levels: Jihad against the self, jihad against Satan, jihad against the infidels, and jihad against the hypocrites . ”
The book is whitewashing what jihad means to most Muslims.
There are some other inaccuracies in the book not mentioned by IMPACT-se. It says that Jews perform pilgrimage to "the Wailing Wall" which is not the Jewish name for it; it refers to Jesus as living in "Palestine," it says that Jews only go to synagogue once a week, it describes the Ten Commandments in the Judaism section but uses the Christian system for numbering them. There is very little about how Judaism evolved since 70 CE.
