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Mary and Islam With Sheen This is an extraordinary insight.  That Mary is the path toward Islamic conversion to Christ.  It is plausibly the path for all.  Yet accepting that it is important to Islam and possibly more important than Mohammad himself is an astounding idea.

Not knowing this means a major flaw in understanding Islam.  Islam is a stepping stone to Christianity and not the other way around.  That this has been abused is also true.  Praying for the intercession of Mary is a direct step to accepting Christ.  As Muslims do pray, they do meditate and they do ask for the intercession of Mary it is inevitable that they devote themselves to Christ as well.

Confronting Islam leads us right back to the Islamic scriptures and the direct identification of those passages not acceptable to Jesus and by extension to Mary.   Support for those passages means becoming an adherent of the Anti - Christ and not acceptable to the faithful of either Christianity or Islam.

If we all accept Allah and God and all other names for GOD to merely denote the SOURCE, we have no conflict.

What a noted religious leader said about Islam in 1952


Throughout the 1950s, the most famous and powerful religious voice in mass media was the eloquent and telegenic Catholic bishop, Fulton J. Sheen. The author of several books, not only about his Catholic faith but also about issues such as communism, Sheen had an influence that was broadcast to millions on television as a pioneer of mass media, long before Billy Graham, Jimmy Swaggart, or Joel Osteen.

In an article that seems prescient, Fulton speaks of the animosity Islam has and has had towards Christianity on the whole and the West in particular. He recalls the many times that Muslim armies came close to overwhelming the West: in France, Austria, and Spain. Each time, there were reputed miracles that held back the armies of Islam that were poised to wrest control of the West from its Judeo-Christian and philosophical roots.

The following was written by Bishop Fulton J. Sheen:

The Power of Islam

Misunderstanding the notion of the Trinity, Mohammed made Christ a prophet, announcing Him just as to Christians Isaiah and John the Baptist are prophets announcing Christ.

The missionary effort of the Church toward this group has been at least on the surface, a failure, for the Moslems are so far almost unconvertible. The reason is that for a follower of Mohammed to become a Christian is much like a Christian becoming a Jew. The Moslems believe that they have the final and definitive revelation of God to the world and that Christ was only a prophet announcing Mohammed, the last of Gods real prophets.

At the present time, the hatred of the Moslem countries against the West is becoming a hatred against Christianity itself. Although the statesmen have not yet taken it into account, there is still grave danger that the temporal power of Islam may return and, with it, the menace that it may shake off a West which has ceased to be Christian, and affirm itself as a great anti-Christian world power. Moslem writers say, When the locust swarms darken countries, they bear on their wings these Arabic words: We are Gods host, each of us has ninety-nine eggs, and if we had a hundred, we should lay waste the world, with all that is in it.

Mary, Mother of God

The Koran, which is the Bible of the Moslems, has many passages concerning the Blessed Virgin. First of all, the Koran believes in her Immaculate Conception, and also, in her Virgin Birth. The third chapter of the Koran places the history of Marys family in a genealogy which goes back through Abraham, Noah, and Adam. When one compares the Korans description of the birth of Mary with the apocryphal Gospel of the birth of Mary, one is tempted to believe tht Mohammed very much depended upon the latter. Both books describe the old age and the definite sterility of the mother of Mary. When, however, she conceives, the mother of Mary is made to say in the Koran: O Lord, I vow and I consecrate to you what is already within me. Accept it from me.

When Mary is born, the mother says: And I consecrate her with all of her posterity under thy protection, O Lord, against Satan! The Koran passes over Joseph in the life of Mary, but the Moslem tradition knows his name and has some familiarity with him. In this tradition, Joseph is made to speak to Mary, who is a virgin. As he inquired how she conceived Jesus without a father, Mary answered: Do you not know that God, when He created the wheat had no need of seed, and that God by His power made the trees grow without the help of rain? All that God had to do was to say, So be it, and it was done. The Koran has also verses on the Annunciation, Visitation, and Nativity. Angels are pictured as accompanying the Blessed Mother and saying: Oh Mary, God has chosen you and purified you, and elected you above all the women of the earth.

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