Can Islam Be Reformed and Is it an Abrahamic Faith?

No one who has studied the core of Islam could ever think that Islam is capable of being reformed. It is self-inoculated against reform since the only tenets that hold Islam together are 
(1) that the Prophet Mohamed is the Perfect Muslim (the Koran says so) and must be imitated in word and deed - making Islam = Jihad and Jihad = Islam.
(2) that the Koran is Allah-Breathed and perfect (the Koran says so) and literal in its every command of barbarism, and the Koran on earth is a duplicate of the Koran in heaven.  I other words, it is ETERNAL.  

So what can be reformed? The second you try reform, you have 
(1) stated that Mohammed is not the Perfect Muslim, and therefore should not be imitated and 
(2) that the Koran is not the perfect book. 
You have just DESTROYED Islam. 

Both these suggestions of the imperfection of Mohammed and his Koran are apostasy subject to the penalty of death. Trust me, no truthful Koranic Scholar would entertain the idea that Islam can be reformed, unless he was purposely practicing Tyqqah for the sake of a non-muslim audience. 

The pull of the Marxist Dialectic is so complete in the U.S., which has given a common definition to all religions, that is, created a false paradigm wherein the concept of “religion” is discussed as a generic term devoid of the “reality” or “theology” or “practice” of any religion.  In Marxist Dialectic, “religion is religion, they are all the same.”  I debated an Orthodox Christian Theology Professor so locked into that “mindset” of Marxist Dialectics, that it took him more than three years, often debating his “latest position with me” to study Islam in depth enough to learn that what was I was telling him was true, authentic and authoritative. 

It is absolutely foreign to our way of thinking, that Islam cannot be reformed.  It completely skews the meaning of the word religion held with some commonality of meaning by Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, etc.  Why? Because it is Islam. So statements like  "Judaism and Christianity seem to have confronted their evil and remained Jewish and Christian. I have every confidence Muslims can do the same" relies on the mythology that our Judeo/Christian heritage holds something in common with Islam and that Islam is “just another generic religion.” On the surface that is debatable, at the core of Islam it is absolutely false. There is NO commonality, between Islam and any other major religion on earth.  In fact Islam SHATTERS the generic meaning of the word “religion” and would be by that common term better stated the “anti-religion-religion.”  Because every common concept, that is the commonality the words shares between the major religions is totally absent in Islam.  And as we have stated Marxist Dialectic would have it that there is something generic called "religion" and that  those religions form, behave and may be reformed in a common way. That is an illusion of modern religious syncretism and multi-culturalism. (BTW both are products of Marxist Dialectics.)

When someone offers the oh so common sense idea that, “Christianity, Judiasm and Islam” share the same “Monotheism” or “Abrahamic Faith” - they speak the language of the Dhimmi. In other words they have capitulated to Islamic fabrications of History and Theology. 


(1) Simply put this “commonality” depends on the DHIMMI mythology that Islam is an "Abrahamic" religion. This is an Islamic Lie, which ALL Islam tries to force upon the "context of Judaism and Christianity," and if accepted makes of Christians and Jews, IN THE EYES OF MUSLIMS a “class of Dhimmi.”  That is to be enslaved in Dhimmitude and not killed IF possible.  This false confession that Christianity and Judaism share the same core, Islam DEMANDS of all Christians and Jews,  if they are to survive next to Muslims.   The second you accept this false confession, theologically and historically Islam has already won the debate. For if Islam is a genuine Abrahamic religion, then just like Judaism, its founding and purpose is ordained by God. Jews believe that of Judaism and Christians believe that of Judaism as well.  But if you believe it of Islam, there is no more basis for Judaism or Christianity.  You have accepted the Islamic mythology that both Christianity and Judaism are merely corrupted and distorted attempts by Allah, to create Islam in the world.   

And it is not a matter of “choosing a belief.”
We talk common sense, but how is it common sense that a religion began in the late 6th early 7th century, A.D. more than half a millennium AFTER the Cross of Christ, and TWO AND A HALF millenniums after the era of Abraham, a movement that began with its founder trying to REMOVE Jews FROM their Abrahamic Faith, giving them a choice to ABANDON their Abrahamic Faith or suffer BEHEADING . . . a movement founded by a mad man who HIMSELF oversaw the slaughter of 600 Jewish men IN A SINGLE DAY?  How stretched can an Islamic LIE get and stupid Christians say, “Oh yea man.  Islam is Abrahamic – we share the same Abrahamic faith.”  IF you were Orthodox Christian, that is understood the core of your Christianity, you would know that statement is the acceptance of the heresies of “unitarianism” and “ecumenicism.” 

Mohammed was a sick perverted child rapist, a murderous mad man with NO ties to Judaism or Christianity other than IN his own barbarous and sick imagination. What tied does the ravings of a demon possessed mad man have to Abrahamic Faith?  NONE. It is the same distortion of history as to say that New Agers of "The Course in Miracles" or the Mormons of "the Book of Mormon" are of the Abrahamic in faith.

(2) The Reformation came after massive Western Roman abuses under the Bishop of Rome, where the Bishop of Rome and the Roman Church moved away from core Christianity IN THEIR ABUSES. (Only slightly away in their core teachings) The Protestant Reformation began because of those ABUSES, not to reform the CORE of Christianity, but as any protestant will tell you, to try to move back to that basic core. Even today, a great many non-Orthodox Christians are becoming more Orthodox (more attuned to the Ancient Core of Christianity) by reaching to that core that has never gone away.  THINK! When you reach to the core of Islam, WHAT DO YOU FIND THERE?  You reach the murderous acts of a demonic mad man, whose actions and words ARE the murderous CORE of Islam. 

WE need to understand that anything that Islam says about "peace, harmony and love" that seems universally extended to the whole world, is only in the context of Jihad having conquered the whole world,  where all five pillars of Islam are complete, where there are only Muslims and those submitted to them left upon earth. When they speak about that period, their languages sound nearly Christian. But until that point it is ALL JIHAD, their language and theology holds more kinship to Genghis Khan than Christ. 

"KILLING JESUS" A Must Read

If you read ZEALOT, by REZA ASLAN, or have had someone use that book as reference putting down the HISTORIC reality of the Person Jesus, then "KILLING JESUS" is a MUST READ.

Watching Bill O'Reilly's interview with a Baptist pastor from Dallas and a Roman Catholic priest, who had read "Killing Jesus" so they could talk about it on his show, I realized the crux of O'Reilly's book and congratulate him for writing it. And HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT and it will be the first book I've ever read written by Bill O'Reilly. I will set it next to the book Zealot. 

They didn't say it, but it is in answer to the Book "Zealot - The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan" which is a Muslim propaganda piece parading as History from extant secular sources which in fact leaves the actual SECULAR RECORD of Jesus' Life, to a great extent simply absent. I read Zealot and it made my blood boil because it was such shoddy academic work and such an obvious piece of propaganda.

Meanwhile, Reza Aslan was making the talk show circuit assuring us that the Jesus of History known by Christians was a pious fabrication. I was Reza'a work that was the fabrication.  He ignored all of the Secular Evidence of Jesus existence and ministry and the development of the Church for the first two centuries, as if there was no extant Secular Historic Record.  His first reference to an ACTUAL Secular record is a mocking statement by a Roman writer in 170 A.D. nearly 150 years after the Cross! And in the introduction he tells you in so many words that his "story" is of his construction, (construction = fabrication) since there is little recorded of Jesus in that period.

I knew of many references in the "Annals" of Rome by Pagan Roman writers of the 1st century making reference to Jesus and to Christians, and even more in the 2nd century, which were completely ignored by the author of Zealot. William Wrumbrand did an excellent job a generation ago using the actual secular record to answer the lies of the Soviet Communist produced, "The Atheist's Handbook" in his "The Answer to the Atheist's Handbook."  After reading Zealot I actually re-read "The Answer to the Atheist's Handbook." I thought at the time, someone needs to answer this piece of Muslim Propaganda (Zealot) with FACTS. I contemplated doing it and thought, well really I would just re-write Wrumbrand's book.

So it is clear from their conversation that O'Reilly (actually his co-author) has answered ZEALOT with the ACTUAL RECORD, the ACTUAL HISTORY and constructed and fabricated NOTHING.  Ignorant Fundamentalists are in arms because this book is not about "Christology" and does not focus on the Biblical Record.  Liberal Academics will be angry because it restores the historic record they have spent a hundred years trying to destroy.   This is NOT a book about Jesus "the Christ" but Jesus the historic figure, who really existed and did what was witnessed of him in HISTORY. It is the PERFECT answer to the Muslim propaganda piece "ZEALOT" and exposes Reza Aslan for the academic charlatan he is.

Archpriest Symeon Elias