What do Muslims believe? New ebook release

Pilgrim Publications SA today announced the release of a new ebook by Val Waldeck entitled, “What do Muslims believe?”. The history and religion of Islam and its founder, Muhammad, the 5 Pillars of Islam, Sharia law, the Koran (Quran), Jihad, and the role of Mecca in the life of the Muslim are briefly examined in this concise “birds-eye” view. (40 pages)

The events of September 11, 2001, brought ISLAM to the attention of the nations in a new way. Who are Muslims? Where do they come from? Why are they leaving their Islamic states in great numbers to settle in the “West” – a culture so different from their own? What do they believe? Is there any difference between the Islamic Allah and the God of the Bible? Is Islam compatible with the Western way of life?

Some dismiss the movement as a violent religion, focused on attaining world dominion whatever the cost and view with concern the call for a united Islamic state when an estimated 80,000 Islamists packed a sports stadium in the Indonesian capital last Sunday. This was billed as the ‘biggest ever’ rally to call for the re-establishment of a single Islamic state or caliphate, uniting Muslims around the world under Islamic law. Video footage posted on the group's websites showed tens of thousands of people, men and women seated apart in the stadium in Jakarta, waving black and white flags and shouting "Allah is greater."

The event was organized by Hizb ut-Tahrir (the Party of Liberation), which called it the biggest event calling for the revival of a caliphate since the last time one existed in the 1920s. In an opinion survey earlier this year of attitudes in four key Muslim countries — Egypt, Morocco, Pakistan and Indonesia — University of Maryland pollsters found 36 percent of respondents "strongly" in favor of "unifying all Islamic countries into a single Islamic state or Caliphate." Scholars say a caliphate has not existed in any form since 1924, when Turkish leader Mustafa Kemal Ataturk formerly abolished the institution, following the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire during and after World War I.

Others argue that Muslims are peace-loving for the most part and that “fundamentalists” are to be found on the lunatic fringe of any movement.

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Author VAL WALDECK is an international recognised Bible Teacher resident in Durban, South Africa.