From: laura@nospam.me   
      
   "Janice"  wrote in message   
   news:MPG.1c35f1c63ce07c0c98a234@news.individual.net...   
   > In article <41cbb4c5$1_2@newspeer2.tds.net>, dick_silk@antispam.gov   
   > says...   
   > >"Janice"  wrote in message   
   > >news:MPG.1c34a0e95e87468398a22f@news.individual.net...   
   > >> In article , laura@nospam.me says...   
   >   
   > >> If it makes you any happier, Mohammed predicted that Islam would indeed   
   > >> disappear.   
   > >   
   > >really?  please do tell ... !   
   >   
   > OK.  This is my rough, second-hand understanding of it.  Mohammed   
   > predicted that towards the end of time, the essence of Islam would   
   > disappear leaving only the bare forms.  He said that if Moslems in those   
   > latter days perform only 1/7 of the duties required of Moslems in his own   
   > time, they would still be saved.  He also said that the Quran would   
   > disappear from the hearts of men, and that people would remember hearing   
   > their grandfathers pray to Allah but not know what any of it meant.   
   >   
   > Interestingly, Moslems have their own  version of millenial beliefs   
   > complete with a Second Coming in which Jesus (Isa) returns, defeats the   
   > Anti-Christ (Dajjal) and brings peace.  They believe that he ascended   
   > bodily to heaven to await that time, but do not believe that he was   
   > crucified.  They also believe that he was born of a virgin, but not that   
   > he was literally God or the son of God.   
      
   Interesting... there is a clear phonetic parallel between Isa and Jesus, and   
   between Dajjal and Devil.   
      
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