If you think that your faith is the absolute true,
“Come, let us call our sons and your sons, our women and your women, ourselves and yourselves, then supplicate earnestly together and invoke the curse of God upon the liars among us.”

Julius, my friend, the answer is in front of you – they are in your own justifications. Muslims believe in all prophets and although they believe that other sacred texts were truly revealed to the Prophets, the Qur’an is the only text that has remained unchanged. There have been no modifications or alterations to the Qur’an (unlike the Torah, the Bible etc..) and so, nothing of the sacred text can be denied.

Also, Muslims respect and love Jesus; they believe that he was a wonderful Prophet but do not think that he was the son of God. After all, if Allah/God is omnipotent and ‘One’, no other partner should ever be ascribed to Him. Everybody knows that there can only ever be one God.

Overall, yes – I do think people should read all sacred texts. This way, we can not only begin to understand each other more but can further our knowledge and understanding of each religion. We can then hopefully have more respect and understanding for each other also. After all, the prophet Muhammad was known for his immaculate manners and happened to be courteous towards both Muslims and non-Muslims…. let us all be lead by good example.

Haven’t you ever wondered if a book which refers to itself as the “dark side of Islam” might be just a little bit biased?

If you want to learn about something, the best place to go is always the horse’s mouth.

Reading those books you’ve mentioned is worse than a Muslim learning about Christianity from a book published by an Islamic publisher. I say that it’s worse because Muslims at least respect Christians and will therefore do less to distort their beliefs than what happens vice versa.

Muslims believe that God kept the fundamentals of belief the same throughout all the ages, but there was variance in the rituals and practices undertaken to worship God. Hence, the Sabbath was prescribed for the Jews, whilst the 5 daily prayers were prescribed on the Muslims.

As for discrepancies such as the Christian belief in Jesus being son of God, Muslims believe that these are caused by mistranslation and distortion. Don’t forget that the Bible wasn’t put together until long after Jesus’s death.

Muslims believe that Jesus was born from a virgin, could speak from inside his cradle, could heal the blind and the leper, could create models of birds and breathe life into them (with God’s permission) and could bring the dead back to life (with God’s permission). Those are just some of his miracles in our belief. Imagine stories about such a person being passed on for 200 years without any written document.

I think we should at the very least be able to agree that the Creator of the Universe is a perfect being. How then could such contradictions have been made by Him?

We should also be able to agree logically that there can be only one truth.

Matthew 28:19
Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit

Mark 13:10
And the gospel must first be preached to all nations.

Not only are we instructed to do so but not to care about the salvation of others would be extreme selfishness. We should want for all people to be saved.

The I AM statements of Jesus

Jn.8:24 “Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins; for if you do not believe that I am (He), you will die in your sins.”

John 6:51:”I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever;”

John 8:23: And He said to them, “You are from beneath; I AM from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.

John 8:12: Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, “I AM the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.”

John 8:58 Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM.”

John 10:9: “I AM the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.”

John 10:11: “I AM the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep.

John 10:36: “do you say of Him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?

John 11:25: Jesus said to her, “I AM the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live.

John 14:6: Jesus said to him, “I AM the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

John 15:1: “I AM the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser.

John 19:2: Therefore the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Do not write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but, ‘He said, “I am the King of the Jews.”‘”

Acts 7:32: Stephen speaking of Moses’ encounter at the burning bush “saying, ‘I am the God of your fathers– the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ And Moses trembled and dared not look.”

Acts 9:5: And he said, “Who are You, Lord?” And the Lord said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. It is hard for you to kick against the goads.”

These are just some of the ways in which Jesus made clear that he was not just a prophet among others, faith in Him is the only way to achieve salvation. This is contradictory to Muslim beliefs.