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Originally Posted by EddyTheDog
You learn something every day - I didn't know Abraham was important to Muslims - I thought he was a strictly Jewish figure...
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um............you know that the Islamic god Allah is the same god the Jews believe chose them, and the Christians share the same god as well. The Muslims/Arabs felt left out of the party and a thousand years after Judaism was born and hundreds of years after Christ concocted their own story with their own fantasy interpretation.
Abraham had two sons, Isaac and Ishmael. Abraham was married to Sarah, Sarah couldn't have children. Sarah hooked up her Egyptian handmaiden Hagar with Abraham to give him a son, resulting in the birth of Ishmael. 14 years later a miracle, Sarah finally gets knocked up - before she gives birth God makes his covenant with Abraham, the chosen people and the Promised Land. That covenant according to God and the Bible went through Isaac, Sarah's son, bypassing Ishmael. Ishmael became the patriarch of the Arab people. And that's the Biblical source for the hatred between Arabs and Jews.
Of course it's all fantasy, there was no Abraham, no Isaac and no Ishmael but let's keep fighting and killing over it for the next 5000 years just for shits and giggles.
