Posted by
Boris Tiraspolsky on Tuesday, April 21, 2009 4:19:56 AM
In a casting coup, Abraham Lincoln shares equal footage with luminaries of Islamic history like Saladin, King Faisal of Saudi Arabia and the former President of the UAE, Sheikh Zayed. What do they have in common?
Faruq Masudi, producer and director of
the new Islamic movie, Quran Contemporary nections
Film Maker Faruq Masudi said: "Barack Hussein Obama is not alone. The 16th President of The United States, Abraham Lincoln, was born a Muslim.According to the Quran, everybody is born a Muslim. It is only by his own free will that a man chooses a different course for himself. In that Abraham Lincoln was not only a born Muslim but he chose to live by Islamic edicts like abolishing organized slavery; establishing equality of all human beings, democracy and accountability to God and Man; core Islamic concepts as propounded in the Holy Quran."...
Comment by Boris Tiraspolsky:
The statement above by director of the new Islamic movie, Quran Contemporary nections provokes two questions. First one is how in a world Abraham Lincoln could be "not only a born Muslim but he chose to live by Islamic edicts"? It sounds like a wishful thinking and pure fantasy by Faruq Masudi.
First of all Lincoln never considered the Holy Qurana to be the Supreme Law of the Land. That is what every Muslim must do. "It is only by his own free will that" Lincoln chosen the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the United States only to be the Supreme Law of the Land. President Abraham Lincoln took an oath "to preserve, protect and defend" it. And he did.
It was Abraham Lincoln's free choice when he unambiguously said: "Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country; and never to tolerate their violation by others. Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties."
The second question is related to the Quran that was written in the 7th century, or about thirteen centuries ago. In contrast, the modern Civilization exists for about ten thousand years.
I feel sorry for all those people who for almost nine thousand years had been born before existence of the Quran. Poor creatures! They never suspected that they were born Muslims according to the strict Islamic doctrine. Those people chosen "a different course for himself". Alas! They did not have Faruq Masudi with his new Islamic propaganda movie.