Well, according to Israel�s president EzerWeizman - Muslims� treatment of their Jewish subjects were far better than the Christians. Weizman made those remarks in during an interview interview to daily �Al-Hayat�, which appeared on June 27, 1999.

"I think there are closer relations between Jews and Muslims then between Jews and Christians. For Muslims do not eat pork, as well as Jews. Islam did not wage crusades nor persecuted the Jews as the Christians did in Europe."

I agree Rehmat,

However, if you read in the Bible, it forbids consuming or even touching the dead flesh of a pig Deuteronomy, 14: 8, also, most Christians do not observe this particular stricture. 

You'll see that there are many similarities of what Muslims and Christains can and cannot eat as well as what Jews can and cannot eat like us (Muslims)..

The following is out of the Bible *: 

Deuteronomy 14

Clean and Unclean Food

  ³"You shall not eat any abomination. ⁴These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat, ⁵the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex,^[a] the antelope, and the mountain sheep. ⁶Every animal that parts the hoof and has the hoof cloven in two and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat. ⁷Yet of those that chew the cud or have the hoof cloven you shall not eat these: the camel, the hare, and the rock badger, because they chew the cud but do not part the hoof, are unclean for you. ⁸And the pig, because it parts the hoof but does not chew the cud, is unclean for you. Their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch.   (Source:  http://bible.gospelcom.net/passage/?search=DEUT%2014&version=47;&version=47 -

Asslam-o-Alikum

And the best part of such charade is - Deuteronomy is one of the 'five books' from the Jewish Bible, which are included in the New Testament.

DavidC wrote: So a Jew says something kind about Islam and it is interpreted as a "Zioinist political ploy"? Must be an Arab thing...

Can you blame Arabs for that after the non-Arab Jews took their land, homes and business - while killing hundred thousands of Palestinian and expelling more than four million of them?

BTW - Don't forget that these 'Arab thing' saved you from Christian slavery twice - Spain 711 CE, and Palestine 1186 CE.

Christians believe Jesus abrogated the laws given the Jews in Deuteronomy. This is the same reason Christians do not require circumcision.

Not true. It was St. Paul and not Jesus (as) who 'abrogated' Moses' Law. Jesus only preached the Jews - while St. Paul preached to the Gentiles (Roman).

I thought you may like to know the history as it really happened.

Asslam alikum

Jews and Christians of today are those who have changed the books which were given by the supernatural being the Almighty God who sent Prophets starting from Adam to Jesus. The last Prophet being Muhammed(Peace upon him). Quran says Jews are those people who have killed most of their prophets and were punished much than any other.

I thus invite all my Jews and christian brothers towards Islam. It is the same religion which was propagated by jesus and by Moses. May Allah bless them all. Allah says in Quran all the prophets are equal in cadre. Islam means submission to God. Believe in One-God. There is no God except Allah and Muhammed is the Prophet of God.(peace upon him). Leave idolatary and remember Allah is not a human being so as to have a wife or child. He is the supernatural being almighty and powerful. He says be it and it is.

Believe in Allah before the day of judgement or your own death which as good as it is.

May Allah guide us all.

Wassalam.

DavidC wrote: So a Jew says something kind about Islam and it is interpreted as a "Zioinist political ploy"? Must be an Arab thing... Christians believe Jesus abrogated the laws given the Jews in Deuteronomy. This is the same reason Christians do not require circumcision. DavidC

unity1 wrote: ....Their are several similarities between Christians,Muslims and Jews...

You mean religions - Judaism, Christianity and Islam. A followers of those religions - people are practicing totally different moral values.

...that their scriptures were revealed by the same God whom we all worship and praise.

All earlier 'scriptures' were revealed for certain communities and for a limited time period - plus both Torah and Injeel were NOT universal messages of God. Only His last message, Holy Qur'an is universal.

On the other hand their are also several differences in the ideology,system of beliefs and practices of these great religions of the world ....

How you measure the 'greatness' of a religion - On the number of its followers or the truthness of its message? In the first case - Hinduism, with over one billion followers could be the 'greatest religion' after Christianity and Judaism. Jews are only less than 12 millions.

In the second case - The true message of God doesn't exist in full - in both Judaism and Christianity. Both having been corrupted even when the OT and NT or Talmud were written.

fezziwig wrote: "better than christianity" isn't much of a brag, given the sordid history

Was Sir Bernard Shaw was 'bragging when he said: A religion which could rule England, nay, entire Europe - would be Islam?