Pro-Israel activists and MPs called for Elmasry to be banned before Home Secretary Shabana Mahmoud's decision

The UK has banned a prominent American Muslim preacher from entering the country over social media posts in which he criticised the West’s support for Israel.

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood revoked travel authorisation for Dr Shadee Elmasry just days before he was scheduled to arrive in Britain on Sunday, to give talks in Birmingham, Bolton and Ilford.

Elmasry had posted: "They are all in this (fake or real) state of shock that the people of Gaza finally punched back (after 50 years).

“In contrast, the very same people would celebrate a similar kind of attack from Ukraine against Putin.”

  • YappyMonotheist
    11·
    8 天前

    The only reason you believe the message of Jesus said that deeds, the Day of Judgment and Heaven are disassociated is Roman nonsense added on, and the original message can still be found in the Bible itself! And yes, why can’t they? Even so called atheists, and even Christians and Jews who “reject prophet Muhammad” (due to an ideological misunderstanding and not in spirit) might, because if they were righteous God could just understand their ideological differences as an honest skill issue, the result of the trauma of living under Western “Judeo-Christian values” and beliefs, further complicated by Western propaganda, and look past it. They say these things with their mouths but their hearts are closer to God than that of many so-called believers, after all. Is God not Merciful, Understanding? I wouldn’t be surprised if John Brown ended up in Heaven, I’d be more shocked if he weren’t there, for instance. I doubt Greta considers herself Muslim but she certainly does a lot of Muslim shit, and I wouldn’t be surprised if she goes to Heaven too. Again, you show me your faith without deeds and I’ll show you my faith through my deeds. 🤷

    • Flax@feddit.ukEnglish
      2·
      7 天前

      You know you just quoted James, right?

      James 2:18-23

      But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder! Do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless? Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar? You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by his works; and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”—and he was called a friend of God.

      James - the Brother of Our Lord made it clear. Faith was completed by his works. His works justified him, and they only complimented his faith, essentially proving it. He still needed faith. The works didn’t save him, they just showed the regenerative Spirit of God within him, thus justifying him. You need walls, a roof and a foundation to build a house. A Christian looks like a house. If you had someone who thought they can save themselves, you’d have a house with no foundation, and it’ll quickly be swept away.

      1 Corinthians 3:11-15

      For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw— each one’s work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward. If anyone’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.

      • YappyMonotheist
        1·
        7 天前

        Of course, I do it all the time! He was an OG and close to the messenger of God, it’s more than valid 🙏. And I think you’re having a bit of a reading comprehension moment: James clearly states that faith without deeds is empty, it’s useless, and he gives the example of demons who understand the unseen and the fact God exists, but it doesn’t make them any less devilish! “Even they have faith”, says James, but it doesn’t matter because, since they don’t do good deeds, they’re still demons. And he says how Abraham’s faith was only given weight through his deeds, because yapping and sophistry is a thing but if you truly believe in God’s mercy and the Hereafter, if God tells you to sacrifice your son to Him, why wouldn’t you? Don’t you have faith he’ll be in Paradise, waiting for you? Indeed, just like Jesus said, “you’ll recognise them by their fruits”, everything else is wind. And this is a letter countering Paul the fed’s position, which was always the Roman position and became Church dogma which is why we’re arguing today and why you posted Paul’s nonsense (Corinthians)…

        • Flax@feddit.ukEnglish
          11·
          7 天前

          It doesn’t counter Romans. Romans states the same thing:

          Romans 2:1-9

          Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things. We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who practice such things. Do you suppose, O man—you who judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself—that you will escape the judgment of God? Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance? But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed. He will render to each one according to his works: to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life; but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury. There will be tribulation and distress for every human being who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek.

          Romans 3:1-13, 21-31

          Then what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision? Much in every way. To begin with, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God. What if some were unfaithful? Does their faithlessness nullify the faithfulness of God? By no means! Let God be true though every one were a liar, as it is written, “That you may be justified in your words, and prevail when you are judged.” But if our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unrighteous to inflict wrath on us? (I speak in a human way.) By no means! For then how could God judge the world? But if through my lie God’s truth abounds to his glory, why am I still being condemned as a sinner? And why not do evil that good may come?—as some people slanderously charge us with saying. Their condemnation is just. What then? Are we Jews any better off? No, not at all. For we have already charged that all, both Jews and Greeks, are under sin, as it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God. All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one.” “Their throat is an open grave; they use their tongues to deceive.” “The venom of asps is under their lips.” But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it— the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. Then what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? By a law of works? No, but by the law of faith. For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law. Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also, since God is one—who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith. Do we then overthrow the law by this faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the law.