Palestinians: Is Islam more similar to Christianity or Judaism?

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[myheba]

Im baffled by the majority of their answers being about detail similarities such as pork and hijab and none of them mentioning the most obvious theological difference that is the trinity, and god taking the form of a human in Christianity which is considered blasphemy in both Islam and Judaism

[faisalalan]

Let me help you all what most Muslims think!
Muslims get along with Christians more than Jews!
However, Islam & Judaism are closer to each other!

[VulcanLogic]

Fascinating. I had always considered Orthodox Jews much closer to Muslims in beliefs and cultural practices. These guys agree.

[freman]

What makes islam closer to judaism is tawheed (unicity of God). This is the fondation of monotheism. Ban on pork or wearing hijab are secondary considerations.

[MehdiZanjabil]

As a muslim I find Islam more similar to judaism in some points :
-they both insist on the learning the holy books (Torah and Coran) but they have also religious laws that rule all the aspect of life (halakha with Talmud and Sunna with hadith)
-examples : don't eat pork, women cover their head (not in the same way though), men have to grow beard, men and women must separate in some points and not shake hand each other, halal and Kashruth, Jews and Muslims perform ablutions, both think the soul leaves the body during sleeping, both are strict toward polytheism etc
It's what I learned

[alhallab]

Definitely closer to judaism than Christianity. It is actually easier to list the differences than the similarities. Islam is technically Judaism to the whole world instead of only the tribes of Israel

[gerardodeoscar]

Of all the important similarities that Islam and Judaism have, some pointed to "not eating pork" and hijab. They say nothing that they have the same prophets, except for two, they believe in the absolute uniqueness of God, they have similar moral laws and they do not use images for worship, among others.

[LFx]

islam and judaism are way more similar than "they both dont eat pork" lol. the fundemental differnce between islam and christianity is the concept of trinity and their expression of worship

[SDQ]

For me as a musilm even if I don't agree with isreal (Zionists) doesn't mean I'm gonna denied the similarities between islam and Judaism it's the same in 95%, Christianity is a way different we share some things but the basic of their religion completely the opposite of ours.

[shaikelandau]

According to Jewish law, a Jew is allowed to pray in a mosque, but forbidden to enter a church, because it is considered idolatry. Jews and Muslims pray to the same God, and even call him in a similar way. Christianity believes in the Trinity, which in the eyes of Judaism is a violation of God’s unity.

[ToviaSinger]

This broadcast is intriguing on so many levels.

[missb]

In my opinion Islam is closer to Judaism just because of one thing and that’s sad that nobody brought it up because its the first thing we must believe in. We believe in one god (one being).

[Soothing]

as an israeli jew i feel Islam is much more similar. it makes sense since the romans made Christianity to fit european pagans at the time even though christianity originated in Judea. i speak some arabic so its worth mentioning that hebrew and arabic are like cousin languages.

[teeti]

This makes me cry. The Muslims, Christians, and Jews are from the same prophet Abraham, yet there are people using religion to fight against each other.

[obambaz]

Islam and Judaism share the same god, Judaism prays 3 times a day while in Islam 5, we both pray in a direction to a specific monument (the West Wall and Mecca), Halal and Kosher are pretty much the same but Jews won't eat meat and dairy product together (both won't eat porky). We share the same father - Abraham who has 2 sons Ishmael and Issac (Jews and Muslims pretty much cousins) and much more. As a Jew, it's sad to see how little they know about us.

[unravelingsoul]

I feel sad about the difficulty of some of them to recognize the similarity of Judaism and Islam. Some reasons are superficial (eating pork and hijab) and the guy who said "Islam doesn't resemble to any religion" and can't motivate with words the answer, leaves me confused 😅 the curiosity to know about other cultures can only enrich somehow 😅

[sagapoetic]

Just discovered and joined your channel. This is so fascinating and insightful -- I'm looking forward to exploring the rest of your videos. I have a MA in Middle Eastern Studies and it's been years since I've been to Israel and the Occupied Territories but interesting to me some ideas havent changed. Thank you for your channel

[samispam]

You posed the question in a way that gave them an existential problem. By asking which of the the two other religions Islam resembles, you are asking them to implicitly acknowledge that Islam is DERIVED from the other two religions. The question should have been: "which of the other two religions is more like Islam". In the interview, the first man to answer, and the translator missed this, mumbled: هم بيشبهوه, meaning that they (Christianity and Judaism) are the ones that resemble Islam. This is the same cognitive dissonance you got one time when you asked "what were you or your ancestors before you/they became Muslim", and they couldn't acknowledge that their ancestors at some point were not Muslim, but were Jews, Christians, or idol worshippers.

[marshmello]

As a Christian I would say Protestant and Catholic Christianity is more similar to Reform Judaism but Islam is more similar to Orthodox Judaism and East Orthodox Christianity

[GaryHField]

They say that Islam is closer to Judaism, while completely ignoring the fact that Jews reject Jesus, while Muslims do acknowledge him as the Messiah, similar to how Christians consider Christ as the Messiah, and both Christianity and Islam believes in the Second Coming of Christ, while a Jew believes the Messiah has yet to come in the world.