swift240 wrote:
7. What would the muslims make of it? I suspect that to them it would be Alah coming down.
Mike.
now that's pretty ignorant. allah does not have matter and form. nor will it ever have one. anyone claiming that an alien is allah would be considered a heretic in islamic belief.
actually, extraterrestial life is mentioned in qoran. The existance of extraterrestials is no big deal for muslims. However, as far as I know, this other life forms should also have been sent islam, according to islamic belief. So, if our visiting aliens do not happen to be muslims, the muslim world could see them as heretics and we could see suicide bombers heading for alpha centauri.
http://www.answering-christianity.com/aliens_in_quran.htmhttp://www.doomsdayguide.org/UFO/ufo_and_jinn.htm64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:Mk0_qIs-mNQJ:www.themodernreligion.com/science/aliens.htm+islam+and+aliens&hl=en&gl=jp&ct=clnk&cd=1&client=firefox-a
