Kirkland .Yes we have read the QURAN.......... "O ye who believe do not take the Christians and Jews as your friends" 5:51.
"Slay the idolaters, those Christians and Jews amongst you,wherever you find them, take them and confine them lie in wait for them at every place of ambush. Fight those who believe not in Allah and the last day. Fight the unbelievers totally. Know that Allah is with those who fear him. Oh believers,fight the unbelievers who are near you and let them find you in a harshness; and know that Allah is with those who fear him and do his will"
(Surah 9;42-47.Surah 8 v60 ‘…strike terror into the hearts of the enemies of Allah…’
Surah 9 v29 - ‘Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the last day…until they pay the jizyah with willing submission and feel themselves subdued.’Surah 13 v41 ‘See they not that we gradually reduce the land in their control
Kirkland are you brainwashed? Peaceful religion. You need a little history lesson.
I think Sooty put it in perspective. Also read www.jihadwatch.com Also Kirk, many people take their Christianity seriously and are labeled religious zealots by the media, though the Muslim religion is peaceful and Christianity is attacked daily by the leftists world wide.
You goto any Islamic country and you will see that Islam dominates it. You will not see any other form having influence. Islam is more than just a Religion, people have to remember this. Yes, You have good and bad Muslims, just as you do with Catholics and Christians. However, Islam is now dominating the Western World, it's demanding too much. And eventually, the very foundations of our lands will be changed to applease Islam, regardless of what the average Muslim thinks.
If you are not willing to integrate with that Culture, then you do not belong there. Yes, if you are just visiting for whatever purpose you do not have too. But, if you wish to live in another culture, you have a duty to respect and integrate, not segregate.
I'd like to also state. The Muslims are not to blame, its our governments. They should be held accountable. Do not let these politicians away with it. They are the ones who sold our countries out.
Sooty, nice cut and paste job. I’m sure you spent a lot of time searching out the inflammatory pieces. (You could have just as many in the old and new testament). Unless of course you just went to the nearest paranoid anti-Islam site and took the headers.
The distribution of Muslim people is 99.99 percent around the north Africa’s and Arab countries and the fsu caucus countries. The rest are spread around the rest of the globe and the numbers barely figure in and western country census.
What’s the significance of the shoe-shine boy, drag queen, yessum, minstrel avatar? Is there a point to it?
Nasfan, I need a history lesson? Let’s have one then.
Well, in my opinion it is all about interpretations. Every religion could be read with a certain bias to twist the original meaning. As those who practiced in the days of Jesus and Mohamed were living very different lives, it would be impossible today to say one should do this or that based on what the Quran or the Bible say. I am all for new and fresh interpretations lead by unbiased research and teaching institutions to clear the clouds created by ignorant preachers on all sides.
Nasfan is correct there will always be apologists for Islam like Kirkland where ever you look. Sooty and your astute observations on the Quran are very interesting.It is true the Quaran is a very violent book. That is the main difference between Islam and christianity-I can leave or turn my back on christianity any time I want to should I choose.
Any person wanting to leave Islam would face a death sentence from their own people.
ben
Yeah, try asking if you can go to church in saudi arabia....If you can find one.
See what response you will get if they find a bible in your room....Not so "very friendly and very kind" ...do report back to us ben with your findings
May I suggest that anyone with emnity towards christain people read the bible.
You'll find the teachings are the same as Islam.
Just because a tiny percentage of priests choose to interfere with children to further their own sexual appetite doesn't mean all followers of that religion are perverts.
30 years ago we were persuaded to live in fear of Soviet invasion.
Now we can't get enough of Russians.
Christianity is a peaceful religion and has co-existed with Islam for 2009 years.
Don't believe the hype.
I'm not an apologist for Christianity or Islam everya religion has its faults and can be interpreted to suit the needs of its leaders...the KKK did it.
Just the same as Sooty's avatar can be interpreted as objectionable.
Sooty, its not possible here to find a christian church or bible here at all, thats the law of the land and I knew that before I came, I'm not going to kick up a fuss because I want something. I come to their country. Now if I asked the guys at work for a bible, I know they won't want to kill me, they will just laugh. They invited me out tomorrow for meal and to smoke Shisha I asked if there will be hot women and beer there and they laughed.
No Kirkland you are being an apologist. Violence committed in the name of other religions is unconnected as to whether Islam is a violent religion. It’s like moral relativism. Which is the bedrock of most leftist ideology. It is as lame as comparing Catholicism to child molestation as you have just done. Apologists like to paint the picture that all religions are morally equivalent and draw away from the fact that Islam is a violent religion.
The favorite of the Islamic apologist is, well what about The Crusades. Like Christendom just woke up one morning and decided to lay carnage on the poor Muslims. In western academia, media and the myth perpetrated by the Islamic world, the crusades where viewed as wars of aggression by the bloody minded Christians against the poor peace loving Muslims. There is nothing further from the truth of this ignorant history revision.
Though the crusades were bloody, it was nothing more than a belated response of centuries of aggression of jihad than a unilateral unprovoked attack. Muslim rule in the holy land began in the later stages of the 7th century.
It was in this context that Pope Urban issued a call in 1095 for Western Christians to come to the aid of their brothers in the middle east. This is labeled as the first crusade.
In the previous years Damascus and Jerusalem had fallen to the Islamic tide. If you look at a map from about 675 to the First crusade you will see the aggressive nature of Islam.
Death to the non-believers.
Now my second favorite apology by the Leftists. Well what about the violence in the Bible. Mostly old testament verse. First, violent passages in the bible are irrelevant as to whether or not Islam is a violent religion. Second violent passages in the bible are not a standing order to declare war against the rest of the world as is Islam, nor does it place a pre-requisite of converting to a religion or dying if not. Remember St. Stephen was stoned to death for not denying his faith in Christ. Third the bible is a huge collection of documents written by many people over time and in different contexts. The Koran comes from only one source, Mohammed. It is through the life of Mohammed only that the Koran can be completely understood as the Koran itself states. Just a bit dictatorial since only one person wrote this. On the other hand, Christ wrote nothing in the bible. Also the strict literalism of the Koran leaves no interpretation.. Christ was the “Prince of Peace” and Mohammed was a warlord and Despot on comparison there no matter how hard you try Kirkland. There your first history lesson. I will gladly submit more it you wish. By the way there is no copy and paste here. Also there is nothing wrong with what Sooty copied, it is totally accurate and there are many, many more verses in the Koran to this fact.
You would think that someone who uses the avatar of “The Thinker” would be a little more erudite than to use cheap leftist comparisons of Islam and Christianity. Again the play book of the left, moral relativism, history revision and moral comparative thought on religion especially since they think Christianity is vile.
Also Jihad does not mean holy war, it means "the struggle.:
Ben2006, you're being a little naive. I was in Bandar Abbas in 1978. What happened the next year?
Also it's the law of the land. Well some laws are wrong, you go on believing that. Since Saudi Arabia finances more Al Qaeda operations than any other Muslim country.
A little fact that the western media will bury. Since 911 there have been over 12000 Al Qaeda attacks world wide. None in the US, I wonder why??
"Since Saudi Arabia finances more Al Qaeda operations than any other Muslim country. "
And what is the US doing about Saudi...nothing about from kissing their ass and turning a blind eye.
It doesn't matter if the law is wrong, my point is I knew what their laws where before I came here so I can't complain about them. If I don't like them I can leave and not come here but either way its not for me to complain. My other point is it doesn't matter what the quran says or the government people are pretty much the same in any country.
Most of the people here are happy, sure its not democratic, but is that the solution? is everyone in the US happy? Here is are screwed if you are a minority, but in the UK and US you now get favourable treatment. So which is better?
I'm not naive, it would be more dangerous in some suburbs in american then where I am now.
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