Want A Better Understanding Of The Quran?
This blog item will help. (It's not a nice book, and it is not up for interpretation -- it is considered the word of god and unchangeable.)
A few bits:
9:111 Paradise guaranteed to those who kill and are killed for Allah"Allah has bought from the believers their selves and their possessions against the gift of Paradise; they fight in the way of Allah; they kill, and are killed; that is a promise binding upon Allah in the Torah, and the Gospel, and the Koran; and who fulfils his covenant truer than Allah? So rejoice in the bargain you have made with Him; that is the mighty triumph."
9:123 Fight the unbelievers, be harsh with them
"O believers, fight the unbelievers who are near to you; and let them find in you a harshness; and know that Allah is with the godfearing."
47:4 Behead and slaughter the unbelievers; take others captive
"When you meet the unbelievers, smite their necks, then, when you have made wide slaughter among them, tie fast the bonds; then set them free, either by grace or ransom, till the war lays down its loads. So it shall be; and if Allah had willed, He would have avenged Himself upon them; but that He may try some of you by means of others. And those who are slain in the way of Allah, He will not send their works astray."
48:29 Be merciful to believers, not unbelievers
"Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, and those who are with him are hard against the unbelievers, merciful one to another."
62:6 Jews should long for death
"Say: 'You of Jewry, if you assert that you are the friends of Allah, apart from other men, then do you long for death, if you speak truly.'"
98:6 Unbelievers are the worst of creatures
"The unbelievers of the People of the Book and the idolaters shall be in the Fire of Gehenna, therein dwelling forever; those are the worst of creatures."
Clearly Islam is the religion of peace.
What we REALLY need to look out for is those crazy tea party militia folks who believe in a crazy scrap of paper knows as "The Constitution".
TJIC at October 26, 2013 7:45 AM
You mean stuff like this?
Jim P. at October 26, 2013 8:30 AM
>> "Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, and those who are with him are hard against the unbelievers, merciful one to another."
Merciful to one another? Watch the Livelinks channel on Syria, Iraq or Afghanistan. I've seen so many scenes of the FSA (Free Syrian Army, the rebels) killing innocents of their own blood and religion it boggles the mind. The other day they stopped and executed 3 innocent truck drivers with empty trucks, then set the trucks on fire. Today they filmed themselves shooting a van and the inocent peple inside it simply because it was driving into the city.
They didn't want the trucks, they didn't want the van, it's just a free-for-all clusterfuck of killing. Seriously, I've been trying to wrap my brain around some understanding of what's going on in Syria. My only conclusion is it's something like mass hysteria meets youtube.
PS- Liveleaks is great, though 90% of it is crap you gloss right over. But you do get to see things that make you explore outside our mainstream media.
Eric at October 26, 2013 4:28 PM
Amy Alkon
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2013/10/26/want_a_better_u.html#comment-4008960">comment from EricIt is likely one sect of Islam slaughtering another or slaughtering people who aren't "Muslim enough," meaning not fundamentalist enough.
This comes out of Islam and the tribalism of Arab culture:
http://www.theaugeanstables.com/2008/04/07/salzman-on-tribal-islam-insights-of-an-anthropologist/
Amy Alkon
at October 26, 2013 5:12 PM
You mean like the Syrian rebel commander eating his enemies heart?
Fuck the religion of peace.
Jim P. at October 26, 2013 7:06 PM
Amy Alkon
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2013/10/26/want_a_better_u.html#comment-4009120">comment from Jim P.Religion of pieces -- as in, "You eatin' that?"
Amy Alkon
at October 26, 2013 7:15 PM
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