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Heironymus I have been banned from many sites and had many a post deleted over the years Muslim and Christian for bringing up the question.
we must work against inequalities and violence!!
Fizzywig, Yes there have been violent Christians, but they are not following Christ's commands.
Why do people want to ignore that this violence is part of Mohammad's teaching?
And that is why this argument is lame. The situation we are living with cannot be whitewashed because of what happened with other people--none of who are alive today and none of whom are us.
The Koran is the font of Islams teaching not Mohammad.
I am not an expert but I do know that any verse found in the Koran must be related to the time/historical context it was given in.
That the actual Surahs of the Koran - except for the first - are purely given according to length, makes it difficult to interpret.
As with all so called "holy" books, it is all in the interpretation.
I have seen the claim made that while Christians who hate do so in defiance of the Christian texts, Muslims do so because of the intrinsic teachings of the Koran.
I find that unconvincing. Already today, on this very forum, my own call for unity and Universalism has been rejected by one quoting the words of Jesus concerning "not peace but a sword, not peace but division."
That any movement that is engaged in evil in our world today and is a genuine concern ought to be alibied for by saying "some other people in the past did some things like this, too."
If that thinking were consistently applied, we would have no basis for criticizing ANY wrongdoing in our own societies. Yet, interestingly enough, the people who use that argument to alibi for such as Islamofascism
What if everyone simply applied this technique and said "Well, there was something like this being done in another time and place and by different people--so this issue here can't be considered serious enough to address?"
Credibility has been lost with statements like this.It's mainly the White House which has the intention of tearing down the country so that it can be rebuilt into a third world nation, ....
I've read other articles like the one I linked below that have all said similar things about Saudi Arabia and their spread of Wahhabism.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alastair-crooke/isis-wahhabism-saudi-arabia_b_5717157.html?
Only if you can shift back and forth between tenses. And we are not radical Christians from the Middle Ages. But Islamofascism is real and it's now. How people can not understand this most basic fact of the matter is amazing.If we look at history, everything we see radical Muslims doing, radical Christians have also done. Some of the worse torture designed and practiced by man has been at the hands of Christians. We all have our dark side.
The exact same basic reason christendom has always been 'protected' or defended or even rewarded when they went to unjust wars and slaughtered any number of men , women and children throughout history.Why is Islam protected?
Yes.If we look at history, everything we see radical Muslims doing, radical Christians have also done. Some of the worse torture designed and practiced by man has been at the hands of Christians.
Most of the rest of "what " people ? Who ?Most of the rest of the people have their heads screwed on straight
Most of the rest of the American people.Most of the rest of "what " people ? Who ?
I didn't see anywhere in the NT that "most" of any people from Jesus day to the end is okay.
Islam isn't doing this. There are some Muslims doing this. And right now thousands of Muslims are being killed by Christians.
I find that unconvincing. Already today, on this very forum, my own call for unity and Universalism has been rejected by one quoting the words of Jesus concerning "not peace but a sword, not peace but division."
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