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Robert Spencer8/05/2008 3:03:17 pm PDT |
medaura18586:
It was not a quote off your work. It was me paraphrasing the gist of your discussion here on this thread.
Inaccurately.
As for the rest, you seem to have overlooked the implications of the interpretative traditions, to which I alluded above. Neither the Bible nor the Qur'an exist in a vacuum. No Jewish or Christian exegete has ever interpreted the Torah passages that you label "genocidal" as a plan for action against unbelievers in his own day. Ever. Not one. While it is mainstream Islamic interpretation of the Qur'an to see the Qur'an verses enjoining violence and subjugation of unbelievers as valid for all time. That is what moderate Muslims must confront, and reject, if they're ever going to make any headway against it.
And that's it for me. Good day.