re: #214 iceweasel

No. No.

This is flawed. This a fundamentally flawed interpretation of Islam.

Let me put it to you this way: Consider the Old Testament. THAT is a bloody, violent, vengeful text— and it bears almost no relation to Judaism as anyone I know practices Judaism. Even the Torah—maybe especially the Torah!— is also filled with similar stories.

And anyone who wanted to just point to either text and claim it literally stands for the teaching of Judaism would be flagrantly wrong.

Similarly for these claims about the Koran and Islam.

There are stark differences in the violent passages and nature of these two texts, iceweasel. Stark.

As I did earlier up-thread, let me explain.

In the Old Testament, calls for war or violence by God were very specific to certain situations, and had a specific term with a specific goal. For instance, Jericho. When it was over, it was over. In the Koran, however all calls for violence were open-ended. I.E. “fight them wherever you find them,” and the general calls to slay unbelievers had no term- they were for forever.

Eventually, Muhammed needed less and less of a reason to carry out raids and to grow his empire. When he died, he left his followers with instructions to take the fight all over the earth, and follow that decree they did. Ask the unfortunate Hindus after their entire continent was soaked in blood. Meanwhile, Muslims continued to slay and assassinate each other— even Aisha was not safe.