#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.
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Similarly for these claims about the Koran and Islam.

The big difference between the two is we have no ruling law derived from the OT as there is from the koran, which is sharia.

As you stated, the OT bears no resemblance to how Judaism is practiced today. No one in Judaism today is stoning people for adultery, no one is being put to death for not observing the Sabbath. No one is requiring forced observance to anything in the OT.

OTOH, sharia is alive and well. People are being stoned today, limbs are being cut off for minor infractions of sharia, there are lashings given to women who have been raped. There are honor killings on a daily basis, and even in our own country.

There is NO similarity between the koran and the OT aside from the historical account of the OT being rather violent - but that recount of historical violence is not being perpetuated today as it is in islam.