re: #458 Nimed

Not at all. I think your implicit comparison between the Koran and Mein Kampf goes way too far.

You’re right, but only halfway so.

The anti-Semitic passages in the Koranare cherry-picked both by Islamic Jew-haters and those who want to portray all Muslims as anti-Semites. This is not to deny that they’re there and that they mean what they say.

All I was saying is: those who focus on those passages are likely to have as much idea about what the total content of the book is as the Germans who never read more than two pages of Mein Kampf.

Many soi-disant Christians keep a Bible in a prominent place on their shelves, but I would like to see them take a Bible quiz and pass.

In Germany, Mein Kampf became the book that was presented to young couples at their wedding in place of the Bible at civil ceremonies. I’ve seen many of these wedding volumes on the shelves of elderly Germans who keep it only as a remembrance of the day. You cannot conclude anything about them from the presence of the book.

Likewise, I know for a fact that although it is incumbent upon “good Muslims” to know their holy book, many of them keep it at home as a kind of fetish or talisman and never look into it. The passages with which they are familiar are those that are repeated day after day in the mosques.

Curious Lurker, if she were here on this thread, might be able to shed some light on this.

But if the Koran verses and the ahadith that are constantly quoted against the Jews are ripped out of context, that is not the fault of the hearers, but of the quoters.