(August 14, 2016 at 4:21 pm)Alasdair Ham Wrote:(August 13, 2016 at 4:40 pm)Irrational Wrote: He's neither completely right nor wrong. A proper reading of the Qur'an suggests that Islam promotes violence (but so does the Bible) but not to the extent promoted by terrorist groups like ISIS.
Of course there are contradictory passages to that too. But it's still in there.
Bingo! It's these passages that counterbalance the more violent ones. And it's what makes these verses so ambiguous.
When I say "a proper reading", it doesn't mean it's the one and only correct interpretation.