(April 19, 2016 at 2:45 pm)driver82 Wrote: Indeed, the penalty for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and strive upon earth [to cause] corruption is none but that they be killed or crucified or that their hands and feet be cut off from opposite sides or that they be exiled from the land. That is for them a disgrace in this world; and for them in the Hereafter is a great punishment,
Chapter 5, verse 33, Quran
I am not for the west lowering it's standards to any violent groups or individuals, and I have said I will not be part of demagoguery by use of blanket assumption of guilt. That is the kind of fear that leads to genocide, just like it did with Jews and Native Americans and the lynching of blacks and slavery.
BUT, having said that, at the Middle East has far too much theocracy based on political Islam, and nobody should be afraid of questioning the Hadiths, the Mohammed character or the Quran.
I really hate the literal word for word interpretation of ANY holy book, not just the Quran, but the Bible and OT as well. I really wish all three would ditch the idea that any one group on a planet of 7 billion that a sky hero favors one over all others. That is the core source of why none of you can get along.
I'm sorry followers of Islam you have to understand, you can argue all you want that your god exists, but everyone does that. But it still remains in reality you will not take over the entire planet, nobody will. I'd suggest you do what the west has done, put human beings first, put human rights first, and stop insisting on old honor code tribal interpretations of that book.
It is not "mercy" or "justice" to rule by fear and demand the submission of others, that is tyranny, and I don't like it when Christians threaten me with their god either. And I do say the same thing to them as I do to Muslims. If your god is all powerful, and has a beef with me, why would it need you to punish me for him? Are you saying your god cant handle his own dirty work on his own?
I am under no illusion, and nobody should be under any illusion that any one religion can be wiped off the face of the planet by force, not Christianity, not Islam not Jewish. But this planet is too small now to have this fighting continue. We have issues of pollution, global poverty, climate change to worry about. I really think if you value a kind god, then that god should value humans regardless if they follow him or not, and not be so petty as to worry more about mere blasphemy or name calling. What should matter to the world is less violence, not murdering each other over merely getting offended.
