(January 25, 2017 at 6:48 pm)momo666 Wrote: I have heard the argument that violence in Islam is only prescribed in self defense and that any verse that condones violence is doing so in the context of an ongoing attack started by someone else.
Thoughts ?
It would seem this is pretty inaccurate. Violence is supposedly allowed for a multitude of reasons... For example, death is, supposedly, the punishment for leaving the religion of Islam. There are multiple Quran verses that would support this claim.
Let's not fool ourselves, there are violent verses in the Torah (which is actually also considered a sacred text in Islam, interestingly enough), the Old Testament (which of course includes the torah) and the New Testament. The three Abrahamic religions in general tend to be pretty violent.
That's not to say that these modern terrorist types are not perverting the original texts in some way (maybe they are, I'm no theologian), but there certainly are many verses in the Quran that would justify the behavior of the ISIS folks, misguided and insane as they might be. There is certainly no denying that Islam is NOT a religion of peace.
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It is the air and light of every heart – builder of every home, kindler of every fire on every hearth. It was the first to dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody – for music is the voice of love.
Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to Joy, and makes royal kings and queens of common clay. It is the perfume of that wondrous flower, the heart, and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon, we are less than beasts; but with it, earth is heaven, and we are gods.” - Robert. G. Ingersoll
