(September 15, 2014 at 3:45 pm)Celestine Wrote: Tada. It was all in the Quran, and all you had to do was read it to clear up this misunderstanding.
No, none of your response is in the Quran. You pulled your "analysis" out of your ass.
Protip: the "correct" apologetic on the call-to-war verse is - "but they was being mean to me!", i.e., we only attack/kill/torture in self-defense.
Of course history shows just the opposite, and when taken in context of the times, the meaning is clear.
Mohamed was a murderous war lord - robbing caravans, killing male prisoners, enslaving women and children, torturing, beheading, etc.
The plainest reading is to take it for just what it says.
The self-defense claim doesn't wash either as Mo's supposed combatants were not the instigators in many cases. All one has to do is look at the map of the Muslim expansion to put the "self-defense" claim to the lie:
So, tada yourself.