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The Islamic Feast of Eid al-Adha, which commemorates the end of the pilgrimage to Mecca, the Hajj, and Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son.
And Christians only know Abraham from the Bible so they are thinking of Genesis 22:15–18, in which Abraham is rewarded for his faith and told he will become a blessing to the nations: “By your descendants shall all the nations of the earth bless themselves, because you have obeyed my voice.”
But most Muslims are oblivious to that interpretation of the story because they read the Koran, in which Allah says that Abraham is an “excellent example” for the believers when he tells his family and other pagans that “there has arisen, between us and you, enmity and hatred for ever, unless ye believe in Allah and Him alone” (60:4). The same verse says that Abraham is not an excellent example when he tells his father, “I will pray for forgiveness for you.”
So the Koran, again, holds up hatred as exemplary, while belittling the virtue of forgiveness. It reinforces an everlasting enmity between Muslims and non-Muslims.
The Islamic Feast of Eid al-Adha, which commemorates the end of the pilgrimage to Mecca, the Hajj, and Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son.
And Christians only know Abraham from the Bible so they are thinking of Genesis 22:15–18, in which Abraham is rewarded for his faith and told he will become a blessing to the nations: “By your descendants shall all the nations of the earth bless themselves, because you have obeyed my voice.”
But most Muslims are oblivious to that interpretation of the story because they read the Koran, in which Allah says that Abraham is an “excellent example” for the believers when he tells his family and other pagans that “there has arisen, between us and you, enmity and hatred for ever, unless ye believe in Allah and Him alone” (60:4). The same verse says that Abraham is not an excellent example when he tells his father, “I will pray for forgiveness for you.”
So the Koran, again, holds up hatred as exemplary, while belittling the virtue of forgiveness. It reinforces an everlasting enmity between Muslims and non-Muslims.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
