Koran ( Episode Two)

[atalanta]

all of those souls who recently advised me on a choice of edition of the Koran will be delighted to hear that I have received a copy, free, from a bunch of ( shall we say ) Muslim enthusiasts in New Street in Birmingham today while I was shopping. But why do you suppose their leader was so suspicious of my motives ?

[keyplus90]

Hypo- Anyone who would read 9:5 would have already read what is before that and then would read all of 9:5 and would not stop where your “given words” stop and then he would go on to read the following 9:6 and 9:7 and so on. I believed that to be common sense, but then again that’s a common mistake people make when they just copy and paste someone else’s words.

[keyplus90]

I will cut the long story short for you. It does not say the disbelievers. It says that slay the disbelievers (or anyone in that case) who tries killing you in the battle.

If you were with unarmed 313 people facing a heavily armed 1000 or even more who are there to kill each and everyone of you and their record shows that they would not show any mercy then let me know what would you say to your people?

[Hypognosis]

@keyplus90

Cut & paste can be used to cruel effect, yes. Such as:-

//It does not say the disbelievers. It says that slay the disbelievers //

…where you contradict yourself within the span of a few words.

So, to play fair: -

//I will cut the long story short for you. It does not say the disbelievers. It says that slay the disbelievers (or anyone in that case) who tries killing you in the battle. //

The word "disbelievers" is entirely redundant and saying "if someone tries to kill you in battle then kill them" is just a statement of the very *very* obvious, unless you're only there in expectation of a wrestling contest or some martial arts.

Why is disbelief such a big deal for the prophet? Why won't Islam just live and let live? Why is a visual depiction of him worthy of the death penalty? Why not let Salman Rushdie be some obscure author no Westerner had ever heard of?

I mention that last one because that was the point at which Muslims ceased to be benign.