A big hat tip to Fox News for being the only mainstream news outlet to cover this story
It seems that the only sources you can find these horror stories is what CAIR calls the "Islamophobic hate sites". But this is what is happening in Egypt today to Christians and other religious minorities across the Islamic world. Forced conversions.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/04/18/rate-christian-girls-abducted-and-attacked-by-extremists-on-rise-in-egypt/
Why won't the other mainstream media publicize this? We all know the reason. Political correctness.
"Let there be no compulsion in religion"
Qu'ran Sura 2: 256
Finally, Gary sees the light and quotes directly from the Qu'ran to highlight that the people doing the abductions are not adhering to Islam, whatever their rhetoric.
ReplyDeleteThe Koran is full of contradictions because it was written over the course of a few years when Mohammed transitioned from a preacher to as warrior.Scholars explained that by the principle of abrogation. That written later abrogates that written earlier in case of contradiction. Actually it was written in the Medina period (more militant). But if you talk to imams in the US you get many different interpretations of these questions. One that I hear often is that if someone changes from Islam they should be left alone-but if they speak out against Islam that is treason.
ReplyDeleteAt any rate, there is so much of this going on in the Muslim world today that there must be a scriptual basis for it.
The Bible is also full of contradictions. Most lengthy religious tomes are. Amost and Micah could be read as rejection of a good deal of Deuteronomy and Leviticus.
ReplyDeleteAt any rate, there is so much of this going on in the Muslim world today that there must be a scriptual basis for it.
Sure, like "you shall not suffer a witch to live."
Siarlys,
ReplyDeleteRead the Koran and the Hadith. Read the life of Mohammed.
Seek and ye shall find.
Gary, I have near at hand a copy of Marmaduke Pickthall's The Meaning of the Glorious Koran. I have looked up every verse you ever quoted specifically. Here, you have offered no specific citation. As I said, the Koran, like the Bible, is full of contradictions, and perhaps of greater relevance, full of abstract references that could mean a lot of things, depending on what the person quoting from it wants to prove.
ReplyDeleteSiarlys,
ReplyDeleteJust the title tells me all I need to know about the Duke of Marmalade.
Different copies in other languages are written diffferently to look better. Unfortunately, we don't read classical Arabic.
If you want to explain away all the references to war and killing, be my guest. Hope you have a lot of time on your hands. Please don't read and drive the bus at the same time.