Posted on 12/01/2019 5:06:55 PM PST by OddLane
I explore the context of the passage from the Koran quoted by Vladimir Putin in hopes of reconciling the warring parties of Yemen. I also contrast the "reconciliation" depicted in the Koran with true reconciliation in Christ, and explain how Yemen could truly solve its political problems.
It’s a political system of conquest and does not deserve protection under our First Amendment. At least, that’s my opinion.
Is Islam a religion of peace?
Is the earth flat?
Did AlGore invent the internet?
Did Bubba “Not have sex with that woman”?
Ah, these complex questions will never be answered.
If it is then so would the KKayK
Religion of pieces...
The koran is the blueprint by which the saracens want to enslave the world.
Thomas Jefferson would have felt the same.
Would the Russians make a deal with the devil?
I heard an Iman describe the phrase, “Islam is peace”. It means the result of Islam is peace. The result of implementing Sharia Law is civil peace. It is defining peace, not Islam.
Putin is perfectly capable of and often does murder anyone.
But he has a special problem with the Republic of Chechnya. They are Muslims. The ones who invaded the theatre in Moscow and murdered dozens of concert goers.
Really interesting article about it in the New Yorker (yes):”Putin’s Dragon.”
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/02/08/putins-dragon
Islam is NOT a religion!
Islam is the most EVIL death cult ever put on the face of the earth!
They’ve done it before, as with Hitler in 1939.
Putin is as cynical a dictator as there ever was, and his fan club here at FR should realize that.
Islam is a War Plan gift wrapped as a religion.
First, the Mooslimbs will kill all the Jews. Then they will kill all the Christians, then the rest. After they have done that, they will kill each other.
Islam was brought in the region of Midian if I am not mistaken. Midian is where Baal worship was rampant according to scripture.
It is the false religion.
No. Next question, please.
Contrary to typical propaganda, the Qur’an clearly exhorts and commands religious violence,
such as“ fight and slay the Pagans wherever ye find them, an seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem (of war),"
"slay them wherever ye find them, and drive them out of the places whence they drove you out, for persecution is worse than slaughter,"
"and fight them until persecution is no more, and religion is for Allah,"
"fight in the cause of Allah, and those who reject Faith Fightin the cause of Evil: So fight ye against the friends of Satan,"
"who wage war against Allah and His Messenger,"
"Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day," "Be harsh with them,"
"Fight those of the disbelievers who are near to you, and let them find harshness in you." Sources
Moreover, Qur’anic commands to religious violence are in distinct contrast to those of the Bible. For,
Rather than these being a product of the claimed visions of Muhammad,
the commanded wars of conquest in the Old Testament were preceded by by
God making it incontrovertibly supernaturally manifest that He was real
and was commanding them.
Unlike the commands of religious violence in the disjointed suras of
the Qur' an which enable groups such as ISIS to invoke them for support,
the commands to religious violence in the Old Testament are in the
context of historical narrative, which reveal their cause and scope.
Unlike the broad commands of religious violence against unbelievers in
the Qur’an, the wars of conquest in the Bible were geographically or
tribally limited.
Unlike the example of Muhammad who himself engaged in religious violence
and wars and made the “state” the “church,” and which provides support
for groups such as ISIS to create a Caliphate, the Messiah of the Bible
stated “My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this
world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to
the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.” (John 18:36) And the
only form of violence He ever used was that of a whip of cord to drive
thieves out of His (Father’s) house of prayer.
Unlike the Qur’an in which the only likeness to a New Covenant was when
Muhammad was a minority in Mecca (which is where some peaceful relations
are exhorted) before he gained power in Medina (and sura’s exhorting
violence ensued), the promised (Jer. 31:31–33) New covenant which the
Lord Jesus instituted by His atoning sinless shed blood (Hebrews 8:6–13;
9:16,17; ) was “not according” to the Old, in ways which the New
Testament details, (Col. 2:16,17; Hebrews 9:8–12. And which includes
both the real war and the instruments of warfare being spiritual,
(Ephesians 6:12; 1 Co. 10:3,4) as the kingdom now is.
Unlike the Qur’an which supports a theocracy with the “state” enforcing distinctly religious laws via physical means, and under which conversion is a capital crime and work to severely repress worship of other faiths, as with the PACT OF UMAR. the New Testament only sanctions the just use of the sword of men by the state as an institution, versus the church being as the state in fighting unbelievers by that means such as in the RC Inquisitions.
Thus unlike Muslims, Bible Christians condemn the use of religious violence (vs. the just use of the sword of men by the state, or private self-defense by individuals in immediate danger).
Which does not mean citizens cannot lobby their government to enact moral laws that are based upon what they believe, but the state cannot ordain a state religion or suppress worship, providing it does not cross the line of immorality (such as killing children). Which line is itself based upon ideology.
In this sense, laws of any state will reflect the beliefs of founders and the interpreters of them, or their ruler, for good or bad, and democracy in the USA was intended for a religious and moral people in the basic Christian context in which it was founded.
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