Posted on 04/07/2006 4:17:40 PM PDT by marthemaria
sorry , dont know where to post this either. But in discussing the verse in the quran that says the one who kills one man iss killing the hole humanti or someting?
it cant be true?
the real version
links?
sorry , not native english speaker
wtf
Check this out.
http://www.faithfreedom.org/Quran.htm
If you're researching Islam, you can buy translated copies of the Quran and Hadith. Sorry, I haven't read either one, so I'm not familiar with their contents.
sorry , I meant there Is a werse in the quran that tells the storyy of someting like " the one who kills one human being is killing the whole humantithy."
I believe this is wrong. But I am not an native languige speaker of engilish
Maybe that's what you're looking for.
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If there is a verse that contains this admonition, the mohammedans have not followed the advice.
Yes, the sura you cite is indeed in the Koran, as are prohibitions against suicide.
The problem is that Islamic tradition (begun by Mohammed, for reasons I will explain) holds that the later authored verses of the Koran supercede the earlier written ones.
All the pacific verses like the one you cite are early, the verses about 'striking at the neck of the infidel' and 'making a great slaughter' are late.
Mohammed at first tried to sell his 'revelation' as an extension of Judaism and of the gnostic Christianity he was familiar with. When he didn't get any takers other than Arab pagans, he became a warlord and made war against Jews (Jewish Arabs! there were whole tribes of Arab Jews in those day) and Christians (there are still Christian Arabs, mostly outside of the Middle East),
and was quite successful at it.
Of course it wasn't just that he wanted to preach war after he became a warlord. He could have done that without establishing the scriptural hermeneutic that the later superceeds the earlier written. No, Mohammed had limited polygamy to four wives (worse for women than the monogamy prevailent among Christians, better than the unlimited polygamy prevailent among pagans and Jews, yes, Jews, in those days--it was only in the later Middle Ages under Christian influence that Jews finanally renounce the polygamy practiced by the patriarchs of the Old Testament), but he was
a randy old beast, and wanted more for himself (and all at once, since he
could have divorced a few and taken new ones, the limit was four at once), so he added a new, superceeding 'revalation' that Allah's 'prophet' should be allowed more wives.
Islamic scriptural interpretation is in one respect like good constitutional law, all built on precedent, with the founder's precedents (the Hadiths) being pre-emeninent. Unfortunately for the world, and particularly for those who have to live under Islam, the preeminent precedents in Islam are warfare, the beheading of surrendered enemies (what we'd call 'prisoners of war'), rape, pillage, pedophilia, and using the later suras of the Koran to justify these in contradiction to the earlier suras.
Of course that just my opinion.
So here's a picture of Jimmy Carter being attacked by a rabbit.
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