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"I could go on but I think you get the point."

Just wondering where you found your translations ?

http://www.submission.org/ has some of them worded different, and without taking them out of context, some make sense even to this heathen.

for example -

[4:101] When you travel, during war, you commit no error by shortening your Contact Prayers (Salat), if you fear that the disbelievers may attack you. Surely, the disbelievers are your ardent enemies.

Looks to me like this is saying that if you happen to be in a war with disbelievers, you can shorten your prayer time as they will not respect your religion and attack at that time. Makes a lot of military sense to me no matter what religion you happen to be ...

Of course it appears that the fanatics have used a different interpretation to achive the results they want - a common occurance with ancient religious texts.

Why would you refer to yourself as a heathen?

Did I in any way imply that someone who believes differently than me is a heathen?

I certainly did not.

The translations I used were actually sent to me about a month ago by a fellow FReeper.

I guess that is one of the difficulties in dealing with this subject. If there isn't any one true translation that everyone agrees with, it does make it difficult to find the Truth. That is what I am after here. Nothing more.

I am not here to point fingers or make false accusations. If you have evidence that Islam is not wanting to dominate the world or that their intent is not to wipe out all infidels, then I would welcome that evidence.

I would appreciate a civil discourse rather than the name calling and mudslinging that seems so rampant here.

I don't think anything is achieved by using those methods.