Wisdom should be taken from wherever it is found. All scriptures are useful. I feel it would be as wrong to blame the Koran for things taken out of context by evil men to justify their actions as it is to blame the Bible for things like the Crusades or Inquisitions.
I am firm enough in my faith that being exposed to other beliefs is not going to harm me any, and I may gain some insights from the experience.
Such was a small fig leaf which if nothing else demonstrates that we are more tolerant of different ideas than our enemies.
We are the good guys. I am proud my nation IS the good guys. We will never go wrong so long as we stick to the moral high ground.
I feel it would be as wrong to blame the Koran for things taken out of context >>>
You've never read the Koran or you wouldnt be making that kind of statement.
::rolls eyes in back of head::
There is an inherent evil in the words of the Koran, jumping out from every page, which you cannot find in the Gospels or the Geeta or the Dhammapada.
You are correct to say that a wicked Hindu does not mean that Hinduism is evil. You are correct to say that a wicked Christian does not mean that Christianity is evil.
But in the case of Islam, even if EVERY MUSLIM IN THE WORLD WERE THE MOST RIGHTEOUS, gentle, kind and charitable people, the Koran would STILL be evil. The Koran would be evil EVEN IF NO Muslims existed on the face of the earth.
This is because the beliefs and values which the Koran expresses are inherently evil and hateful and spiteful. The Koran describes Allah as a capricious being who damns and blesses whoever he feels like, and intentionally deceives the majority of "unbelievers", stopping their ears, blinding their eyes, MOCKING THEM, and consigning them to eternal torture with no hope of reform, while the righteous slop like pigs at a trough in a paradise of rivers of wine, and unlimited sexual pleasures with supernatural Houri virgins.
Any religion that portrays God in this fashion is evil and monstrous.
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