The Political Violence of the Bible and the Koran

American Thinker ^ | Bill Warner

[ventanax5]

One of the most frequently used arguments in the defense of Islam is that the Bible is just as violent as the Koran. The logic goes like this. If the Koran is no more violent than the Bible, then why should we worry about Islam? This argument suggests that Islam is the same as Christianity and Judaism. This is false, but the analogy is very popular since it allows someone who knows nothing about the actual doctrine of Islam to talk about it. "See, Islam is like Christianity; Christians are just as violent as Muslims." If this is true, then you don't have to learn anything about the actual Islamic doctrine.

However, this is not a theological argument. It is a political one. This argument is not about what goes on in a house of worship, but what goes on the in the marketplace of ideas.

Now, is the doctrine of Islam more violent than the Koran? There is only one way to prove or disprove the comparison, and that is to measure the differences in violence in the Koran and the Bible.

The first item is to define violence. The only violence that matters to someone outside of Islam, Christianity, or Judaism is what they do to the "other," or political violence. Cain killing Abel is not political violence. Political violence is not killing a lamb for a meal or making an animal sacrifice. Note that regardless of whether a vegan or a PETA member considers both of these actions violent, neither constitutes violence against vegans or PETA members.

The next item is to compare the doctrines both quantitatively and qualitatively. The political violence of the Koran is called "fighting in Allah's cause," or jihad.

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[Biggirl]

There was ONLY one time, outside of the passion of the Christ, that there was violence, it was when Jesus, and it is recorded in the NT, CLEANED out the main Jewish Temple.

[AnalogReigns]

The writer carefully describes "political violence" as what violence the religious of the book did to OTHER people of OTHER cultures and religions.

Jesus was a practicing Jew, and his actions in cleaning out the Temple were against other Jews. He also just turned over the tables of the vendors, and drove out the animals...no record of his being violent against people. In His mock-trial, no witness was able to name one way he violated Jewish law in one iota as well...

Therefore there is no example in the New Testament of Christ or Christians practicing violence, or recommending it, against those of other cultures and religions. That makes zero political violence--in spite of the (very minor) violence of Jesus driving out money-changers from the Temple and the terrible violence of the Romans in the Passion.

[Marauder]

Nor should they mind if we burn a quran when we see Bibles burned by louse-infested Islamofascist lunatics.