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To: Little Ray

> The[re] is not going to be a “Muslim Reformation.” The Koran was dictated by “God” to Mohamed (piss be upon him) and they can’t change a word in it.<

They can ignore many things that are in it, though, just as most Christians do with the Bible. Many Muslims have done that in many places and many times. Even now I don’t believe most nominally Muslim countries fully enforce sharia law.

Also just as with Christianity, there are different interpretations. For instance, there’s disagreement about whether the Koran requires that Muslims who convert to another religion be killed. Also sometimes one part of the Koran seems to imply one thing, and another part something contradictory. Then too, just as with Christians and the Bible, many Muslims simply don’t know what’s in it.

I’m a bit pessimistic in the short run too, and distrust the so-called “Arab Spring” (though I hope I’m wrong). How many religions, though, endure without weakening and changing over time? None that I know of, and that includes Islam — despite the recent surge in fanaticism in some places (it’s a surge because it was weaker previously — I think it will become weaker still in time).


35 posted on 12/13/2011 8:52:00 AM PST by GJones2 (Rhetoric that uses the word "exterminate")
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To: GJones2
The isn't any controversy about conversion from Islam. They have rules for interpreting the “conflicting” statements. Parts that come later in the Koran supersede those earlier in the book. There is, to my limited knowledge, nothing that supersedes the injunction to kill those who convert from Islam.
Also, the "Arab Spring" is looking more and more like an Al Qaeda resurgence. This was actually Al Qaeda's strategic goal when they attacked us all those years ago. It took a while, but the "ummah" are overthrowing the (relatively) secular states in the ME. Can't wait to see if this makes it into Saudi Arabia (couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of people...).
37 posted on 12/13/2011 9:01:34 AM PST by Little Ray (FOR the best Conservative in the Primary; AGAINST Obama in the General.)
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