Posted on 06/01/2014 11:29:38 AM PDT by Olog-hai
An Egyptian court that sentenced to death 37 Islamists and handed life terms to 492 others defended its verdict on Sunday, saying the men were “demons” who followed Jewish scripture. […]
In one trial in March, 529 were sentenced to death for the killing of a police officer but the court later upheld the sentencing against only 37 of them, while the rest were jailed for life. […]
In a statement Sunday to justify its decision, the court […] described the men as “enemies of the nation” who used mosques to promote the teachings of “their holy book, the Talmud,” the central scripture of Judaism. …
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Isn't that an oxymoron?
What Egyptian propaganda lacks in subtlety, it makes up for execution.
I think they were trying to get the Islamists on their side with this statement. OT writings are full of hideous violence, which was seized by Islam...without the adoption of the rest of Judaism. Islam is a syncretist cult.
That makes the current powers that be just as Islamist and as anti-Israel as the MB.
The world today is full of hideous violence. The Old Testament and even the New Testament puts it in context and does not justify it.
My point was that Mohammed did not accept either the Old or the New Testaments, but took the parts that he thought useful to his cult, mixed with a heavy dose of moon-worshipping paganism. That’s what syncretism is all about.
The Muslims claim to be an “Abrahamic people” but this is just because Mohammed seized the name Abraham to justify himself and make it easier to subdue Jews and Christians when he began his first attacks on this defenseless population. Islam was a conquest strategy by a megalomanic nobody, sort of like Hitler, who couldn’t have achieved anything on his own but had this bizarre ability to play the public, particularly by taking advantage of old grievances - and ignorance. And both of them, Hitler and Mohammed, were ruthless and incredibly cruel.
I’m not sure that Mohammed took any “parts” of either Testament; after all, there is only one verse out of the entire Bible quoted in the Koran. Everything else is a complete rewriting of whatever appears in the Bible.
Gilbert and Sullivan would only have been able to find work today as reporters. Their imagination was insufficient to compete with today’s reality.
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