Intolerance is Fundamental to Islam

Can you do this? No one else has done it to date. Everyone else has either changed the subject or fallen silent. To this point, you have changed the subject, but I'm still willing to ask one more time: Can you show us the correct context?

... and then there was silence.

We have honored the children of Adam, provided them with transport on land and sea, and conferred on them special favors above a great part of our creation." (17:70)

"O mankind: fear your Guardian Lord who created you from a single self and created -out of it- its mate, and made from them twain scattered (like seeds) countless men and women." (4:1)

All people are equally eligible for the basic human rights, including the right to freely chose one's religion without coercion, for within Islam the space of the "other" is well preserved and protected.

"your return in the end is toward Allah.. He will tell you the truth of the things wherein you disputed." (6:164)

Muhammad said, ``Do not kill women or children or non-combatants and do not kill old people or religious people, Do not cut down fruit-bearing trees and do not poison the wells of your enemies.''

Frankly, the Old Testament (which Islam includes among its holy scriptures) is a far bloodier and gruesome document than the Koran.

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