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Qura'n Needs To Be Re-Interpreted To Reflect The True Spirit Of Islam
Pakistan Today ^ | Friday, April 12, 2002 | Tashbih Sayyed

Posted on 04/19/2002 10:52:04 AM PDT by besieged

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To: besieged
I wish what this article is proposing would come about, but I just don't think it will happen. I don't see where in the Muslim world there are enough political fractures to cause an upheaval in favor of softening, except maybe in Iran.
21 posted on 04/19/2002 11:35:32 AM PDT by billybudd
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To: besieged
As long as the killings of Jews, Christians, Hindus and other Muslim groups are justified by crude interpretations of the Quran, Muslims are letting Islam die. For its sake and for the sake of civilization, Muslims will have to challenge each and every interpretation of the Quran that is in conflict with the values of common decency, respect, and humanity.

Watch your back, Tashbih. You're a target now.

22 posted on 04/19/2002 11:50:03 AM PDT by kezekiel
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To: backhoe
There was a small window after 911, when, if enough Muslim clerics, spokesmen, and members had come forward and denounced it, I would have listened.

I agree. I honestly believed that there would be a huge, spontaneous uprising among ordinary, idignant Muslims, denouncing these attacks. This didn't happen. Instead, we saw both "leaders" and ordinary Muslims repeatedly make to complaints and demands.

23 posted on 04/19/2002 11:53:21 AM PDT by mikeIII
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To: mikeIII
I honestly believed that there would be a huge, spontaneous uprising among ordinary, idignant Muslims, denouncing these attacks....

That's what I expected.
They blew it, big time, for this American- and they can't get it back.

24 posted on 04/19/2002 11:57:38 AM PDT by backhoe
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To: besieged
The Best Little Whorehouse in Palestine

David Gelernter, himself a casualty of terrorism (maimed by the Unabomber in 1993), in The Weekly Standard on Palestinian barbarism:

We now learn that suicide bombers are told to expect a heaven full of comely virgins as their next assignment. To the suicide-murderers, those waiting virgins are real as dirt. The killers call themselves "martyrs," but in their own minds they are the next thing to sex criminals. "Pardon me, sir or madam, do you know why I plan to murder your child? Because the authorities are offering me great sex--and, after all, I don't get many opportunities."

People who think this way are shielded from view, up to a point, by their own sheer evil. They are painful to contemplate. We instinctively look away, as we do whenever we are confronted with monstrous deformity. Nothing is harder or more frightening to look at than a fellow human who is bent out of shape. And moral deformity is the most frightening kind by far. How can Muslims of good faith allow such people to call themselves Muslim? But they do allow it. What does that mean? And is it possible that we have located here, in this inspiring vision of heaven as a whorehouse, the most loathsome idea in the history of human thought?

i.,.e. -- Islam's Heaven is Allah's Whorehouse

25 posted on 04/19/2002 12:02:59 PM PDT by Lexington Green
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To: KQQL;a_Turk;massadvj;WindRiverShoshoni;The Documentary Lady;Illbay;Hamza01
I have seen the same distortions of Islam, the same wrenching of Qur'anic ayat by Neo-Nazis. The same vehemence with which they also attack and misrepresent Jews and Judaism. The worst part of all this is not the vile bigotry of haters who post such but the politically damaging use of made by the Democrats, in the coming election this fall and in 2004, of such hatred posted on a conservative website. It is politically a big mistake. Not that it matters to those whose agenda couldn't care less about we Republicans and our electoral hopes.
26 posted on 04/19/2002 12:10:17 PM PDT by luvzhottea
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To: luvzhottea
hatred posted on a conservative website

Huh? Would you care to give some examples of hatred on a conservative website?

27 posted on 04/19/2002 12:29:32 PM PDT by SlickWillard
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To: KQQL
This means , even if the Plo makes peace with Israel, they will still work to destroy Israel

Suddenly everything becomes clear, doesn't it? However, I read somewhere else that this only goes for either the Sunnis or the Shi'ites. I forget which. Either way, a large percentage of the earth's population thinks lying in the cause of Islam is A-OK.

But since there doesn't seem to be any final arbiter of correct Quranic interpretation, it's pretty much all up for grabs anyway. Even so, we will know them by what they do.

28 posted on 04/19/2002 12:37:28 PM PDT by Aquinasfan
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there doesn't seem to be any final arbiter of correct Quranic interpretation

Dude, there isn't any interpretation necessary. The Koran instructs them to murder us, plain and simple.

29 posted on 04/19/2002 12:43:12 PM PDT by SlickWillard
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To: besieged
One expert I heard gave the following example to explain today's Islam;

Imaging the US, as Christian nation, had no schools. Then imagine the KKK (calling themselves Christians) having unlimited money, decided to build and run all the schools. After a generation, the "Christian" nation would have a KKK slant to its doctrines and expressions.

This is what happened in Arabia. The Saudi's have built the schools, with their brand (sect) of Islam, which calls for Jihad, etc, against the infidels.

30 posted on 04/19/2002 12:43:15 PM PDT by aimhigh
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To: KQQL
You might want to take a look at this article on Mohammedanism, especially the last paragraph, beginning with "In matters political..."

Nothing much has changed in the last 100 years.

31 posted on 04/19/2002 12:43:45 PM PDT by Aquinasfan
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To: Lexington Green
Islam's Heaven is Allah's Whorehouse

Thanks for the quote. That sums it up the most accurately I've read.

32 posted on 04/19/2002 1:01:21 PM PDT by xJones
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To: luvzhottea
What ever........get real ..go read the quran first........TRUTH matters more than politics.
33 posted on 04/19/2002 1:51:20 PM PDT by KQQL
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To: besieged
Islam is peace and here is why ...^@__*^:

FROM NYPOST:-At the hate-filled sermon at the Grand Mosque in Mecca on 4/19/2002 , " He prayed to the Muslim God ( AKA allah the moon god )to "terminate" the Jews, whom he called "the scum of humanity, the rats of the world, prophet killers, pigs and monkeys."

34 posted on 04/20/2002 3:11:48 PM PDT by KQQL
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To: luvzhottea;all
I have seen the same distortions of Islam, the same wrenching of Qur'anic ayat by Neo-Nazis

Oh really......................so you are saying the MULLAS of Saudi Arabia don't know their own Religion.......
YEA RIGHT !!

Islam is peace and here is why:

From Nypost.com:_At the hate-filled sermon at the Grand Mosque in Mecca on 4/19/2002 the Imam prayed to the Muslim God to "terminate" the Jews, whom he called "the scum of humanity, the rats of the world, prophet killers, pigs and monkeys."

35 posted on 04/20/2002 3:16:24 PM PDT by KQQL
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To: luvzhottea;all
I have seen the same distortions of Islam, the same wrenching of Qur'anic ayat by Neo-Nazis

Oh really......................so you are saying the MULLAS of Saudi Arabia don't know their own Religion.......
YEA RIGHT !!

Islam is peace and here is why:^@__*^

From Nypost.com:_At the hate-filled sermon at the Grand Mosque in Mecca on 4/19/2002 the Imam prayed to the Muslim God to "terminate" the Jews, whom he called "the scum of humanity, the rats of the world, prophet killers, pigs and monkeys."

36 posted on 04/20/2002 3:17:13 PM PDT by KQQL
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To: besieged
Why are the Muslim voices of sanity so few?

For starters, suppose your religion required you to drop to your knees, bend down and sniff the butt of the next filthy wretched ignorant cretin in front of you, five times a day, wouldn't that wipe out your sanity?

37 posted on 07/09/2002 2:02:47 PM PDT by hang 'em
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To: besieged
If Islam were just invented today, we would all call it a dangerous cult, which it is and has been since its inception.
38 posted on 07/09/2002 2:07:45 PM PDT by TADSLOS
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