[baggadonuts]

So in the three translations you read, aqll you can take from the text is that the Koran preaches "death to the infidel"?

I agree that the fundamentalists have believe the teachings of the Koran indicate the irradication of the infidels if they will not submit to the conservative isalmic view. However, my colleagues who are muslim feal completely different about the Koran. They are intraspective about their faith and view jihad as their own personal struggle. They do not subscribe to this notion of jihad as a religious conquest of the West.

That's my point. All religious texts are read and adhered to differently by each reader.

[Centurion2000]

So in the three translations you read, aqll you can take from the text is that the Koran preaches "death to the infidel"?

The main point derived after reading the Bible and the Koran was summed up perfectly by another freeper a few days ago.

Jesus died for our sins, Mohommed would have you killed for yours.

[Calpernia]

>>>>All religious texts are read and adhered to differently by each reader.

Shariah contradicts this statement.

[SauronOfMordor]

However, my colleagues who are muslim feal completely different about the Koran. They are intraspective about their faith and view jihad as their own personal struggle.

Two questions for the "moderate Muslim":

1. You are in a building. A Muslim terrorist is about to kill a Hindu child. You have a gun in your pocket. Would you shoot the Muslim in order to save the Hindu child?
2. You hear two Muslim acquaintances making plans to bomb a Christian Church. Would you turn them in to the police?

If the answer to either one is "no" then they are "moderates" in the sense of not personally being willing to kill infidels, but being content to watch others do it for them