"Mohammed is Allah's apostle. Those who follow him are ruthless to the unbelievers but merciful to one another." (48:29, Quran)
"When the sacred months are over slay the idolaters wherever you find them. Arrest them, besiege them, and lie in ambush everywhere for them. If they repent and take to prayer and pay the alms-tax, let them go their way. Allah is forgiving and merciful." (9:4, Quran)
The second statement is a contradiction of the first, apparently.
"Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live." and "If a child shall curse his mother or his father, then that child shall surely die." are from Exodus.
The Judeao-Christian-Islamic religion has a dark side. No reason just to pick on the Islamic strain.
Not yet. But that can be arranged... you mignt not like it, though...
AB
I doubt Americans care much about the uninformed opinions of a bunch of ignorant water buffalo jockeys.
By their actions they are demonstrating that a line exists in the sand between the Islamic evil-doer and his non-Muslim victim.
Bring back Richard Coeur d'Leon!!
I would put the Indonesian government on notice. Reign in your crazies or face our wrath. If not, we can expect Indonesian suicide bombers too.
Islam means "peace".
Duhhhh!!!!
Civilized people generally don't go in for the shouting in the streets kind of stuff when they want to do business or take a holiday.
As for all these so-called Clerics, they are nothing but fascist rabble rousers operating under the cloak of religion, and should be dealt with accordingly. Nazism, Communism, and whatever the hell the Japanese were smoking in the last century were "religions," and we had to obliterate them.
If the noise Osama and the other "radical fundamentalists" are preaching isn't Islam, fine. But whatever it is, we're going to kill it.
Have you studies the Quran? I ask because I don't know the context of the passages you referenced. As another poster demostrated you can paint a very dark picture of the Bible if you ignore the wider context, the big picture. So to understand those passages, you must understand the context in which they appear.
Personally speaking I don't think that the Quran matters. Even if it taught Muslims to be loving, forgiving, and tolerant. The plain truth is Muslims are brutal to non-Muslims, when they are in power.
That's an interesting line. Every American administration since JFK has poured military and financial aid into Indonesia. We supported the Indonesian military--populated mainly by Muslims--in their brutal putdown of leftist "elements"--mainly buddhist, christian, animist and atheist.
Washington stepped up financial and miliary aid in the wake of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Indonesia was, of course, a favorite resting place for Wall Street money. American businesses, with the full blessing of Washington, flocked there in the 70s and 80s in search of extremely cheap labor.
In the midst of one of the routine anti-christian, anti-chinese pogroms Clinton made a State visit and dressed up as a memeber of the Indonesian bowling team. A few weeks later, while some of the churches were still smoldering Madeline Albright--the mad bomber of Belgrade--showed up to shore up our continuing friendship with the great Nation of Indonesia.
I wonder if that's what he means by "Washington's sins"? If so I'd like to thank him for the honest assessment of our foregn policy. I wonder if anyone in Washington will be willing to speak of "Washington's sins" in the next few years? So far, it doesn't look too likely. George W. Bush trotted over to the CIA to deliver an affectionate, supportive pep-talk even before he visited the smoking ruins of the World Trade Towers.
And Americans seem more willing than ever to offer themselves up as human sacrifices on the altar of globalism in atonement for "Washinton's sins". Can a People survive long on self hatred masking itself as "patriotism"?