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To: SlickWillard
These look more like the justification for defensive measures than aggression. They in no way justify terrorist attacks. However, they do support the US retaliation.
11 posted on 10/14/2001 8:03:02 PM PDT by Doctor Stochastic
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To: Doctor Stochastic
These look more like the justification for defensive measures than aggression.

"but if they turn their backs, then seize them and kill them wheresoever ye find them" is not a justification for defensive measures. Indeed, the Koran is not a religious document; it is a blueprint for murder.

You should read it, or at least enough of it to get a sense of where it's headed:

The Harvard Classics Translations of 1909-1914
nicely formatted by the folks at bartleby.com
http://www.bartleby.com/45/5/
J.M. Rodwell's 1957 Translation
Project Gutenberg
(widely mirrored; these are FTP (not HTTP) mirrors at UNC-Chapel Hill's ibiblio.org)
ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext01/koran10.txt (2000)
ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext02/koran10a.txt (2001)
Maulana Muhammad Ali's 1951 Translation (Second Edition)
http://www.muslim.org/cont-islam.htm

Rashad Khalifa's 2000 Translation (Second Edition)

http://www.submission.org/quran/

14 posted on 10/15/2001 8:29:01 AM PDT by SlickWillard
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