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You note illogical interpretations of Islam, yet an author (Greg Winn) who has studied The Koran extensively was saying on the radio yesterday that this would not be correct. It indeed teaches that good Muslims should kill all the infidels. There is no equivocation at all on this matter.

On the contrary, my friend. In fact, the Koran--and in similar fashion--the Bible like most written texts are read subjectively. Each reader extracts different meanings from the same text given their specific point of view. The common mistake of taking verses out of context is often the root of the problem.

Having read the Koran myself, I am of the opinion that to Muhammad, Jews and Christians were peoples with whom you could align yourself if it was in your own best interest and so long as they honored treaties. Otherwise, it is clear that the "idolators" were to be persecuted and/or put to death.

The Koran specifically states, "Be courteous when you argue with the People of the Book, except those among them who do evil...We believe in that which is revealed to us and which is revealed to you. Our God and your God is one. To Him we surrender ourselves."

The issue currently at hand is the modern interpretation of the Koran. Peaceful traditional muslims acknowledge Muhammad. The fudamentalists (offshoots of the Wahabbi sect from Saudi Arabia) do not acknowledge Muhammad because they support monotheism, or simply, prayer only to Allah.

The root of the fundamentalist islamic terror is based in the Wahabbi madrassas throughout the world. Their philosophies, which are taught on every continent in nearly every country (including the US) do not allow for alternative religious sentiment or polytheism. In fact, they have even taken the notion of jihad, or one's personal struggle with their faith, to be a Muslim war against the infadels to spread Wahhabism.

Muslims in general aren't the problem, the Wahabbis from Saudi Arabia are the real threat. If we want to point fingers, I suggest directing our vitriol towards Riyadh and not the peaceful muslims out there.

If it is a religion it is of Satan. Enough "good" stuff to be able to pass muster for the good people.... but the whole Koran is full of directing the killing of those not like you, of raping young boys, of plundering the goods of those who do not believe or think as you.
It does not tell to do these things in defense but in offense or the spreading of the "religion". What other religion directs in it's literature to do these sort of things?