In the course of the centuries, it would not be so surprising, R_not. In our own Bible there have been so many people who sincerely thought certain passages to mean certain things, even things quite away from what actually was meant by the sacred authors, even things against the true spirit of our God! Why couldn’t this also have happened to the Coranic surahs and verses? Especially if some people with ambitions not quite in tune with them would not hesitate to twist their meaning for their wicked goals? I certainly believe this to be very possible, maybe even probable, after having read that book by this JEWISH translator of the Qur’an, André Chouraqui!
Sorry, but there isn’t too much twisting that one has to do in the koran. I would suggest you reading the koran that non-Jewish people have translated since the muslims really don’t like Jews very much.
Tell me how these can be misinterpreted?
faithfreedom.org/Articles/quran_teaches.htm
Also that jihadists like bin laden, hamas, the Palestinians, hezbollah, etc use the koran for its reasons why we should either die or be subjugated?
Tell me the difference between these two men:
- “I was ordered to fight all men until they say ‘There is no god but Allah.’” prophet Mohammad’s farewell address, March 632
- “I was ordered to fight the people until they say there is no god but Allah, and his prophet Mohammed.” Osama bin Laden, Nov 2001
Or this:
jihadwatch.org/archives/015800.php
“Let not the believers take for friends or helpers unbelievers rather than believers. If any do that, in nothing will there be help from Allah; except by way of precaution, that ye may guard yourselves from them” (Qur’an 3:28).
The Sunni Qur’an commentator Ibn Kathir explains that in this verse “Allah prohibited His believing servants from becoming supporters of the disbelievers, or to take them as comrades with whom they develop friendships, rather than the believers.” However, exempted from this rule were “those believers who in some areas or times fear for their safety from the disbelievers. In this case, such believers are allowed to show friendship to the disbelievers outwardly, but never inwardly. For instance, Al-Bukhari recorded that Abu Ad-Darda’ said, ‘We smile in the face of some people although our hearts curse them.’ Al-Bukhari said that Al-Hasan said, ‘The Tuqyah [taqiyyah] is allowed until the Day of Resurrection.’"
This practice is also sanctioned by the Qur’an warning Muslims that those who forsake Islam will be consigned to Hell — except those forced to do so, but who remain true Muslims inwardly: “Any one who, after accepting faith in Allah, utters unbelief — except under compulsion, his heart remaining firm in faith — but such as open their breast to unbelief, on them is wrath from Allah, and theirs will be a dreadful penalty” (Qur’an 16:106). Ibn Kathir explains that “the scholars agreed that if a person is forced into disbelief, it is permissible for him to either go along with them in the interests of self-preservation, or to refuse.”
Moreover, Sahih Bukhari, the hadith collection that Sunnis consider the most reliable, records three times Muhammad’s statement that “war is deceit.” Are we to suppose that no Sunni who reads that thinks it is a principle worth implementing?
Another hadith in a collection considered reliable by Sunnis has Muhammad saying that lying is permissible “in three cases: in battle, for bringing reconciliation amongst persons and the narration of the words of the husband to his wife, and the narration of the words of a wife to her husband (in a twisted form in order to bring reconciliation between them)” (Sahih Muslim 6303). Muhammad also gave the killer of Ka’b bin al-Ashraf permission to lie in order to deceive Ka’b and lure him to his death.
