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Yes, there are sites that are completely OTT and deliberately quote Quranic passages out of context or make heavily biased statements. I have studied the affects of terrorism for many years but mainly Islamic terrorism in the past 2-3 years. The verse you quote is Matthew 10:34 and I agree it can be quoted out of context. How many other verses in the NT contain violence especially from Jesus? Compare that to the number of violent verses in the Quran and the Hadith. In fact, Jesus was so anti violence that He did not agree with violence even in self defence. There are a lot of Christian scholars who have studied Islam and ex Muslims who would completely disagree with you that Mohamed only fought in self defence. What about the Banu Qurayza Jews? They were POWs but Mohamed either took part in the beheadings of about 800 men incluuding boys with pubic hair or he OK’d his army to do it. Also they were not pagans so did not want Mohamed to worship “their idols”.
What about the verses that treat People of the Book (Christians and Jews) as Dhimmi status? We pay an additional tax etc ………. Quran 9:29 “Fight those who believe not in God nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which has been forbidden by God and His Apostle, nor acknowledge the religion of truth, [even if they are] of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizyah with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued”. It’s the bit: “and feel themselves subdued” that is a real problem. This can be and has been interpreted in all manners of ways.
Muslims that don’t read the Quran, rarely go to the mosque and rarely pray and have the odd beer that are the moderate and peaceful Muslims. It’s the Muslims that read the Quran and other Islamic scripture very often, pray regularly and go to the mosque and Islamic centres very often that are a concern. Well if the Pope has the TRUE version of Islam, why did he make this disgraceful remark after the Charlie Hebdo massacre: ‘if you insult my mother, I’ll punch you in the face”. This caused thousands of Muslims to march through London with half of them carrying banners with the above statement and “Pope Francis” at the bottom. The other half had banners reading: “Don’t insult the Prophet” etc. None of them held banners reading: “the Islamic terrorists were wrong” or “it is OK to draw cartoons of Mohamed”. The Vatican had to say that the Pope does not condone what happened to Charlie Hebdo staff later. Don’t get me wrong, I really like Pope Francis – he is a breath of fresh air. He was completely wrong on that occasion. Likewise, why have some Catholic priests written excellent articles on the violence of Islam? Surely the Vatican would have called their Bishops if the articles were incorrect. Here is a good example:
hprweb.com/author/rev-michael-p-orsi/
You are fully up to speed on what Muslims use to deflect criticism away from Mohamed and Islam as in: “They also use sayings which are not authoritative”. The beheading of the approx 800 Banu Qurayza Jews was written about by the first biographer of Mohamed, Ibn Ishaq. He stated that Mohamed personally took part in the beheadings. Amazing that his Hadiths are not considered to be authoritative – don’t you think?
You have mentioned ISIS etc not following the true Islam but you failed to mention the tens to hundreds of millions of Muslims who support these acts of Islamic terror or have sympathy with the reasons why these acts of Islamic terror are carried out. This is a large minority in non Muslim countries and a majority in Muslim countries. A good yardstick to judge whether a Muslim is extreme or not is ask if they want Islamic Sharia Law. If they want Islamic Sharia Law; they are Islamic extremists. Islamic Sharia Law with all its civil and human rights abuses is true Islam – isn’t it? About 40% of Muslims in the UK and 52% in the US want Islamic Sharia Law. Here are the Muslims who supposedly do not follow the true Islam; there are a lot of them and many more surveys:
ICM Poll: 20% of British Muslims sympathize with 7/7 bombers
telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1510866/Poll-reveals-40pc-of-Muslims-want-sharia-law-in-UK.html
NOP Research: 1 in 4 British Muslims say 7/7 bombings were justified
cbsnews.com/stories/2006/08/14/opinion/main1893879.shtml&date=2011-04-06
webcitation.org/5xkMGAEvY
Channel Four (2006): 31% of younger British Muslims say 7/7 bombings were justified compared to 14% of those over 45.
policyexchange.org.uk/images/publications/living%20apart%20together%20-%20jan%2007.pdf
People-Press: 31% of Turks support suicide attacks against Westerners in Iraq.
people-press.org/report/206/a-year-after-iraq-war
YNet: One third of Palestinians (32%) supported the slaughter of a Jewish family, including the children:
pajamasmedia.com/tatler/2011/04/06/32-of-palestinians-support-infanticide/
ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4053251,00.html
World Public Opinion: 61% of Egyptians approve of attacks on Americans
32% of Indonesians approve of attacks on Americans
41% of Pakistanis approve of attacks on Americans
38% of Moroccans approve of attacks on Americans
83% of Palestinians approve of some or most groups that attack Americans (only 14% oppose)
62% of Jordanians approve of some or most groups that attack Americans (21% oppose)
42% of Turks approve of some or most groups that attack Americans (45% oppose)
A minority of Muslims disagreed entirely with terror attacks on Americans:
(Egypt 34%; Indonesia 45%; Pakistan 33%)
About half of those opposed to attacking Americans were sympathetic with al-Qaeda’s attitude toward the U.S.
worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/pdf/feb09/STARTII_Feb09_rpt.pdf
Are you a closet Muslim?
