"You may strike terror into the enemies of God and the faithful, and others besides them. I shall cast terror into the hearts of infidels. Strike off their heads, maim them in every limb. Make war on them until idolatry is no more and God's religion reigns supreme. When the sacred months are over slay the idolaters wherever you find them. Arrest them, besiege them, and lie in ambush everywhere for them. Those that make war against God and His apostle and spread disorders in the land shall be put to death or crucified or have their hands and feet cut off on alternate sides, or be banished from the country."
"Be ruthless to unbelievers but merciful to one another."
"Blessed are the believers who restrain their carnal desires except with their wives and slave girls, for these are lawful to them."
This nice little passage both endorses slavery and the rape of those that are enslaved. I can see where Hussein felt justified in building his rape camps.
The Roman numerals are the SURAs of the Koran, similar to the books of the Bible.
IV.89: They desire that you should disbelieve as they have disbelieved, so that you might be (all) alike; therefore take not from among them friends until they fly (their homes) in Allah's way; but if they turn back, then seize them and kill them wherever you find them, and take not from among them a friend or a helper.
IX. 5-6: Kill those who join other gods with God wherever you may find them.
IV.76: Those who believe fight in the cause of God.
IV.74: Let those who fight in the cause of God who barter the life of this world for that which is to come; for whoever fights on God's path, whether he is killed or triumphs, We will give him a handsome reward.
VIII.39-42: Say to the Infidels: if they desist from their unbelief, what is now past shall be forgiven; but if they return to it, they have already before them the doom of the ancients! Fight then against them till strife be at an end, and the religion be all of it God's.
Is this enough for you? Listen, I'm not here saying that Christianity is real or thet Islam is fake, I'm here to point something out. This is: DON'T FOLLOW RELIGIOUS TEXTS WORD FOR WORD. THEY ARE THOUSANDS OF YEARS OLD AND THEIR LITERAL TRANSLATIONS DO MORE HARM THAN GOOD IN MODERN SOCIETY.
There are many teachings in the Qu'ran (did I get it right that time?) that are loving and peaceful, just like the Bible, but unfotunately threre are many passages like these also. To take them literally is a mistake.
Christianity is a case in point. Christianity started as a very warm religion that used the bible as a book of stories to live by. The most modern form of this is Russian Orthodoxy. Its when those who sought power used religion as a means to attain it when all of this oppression and violence started. But at the same time you can't just add stuff. When Dogma becomes more meaningful than the Word, there is a problem. Case in point: The Pope. No offense Catholics, but he is your creation and was used as a monarch figure to combat the loyalty of the masses to their feudal lords.
Unfortunately it seems that the Qu'ran teaches a direct translation as its norm. This is a shame. Because if one believes that their interpretation is the true and only interpretation, they can pretty much justify any heinous act they wish with the quotes I listed above.
Outr of every quote I've seen, this is the most disturbing:
"There may be moderate Muslims, but Islam itself is not moderate. There is no difference between Islam and Islamic fundamentalism. At most there is a difference of degree but not of kind."
-- Ibn Warraq, executive director of the Institute for the Secularization of Islamic Society
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