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Originally Posted by fastboy21
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the problem is that they aren't misquoting the qu'ran. american islam IS a very different culture than the islam of the middle east. islam in its simplest form is a very passive religion about personal relationship with god in america. in the middle east those relationships are extended outward towards others. the problem is that the qu'ran can be read both ways, and (without having to misquote it) you can very easily read the qu'ran as a violent text.
i don't hate american islam...but, when someone tells you that muslim jidhadists in the middle east are misreading the qur'an they are full of shit. they aren't misreading it...go read the surah of the sword, for example, and tell me otherwise:
"But when the forbidden months are past, then fight and slay the Pagans wherever ye find them, and seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem (of war)....." Surah 9:5
that isn't a misquote...MAYBE it isn't supposed to be taken literally in our times, but it isn't a misquote. there are many many verses that support this, too many in my opinion, to pretend that it is absent from the quran.
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So does the bible dude. Its all about a modern man thinking its ok to go out and kill anyway.
Samuel 15:3
Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy everything that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.’
Deuteronomy 20:16-17
However, in the cities of the nations the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes. 17 Completely destroy them—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites—as the Lord your God has commanded you.
and lastly. Samuel 15:18
18 And he sent you on a mission, saying, ‘Go and completely destroy those wicked people, the Amalekites; make war on them until you have wiped them out.’
Extremists are Extremists. The religion doesnt matter. Just like a christian extremist arent really representing the bulk of christians worshippers, the same stands true for muslims. Dont go telling me there is no such thing as a christian extremist either. Northern Ireland much? Martin Dillion, Padraic Pearse. Not just individuals either, there are groups. Home grown right here in the United States. The Army of God, Concerned Christians, and just this year a group in detroit calling itself Hutaree was charged with conspiracy to use improvised explosive devices..sound familiar?
Im a native New Yorker. Have been all my life. 9/11 was a TRAGEDY, but to basically persecute or even associate this religion with the violence is un-american. Now im pretty liberal but in the words of my friends on the right, Guns dont kill people, people do.