Orchid Win7 v1 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Ass a true follower of Islam, it must be really saddening when you see 
> some bunch of nutters do something insane in the name of your own 
> religion...

A moderate muslim cannot follow the Quran to the letter. Exactly like
with the Bible, there's a lot of whitewashing of the Quran to try to
make it sound more benevolent than it really is.

The whitewashing works quite well because not many westerners have
actually studied the Quran. You hear all kinds of claims like "the
Quran only allows fighting infidels for self defense", even though
that's not true at all.

For example, the infamous verse 9:29 that says "Fight those who believe
not in Allah" is not saying "only if they attack first". In context,
what the passage is Allah's word to Muhammad that says, basically,
that if he runs out of money, he should fight the infidels until they
are subjugated and pay the Jizyah (which is basically a tax to be paid
by non-muslims who are under islamic rule.)

There are other, even more gruesome passages. For example this is the
one that's used by many terrorists to justify their acts:

"The recompense of those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger
and do mischief in the land is only that they shall be killed or
crucified or their hands and their feet be cut off on the opposite
sides, or be exiled from the land." (Quran 5:33)

Those terrorists in London who murdered Lee Rigby? They were quoting
that exact verse to the reporters. They were following their holy
book.

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                                                          - Warp

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