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The Koran says slay the unbelievers wherever you find them.  Well this is within the context within which the Muslims are under siege; they have enemies and the Koran is saying, Fight your enemies.  You have a right to fight the enemies of God.  The Koran also says when the enemy ceases to be a threat, when it ceases to fight, then remember that God is merciful.  Remember that warfare is not the primary way you should go.  John Esposito, Georgetown University

 

 

The Koran: it is one of the most influential books ever written.  A sacred text that over a billion people live by.  And yet it holds many mysteries.  From the Koran’s mystical origins in the Arabian desert.  To its dire warnings of justice and retribution ... Koran translates from Arabic as The Recitation.  Decoding the Past s2e10: Secrets of the Koran I, History 2006  

 

One can instantly see similarities between the Koran and Jewish and Christian scripture.  Each speaks of one eternal and omnipotent deity and they each tell some of the same stories.  But the Koran is also a book immersed in mystery.  Its verses, considered to be some of the most beautiful Arabic ever written, are a labyrinth of language more poetry than prose, and its layout defies easy understanding.  Unlike the Bible the Koran doesn’t follow a chronological narrative.  Its 114 Chapters or Suras are organised mostly according to length, with the longest at the beginning and the shortest at the end.  ibid. 

 

It is this clarity and authenticity that Islam claims distinguishes the Koran from Christian and Jewish scriptures.  Muhammad proclaimed the message he received from God was the same message taught by Moses and Jesus.  ibid.  

 

Why is the scripture as given to Muhammad sometimes so cryptic?  ibid.

 

Muslims believe that it was because of distortions in the Bible that it was necessary for God to reveal his word one final time.  ibid.

 

 

Two Muslim scholars would help lay the groundwork for a new age of Islam.  One that would advocate a fresh view of the Koran and what it says about jihad ... The Islamic peoples lacked a central political authority; their watershed of power had been reached.  And afterwards, variant interpretations of Islam spread throughout the Muslim world.  In response a movement that aspired to restore Islam to its former glory, and aspired to a literal reading of the Koran gradually took root.  In the mid-eighteenth century a scholar called Muhammad Ibn Abdul Wahhab lived and worked in what is today southern Arabia.  He came to believe that Muslims had strayed from the teaching of the Koran, and he advocated a return to what he claimed were the fundamentals of the religion.  Wahhab wanted all non-orthodox interpretations of the Koran banned.  Decoding the Past s2e11: The Koran II

 

But it was not Wahhab that created a fundamentalist doctrine for the modern age.  This was accomplished by an Egyptian journalist who built on Wahhab’s philosophy and created his own interpretation of the Koran.  It was grounded in violence and steeped in controversy.  His name was Sayyid Qutb ... When Qutb returned to Egypt [from America] he joined the Muslim Brotherhood, a political organisation that opposed British colonial rule and advocated a return to the time when the Koran was the law of the land ... In prison Qutb wrote two of his most important works: a commentary on the Koran and an incendiary political manifesto entitled Milestones.  Like Wahhab he argued the Koran alone was the source of knowledge, the ultimate guide to daily life.  Qutb believed that only by returning to the true faith could Islam be saved.  He also found in the Koran the justification for armed struggle against those who stood in the way of this philosophy.  ibid. 

 

 

It builds upon its primitive Jewish and Christian predecessors, selecting a chunk here and a shard there, and thus if these fall, it partly falls also.  Its founding narrative likewise takes place within an astonishingly small compass, and relates facts about extremely tedious local quarrels.  Christopher Hitchens, God is Not Great p123

 

Islam when examined is not much more than a rather obvious and ill-arranged set of plagiarisms, helping itself from earlier books and traditions as occasion appeared to require.  ibid.  p129

 

The Hungarian scholar Ignaz Goldziher, to quote a recent study by Reza Aslan, was among the first to show that many of the hadith were no more than ‘verses from the Torah and the Gospels, bits of Rabbanic sayings, ancient Persian maxims, passages of Greek philosophy, Indian proverbs and even an almost word-for-word reproduction of the Lord’s prayer.’  Great chunks of more or less straight biblical quotation can be found in the hadith.  ibid.  pp132-133  

 

It uses the prophecies of the Old Testament and the Gospels of the New like a perpetual crutch or fund, to be leaned on or drawn upon.  In return for this derivative modesty, all it asks is to be accepted as the absolute and final revelation.  ibid.  p133

 

One can only regret the seeming fact that direct communication with god is not an experience of calm, beauty, and lucidity.  ibid.  p135

 

 

Allah hath sealed their hearing and their hearts, and on their eyes there is a covering.  Theirs will be an awful doom.  Koran 2:7

 

 

In their hearts is a disease, and Allah increaseth their disease.  A painful doom is theirs because they lie.  Koran 2:10

  

 

Allah (Himself) doth mock them, leaving them to wander blindly on in their contumacy.  Koran 2:15

 

 

Their likeness is as the likeness of one who kindleth fire, and when it sheddeth its light around him Allah taketh away their light and leaveth them in darkness, where they cannot see,  

 

Deaf, dumb and blind; and they return not.  

 

Or like a rainstorm from the sky, wherein is darkness, thunder and the flash of lightning.  They thrust their fingers in their ears by reason of the thunder-claps, for fear of death, Allah encompasseth the disbelievers (in His guidance, His omniscience and His omnipotence).  

 

The lightning almost snatcheth away their sight from them.  As often as it flasheth forth for them they walk therein, and when it darkeneth against them they stand still.  If Allah willed, He could destroy their hearing and their sight.  Lo!  Allah is able to do all things.  Koran 2:17-20  

 

 

And if ye do it not – and ye can never do it – then guard yourselves against the Fire prepared for disbelievers, whose fuel is of men and stones.  Koran 2:24

 

 

But they who disbelieve, and deny Our revelations, such are rightful Peoples of the Fire.  They will abide therein.  

 

O Children of Israel!  Remember My favour wherewith I favoured you, and fulfil your (part of the) covenant, I shall fulfil My (part of the) covenant, and fear Me.  Koran 2:39&40

 

 

Say (O Muslims): We believe in Allah and that which is revealed unto us and that which was revealed unto Abraham, and Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the tribes, and that which Moses and Jesus received, and that which the prophets received from their Lord.  We make no distinction between any of them, and unto Him we have surrendered.  Koran 2:136

 

 

Lo!  Those who disbelieve, and die while they are disbelievers; on them is the curse of Allah and of angels and of men combined.  

 

They ever dwell therein.  The doom will not be lightened for them, neither will they be reprieved.  Koran 2:161&162

 

 

And those who were but followers will say: If a return were possible for us, we would disown them even as they have disowned us.  Thus will Allah show them their own deeds as anguish for them, and they will not emerge from the Fire.  Koran 2:167

 

 

Lo! those who hide aught of the Scripture which Allah hath revealed and purchase a small gain therewith, they eat into their bellies nothing else than fire.  Allah will not speak to them on the Day of Resurrection, nor will He make them grow.  Theirs will be a painful doom.  Koran 2:174

 

 

O ye who believe!  Retaliation is prescribed for you in the matter of the murdered; the freeman for the freeman, and the slave for the slave, and the female for the female.  And for him who is forgiven somewhat by his (injured) brother, prosecution according to usage and payment unto him in kindness.  This is an alleviation and a mercy from your Lord.  He who transgresseth after this will have a painful doom.  Koran 2:178

 

 

Fight in the way of Allah against those who fight against you, but begin not hostilities. Lo!  Allah loveth not aggressors.

 

And slay them wherever ye find them, and drive them out of the places whence they drove you out, for persecution is worse than slaughter.  And fight not with them at the Inviolable Place of Worship until they first attack you there, but if they attack you (there) then slay them.  Such is the reward of disbelievers.

 

But if they desist, then lo!  Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.  

 

And fight them until persecution is no more, and religion is for Allah.  But if they desist, then let there be no hostility except against wrong-doers.  

 

The forbidden month for the forbidden month, and forbidden things in retaliation.  And one who attacketh you, attack him in like manner as he attacked you.  Observe your duty to Allah, and know that Allah is with those who ward off (evil).  Koran 2:190-194  

 

 

And of them (also) is he who saith: Our Lord!  Give unto us in the world that which is good and in the Hereafter that which is good, and guard us from the doom of Fire.  Koran 2:201

 

 

And when it is said unto him: Be careful of thy duty to Allah, pride taketh him to sin.  Hell will settle his account, an evil resting-place.  Koran 2:206

 

 

Ask of the Children of Israel how many a clear revelation We gave them!  He who altereth the grace of Allah after it hath come unto him (for him), lo!  Allah is severe in punishment.  Koran 2:211

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