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It wasn't me who wrote the page whose URL I gave but please don't play the "the verses are taken out of the context" game with me. You could have fooled most pe
by Isley 12y ago
It wasn't me who wrote the page whose URL I gave but please don't play the "the verses are taken out of the context" game with me. You could have fooled most people five years back but most common people now have learned enough from Islam to see behind such protective "arguments".
Hacker News isn't the place where religion should be discussed but I urge anyone to read the Quran - best in a simplified form like in "An abridged Koran" (by Bill Warner) where the verses have been reordered chronologically (as they were in the beginning) so everybody can read those verses together with the context of the life of Muhammad and see why your "Muslims were attacked and had the right to defend themselves" is nothing but a blatant lie and also the blue-print for the Jihad carried out by Hamas, Taliban, Boko Haram and other islamic terror groups that just follow the example of their violent prophet.
- g8oz 12y ago>>Hacker News isn't the place where religion should be discussed. I see, you wanted to do some drive by propaganda without being called out on it. Sorry. Muhammad was a political and military leader of his faith community as well as a spiritual one. I see no reason why any Muslim has to apologize for actions he took in those capacities. And context matters even if it upsets your little narrative. It is the basis of the numerous condemnations of extremist violence put forth by qualified Islamic authorities.
- Shihan 12y agoWhat, that does exist? Give me an example of a major islamic authority who condems violence and intolerance against non-muslims who refuse to convert to Islam or pay the Jizya when they are under islamic rule.
- Isley 12y agoI'm sure he will come back with some example of the Ahmadiyya sect who isn't recognized by any of the main schools of Islam.