OUR THIRD PHILOSOPHICAL ARTICLE
​- THE QUR'AN SAYS...? -

THE QUR'AN

PUBLISH DATE:  23 June 2016

​At SPEAROFATHENA we noticed a FACEBOOK post by a contributor which provided a list of Qur'an references of actions that Muslims should take against "non-believers" (defined basically as all religions other than Islam) and "hypocrites" (those who pretend to be Muslim but are not).

The following Qur'an  excerpts below support the theory that Islam is NOT, or can be easily corrupted by those willing evil as being NOT,  a religion of peace.   As one reads the sentences below along with their adjacent sentences, they seem to read as a general's  battle instructions against opponents not only of God, but of the Prophet. 

• 2:191 - regarding killing enemies
• 3:28 - regarding not having unbelievers as allies except if advantageous
• 3:85 - regarding religions other than Islam being unacceptable
• 5:33-  regarding SEVERE punishment of those who fight against the Prophet and God.
• 8:12 - regarding the placement of fear into infidel's hearts and beheading
• 8:60 - regarding assembling military forces
• 8:65 - regarding urging believers to fight
• 9:5 - regarding punishment of idolaters
• 9:29 - “Fight those people of the Book (Jews and Christians) who do not believe in God and the Last Day....    .....until they pay the tax (Halal Certification, protection tax, or jizya) and agree to submit”
• 9:30 - regarding Jews and Christians being far astray (or worse) - God to thwart them
• 9:123 - regarding fighting the unbeliever
• 22:19 - regarding God's punishment of unbelievers  (We note that Radical Islamists punish their foes in the manner that the Qur'an here saysGod will punish - but is it a Radical's right to do so?  Or is it more likely that the Qur'an is being heavily perverted?)
• 47:4 - regarding striking battle enemies in the neck, but ransoming or releasing by grace at battle's end 

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ABOVE:  Truth or perversion of the WORD of GOD?

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Finally, we offer this particular excerpt:

• 48.10 (Sura, or Chapter, 48 is entitled "Triumph").  "Those who pledge loyalty to you [the Prophet] are actually pledging loyalty to God himself - God's hand is placed on theirs - and anyone who breaks his pledge does so to his own detriment:  God will give great reward to the one who fulfills his pledge to Him. "

The above sentence is similar to Jesus' story (we paraphrase - receiving the father through the son) except more threatening.   However, "loyalty" can have militaristic connotations.  When gathered with the other passages referred to in this this post, it seems that the Qur'an is written by men who seek power - indeed the Prophet motivated his forces that ultimately led to his victories by using these words.   Irrespective of whether the Qur'an is a book by the last  Prophet of God or not, the Radical Islamic  fanatics you see in all the videos out there are using the Qur'an to justify lawlessness,  murder (as opposed to  killing) and domination over their "inferiors" - sound familiar?   We believe they (the extremists)  leave out the fact that it is God who in the last days reserves the power to ultimately judge, punish or forgive with mercy, not them.  Is this not perversion of the WORD of GOD on an unprecedented scale?

We are not sure where the latest INSANE conclusions from fanatics come from that females are not human and are unislamic - but that is a whole other story.
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