Both Islam and Christianity command killing/preach not killing

Submitted by Link1 (United States), Apr 19, 2009 at 19:02

Wayne's article is largely correct in that the Qu'ran does indeed command the death of infidels, non-believers, apostates, and blasphemers of Islam.

What he also needs to point out is that, according to their scriptures/texts, Muslims have divided the world into two groups, the ones that follow Islam, and everyone else. Their goal is to destroy all those who do not convert to Islam, individually, and/or nationally.

Even more importantly, it should be noted that Muslims, especially Westernized Muslims, deny the murderous and immoral verses in the Qu'ran and Hadith. They tell gullible Westerners that Islam is a peaceful, holy, and fair religion to protect the 'image of Islam at all costs.

This is common in all religions, that the followers cherry pick their scriptures for only the 'warm fuzzy' verses, and either deny, or do not read the hateful, murderous ones, yet all state their religion and scriptures are 'god's perfect, holy word'.

It is also worth noting here the Christian bible states EXACTLY the same concept. It even states that entire towns should be completely destroyed if just ONE non-believer is found there, in Deut 13:13-19, a well as many other immoral, hate filled verses.

Wayne unfortunately states the New Testament has nothing similar to the immoral verses of the Qu'ran. He is far from correct here, as the NT states clearly, about following the Old Law, aka the Mosaic Law. Even the character Jesus states numerous times about he had come to 'fulfill the 'old law', and not to destroy it', of which he was supposedly a practicing Jew, and was clearly referring to the Mosaic Law. He even rebukes the Pharisees for not following the old law where they would not kill their disobedient children. (Matthew 5:17, Matthew 15: 1-9)

Let's be clear here...both Islam, AND Christianity contain hateful, muderous, fascist verses that speak of killing infidels and apostates. Ironically and hypocritically, both also preach 'thou shalt not kill'...in their own manner.

The Islamic and Christian scriptures are NOT perfect, nor are they completely moral doctrines. The clergy of these religions lie and decieve their followers to protect their image of the religion, for political or financial reasons, or because they were lied to themselves and do not know any better.

Most Christians do not even realize that Islam came from the same foundations, and that the Qu'ran speaks of the same prophets, places and people. Islam, Christianity, and Judaism all came from the same foundations.

If religious followers REALLY knew what was in their own texts, most would not follow so blindly.

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