To Sheikh Hamad: Terrified by the terror debate

Submitted by Plato (India), Feb 6, 2007 at 23:13

Sheikh, you turn up here like Banquo's ghost once in a while hoping to frighten us with the Koran. It did not work last time as I asked you some questions which you have failed to answer until now. (Last appearance of your apparition was on January24, 2007).

You said then the Koran was the heart of the debate and then failed to debate it. Why? And in this post you have set up some interesting conditions for that debate. You know full well that those conditions will not be met. And you will be lolling in Allah's paradise waiting for it to happen. Your conditions just go to prove that you lost the debate even before it began.

You may not know this but in India there was a court case registered against the Koran for insulting the local idol worhipping population, calling all such worshippers unclean, deaf, dumb, blind, fit only to be fuel for Allah's hell. The infidel court threw it out in the interests of its minority Muslim population. That is called tolerance, Sheikh.

......"Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known a man by sleeping with him. But all the young girls who have not known a man by sleeping with him, keep alive for yourselves." !!!!

That is the quote you have picked up from the OT and out of context (out of context is the favourite blanket under which your scholars disappear when confronted with reality). That sounds terrible to you. Have you read what your Prophet did to the Banu Quraiza Jews. If you have not then go read it in the oldest and most authentic biography of your prophet by Ibn Ishaaq and then come back here and tells us what you think about it.

It has been pointed out on this blog that the NT supercedes the OT because what Jesus taught was almost the exact opposite of what the OT taught. But your Prophet came along and went back to the basics of the OT.

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