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To Sohail: We need a new dictionary to figure out what you are sayingReader comment on item: How the West Could Lose Submitted by Plato (India), Feb 13, 2007 at 03:47 Dhimmi no more, sorry to butt in here, but I just couldn't resist. Sohail your replies to dhimmi no more are in quotes: "To spread Islam." Your answer to the question of why the Arabs invaded the Middle East. Now the Americans are invading the ME to spread democracy. Stop resisting. Might is right. The Americans are mighty now. "Where does it say that?" , your answer to the question where in the Koran it says to spread Islam by the sword. 009.029: Fight those who do not believe in Allah, nor in the latter day, nor do they prohibit what Allah and His Messenger have prohibited, nor follow the religion of truth, out of those who have been given the Book, until they pay the tax in acknowledgment of superiority and they are in a state of subjection. 009.041 : Go forth light and heavy, and strive hard in Allah's way with your property and your persons; this is better for you, if you know. 9:111 GOD has bought from the believers their lives and their money in exchange for Paradise. Thus, they fight in the cause of GOD, willing to kill and get killed. Such is His truthful pledge in the Torah, the Gospel, and the Quran - and who fulfills His pledge better than GOD? You shall rejoice in making such an exchange. This is the greatest triumph. 002.216 : Fighting is enjoined on you, and it is an object of dislike to you; and it may be that you dislike a thing while it is good for you, and it may be that you love a thing while it is evil for you, and Allahknows, while you do not know. 4:77 : Have you not seen those to whom it was said: Withhold your hands, and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate; but when fighting is prescribed for them, lo! a party of them fear men as they ought to have feared Allah, or (even) with a greater fear, and say: Our Lord! why hast Thou ordained fighting for us? Wherefore didst Thou not grant us a delay to a near end? Say: The provision of this world is short, and the hereafter is better for him who guards (against evil); and you shall not be wronged the husk of a date stone. All those verses sound like Gandhi's preaching to you. I can quote you some more if you wish. We have an embarrassment of riches here. "Allah is omnipotent." Your answer to whether Allah is omnipotent Omnipotent: unlimited in authority or power, is the meaning in my dictionary. Let us see if Allah comes up to scratch. Allah has been sending his messengers pleading with humans to accept him as the most magnificent, most merciful, most beneficent being. Allah has failed miserably to convince the vast majority of humans since Adam. Billions of humans simply refuse to believe in Allah and Allah is able to do nothing except fulminate powerlessly in his Koran that he will have the last laugh by indulging in the most sadistic of tortures when judgement day come. What do the vast majority of humans have to say to that threat. Just ha, ha, ha, the infidels can't stop laughing. Omnipotent being? Allah sends angels to help the prophet at Badr. Why does he do that if he is omnipotent. That he has angels to run errands like informing his prophet that some one was going to drop a stone on him when he was negotiating with the Banu Nadir but fail to tell him that the Banu Quraiza was planning treachery. The angels he has created as help mates are pretty erratic at sending warnings to Allah's prophet. Omnipotent? You Muslims must come up with a separate dictionary for us infidels to comprehend what you are talking about. "Read Quran 8:41" This is your answer to the absurdity of Allah and his Messenger sharing booty. And read 8.69: Eat then of the lawful and good (things) which you have acquired in war, and be careful of (your duty to) Allah; surely Allah is Forgiving, Merciful. Your Allah is asking YOU to eat what you have acquired in war. Does that sound like Allah is asking you to give it way in charity? And just in case you feel guilty about consuming looted goods Allah reminds you at the end that he is forgiving, merciful, so loot away and eat away. We are in urgent need of that new dictionary. Note: Opinions expressed in comments are those of the authors alone and not necessarily those of Daniel Pipes. Original writing only, please. Comments are screened and in some cases edited before posting. Reasoned disagreement is welcome but not comments that are scurrilous, off-topic, commercial, disparaging religions, or otherwise inappropriate. For complete regulations, see the "Guidelines for Reader Comments". << Previous Comment Next Comment >> Reader comments (2112) on this item
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