Nice shot- Plato

Submitted by Jaladhi (United States), Feb 27, 2007 at 15:08

Plato, you beseech moderate Muslims with the following:

" He who kills, it is as if he has killed the whole mankind.

With that truncated quote of yours from the Koran you have set yourself up for blasts from all directions. Either you have deliberately not quoted the entire verse or you have picked it up from a Muslim apologist. Read the full verse and the verses before and after and then pontificate a little more on what that verse means.

Moderate Muslim you must confront the reality of your religion and not hide behind concocted history, context, translation errors et al and refuse to believe the imams telling you Islam is the most misunderstood religion. Islam is today perhaps the most well-understood religion and what has been understood is not very pleasant."

It is obvious this Moderate Muslim does not know his religion, or just believes what his mullahs/imams tell him at the mosque or worse yet he knows all this but hides behind few isolated ayyas ignoring the real life history of Muhammad and claiming him to be an ideal man and follow his life style. Strange that you are imploring Moderate Muslim to quote quran verses with full context which is what Muslims tell others all the time when faced with those murderous verses from Quran.

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