Free Bee's reply to Plato

Submitted by Romesh Chander (United States), Jun 9, 2007 at 22:00

Free Bee:

You wrote to Plato: "This is a humble clarification for you and others who misunderstand the Quran."

Firstly, When Allah said about the disbelievers as an-Najas (unclean) He is referring to those Kuffars of Makkah who worshiped over 300 dieties. The verse clearly speaks about them NOT YOU !".

Fantastic argument and explantion. Now that no kuffar live in Makkah, can we eliminate this verse from Koran? Or will that be equivalent to blasphemy and hence subject to death? Otherwise your explanation is wrong.

You also wrote " Didn't we in America put all the innocent Japanese-Americans in the concentration camps during WWII? Was it OK even though they were not fighting a war with us in America?".

Yes, we are certainly not proud of that part of our history. Moreover, we did not kill any Japanese in concentration-camps, nor we made any slaves of them. Will muslims condemn Mohammed for his killing and looting of Makkhans and taking over their land and making most of them slaves? I must be deluding myself.

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