From: rhinoceros (rhinoceros@freemail.gr)
Date: Thu May 13 2004 - 10:23:44 MDT
[Joe Dees]
The Sacred Muslim Practice of Beheading
By Andrew G. Bostom
FrontPageMagazine.com | May 13, 2004
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=13371
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[rhinoceros]
Things like witch burnings, holy inquisition, the crusades and slavery endorsed by the bible-holding American southerners until the last century would cast Christianity under the same light as Islam here. The catch is that all these atrocities have more to do with the times than with any particular religious doctrines.
Muhammed was a kind of a warlord. You can easily find on the net that the quote from the Quran, sura 47, verse 4, 'When you encounter those [infidels] who deny [the Truth=Islam] then strike [their] necks" had a context which was ommitted from the article posted by Joe Dees. Here is an Islamic apologist site which does better than the author of the article in this respect:
http://www.themodernreligion.com/terror/terrorism_verses1.htm
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Sura 47.4 "When you encounter the unbelievers, Strike off their heads. Untill you have made a wide slaughter among them tie up the remaining captives."
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Sura 47 was revealed during the first year of Hijrah when the Muslims were under *threat of extinction* by invasion from Makkah.
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What is outrageous with the article posted here is this: When Muslims come out and claim that that excerpt was context-specific and that bigotry and hatred is not "the true Islam" (whatever that means) a westerner comes out and says "No, look, this applies to all Islam, this is what you are, you just don't realize it".
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