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Originally posted by deaddude
" So which is it then? Is it that the case can be made islam is peaceful and the followers are the norm, radicals are violent?
Or is it that islam is violent and people who follow it do so either peacefully OR VIOLENTLY.
You cannot have it both ways, and you cannot even have it the second way if the followers all follow the same advocated behavior."
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Sure you can, some muslims (non-radicals) follow their religion peacefully, others (the radicals like al Qaeda) follow it violently.
It is IMPOSSIBLE to follow the following peacefully.
and:Mohammed:
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He who dies without having fought, or having felt it to be his duty, will die guilty of a kind of hypocracy....There is no emigration after the Conquest, but only jihad...so when you are summoned to fight, go forth....The last hour will not come before the Muslims fight the Jews and the Muslims kill them.
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-Mishkat al Masabih Sh. M. Ashraf (1990), pp. 147, 721, 810-11, 1130 etc.
-Surah 9:5
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Fight in the way of Allah against those who fight against you, but begin not hostilities. Lo! Allah loveth not aggressors. And slay them wherever ye find them, and drive them out of the places whence they drove you out...But if they desist, then lo! Allah is forgiving, Merciful.
Therefore it would appear you need to read BOTH the Bible AND Koran before you spout off about knowing anything about either.
Some Christians (the non-radicals) pracitice their religion peacefully, others ( the radicals like the KKK) practice it violently.
Then they (the violent Cristians) aren't following the texts. Just as the peaceful muslims aren't following theirs.
Again, you prove my point.
Since the koran defines its followers by those who follow the book, and Chrisitanity defines its followers by those who have a relationship with Christ, you are comparing apples and oranges.