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Originally Posted by raytri
And yet, as my links show, the militant, jihadi interpretation is not recognized as mainstream.
When I quote violent Bible verses, people protest that I have missed the context, or the true meaning of the words, or stuff like that -- in other words, the meaning of the phrase can not be understood merely from a literal reading of the words.
Yet these same people do not extend the same courtesy to Islam and the Quran. They quote verses out of context and claim it must mean what it literally says, universally applied.
At least be consistent.
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Again, it doesn't matter what happened 1000 years ago, the article I posted above are mosques in the US that openly call for jihad against our own nation. They sell books and literature advocating for the destruction of America and Israel. I have never heard of one Christian church advocating for our destruction, have you? And yet this article indicates it is more than just a handful of nuts, it is 3 out of 4 mosques, which is hardly a small faction.
No one disputes the verses in either book were violent in their meaning, it is the acting out that is the problem. The acting out by muslims in America have been minimal, and I would assign that to the fact that there are vast numbers of Americans that would take matters into their own hands if there were attacks being made in America at the rate they are in the middle east. We need to be vigilant and aggressive toward any group that advocates violence and spawns hate.