Amein:
On Islam's treatment of Muslims and non-Muslims - I just wanted to say that while it is true that the Koran contains verses that are antagonistic to Jews, Christians and other non-Muslims it also has verses that are positive and favorable to Christians and Jews (although not neccessarily to any other non-Muslims!). Hence it is important to know and I do understand that the Koran cannot be interpreted without the knowledge of the wider body of legal and theological Islamic literature. Koran's surrahs do not stand on their own without context, and the context maybe much more sophisticated than the literal meaning of the surrah.
Therefore I think it is crucials for Muslims to realize that the phenomenon of psychopaths (such as bin Laden, and the Talibans, Khomeini groupies, etc.)who take Quran's literal meaning of its Surrahs and verses at face value wihtout putting it in the larger context of legal, and theological Islamic literature (in addition to basic common sense), is very dangerous to Islam (and for the sake of the argument lets forget the West for now).
I really believe that unless Muslims themselves ostracize these psychopaths and their pernicious interpretation of the Koran and of the prophet Mohammad's sayings, the Muslim world, as well as the rest of the world, will suffer a tremendous amount of physical, and emotional abuse. In effect they will literally bring hell to the earth! But then again maybe that is what they want to do since these psychopaths (the likes of Bin Laden groupies, Taliban groupies, Khomeini groupies, etc.) are nothing but bastards from Hell, and they are just too home-sick, and just miss their home too much here on earth. |
