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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (230358)5/9/2007 11:22:23 AM
From: epicure  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
You don't need the Koran to have a jihad. I think the problem is beyond religion. Religion just provides a good marketing tool.

I mean Jews and Christians have the same tools in their books- and sometimes they believe them. But they don't believe them because of the religion, they are pushed by extrenal factors to use the religion, and if they weren't using that, they'd create some paradigm that served the same purpose.

LE 26:7-8 The Lord promises the Israelites that, if they are obedient, their enemies will "fall before your sword."

NU 15:32-36 A Sabbath breaker (who had gathered sticks for a fire) is stoned to death at the Lord's command.

DT 7:2 The Lord commands the Israelites to "utterly destroy" and shown "no mercy" to those whom he gives them for defeat.

DT 20:16 "In the cities of the nations the Lord is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes."

Seems to me most religions have problematic passages that exhort followers to kill loads of "non-believers". Most of the time people ignore these rather primitive passages, but historical events can make them more attractive to extremists. That's the only problem we have today with Jihadis. We need to change the world so that the attraction of these passages is lessened. Trying to stomp out such religious fervor by force is rarely successful, since it is partly engendered by the atmosphere of persecution.

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