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Originally posted by _Opi_
Sweety, what website gave you that verse, because its wrong. Honestly folks, thats not how that verse goes at all..
I really wish people would stop googling quranic verses because there are so many FALSE verses online...get a credible source AT LEAST.
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So I made a typo - I meant to say 62:5-7 instead of verse 65. Instead of condescension, a simple correction would have been more appropriate, don't you think, "Sweetheart"? Even though I don't happen to have a Qur'an in my office, I see nothing wrong with using an online source as long as I can slow down enough between patients to post the right source.
My point still stands. With any large group there will be a few weirdos who twist things to their own perverted agendas like those fringe white supremacy groups; however, this is
quite different than if President Bush had announced that he thought Saudi Arabia should be wiped off the map. The public outcry from Americans would, I think, be gigantic. Yet when the president of Iran says Israel should be wiped off the map, few people in the Muslim community even blinked.
Perhaps I have been imprecise in my wording - my concern is that Islam, as a way of life (not simply a religion) is one that condones, if not actively promotes, contempt for non-Muslims. Disrespect for others is the first step toward justifying violence toward them as witnessed over and over in history. It is the pervasiveness of anti-Western, anti-Christian, and anti-Israel opinion within the Muslim community that leads to me conclude that it isn't just deviant philosophy within Islam that causes this.