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Originally posted by honeychile
True - and that's why I asked. It's been a few years for me & the Q'ran (or Qu'ran, as you say), but I'm more familiar with both the Judiac & Christian on a recent basis.
Yes, it is important to read the different passages in context. But, when "death to the infidel" is mentioned in so many ways, one can't help but remember it with a jaundiced view.
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The death to the infidel quotes don't bother me in the least - afterall within it's historical and scriptutral context it is calling for the death of pagans and heathens - not death for the "people of the book" (ie. Jews and Christians)... the only problem is that Crusades pretty much put an end to that view, and protection for the people of the book was dropped because of the Crusader's atrocities and such.
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