Today’s reading from the Qur’an: This offends me.

Filed under:General — posted by Jack on 9/9/2010 @ 11:54 pm

Qur’an 8:12  ”Your Lord inspired the angels with the message: ‘I will terrorize the unbelievers.’ Therefore smite them on their necks and every joint and incapacitate them. Strike off their heads and cut off each of their fingers and toes.”

If you burned my Holy Book, I would be offended – but it is still just a book, I would not punch you in the face, much less cut off your head.

If you insulted my God, I would be offended – but He is powerful enough to take care of his own honor, I would not kill you for it.

If you insulted my Religion, I would be offended – but I would probably understand that there is a lot that needs to be criticized about religion.

BUT: when you teach people to kill someone because they don’t believe the same stuff about your “god” that you do, that offends me more deeply than all the others combined. Burn a warehouse of Bibles, and that is nothing to me compared to cutting off the head of another human being because he doesn’t believe the same things.

How could you possibly come up with a more intolerant teaching than this? How can you possibly believe that Islam is tolerant?

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