{"id":1158,"date":"2010-09-09T23:54:22","date_gmt":"2010-09-10T04:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=1158"},"modified":"2010-09-09T23:55:28","modified_gmt":"2010-09-10T04:55:28","slug":"todays-reading-from-the-quran-this-offends-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=1158","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s reading from the Qur&#8217;an: This offends me."},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong> <\/strong><strong>Qur\u00e2\u20ac\u2122an 8:12 \u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u009dYour  Lord inspired the angels with the message: \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcI will terrorize the  unbelievers.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 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.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>If you burned <em>my<\/em> Holy Book, I would be offended &#8211; but it is still just a book, I would not punch you in the face, much less cut off your head.<\/p>\n<p>If you insulted <em>my<\/em> God, I would be offended &#8211; but He is powerful enough to take care of his own honor, I would not kill you for it.<\/p>\n<p>If you insulted my Religion, I would be offended &#8211; but I would probably understand that there is a lot that needs to be criticized about religion.<\/p>\n<p>BUT: when you teach people to kill someone because they don&#8217;t believe the same stuff about your &#8220;god&#8221; 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&#8217;t believe the same things.<\/p>\n<p>How could you possibly come up with a more intolerant teaching than this? How can you possibly believe that Islam is tolerant?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Qur\u00e2\u20ac\u2122an 8:12 \u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u009dYour Lord inspired the angels with the message: \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcI will terrorize the unbelievers.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 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.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d If you burned my Holy Book, I would be offended &#8211; but it is still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1158"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1160,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions\/1160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}