November 30, 2005

A BRIEF BREAK FROM MY VACATION FROM BLOGGING.

This vacation I'm taking from blogging is working. As I posted previously, I have a major case of blogger burnout, and thanks to guest blogger Don Bridge, whose posts I am greatly enjoying, I'm recovering nicely. One indication that the recovery is going well is that there are brief moments when the need to blog is returning. I'm going to give myself a break from my vacation long enough to post this.

Last night, I had a conversation with a friend who expressed disbelief when I said that the Koran instructs people to kill non-Muslims wherever you find them. She just flat-out didn't believe it. I said I'd send her some links. Just two months earlier I'd had a similar conversation with another friend. Here are the links I sent to my friend last night:

From the Koran: 

[3.151] We will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve, because they set up with Allah that for which He has sent down no authority, and their abode is the fire, and evil is the abode of the unjust.

[4.89] They desire that you should disbelieve as they have disbelieved, so that you might be (all) alike; therefore take not from among them friends until they fly (their homes) in Allah's way; but if they turn back, then seize them and kill them wherever you find them, and take not from among them a friend or a helper.

[5.33] The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His apostle and strive to make mischief in the land is only this, that they should be murdered or crucified or their hands and their feet should be cut off on opposite sides or they should be imprisoned; this shall be as a disgrace for them in this world, and in the hereafter they shall have a grievous chastisement,

[8.12] When your Lord revealed to the angels: I am with you, therefore make firm those who believe. I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them.

[8.39] And fight with them until there is no more persecution and religion should be only for Allah; but if they desist, then surely Allah sees what they do.

[9.5] So when the sacred months have passed away, then slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them captives and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush, then if they repent and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate, leave their way free to them; surely Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.

[9.29] Fight those who do not believe in Allah, nor in the latter day, nor do they prohibit what Allah and His Apostle have prohibited, nor follow the religion of truth, out of those who have been given the Book, until they pay the tax in acknowledgment of superiority and they are in a state of subjection.

[9.111] Surely Allah has bought of the believers their persons and their property for this, that they shall have the garden; they fight in Allah's way, so they slay and are slain; a promise which is binding on Him in the Taurat and the Injeel and the Quran; and who is more faithful to his covenant than Allah? Rejoice therefore in the pledge which you have made; and that is the mighty achievement.

It's inevitable that such a document would lead to an entirely different culture -- a culture in which women are stoned to death and people are raised to go out and kill women and children.  I personally have met Muslims who live a reformed version of Islam that rejects the literal meaning of such verses, and who support freedom and America. However, the Islamofascists are merely carrying out the literal instructions of the Koran.