09-23-2010, 05:39 PM
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Originally Posted by sleepy jack
(...) they just popped up out of Muhammad's ass and started bombing (...)
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Believe it or not, that idea (metaphorically expressed) is quite accurate. A potential source of problems exists since a long time ago. It is called Quran:
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Originally Posted by Sura 4, verse 74
Whoever fights in the way of Allah, be he slain or be he victorious, on him We shall bestow a vast reward.
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Originally Posted by Sura 4, verse 76
Those who believe do battle for the cause of Allah; and those who disbelieve do battle for the cause of idols. So fight the minions of the devil. Lo! the devil's strategy is ever weak.
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Originally Posted by Sura 4, verse 89
They long that ye should disbelieve even as they disbelieve, that ye may be upon a level (with them). So choose not friends from them till they forsake their homes in the way of Allah; if they turn back (to enmity) then take them and kill them wherever ye find them, and choose no friend nor helper from among them.
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Originally Posted by Sura 5, verse 59
Say: O People of the Scripture [Jews and Christians]! Do ye blame us for aught else than that we believe in Allah and that which is revealed unto us and that which was revealed aforetime, and because most of you are evil-livers?
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Originally Posted by Sura 9, verse 5
Then, when the sacred months have passed, slay the idolaters wherever ye find them, and take them (captive), and besiege them, and prepare for them each ambush.
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Originally Posted by Sura 9, verse 34
O ye who believe! Lo! many of the (Jewish) rabbis and the (Christian) monks devour the wealth of mankind wantonly and debar (men) from the way of Allah. They who hoard up gold and silver and spend it not in the way of Allah, unto them give tidings (O Muhammad) of a painful doom.
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Originally Posted by Sura 9, verse 73
O Prophet! Strive against the disbelievers and the hypocrites! Be harsh with them. Their ultimate abode is hell, a hapless journey's end.
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Originally Posted by Sura 9, verse 123
O ye who believe! Fight those of the disbelievers who are near to you, and let them find harshness in you, and know that Allah is with those who keep their duty (unto Him).
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Originally Posted by right-track
The only successful end game is compromise.
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Well, that's one opinion. There are several points of view about the matter. Some people like the "Chamberlain attitude"; on the contrary, other prefer that of Churchill, etc...
Left: Neville Chamberlain reaching a compromise
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