Soren wrote on Sep 26
th, 2014 at 1:56pm:
How are the violent passages of koran misunderstood by IS? Please explanin or link to an explanation.
You go first, old chap. Provide the quote and we’ll try to make some sense of it.
I must say, however, this is a pretty intellectual game when Muslim world leaders (and their bombs) have already spoken. Marty Natalagawa, for example, didn’t quote the Koran when he was condemning ISIL as anti-Islam and anti-peace. He is, after all, the Indonesian foreign affairs minister, not an imam.
I’m always up for a bit of fun, so feel free to proceed with quotes. Maybe G can help to explain them.
The view he expressed in his link above is pretty common. It’s shared among Western religion scholars and Muslims themselves. As G argues, it certainly makes more sense to interpret peace as peace rather than peace as war.
But that’s just me.
Over to you, old boy.
Nobody is asking that of anyone.
what is asked is that the IS use of the violent koranic verses and violent examples of mohammed be shown to actually be unislamic.