Brian Ross wrote on Nov 4
th, 2014 at 11:28pm:
Yet, you act as if it is what you believe, Soren. You imply it, everytime you erect that strawman claim that the Terrorists are the real representatives of Islam and that what they are doing is what Islam demands of them, each and everytime they cut a head off.
I never, ever claimed that the terrorists are the real representatives. I claim that they are impeccably Islamic. They are doing what they take Islam to demand of them. They are not distorting anything.
Can others, the peaceful majority, ignore the particular passages and teachings that exercise ISIL? Yes they can and they do. But these passages are there, irrefutably, and they are the basis of terrorism.
No imaginary Christian or Buddhist terrorist could claim that Jesus or the Buddha said kill all the unbelievers where ever you find them, unless they convert or pay you a levy because Jesus or Buddha said no such thing. They couldn't say that Jesus or Buddha told them to rape their captive women because they did not say anything like that.
Not so with Muslims and Islamic texts (unalterable final words of God texts, no less).
Brian Ross wrote on Nov 4
th, 2014 at 11:28pm:
Then, of course there is what Sh'ria is, exactly. Many different versions, many different interpretations, all different. You however, keep acting as if there is only one interpretation of what Sh'ria is!
No, Brain. Sharia is the law given by Allah in the Koran. So the second class status of nonMuslims is uniform in every interpretation of sharia. So is the second-class status of women.
When it comes to the directives in the Koran, there is no room to negotiate.