Lord Herbert wrote on Jan 10
th, 2015 at 10:57am:
.. which really is beside the point
No Herb it is precisely the point. If you are going to stand up and boldly claim that you can only understand islam by reading the Quran in its entirety - and then proceed to explain how evil it is - whether or not you followed your own advise is the most relevant point of all.
Lord Herbert wrote on Jan 10
th, 2015 at 10:57am:
your reluctance to respond to the quotations
Herb I respond to people quoting the Quran all the time. That is just plain unfair in view of my posting history.
Just one example from the article - this is a most basic misunderstanding:
Quote:Why must Islam destroy cities it conquers?
Quran (17:16) - "And when We wish to destroy a town, We send Our commandment to the people of it who lead easy lives, but they transgress therein; thus the word proves true against it, so We destroy it with utter destruction."
"We" is a well known pronoun used in the Quran referring to God. All Abrahamic religions accept that God destroys individuals, communities and entire cities as he see fit - as he did with Lut and during the flood. They are purely supernatural events, completely out of the hands of mere mortals - not rabid muslim armies marching into cities as Pickering stupidly assumes.