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...Islam, like all faiths, has its twists and turns, and the Koran, like all holy books, has been interpreted in tangled ways over the course of 13 centuries. The same text that promises that “even if you stretch out your hand against me to kill me, I shall not stretch out my hand against you to kill you” also exhorts the faithful to “slay or crucify or cut the hands and feet of the unbelievers, that they be expelled from the land with disgrace and that they shall have a great punishment...
True, Christianity has endured similar debates, and Christians have warred as eagerly as Muslims—just ask Pope Urban and his Crusaders. But going back to the beginning of Islam, one finds Muhammed himself—the model Muslim, against whose standard all the faithful must be judged. And where Christianity has a Christ who turns the other cheek and gives himself over to be crucified, Islam has a Prophet who makes war—in self-defense, arguably, but with a glad heart, a warlike spirit and a knowledge that Allah is on his side. It is that...
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