Word: koranic
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...denouncing international dialogue through the United Nations: "Those who claim to be Arab leaders and remain in the United Nations, they have become unbelievers of the revelation that was given to Mohammed," he said. "Those who refer matters to international legitimacy have become unbelievers in the legitimacy of the Koran...
...teachings of the Koran are incompatible with acts of terrorism. But acting largely out of fear that support for America would trigger a fundamentalist backlash, Saudi Arabia—our “ally”—has refused to block terrorist assets. “It is time for the United States and Saudi Arabia to look at their separate interests,” the Saudi crown prince wrote to President George W. Bush last week, offering a revealing glimpse of the Saudi sentiment. “Those governments that don’t feel the pulse...
...teachings of the Koran are incompatible with acts of terrorism. Yes, they are. I can believe that hate-filled war cries from the Middle East are misguided. I can even believe that millions of people suffer from a profound misunderstanding of their own faith. But what I cannot believe is that there is no connection between the practice of Islam—no matter how divorced that practice is from what the Koran really says—and the fact that so many Muslims harbor so much hatred of United States. The “pulse of the people...
...heartened that the words of the Koran would be nothing to worry about if only people read them properly. But the defense of Islam as a system of doctrine cannot defend Islam as a political and cultural reality. The apologetics of Western Muslims will never win the hearts of the crowds who cheered the shedding of so much American blood and the maddened throngs who would shed so much more. They will never persuade Osama bin Laden. And they wouldn’t have persuaded the hijackers of Sept. 11, either...
...morning of Sept. 11, you see, it didn’t really matter whether Mohammed Atta and his cohorts should have found in the Koran a justification for their sins. The fact is, they did. And those whose words could have stopped them choose to keep a deadly silence...