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...Mohammed with a bomb under his turban, one of the Danish cartoons that sparked riots two years ago throughout the Muslim world. Wilders goes on to juxtapose verses from the Koran with statements from radical clerics and scenes of horror from New York to Madrid to London. One verse (Surah 4: 56) reads, "Those who have disbelieved our signs, we shall roast them in fire...
...context of the issue of "faith and reason", I found interesting and which can serve as the starting-point for my reflections on this issue. In the seventh conversation... edited by Professor Khoury, the emperor touches on the theme of the holy war. The emperor must have known that surah 2, 256 reads: "There is no compulsion in religion". According to the experts, this is one of the suras of the early period, when Mohammed was still powerless and under threat. But naturally the emperor also knew the instructions, developed later and recorded in the Qur'an, concerning holy...
...more complex chapters, known as "The Cave." It includes some metaphysical stories whose meaning has been debated by theologians for centuries. The Prophet is said to have advised his followers to read the "The Cave" before Friday prayers, and "some people mistakenly take this to mean that this surah was the Prophet's favorite," says Khaled Abou al-Fadl, an Islamic jurist at UCLA. Bakr says al-Zarqawi frequently quotes extensively from "The Cave" and encourages discussion about its stories...
...warriors, Marwan embraces it. "Yes, I am a terrorist," he says. "Write that down: I admit I am a terrorist. [The Koran] says it is the duty of Muslims to bring terror to the enemy, so being a terrorist makes me a good Muslim." He quotes lines from the surah known as Al-Anfal, or the Spoils of War: "Against them make ready your strength to the utmost of your power, including steeds of war, to strike terror into the enemy of Allah and your enemy...
...illustrates his statement with a passagefrom Surah 5, verse 32 in the Koran: "If anyonekilled a person....it would be as if he killed allmankind, and if he saved a life, it would be as ifhe saved the life of all mankind...
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