Secrets of the Koran by Richardson Don

Secrets of the Koran by Richardson Don

Author:Richardson, Don [Richardson, Don]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Tags: Islam—Relations—Christianity, Koran—Controversial literature, Koran—Criticism, interpretation, etc., Islam—Controversial literature, Christianity and other religions—Islam
ISBN: 9781441266972
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2008-06-22T16:00:00+00:00


NEW TESTAMENT MORALS AND THE KORAN

September 11, 2001, suicide bombings in Israel and startling displays of deep-seated hatred of America and the West in Islam-dominated nations have made people stop, think and wonder. What causes such violence in the name of Islam? Is it the belief system itself? The people? The times we live in?

Pundits, commentators and politicians have echoed President George W. Bush's sentiment that the terrorists have hijacked a great, peace-revering religion. Even Senator Hillary Clinton wrote that “we, as a society, too often mischaracterize Islam and those who adhere to its teachings.”1 Given the tidal wave of pro-Islam apologetics that the media are immersing us under and our deeply ingrained Western tendency to want to believe the best, this pattern is not surprising. But be warned: There is an ominously anti-Christian dark side to the secular media's staunchly pro-Muslim onslaught.

A strange idea is gaining acceptance: You haven't really paid Islam a compliment unless you add a negative comment about Christianity. PBS's “Islam: Empire of Faith,” already reviewed in chapter 7, is a prime example. In ever so many other programs, Muslim spokespersons openly criticize the Bible while media hosts nod and smile. But let a Christian criticize the Koran and media hosts react in a way that would be justified if a swastika had just been painted on a synagogue door.

Much of the Muslim and Western media broadside against Christianity links it with the Inquisition and the Crusades as if these were still in progress. That is an illogical but handy device to lure public attention away from the fact that radical Islam's jihad is current, active and ongoing. This is a “now” thing. Again and again we hear the statement, “One can find violence in all religions.” Far more pertinent is the closely closeted question: Which religion, if any, is perpetrating violence now?

This leads to other equally pertinent questions: Which religion, if any, tends to be violent because its founding scriptures authorize violence? Which religion, if any, has to violate its own founding scriptures in order to resort to violence?

I have already demonstrated that Islam's founding charters, the Koran and the hadiths, establish all non-Muslims as the house of war. And the Koran, in more than 100 verses, promotes war, beheadings, slavery and the sexual exploitation of female slaves. Millions of Muslims do not practice what the Koran commands or even what it permits, but it is fair to point out that a call to rapacious violence is there in the very book they hold in their hands, the book they profess to believe is inspired by God.

Media attempts to show Christianity as having violence in its founding charter point invariably to the Old Testament. In a recent television interview, Jerry Falwell quoted a war verse from the Koran. Robert Novak, poised and ready, ambushed Rev. Falwell with a quote from the book of Joshua about Israelites slaughtering Canaanites. I tried to “thought-mail” the right answer coast-to-coast into Rev. Falwell's head. I failed. Falwell mumbled an off-the-point answer, leaving Novak barely able to restrain a self-congratulatory smirk.



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