"It says in the Koran killing one person is like killing the whole of humanity."
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"They say that they're muslims and they recite all these versus taken out of context," he said. "
The author is the one taking qur'anic quotes out of context.
The law of Islamic abrogation undermines all attempts to moderate the faith which is see FPM: CSPI, Abrogation, dualism in Islam... in nature.
Our first clue about the dualism is in the Qur'ran, which is actually two books, the Qur'ran of Mecca (early) and the Qur'ran of Medina (later).
The insight into the logic of the Qur'ran comes from the large numbers of contradictions in it. On the surface, Islam resolves these contradictions by resorting to “abrogation”. This means that the verse written later supersedes the earlier verse.
But in fact, since the Qur'ran is considered by Muslims to be the perfect word of Allah, both verses are sacred and true. The later verse is “better,” but the earlier verse cannot be wrong since Allah is perfect. This is the foundation of dualism. Both verses are “right.” Both sides of the contradiction are true in dualistic logic. The circumstances govern which verse is used.
This deception is likely part and parcel of the massive Islamophilic propaganda campaign mentioned here:
Good post.
Can you comment on Atatürk’s (Father of the Turks) and his success in turning the Muslim expression of Islam inward as an internal faith to be fought inside a person’s own self rather than in outside acts of aggression? He seemed to have created a secular society that resulted in modernization of Turkey (although they are backtracking now).