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“Out Of Context,” Or, How To Argue With A Muslim
http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm/frm/10467/sec_id/10467 ^
| Ibn Warraq
Posted on 09/03/2007 12:38:13 PM PDT by ventanax5
It is quite common to hear two arguments from Muslims and apologists of Islam, the language argument, and that old standby of crooked, lying politicians, you have quoted out of context.
Let us look at the language argument first. You are asked aggressively, do you know Arabic? Then you are told triumphantly, You have to read it in the original Arabic to understand it fully. Christians, even Western freethinkers and atheists are usually reduced to sullen silence with these Muslim tactics; they indeed become rather coy and self-defensive when it comes to criticism of Islam; they feebly complain who am I to criticise Islam? I do not know any Arabic. And yet freethinkers are quite happy to criticise Christianity. How many Western freethinkers and atheists know Hebrew? How many even know what the language of Esra chapter 4 verses 6-8 is? Or in what language the New Testament was written?
Of course, Muslims are also free in their criticism of the Bible and Christianity without knowing a word of Hebrew, Aramaic or Greek.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: ibnwarraq; islam; islamicsupremacists; lietothekufir; muhammadsminions; thereisnodebate; waronislamism
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To: Vince Ferrer
By their fruits you shall know them.
To: Maceman
Could not argue it better. Muslims, leftists, and any others that spout ridiculous fallacies, always take their screwed up logic and throw it back in their face.
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posted on
09/03/2007 1:26:02 PM PDT
by
Free Vulcan
(Fight the illegal Mexican colonizers & imperialist conquistadors! Long live the resistance!)
To: Azeem
Greetings from another DLI tool.
Bingo on all three languages of the New Testament.
Τα βάσανα είναι μαθήματα
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posted on
09/03/2007 1:26:56 PM PDT
by
BIGLOOK
(Keelhauling is a sensible solution to mutiny.)
To: All
Why is it that non-Muslims are always misinterpreting the Koran, when it is Muslims killing non-Muslims based on Koran?
We will never win the WOT until we accept the fact that Islam is the problem...stop the adjectives of “moderate”, “radical” etc. Islam is pure hate, and if Christianity did the things Islam does, they would outlaw Christianity
No Islam, Know Peace
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posted on
09/03/2007 1:46:04 PM PDT
by
UCFRoadWarrior
(FantasyCollegeBlitz.com)
To: ventanax5
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posted on
09/03/2007 2:22:19 PM PDT
by
Gritty
(If one can only convert to but not from Islam, it is a threat to every free person on Earth-Mk Steyn)
To: Azeem
Of course, the whole point was that one does not need to know Arabic to argue against Islam.
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posted on
09/03/2007 2:31:07 PM PDT
by
sageb1
(This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
To: ventanax5
Of course, this all presupposes that there’s anything to be gained by arguing with a muslim, which is fallacious.
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posted on
09/03/2007 2:48:14 PM PDT
by
VoiceOfBruck
(for a good time, call vobns.blogspot.com)
To: Maceman
And if in fact, the Muslim world is so terminally ill with hatred and violence that it cannot contain this threat by itself, then don't fault me when I come to the obvious conclusion that it will have to be sacrificed to destroy the virus once and for all. A well written article with a conclusion conservatives knew instinctively all along.
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posted on
09/03/2007 3:05:37 PM PDT
by
Eddie01
To: Gritty
Butcher those who declare they will butcher those who rightfully express their opinion. -Eddie01
Now THAT’s got protest sign written all over it...
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posted on
09/03/2007 3:10:24 PM PDT
by
Eddie01
To: Vince Ferrer
If you’d only read the Koran you’d come to the understanding that there are no human rights violations involved because kufir are subhumans undeserving of the finer things in life. You are lucky to be a slave than to be forced to prostitute yourself after the muslim hordes conquor the region. < /s >
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posted on
09/03/2007 4:06:13 PM PDT
by
weegee
(NO THIRD TERM. America does not need another unconstitutional Clinton co-presidency.)
To: Free Vulcan
No they are forbidden from criticizing the practices of another muslim.
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posted on
09/03/2007 4:08:24 PM PDT
by
weegee
(NO THIRD TERM. America does not need another unconstitutional Clinton co-presidency.)
To: Gritty
"BUTCHR THOSE WHO MOCK ISLAM"???
Ha HA!
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posted on
09/03/2007 4:10:13 PM PDT
by
weegee
(NO THIRD TERM. America does not need another unconstitutional Clinton co-presidency.)
To: ventanax5
My answer would be that I do not NEED the Arabic to know by the actions commited by Muslims, ( violence and oppression ) to know what the Koran is all about. Plus when it comes to the Bible the Muslim will always say that Jews and Christians tampered with the original as to “corupt” the Bible. Well the response would be that Muhammed used what Christians would call gnostic gospels that have been proven time and again to be false doctrine.
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posted on
09/03/2007 4:18:08 PM PDT
by
Biggirl
(A biggirl with a big heart for God's animal creation.)
To: ventanax5
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09/04/2007 6:01:07 PM PDT
by
Dajjal
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