[pgkdan]

You're fooling yourself by trying to establish a moral equivelance between the prohibitions of the OT and the koran. Perhaps 2000 yrs ago the Torah was law, in the modern sense of the word...but no longer. Not so with the koran, therefore we see...in 2001, fornicators beaten or killed, petty thieves have hands cut off. Women unable to drive or even to travel w/o the written permission of a male relative. When the koran says to wage war against the kafir and slay them...these people take it seriously. Prepare yourself.

[supercat]

You're fooling yourself by trying to establish a moral equivelance between the prohibitions of the OT and the koran.

My point, which I failed to make clear, was that the fact that a religious text mandates what would be described today as a barbaric practice does not necessarily mean that all followers of that religion subscribe to it. The possibility that any given follower of that religion subscribes to the practice should not be ignored, of course, but a order in the Koran for Muslims to slay the infidels would not preclude the existence of peaceful Muslims.