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To: The_Reader_David
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Noble Qur'an:2:190 Footnote: "Jihad is holy fighting in Allah's Cause with full force of numbers and weaponry. It is given the utmost importance in Islam and is one of its pillars. By Jihad Islam is established, Allah's Word is made superior (which means only Allah has the right to be worshiped), and Islam is propagated. By abandoning Jihad Islam is destroyed and Muslims fall into an inferior position; their honor is lost, their lands are stolen, their rule and authority vanish. Jihad is an obligatory duty in Islam on every Muslim. He who tries to escape from this duty, or does not fulfill this duty, dies as a hypocrite."

That is thwe Koran's definition, not mine.

45 posted on 08/27/2007 12:15:58 PM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: Nathan Zachary
"That is thwe Koran's definition, not mine"

There is plenty of legit criticism to issue out, but be honest. That's not the Koran's definition, that's a foot note and someone else's translation.

The real 2:190 is "Fight in the cause of God those who fight you, but do not transgress limits; for God loveth not transgressors. (The Noble Quran, 2:190)"
48 posted on 08/27/2007 12:35:46 PM PDT by tfecw (It's for the children)
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To: Nathan Zachary

No, that’s the definition provided by a commentator on the Koran, neither your definition nor mine, nor the Koran’s.

Your reasoning is like arguing that the footnotes in an annotate version of the King James (or ‘Authorized’) version of the Christian Scriptures are part of the Bible.

Arabic speakers speaking in a non-theological or non-Muslim context use the word in its original and general meaning of ‘struggle’.(there are Arabic speaking Christians—my Metropolitan and Patriarch are both native speakers of Arabic, and my Bishop is fluent, for instance, and besides the Orthodox, or Rum, as we are called in the Middle East, lots of Maronites, Melkite Uniates, Syrian Jacobites, and, for that matter, since the Arabization of Egypt, Copts).

The sheer vileness of Mohammed’s false teachings is not a reason for you to either misunderstand or misrepresent Arabic linguistics.


50 posted on 08/27/2007 12:49:09 PM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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