Until the advent of materialism and 19th c. dogma, Western Civilisation was superior to anything Islam had developed. Islam has not aided in the development of the modern world; in fact civilisation has only been created in spite of Islam. Proof of this resides in the 'modern' world and the unending political-economic and spiritual poverty of Muslim states and regions. Squatting on richer civilisations is not 'progress'. Islam is pagan, totalitarian, and irrational.
Running totals from Sura 2 to 20:
Total number of verses from Sura 2 to 20: 2476
Total number of verses in 2-20, which preach violence against non-Moslems: 526
Violent verses as a % of total from Sura 2 to 20: 21.2%
Sura 2 to 20 as a % of the Koran in pages: 49%
Sura 2 to 20 as a % of the 6346 verses in the Koran: 39%
[meaning still lots more violence to go....]
Sura 20 is yet another [big yawn], screed against the Jews, and an exposition as to why Muhammad and his Meccan cult is superior to Judaism. A consistent repetition of intolerance is rather irreligious. The 3 main themes are: 1) All Jewish and Christian prophets were Moslem, 2) Satan corrupted mankind and especially the Jews and Christians leading them 'astray' and forming an alliance with them against Moslems [20:114-130] and 3) the Koran and following Muhammad is 'proof' of Allah [21:113] and that all Moslems who follow unquestioningly the commands of this book will be 'saved'. In other words nothing new is to be discovered in this chapter. Certainly no religious or ethical ideal will be uncovered.
Sura 20 reviewed previously can be summarized below:
“Ta ha ha and Ti hee hee. Mystical giggles as the writers of the Arab universalist manifesto unite in gibberish. The Koran is apparently the mystical set of letters and yes as one would have guessed, the Torah and Christian Bible are really just Allah's mystical letters arranged incorrectly. That big joker Allah saved the right orientation of the mystical script for the Koran and as logic would dictate, he gave it to an illiterate 7th century madman named Mohammed. Ta ha ha indeed. Therefore the mystical Koran is uber alles."
Moslem dialecticism. Moslem myth maintains that everyone is born a Moslem. Therefore if you reject the Allah cult you are doomed. This in itself is fatalistic and circular reasoning. How can I be born into a moon/Allah/Muhammad cult when I and my general society have no idea what Islam is for example ? Islam is a human political-social construct. Not a natural law. The creation of this mythical Moslem 'law' that all humans are really Moslems, is no more than a 'rationale' for the supremacism and expansionist ideas within the Moslem cult. In this vein Moses some 2000-2900 years before Muhammad founded his cult of Submission [lots of dispute as to when he actually lived]; and Jesus some 610 years before Muhammad initiated his intolerant group; are rewritten to be born into the Allah cult and thus raised by the moon deity to be exponents of a theology which has about as much in common with Judeo-Christianity as say Chinghis Khan's Sky God theology, or the pagan fantasies of Nazism; or the dialectical inanity and insanity of Russian National Socialism. The teachings of both Moses and Christ are the exact polar opposite of those of the mad totalitarian Muhammad. Islam is truly the anti-Christ theology.
This is clear to anyone who bothers to read the Koran or about Islamic history. In this chapter of Taha, Teehee, HoHoHo we don't find many laughs or any expressions of religious doctrine. We do however discover about 20 verses which target non Moslems for violence - some of them even uttered by Moses. Moses is now rewritten to be the defender and aggressive imperialist for Allah. He chides and scolds the Pharaoh, the Hebrews and the pagans for not following Allah – or Hubal the moon deity of Mecca. If this sounds deranged it is because it most assuredly is.
Moses angry at those not following the moon deity of Mecca:
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'Truly, it has been revealed to us that the torment will be for him who denies [believes not in the Oneness of Allah,and in His Messengers, etc.], and turns away.'(from the truth and obedience of Allah)" |
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Musa (Moses) said to them: "Woe unto you! Invent not a lie against Allah, lest He should destroy you completely by a torment. And surely, he who invents a lie (against Allah) will fail miserably." |
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Verily! Whoever comes to his Lord as a Mujrim (criminal, polytheist, disbeliever in the Oneness of Allah and His Messengers, sinner, etc.), then surely, for him is Hell, therein he will neither die nor live. |
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Then Musa (Moses) returned to his people in a state of anger and sorrow. He said: "O my people! Did not your Lord promise you a fair promise? Did then the promise seem to you long in coming? Or did you desire that wrath should descend from your Lord on you, so you broke your promise to me (i.e disbelieving in Allah and worshipping the calf)?" |
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They said: "We broke not the promise to you, of our own will, but we were made to carry the weight of the ornaments of the [Fir'aun's (Pharaoh)] people, then we cast them (into the fire), and that was what As-Samiri suggested." |
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Musa (Moses) said: "Then go away! And verily, your (punishment) in this life will be that you will say: "Touch me not (i.e.you will live alone exiled away from mankind); and verily (for a future torment), you have a promise that will not fail. And look at your ilah (god), to which you have been devoted. We will certainly burn it, and scatter its particles in the sea." |
Other verses preaching violence against the Infidel:
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We have not sent down the Qur'an unto you (O Muhammad SAW) to cause you distress, |
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But only as a Reminder to those who fear (Allah). |
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Whoever turns away from it (this Qur'an i.e. does not believe in it, nor acts on its orders), verily, they will bear a heavy burden (of sins) on the Day of Resurrection, |
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They will abide in that (state in the Fire of Hell), and evil indeed will it be that load for them on the Day of Resurrection; |
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The Day when the Trumpet will be blown (the second blowing): that Day, We shall gather the Mujrimun (criminals, polytheists, sinners, disbelievers in the Oneness of Allah, etc.) Zurqa: (blue or blind eyed with black faces). |
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On that day no intercession shall avail, except the one for whom the Most Beneficent (Allah) has given permission and whose word is acceptable to Him. |
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And thus We have sent it down as a Qur'an in Arabic, and have explained therein in detail the warnings, in order that they may fear Allah, or that it may cause them to have a lesson from it (or to have the honour for believing and acting on its teachings). |
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"But whosoever turns away from My Reminder (i.e. neither believes in this Qur'an nor acts on its orders, etc.) verily, for him is a life of hardship, and We shall raise him up blind on the Day of Resurrection." |
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(Allah) will say: "Like this, Our Ayat (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.) came unto you, but you disregarded them (i.e. you left them, did not think deeply in them, and you turned away from them), and so this Day,you will be neglected (in the Hell-fire, away from Allah's Mercy)." |
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Is it not a guidance for them (to know) how many generations We have destroyed before them, in whose dwellings they walk? Verily, in this are signs indeed for men of understanding. |
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And had it not been for a Word that went forth before from your Lord, and a term determined, (their punishment) must necessarily have come (in this world). |
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And if We had destroyed them with a torment before this (i.e. Messenger Muhammad SAW and the Qur'an), they would surely have said: "Our Lord! If only You had sent us a Messenger, we should certainly have followed Your Ayat (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.), before we were humiliated and disgraced." |
The above is clear. Islam is the dialectical successor to Judaism and Christianity. Moses was not a Hebrew prophet leading enslaved or partially free Hebrew workers, farmers and engineers out of Ramses' empire into Canaan. The Hebrews had likely been a Canaanite lower caste at some point in history. He was instead a moon deity devotee, imbued with Koranic knowledge some 2900 to 2000 years before the Koran was invented by Muhammad and his acolytes in Arabic. Thus the Judaism of the Torah is corrupted and false and the Koranic theology holy and good.
Yet we are told that this is a religious and not a political document. Why ? None of the attributes of a religion make their presence known in this chapter.