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 77:
Total number of verses from Sura 2 to 77: 5485
Total number of verses in 2-77, which preach violence against non-Moslems: 1429
Violent verses as a % of total from Sura 2 to 77: 26 %
Sura 2 to 77 as a % of the 6346 verses in the Koran: 87%
In Sura 77 or 'Those sent Forth' [to conquer the world for Muhammad], only half of the verses are hate-speech against the Infidel pig and criminal. Most of the rest demand supine slavery and prostration to the cult of Allah [aka Muhammad]. Non-Moslems are doomed to suffer the dialectical inevitability of Islamic rule over the world. Anyone who denies Islam is a criminal destined for hell:
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Verily, We have prepared for the disbelievers iron chains, iron collars, and a blazing Fire. |
Those who oppose Islam, Muhammad, the Koran, or any aspect of the cult of Al-Lah [the Lord], will be destroyed. Period. Within the context of such a world-view, there is no need to preach to non-Moslems, to debate with them, to use peaceful means to convert them to the Islamic point of view. Charity, tolerance and the golden rule do not exist, nor are they necessary within Moslem liturgy and eschatology. Why would the golden rule be espoused when the 'obvious truth' of Moslem superiority is so clearly in evidence in the world around you ? People who deny the 'truth' cannot be tolerated. The Infidel and those why deny Muhammad's 'message' must simply be erased from existence:
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Did We not destroy the ancients? |
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So shall We make later generations to follow them. |
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Thus do We deal with the Mujrimun (polytheists, disbelievers, sinners, criminals, etc.)! |
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Woe that Day to the deniers (of the Day of Resurrection)! |
Woe indeed to all those who oppose the cult of Muhammad. The last sentence is repeated 10 times, in this Sura of 50 verses. At least the authors of the Koran were direct and clear in their writing. They want Moslems to abandon free-will and rational responsibility and mores; and simply follow the cult of Muhammad.
It is vitally important for a pious Moslem to glorify the Allah-thing. In this vein you must say your rituals and prostrated prayers. Don't question what the Al-Lah or Lord-idol is. Never doubt Muhammad's 'message'. Just follow the rules and rites. If you do you might be rewarded:
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Therefore be patient (O Muhammad SAW) and submit to the Command of your Lord (Allah, by doing your duty to Him and by conveying His Message to mankind), and obey neither a sinner nor a disbeliever among them. |
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And remember the Name of your Lord every morning and afternoon [i.e. offering of the Morning (Fajr), Zuhr, and 'Asr prayers]. |
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And during night, prostrate yourself to Him (i.e. the offering of Maghrib and 'Isha' prayers), and glorify Him a long night through (i.e. Tahajjud prayer). |
What do cults demand other than blind ritual obedience ? Cults desire pious, irrational, supine slaves, who are on their knees, trembling, in fear of Allah or whatever the idol to be worshipped might be, begging for mercy, certain that doom awaits if they don't propitiate the unknowable thing that they venerate:
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(Saying): "We feed you seeking Allah's Countenance only. We wish for no reward, nor thanks from you. |
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"Verily, We fear from our Lord a Day, hard and distressful, that will make the faces look horrible (from extreme dislikeness to it)." |
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So Allah saved them from the evil of that Day, and gave them Nadratan (a light of beauty) and joy. |
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And their recompense shall be Paradise, and silken garments, because they were patient. |
Moslems fear Allah. They fear his hatred, wrath and bloody vengeance. They don't want to be like Jews and Christians in hell, drinking molten metal and tortured for eternity. To say that the Allah-thing is the opposite of the Christian ideal of God is just to state the obvious. The Allah idol comes directly out of the Sumerian-Babylonian Bronze Age polytheistic cults. These were both animistic and celestial, brutal, unforgiving, capricious, opaque and disinterested in humanistic ideals and mores. These 'gods' were enormously powerful dialectical forces, unknowable to humans, and full of hate and blood, not love and charity.