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 38:
Total number of verses from Sura 2 to 38: 4051
Total number of verses in 2-38, which preach violence against non-Moslems: 892
Violent verses as a % of total from Sura 2 to 38: 22 %
Sura 2 to 38 as a % of the 6346 verses in the Koran: 64%
[meaning still lots more violence to go....]
What a fun, glorious book the Koran is. Full of hope, love and tolerance. Why, witness these passages from Sura 38, about the Infidel Unbeliever. Notice the symmetrical poetry, the redolent phrases, the depictions of the Golden Rule, tolerance, hope and change:
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Nay, those who desbelieve are in false pride and opposition. |
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How many a generation We have destroyed before them, and they cried out when there was no longer time for escape! |
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This is so! And for the Taghun (transgressors, disobedient to Allah and His Messenger - disbelievers in the Oneness of Allah, criminals, etc.), will be an evil final return (Fire), |
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Hell! Where they will burn, and worst (indeed) is that place to rest! |
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This is so! Then let them taste it, a boiling fluid and dirty wound discharges. |
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And other torments of similar kind, all together! |
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This is a troop entering with you (in Hell), no welcome for them! Verily, they shall burn in the Fire! |
Such phraseology of compassion, love and commitment to helping the human attain a higher ethical and spiritual ideal. No wonder Moslems are so proud of their 'uncreated' divinely hand-written book of reasonable enlightenment. The whole point of Muhammad's cult is to force people to simply obey and follow. Good Moslems are 'slaves' of Allah who hate Infidels and wish for their destruction. The world as riven in two – 'us against them':
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"Except Your chosen slaves amongst them (faithful, obedient, true believers of Islamic Monotheism)." |
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(Allah) said: "The Truth is, and the Truth I say, |
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That I will fill Hell with you [Iblis (Satan)] and those of them (mankind) that follow you, together." |
Infidels are always linked with Satan in the Koran. From the fall of Adam and Eve, the wayward non-Sharia compliant humans, are those who are in league with the serpent of evil and always struggling against the 'true believers' or Moslems. Jews, Christians, Arab pagans and anyone who does not follow the Allah-cult are impious Taghun or transgressors who must be punished and fought against. The Unbelievers are intractable liars who defame both the spokesman of the Allah-thing and Allah itself. They 'invent' stories that the Koran and Allah are man-made creations:
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And they (Arab pagans) wonder that a warner (Prophet Muhammad SAW) has come to them from among themselves! And the disbelievers say: "This (Prophet Muhammad SAW) is a sorcerer, a liar. |
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"Has he made the aliha (gods) (all) into One Ilah (God - Allah). Verily, this is a curious thing!" |
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And the leaders among them went about (saying): "Go on, and remain constant to your aliha (gods)! Verily, This is a thing designed (against you)! |
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"We have not heard (the like) of this among the people of these later days. This is nothing but an invention! |
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"Has the Reminder been sent down to him (alone) from among us?" Nay! but they are in doubt about My Reminder (this Qur'an)! Nay, but they have not tasted (My) Torment! |
Most Arab pagans, Christians and Jews viewed the Muhammad cult as a bunch of nonsense and gibberish. For it surely was. Islam was spread solely by war. When Muhammad was forced to leave Mecca he could count a few followers. 10 years later he arrived back in Mecca at the command of a 10.000 strong army and subdued the city without a fight. The Allah cult is not an organization of pacifist theology, but a military operation intent on imperialism, plunder and totalitarian control. It took the 'Ridda Wars' or wars of apostasy after Muhammad's death to eradicate the Arab pagan opposition to the Allah cult. Even after this seminal event many Arabs openly mocked Islam as a stupid superstition.
The Koran of course 'warns' against any criticism of Muhammad's manual:
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(As they denied Allah's Message) they will be a defeated host like the confederates of the old times (who were defeated). |
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Before them (were many who) belied Messengers, the people of Nuh (Noah); and 'Ad; and Fir'aun (Pharaoh) the man of stakes (with which he used to punish the people), |
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And Thamud, and the people of Lout (Lot), and the dwellers of the wood; such were the confederates. |
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Not one of them but belied the Messengers, therefore My Torment was justified, |
Allah's 'torment' is always 'justified' against Unbelievers. Out of the 88 verses in this chapter, 21 are openly violent against Unbelievers of those who dare not follow the Allah. Much of the rest makes the rather astonishing claim that all Jewish prophets were really Moslem. In order to 'usurp' the 'rights and primacy' of the Jews, King David is now cast as Moslem, devoted to the moon deity al-Lah prostrating himself to Muhammad's creation some 1600 years before Islam or Submission was invented. This gives Moslems the 'right' to butcher the Jews.
“But fear not the Koran makes the claim that all Jews were actually Muslims – though they did not know it. So the Arabs purposefully conflate a Meccan moon deity with Yahweh or the anthropomorphic and tribally concerned Jewish 'God'. This makes it easier for Arabs and Muslims to kill Jews. They can now make the claim that the Jews have strayed from the true path – the path of course taught by illiterate 7th century Arabs and a mad military fascist Mohammed. How very convenient. Now Muslims can kill the Jew at will:
“Have patience at what they say, and remember Our Servant David, the man of strength: for he ever tuned (to Allah).” [38:17]
“To David We gave Solomon (for a son), - how excellent in Our service! ever did he turn (to Us)!” [38:30]
David was along with Joshua the greatest Jewish military leader in history. He came from low-born stock and being a fearsome warrior was able to create a huge Jewish state running from the Euphrates to the Mediterranean. Along with Joshua he never lost a battle or a war in which he led. He lived 1700 years before the advent of the Meccan moon cult of Allah. To state that David was a servant of Allah is about as sensible as saying that Christ was a servant of German Fascism or that Zoroaster was a prophet of Catholicism.”
Yes I am sure some PhD has 'proven' that Zoroaster was really the first Catholic Pope, and that the Persian Giotto lived some 1900 years before the Italian version, meaning that the ancient Persians invented modern art. It all makes so much sense. King David was a Moslem. So too were Adam, Abel, Jacob, Abraham, Moses and Jesus. We are all Moslems don't you know ? The Hub'Allah deity of Mecca is really your deity. Now, don't we all feel better for that 'revelation' from Muhammad ?