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.
Number of verses in Sura 3: 200
Number of verses in the 2nd part of Sura 3: 100
Number of verses of Christianophobia in the 2nd part of Sura 3: 30
% of Christianophobic verses in the 2nd part of Sura 3 of the total: 30 %
Within the first 100 verses of Sura 3, there were only 47 Christianophobic statements. This is deemed 'moderate' liturgy by the really clever people. In the second half of Sura 3, there are only 30 verses identifying Christians as inferiors, destined for Hell, ripe to be violated and attacked. Big brains and Moslems will declare that this proves the tolerance of the cult of Muhammad. In reality the Koran and by extension Arab and Moslem culture is decidedly supremacist and Christianophobic. The book Recital demands that Moslems kill, subjugate or humiliate the followers of Christ. Both Jesus and Christians are ridiculed in the Koran with Christ mocked as a mere prophet of Allah; a man who did not perform miracles, and was unworthy to be equated with Muhammad the political-military adventurer.
In the second half of Sura 3, or the Family of 'Imran, the following Christianophobic themes are presented:
1) Christians are inferior to Moslems -- so ignore them.
2) Christians are going to Hell and can be killed.
3) The Moslem cult must never be divided.
The Koranic cult is supremacist and racist. Christianity is inferior. It must be either destroyed or the church and its followers in-toto, must be brought under Islamic control and guidance. Those are the only 2 options.
Christians are inferior to Moslems – so ignore them
O you who believe! If you obey a group of those who were given the Scripture (Jews and Christians), they would (indeed) render you disbelievers after you have believed! |
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And how would you disbelieve, while unto you are recited the Verses of Allah, and among you is His Messenger (Muhammad SAW)? And whoever holds firmly to Allah, (i.e. follows Islam Allah's Religion, and obeys all that Allah has ordered, practically), then he is indeed guided to a Right Path. |
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O you who believe! Fear Allah (by doing all that He has ordered and by abstaining from all that He has forbidden) as He should be feared. [Obey Him, be thankful to Him, and remember Him always], and die not except in a state of Islam (as Muslims) with complete submission to Allah. |
Christians are polytheists and cowards:
You [true believers in Islamic Monotheism, and real followers of Prophet Muhammad SAW and his Sunnah (legal ways, etc.)] are the best of peoples ever raised up for mankind; you enjoin Al-Ma'ruf (i.e. Islamic Monotheism and all that Islam has ordained) and forbid Al-Munkar (polytheism, disbelief and all that Islam has forbidden), and you believe in Allah. And had the people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians) believed, it would have been better for them; among them are some who have faith, but most of them are Al-Fasiqun (disobedient to Allah - and rebellious against Allah's Command). |
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They will do you no harm, barring a trifling annoyance; and if they fight against you, they will show you their backs, and they will not be helped. |
Don't trust Christians:
O you who believe! Take not as (your) Bitanah (advisors, consultants, protectors, helpers, friends, etc.) those outside your religion (pagans, Jews, Christians, and hypocrites) since they will not fail to do their best to corrupt you. They desire to harm you severely. Hatred has already appeared from their mouths, but what their breasts conceal is far worse. Indeed We have made plain to you the Ayat (proofs, evidences, verses) if you understand. |
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Lo! You are the ones who love them but they love you not, and you believe in all the Scriptures [i.e. you believe in the Taurat (Torah) and the Injeel (Gospel), while they disbelieve in your Book, the Qur'an]. And when they meet you, they say, "We believe". But when they are alone, they bite the tips of their fingers at you in rage. Say: "Perish in your rage. Certainly, Allah knows what is in the breasts (all the secrets)." |
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If a good befalls you, it grieves them, but if some evil overtakes you, they rejoice at it. But if you remain patient and become Al-Muttaqun (the pious - see V.2:2), not the least harm will their cunning do to you. Surely, Allah surrounds all that they do. |
Christians are going to Hell and can be killed:
An allusion to Ethiopian Black Christians ?
On the Day (i.e. the Day of Resurrection) when some faces will become white and some faces will become black; as for those whose faces will become black (to them will be said): "Did you reject Faith after accepting it? Then taste the torment (in Hell) for rejecting Faith." |
Disobeying the Al-Lah thing and his prophet is a mortal crime:
Indignity is put over them wherever they may be, except when under a covenant (of protection) from Allah, and from men; they have drawn on themselves the Wrath of Allah, and destruction is put over them. This is because they disbelieved in the Ayat (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.) of Allah and killed the Prophets without right. This is because they disobeyed (Allah) and used to transgress beyond bounds (in Allah's disobedience, crimes and sins). |
Surely, those who reject Faith (disbelieve in Muhammad SAW as being Allah's Prophet and in all that which he has brought from Allah), neither their properties, nor their offspring will avail them aught against Allah. They are the dwellers of the Fire, therein they will abide. (Tafsir AtTabari, Vol. 4, Page 58). |
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The likeness of what they spend in this world is the likeness of a wind which is extremely cold; it struck the harvest of a people who did wrong against themselves and destroyed it, (i.e. the good deed of a person is only accepted if he is a monotheist and believes in all the Prophets of Allah, including Christ and Muhammad SAW). Allah wronged them not, but they wronged themselves. |
Allah sanctions the killing of Christian polytheists [criminals] in this life:
We shall cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve, because they joined others in worship with Allah, for which He had sent no authority; their abode will be the Fire and how evil is the abode of the Zalimun (polytheists and wrongdoers). |
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And Allah did indeed fulfil His Promise to you when you were killing them (your enemy) with His Permission; until (the moment) you lost your courage and fell to disputing about the order, and disobeyed after He showed you (of the booty) which you love. Among you are some that desire this world and some that desire the Hereafter. Then He made you flee from them (your enemy), that He might test you. But surely, He forgave you, and Allah is Most Gracious to the believers. |
You shall certainly be tried and tested in your wealth and properties and in your personal selves, and you shall certainly hear much that will grieve you from those who received the Scripture before you (Jews and Christians) and from those who ascribe partners to Allah, but if you persevere patiently, and become Al-Muttaqun (the pious - see V.2:2) then verily, that will be a determining factor in all affairs, and that is from the great matters, [which you must hold on with all your efforts]. |
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(And remember) when Allah took a covenant from those who were given the Scripture (Jews and Christians) to make it (the news of the coming of Prophet Muhammad SAW and the religious knowledge) known and clear to mankind, and not to hide it, but they threw it away behind their backs, and purchased with it some miserable gain! And indeed worst is that which they bought. |
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Think not that those who rejoice in what they have done (or brought about), and love to be praised for what they have not done,- think not you that they are rescued from the torment, and for them is a painful torment. |
Wealthy Christians are doomed by Allah:
Let not the free disposal (and affluence) of the disbelievers throughout the land deceive you. |
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A brief enjoyment; then, their ultimate abode is Hell; and worst indeed is that place for rest. |
The Moslem cult must never be divided
And hold fast, all of you together, to the Rope of Allah (i.e. this Qur'an), and be not divided among yourselves and remember Allah's Favour on you, for you were enemies one to another but He joined your hearts together, so that, by His Grace, you became brethren (in Islamic Faith), and you were on the brink of a pit of Fire, and He saved you from it. Thus Allah makes His Ayat (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.,) clear to you, that you may be guided. |
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Let there arise out of you a group of people inviting to all that is good (Islam), enjoining Al-Ma'ruf (i.e. Islamic Monotheism and all that Islam orders one to do) and forbidding Al-Munkar (polytheism and disbelief and all that Islam has forbidden). And it is they who are the successful. |
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And be not as those who divided and differed among themselves after the clear proofs had come to them. It is they for whom there is an awful torment. |
Follow Muhammand and his 'ways' – don't be like the Christian Unbelievers:
You [true believers in Islamic Monotheism, and real followers of Prophet Muhammad SAW and his Sunnah (legal ways, etc.)] are the best of peoples ever raised up for mankind; you enjoin Al-Ma'ruf (i.e. Islamic Monotheism and all that Islam has ordained) and forbid Al-Munkar (polytheism, disbelief and all that Islam has forbidden), and you believe in Allah. And had the people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians) believed, it would have been better for them; among them are some who have faith, but most of them are Al-Fasiqun (disobedient to Allah - and rebellious against Allah's Command). |
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They will do you no harm, barring a trifling annoyance; and if they fight against you, they will show you their backs, and they will not be helped. |
Unity will bring victory over the Christians in temporal battle:
And Allah has already made you victorious at Badr, when you were a weak little force. So fear Allah much [abstain from all kinds of sins and evil deeds which He has forbidden and love Allah much, perform all kinds of good deeds which He has ordained] that you may be grateful. |
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(Remember) when you (Muhammad SAW) said to the believers, "Is it not enough for you that your Lord (Allah) should help you with three thousand angels; sent down?" |
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"Yes, if you hold on to patience and piety, and the enemy comes rushing at you; your Lord will help you with five thousand angels having marks (of distinction)." |
Don't flinch from the Unbelievers:
O you who believe! If you obey those who disbelieve, they will send you back on your heels, and you will turn back (from Faith) as losers. |
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Nay, Allah is your Maula (Patron, Lord, Helper and Protector, etc.), and He is the Best of helpers. |
Always be prepared to war against Christians and other Unbelievers:
O you who believe! Endure and be more patient (than your enemy), and guard your territory by stationing army units permanently at the places from where the enemy can attack you, and fear Allah, so that you may be successful. |
The above which comprises a significant part of the 2nd half of Sura 3 sounds like a cult manifesto. The Unbelievers are criminal polytheists, whom Moslems must fight. Moslems must always be on guard and watch 'their territory' against Christian predations. Further, Christians are disreputable characters who will corrupt the true 'path' and 'way' of the Al-Lah thing and Muhammad, and who will deceive the righteous believer. Pious Moslems cannot trust the Christians nor mingle with them. Al-Lah has already preordained their demise, so no matter what, the Moslem Umma or community must be patient, remain united and never give in or listen to the deceitful, Satan-guided Christian polytheists.
How the above comports itself to 'multicultural' tolerance and inter-faith harmony is beyond the ken of the normal person, and remains domiciled in the distorted minds and mentalities of the mendacious, the ignorant and the basely stupid. As it was the case with the first 100 verses of this chapter there is no mention within of tolerance, gratitude, the Golden Rule, moral or ethical codes or spiritual enlightenment. Just the usual Moslem theme: 'We are better, We are last, We rule, and you will obey us or be damned in this life and the next'. Supremacist cults are not religions.