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.
Submit yourself to Baal and Muhammad in the Friday prayer ritual. This is the purpose of the prayer. There is no inquiry, tolerance, or faith needed. Just submission to the Meccan deity Baal who is conflated with God and who seems to become confused with Muhammad in the Koran.
Baal decides who will follow him to power and paradise:
“Such is the bounty of Allah, which he bestows on whom He will: and Allah is the Lord of the highest bounty.” [62:4] [emphasis mine]
Remember Allah above all else:
“O you who believe! When the call is proclaimed to prayer on Friday (the Day of Assembly), hasten earnestly to the Remembrance of Allah, and leave off business (and traffic): That is best for you if you but knew!” [62:9]
“And when the Prayer is finished, then you may disperse through the land, and seek of the Bounty of Allah: and celebrate the Praises of Allah often (and without stint): that you may prosper.” [62:10]”
When you are done with your Friday ritual of mindless prostration and memorized 'recitals', then go forth and celebrate the Allah so that you might prosper. However benign this may sound to the multi-culti, there is always violence in Mein Koran. Injunctions to hate, demonize and 'strive' against the Unbeliever do of course make an appearance. Out of 11 verses in this Sura, only 4 advocate intolerance and violence against the Unbeliever. The hate speech verses are: 5, 6, 7, and 8. They warn the Jews, who are likened to donkeys, of their doom:
The likeness of those who were entrusted with the (obligation of the) Taurat (Torah) (i.e. to obey its commandments and to practise its legal laws), but who subsequently failed in those (obligations), is as the likeness of a donkey who carries huge burdens of books (but understands nothing from them). How bad is the example (or the likeness) of people who deny the Ayat (proofs, evidences, verses, signs, revelations, etc.) of Allah. And Allah guides not the people who are Zalimun (polytheists, wrong-doers, disbelievers, etc.). |
|
Say (O Muhammad SAW): "O you Jews! If you pretend that you are friends of Allah, to the exclusion of (all) other mankind, then long for death if you are truthful." |
|
But they will never long for it (death), because of what (deeds) their hands have sent before them! And Allah knows well the Zalimun (polytheists, wrong-doers, disbelievers, etc.). |
|
Say (to them): "Verily, the death from which you flee will surely meet you, then you will be sent back to (Allah), the All-Knower of the unseen and the seen, and He will tell you what you used to do." |
Jews and Christians who reject Allah, are little better than donkeys, fleeing from their deaths, to a certain doom ordained and orchestrated by the Allah deity. They are liars and hypocrites, some of them even pretending to befriend the superior and exalted Moslems. Deceivers. Allah knows they are criminals who only pretend to accept Moslems as equals, and he mocks the Jews asking them if they 'long for death' to prove how pure and truthful they are.
It is clear that such a locus of racism and Jew hate places Islam squarely within the realm of a cult. There is no harmony of the Golden mean, nor of the Golden Rule. The Koran including this chapter, exudes fanatical extremism which has to inform Moslem culture and attitudes.