Islamophobia or upholding Western values? Are there limits to criticism of Islam?

March said:

What about the Koran calling for peace and not killing believers of the book? Why doesn't that trump your selected quotations?

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Then when the Sacred Months have passed, then kill the idolaters wherever you find them, and capture them and besiege them, and prepare for them each and every ambush. But if they repent and perform As-Salât (Iqâmat-as-Salât), and give Zakât, then leave their way free. Verily, Allâh is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful

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Fight against those who (1) believe not in Allâh, (2) nor in the Last Day, (3) nor forbid that which has been forbidden by Allâh and His Messenger (4) and those who acknowledge not the religion of truth (i.e. Islâm) among the people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians), until they pay the Jizyah[] with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.

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March said:

Deuteronomy 13: When to stone your family to death.

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March said:

And he also let Jews and Christians live, so that's another contradiction.

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O you who believe! Take not the Jews and the Christians as friends. They are but friends to one another. And if any amongst you takes them as friends, then surely he is one of them.

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It has been narrated by 'Umar b. al-Khattib that he heard the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) say: I will expel the Jews and Christians from the Arabian Peninsula and will not leave any but Muslim

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uthman7c said:

Very little Quranic text calls for peace. Most of the Quran calls for jihad.s

Surat 9:5 and 9:29 are the foundation of Islamic doctrine and nullify any "peaceful" text.

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uthman7c said:

Er, Jews generally do not follow ancient Jewish law. Israel has no capital punishment, reflecting
Jewish ethics.

Capital punishment, including stoning, exists throughout the Islamic world, reflecting Islamic ethics.

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uthman7c said:

10 Commandments: Thou Shall Not Murder.

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uthman7c said:

You might want to familiarize yourself with the subject matter. Just sayin'

Mahomet beheaded nearly 1000 Banu Qurayza Jews, the first Jewish holocaust.

Mahomet preached intolerance of Jews and Christians...

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uthman7c said:

Mahomet advocated ethnic cleansing of Jews and Christians throughout Arabia...and, the world...

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March said:

Unsupported assertion.



Most muslims don't follow the parts of the Koran that call for stoning either.



Koran: Thou shall not murder



Might want to educate yourself, Mohamed also said to leave them alone and not to execute people of the book.



So did the Jews, via the Caanaanites.

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German Guy said:

But it seems to me that 90% of the alleged "Islam criticism" completely overshoots the mark, is not limited to pointing to this threat and dealing with it as it is, but completely blows this problem out of proportion. And I think that's because by far more people are not just considering radical opinions among Muslims a problem, along other extremist opinions like neo-Nazism or violent leftism, but they are deep into chauvinist territory, xenophobia, racism, blind hatred.

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