Re: Your moment of Zen - brought to you by OBL

DoD <thecats@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>>> > But, don't worry. If you really meant you hope the violence
>>>> > escalates,
>>>> > you have a powerful ally: :>)
>>>> >
>>>> > "slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them captives and
>>>> > besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush..."
>>>> > --God, c. 6?? AD
>>>>
>>>> "And if anyone of the idolaters seeketh thy protection (O Muhammad),
>>>> then protect him so that he may hear the Word of Allah,
>>>
>>> What if he doesn't want to hear Allahs words?
>>>
>>
>> It doesn't matter.
>
> Why not?

Because it doesn't say it matters.

> I would think it would.
>

Why would you think that? Why wouldn't you just take the text as
it is, without inserting what you imagine it says into the text?

>>> and afterward
>>>> convey him to his place of safety."
>>>> --Allah (swt), less than one minute later.
>>>
>>> Seems kinda contradictory, to me, but don't fret, I acknowledge there are
>>> contradictions in Christianity.
>>>
>>
>> It's not contradictory at all. It establishes limits that, should
>> one exceed them, define transgressions. That's the practicality of
>> Islam: while recognising that conflict is a facet of the human experience,
>> given the inequality and injustice that has always figured prominently
>> in our troubled history, and while establishing the right of the Muslims
>> to defend themselves
>
> What were they defending at Yathrib?
>

Themselves.

--A
.

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