Re: REQ: Any Islamic Art Asciis?

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>Bateau wrote:
>
>> Islam promotes violence and conquest. How is this not a threat?
>
>Let's take a look at some quotes
>
>Anyone arrogant enough to reject the verdict of the judge or of the priest
>who represents the LORD your God must be put to death.  Such evil must be
>purged from Israel.  (Deuteronomy 17:12 NLT)
>
> They entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers,
>with all their heart and soul; and everyone who would not seek the Lord,
>the God of Israel, was to be put to death, whether small or great, whether
>man or woman.  (2 Chronicles 15:12-13 NAB)
>
> Suppose you hear in one of the towns the LORD your God is giving you that
>some worthless rabble among you have led their fellow citizens astray by
>encouraging them to worship foreign gods.  In such cases, you must examine
>the facts carefully.  If you find it is true and can prove that such a
>detestable act has occurred among you, you must attack that town and
>completely destroy all its inhabitants, as well as all the livestock.  Then
>you must pile all the plunder in the middle of the street and burn it.  Put
>the entire town to the torch as a burnt offering to the LORD your God. 
>That town must remain a ruin forever; it may never be rebuilt.  Keep none
>of the plunder that has been set apart for destruction.  Then the LORD will
>turn from his fierce anger and be merciful to you.  He will have compassion
>on you and make you a great nation, just as he solemnly promised your
>ancestors.  "The LORD your God will be merciful only if you obey him and
>keep all the commands I am giving you today, doing what is pleasing to
>him."  (Deuteronomy 13:13-19 NLT)
>
>1) If your own full brother, or your son or daughter, or your beloved wife,
>or you intimate friend, entices you secretly to serve other gods, whom you
>and your fathers have not known, gods of any other nations, near at hand or
>far away, from one end of the earth to the other: do not yield to him or
>listen to him, nor look with pity upon him, to spare or shield him, but
>kill him.  Your hand shall be the first raised to slay him; the rest of the
>people shall join in with you.  You shall stone him to death, because he
>sought to lead you astray from the Lord, your God, who brought you out of
>the land of Egypt, that place of slavery.  And all Israel, hearing of this,
>shall fear and never do such evil as this in your midst.  (Deuteronomy
>13:7-12 NAB)
>
>I guess you're right, that is a pretty cruddy, violent, racist, exclusionist
>religion.
>
>Except those quotes aren't from the koran. They're from the Judeo-Christian
>bible.
>
>It's RELIGION that's a threat, that incites violence and hatred, not just
>one particular religion.

Muslims actually pay attention to the violent bits of their book.
Dickhead.
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