Just like with any religion a lot of people who follow the religion just make it up to suit however they want to live and don't care about what the religion actually represents. I'd say 90% of any religion's adherents aren't following what the book tells them to. Christianity is just as bad.
Also, I have a Quran in front of me and I've read 100 pages into it. Where does it say it's a violent religion? From what I've read, the Quran only says to always use violence and to be very violent to oppressors. This isn't really much different from Critical Theory where leftists want to use violence against "oppressors" also.
Also, I have a Quran in front of me and I've read 100 pages into it.
That's the trick. The beginning of the book is peace seeking because at that stage mohammed didn't have the military power to push anyone around and was still trying to gain followers. Later in the book when his bandit army had grown enough is when it starts calling for the deaths of anyone not submitting to him.
Just like with any religion a lot of people who follow the religion just make it up to suit however they want to live and don't care about what the religion actually represents. I'd say 90% of any religion's adherents aren't following what the book tells them to. Christianity is just as bad.
Also, I have a Quran in front of me and I've read 100 pages into it. Where does it say it's a violent religion? From what I've read, the Quran only says to always use violence and to be very violent to oppressors. This isn't really much different from Critical Theory where leftists want to use violence against "oppressors" also.
That's the trick. The beginning of the book is peace seeking because at that stage mohammed didn't have the military power to push anyone around and was still trying to gain followers. Later in the book when his bandit army had grown enough is when it starts calling for the deaths of anyone not submitting to him.
The latter parts abrogate the earlier ones.
Got it. I'll have to read into it more.