Re: Rock the Casbah
Reply #44 –
Not according the Sheik Abdul Azim who says that ISIS/ISIL is the enemy of Islam. 99% of the people they kill are Muslims.
That maybe the case DJC but they are still using parts of the Koran as a basis for the killing to meet their ends.
No they're not LR. They rely on an interpretation or corruption of the Koran rather than what is written. A bit like the right to lifers who use the Bible to justify killing folk at fertility centres.
I don't know how you can misinterpret the koran.
It is very succinct and to the point.
What ISIS and many other Islamist extremists do is take the Koran as the literal word of God as written by Mohammed in the 7th century.
And if that is what you are doing then it is very hard to misinterpret because it is all there in front of you.
Not correct LR. In the same way that Christian sects place their own interpretation on what appears in the Christian Bible, Muslim sects and interpret what's written in the Koran; and that's the mainstream sects rather than the fundamentalists. No document written more than 1000 years ago can accommodate 21st century technology, mobility, communications, etc and the priests, imans and whatever determine how their followers should behave.
Islam is actually a religion based on tolerance and the Middle East used to be notable for the diversity of religions practiced there. That has changed dramatically in the last decade or so.