On 3 June 2014 15:57, <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thursday, May 29, 2014 5:35:06 AM UTC+1, Liz R wrote: >> >> On 29 May 2014 15:33, Samiya Illias <[email protected]> wrote:So, my >> question to you is this: do you condemn these actions? If so, do you claim >> that they stem from a misunderstanding of the Quran? >>> >>> I am a Muslim. I believe the Quran to be divine guidance. Therefore, I >>> accept everything in it, and try to understand the best meaning thereof. >>> >> >> Another non-answer. Maybe you should have tried one question at a time. >> Let me have a go. >> >> Samiya, you agreed that limb amputation is prescribed by the Quran. Do >> you condemn this action? >> > > I know it isn't just you asking this, but you did it bold. Why should > be pressured into condemning selective items in the Quran? >
Because the first time when I didn't use bold, the question was ignored. > > People won't want to do this sort of thing, or will do so because they > feel they are being held over a barrel and coerced. But doesn't have > condemn part of his holy book, all he has to do is not get involved in > chopping peoples limbs or do whatever his conscience has him doing. > That is fine so long as she doesn't start arguing that the Quran is perfect, divinely inspired, 100% true and so on. But she had argued just that, so I'm entitled to ask about every little 1% of it. It wasn't me who made all the grandiose claims for this text. > > Do any of you know what it means for Muslim to condemn something in the > Koran? You should find out first, and make sure you're just being really > horrible without realizing it. > I should make sure I'm being horrible? It sounds like you are using the "respect everyone's viewpoints" argument here. But I'm under no obligation to respect sadistic or insane pronouncements, so I'd like to know where we stand on the sadism and insanity that is apparently in this particular holy work. I'd do the same for the Bible or the Kabbalah or the works of L Ron Hubbard or what-have-you, given someone making similar claims for them. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
