Comments on: One quick comment on the Cairo speech https://www.yourish.com/2009/06/04/7713 Cutting straight to the point Sun, 07 Jun 2009 01:41:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Alex Bensky https://www.yourish.com/2009/06/04/7713/comment-page-1#comment-36717 Sun, 07 Jun 2009 01:41:45 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=7713#comment-36717 an, Oxford UP, 2004) Which to my untrained mind indicates that "innocent" life means "Muslim" life. I admit to having scant knowledge of Islam, but if Islam even has the trope of the lion lying down with the lamb or every man under his fig tree, as Christianity and Judaism do, I would be interested in seeing it. "Peace" in Islam means "peace under Islam." The attempt to show the essential commonality and brotherhood of the Abrahamic faith founders on fact. For that matter, the Abraham of the Koran is not recognizable as the Abraham of Genesis.]]> As usual, that line about saving one life omit the very next verse:

5:33 Those who wage war against God and His Messenger and strive to spread corruption in the land should be punished by death, crucifixion, the amputation of an alternate hand and foot or banishment from the land: a disgrace for them in this world, and then a terrible punishment in the Hereafter, 34 unless they repent before you overpower them: in that case bear in mind that God is forgiving and merciful. (The Qur’an, Oxford UP, 2004)

Which to my untrained mind indicates that “innocent” life means “Muslim” life. I admit to having scant knowledge of Islam, but if Islam even has the trope of the lion lying down with the lamb or every man under his fig tree, as Christianity and Judaism do, I would be interested in seeing it. “Peace” in Islam means “peace under Islam.”

The attempt to show the essential commonality and brotherhood of the Abrahamic faith founders on fact. For that matter, the Abraham of the Koran is not recognizable as the Abraham of Genesis.

]]> By: John M. https://www.yourish.com/2009/06/04/7713/comment-page-1#comment-36714 Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:23:35 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=7713#comment-36714 He sounds like a somewhat less eloquent version of Bill Clinton.

]]> By: Sabba Hillel https://www.yourish.com/2009/06/04/7713/comment-page-1#comment-36711 Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:38:42 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=7713#comment-36711 Interestingly enough, this “koran” quote and the one about he who saves an innocent life is as if he saves the world come from paraphrases of the Talmud. I bet that whoever wrote those lines for the President was careful not to mention that. Notice how in the latter quote, he was careful to put in “innocent life” unlike the actual Talmud statement which says one life. That way the murders of the Jews Israelis can be allowed as by definition they are not innocent. Similarly the terrorists by definition are “innocent” so that all Israeli acts of self defense violate that quote.

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