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June 4, 2009
About that 'Holy Quran' Quote
Topics: Political News and commentariesAndy McCarthy on what Obama left out when he quoted from the "Holy Koran" (I hesitate to refer to it as "Holy" - given the violence in its pages, but for now I'll play along):
President Obama said the actions of Muslim terrorists "are irreconcilable with the rights of human beings, the progress of nations, and with Islam. The Holy Koran teaches that whoever kills an innocent, it is as if he has killed all mankind; and whoever saves a person, it is as if he has saved all mankind."
The president was drawing on Sura 5:32. Somehow, though, he managed to leave out the very next verse, Sura 5:33:
The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger, and strive with might and main for mischief through the land, is: execution, or crucifixion, or the cutting off of hands and feet from opposite sides, or exile from the land: That is their disgrace in this world, and a heavy punishment is theirs in the hereafter.*
I must say that some of that sounds even worse than waterboarding. But, in any event, it's hard to see how ignoring it is consistent with forming a "partnership between America and Islam must be based on what Islam is, not what it isn't."
I can see why President Obama left that part out, given it doesn't fit in his agenda of glossing over the violent core of Islam.
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Posted by Richard at June 4, 2009 3:19 PM
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