‘You are the best of people, evolved for mankind’ Sura 3 vs 110

On Muslim brotherhood, the Koranic doctrine, not the political movement:

The Believers are but a single Brotherhood: So make peace and reconciliation between your two (contending) brothers; and fear Allah, that ye may receive Mercy. Sura 49:10

And hold fast, all together, by the rope which Allah (stretches out for you), and be not divided among yourselves; and remember with gratitude Allah’s favour on you; for ye were enemies and He joined your hearts in love, so that by His Grace, ye became brethren; and ye were on the brink of the pit of Fire, and He saved you from it. Thus doth Allah make His Signs clear to you: That ye may be guided. Sura 3:103-104

Muslims are instructed to feel each other’s pain anywhere in the world. Fine and dandy, except that the basis of Western civilisation is the nation state, not the global ummah.

They are also instructed not to trust the unbelievers:

Yea, to those who take for friends unbelievers rather than believers: is it honour they seek among them? Nay,- all honour is with Allah.
O ye who believe! Take not for friends unbelievers rather than believers: Do ye wish to offer Allah an open proof against yourselves? Sura 4:139, 144 (Yusuf Ali’s Translation)

O ye who believe! take not the Jews and the Christians for your friends and protectors: They are but friends and protectors to each other. And he amongst you that turns to them (for friendship) is of them. Verily Allah guideth not a people unjust. Sura 5:51

Can’t you just use bloglines?

Not as interpreted by St Paul, it isn’t. The most important parts of the Bible, if you want to understand Christianity, are the epistles immediately following the four gospels. Similarly, the quickest way to approach an understanding of Islam is to read interpretations of the Koran.

I will try one last time, not because I seriously expect an accurate answer or even a civil retraction, but because I allegedly have a sense of humour.

If one visited Salem, Mass. in the 17th century, one might indeed get the "general impression" that one of the main themes of Christianity was burning witches. Now, of course, they have central heating and cable TV, so there is little need to continue the practice.

If one visits today the charming surrounds of the Westboro Baptist Church, one might take away the general impression that murdering homosexuals is a sure route to divine blessing, coupled with the slightly odd feeling that the omnipotent God made a mistake creating some 2% of the male population and really needs the hand of man to put things right, especially if that hand is holding a pistol and belongs to a guy with a small penis and unresolved feelings of lust towards his strapping young gardener.

Such things are in the Bible. Well, probably not the strapping gardener or the cable TV, but the rest of it is. In these communities, each is seen as one of, if not the, most important part of the Bible. Is this representative of Christianity as a whole? No, it isn’t.

So, even if the Koran does explicitly say Islamic political organisation is superior, does it necessarily follow that all Moslems think this is true? No, it doesn’t.

Get the point? You can’t generalise like this.

None of my best friends are gay, unfashionably enough, but I have no objection to gay people. I do, however, know and have worked with several Moslems from different parts of the world, and I can honestly say that I have never got from any of them the slightest impression that they want to destroy the west and restore the Caliphate. Some Moslems doubtless do, just as some Christians doubtless want to kill witches and homosexuals. In neither case are they representative.

The problem is NOT Islam, it is a small group of fucked-up religious loonies who use Islamic teaching as a justification for their social and political agenda.

LIBEL! LIBEL!

If you suggest that main themes are to burn witches and murder homosexuals you are crazy.

Retract ? Piss off.