Originally Posted by WhiplashDug

For starters, CNN never pops up on my tube, and I was not raised on the tele. In the nearly 40 years of my life, college educated, time served in the Armed Forces, and years of reading and listening to the points of others, I have enough life experiences, knowledge and understanding to come to my own conclusions - since "knowledge is power" I don't feel the need to tell you how wrong you are or how well you proved my final point.

Since you are so well read yourself on the Koran, its teachings and the leaders of the Islamic faith, the below information is not intended for you.
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Quotes From The Hadiths:

Sahih Al Bukhari, 216:"I have been ordered to fight against people until they testify that there is no God but Allah & that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah & until he performs the prayers & pays the Zakat."

Sahih Muslim, 217: "Verily Allah has prescribed proficiency in all things. Thus if you kill, KILL WELL, & if you slaughter, SLAUGHTER WELL. Let each one of you sharpen his blade."
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Hadith (الحديث transliteration: al-ḥadīth) are oral traditions relating to the words and deeds of Muhammad. Hadith collections are regarded as important tools for determining the Sunnah, or Muslim way of life, by all traditional schools of jurisprudence.

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The PROBLEM, again, is not with Middle Eastern People - but with Muslim Extreemists. The Koran itself makes statements than can have multiple meanings. A religion of "PEACE" would interpret those differently than a religion of "Hate". For example,

(Koran 2:216) "Warfare is ordained for you, though it is hateful unto you; but it may happen that you hate a thing which is good for you and it may happen that you love a thing which is bad for you. Allah knoweth, you knew not."

The above verse was stated by Mohammed after his first attack. He and his followers mercilessly massacred four innocent and unarmed merchants at Nakhla in 623 AD. The massacre came in January, the sacred month of Rejeb. Arabs regard this month as a sacred month, when warfare and violence is forbidden. Since this barbaric criminal act was led and sanctioned by the "great" prophet Mohammed, we can conclude that Islam's sacred activities include loot and cold-blooded murder of innocent individuals. The very beginnings of Islam are stained with the blood of innocents. That is NOT a religion of "PEACE".

(Koran 76: 4) "Lo! We have prepared for disbelievers chains, yokes and a blazing fire."

A peaceful religion would interpret this in such a way that "GOD" will deal with disbelievers.

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