Well see, I asked a direct question. That he didn't answer was an answer.
All else is blustering after the fact. I'm a member of a number of Christian forums, and save for Christian forums, which is a pit owned by an atheist that exploits the faith for his own personal gain, I've not run across a gaggle of males so full of hate and loathing while attaching "Baptist" to themselves in the process in a long while.
I gotta tell ya: that paragraph made no sense to me. Could you dumb that down some more so I can figure out what you were trying to say?
Anyone who's read the Qur'an twice knows it isn't referred to as the Koran. Further, they know something about Islam and Muslims. Which has yet to be in evidence in this thread.
What's been evidenced here is that you've just conversed with people who have
actual experience , as opposed to those authors you're giving more credit to. Consider: your authors have studied islamic culture. People on this forum have lived it.
Who do you trust? The person who says the sky is green because of the chemicals found in collected samples? Or the one who says it's blue because they actually stepped outside and looked?
Oh, and someone who was in the field of battle either killed or contributed to the killing of an enemy due to their presence there.
Dang skippy on that one. Carved notches in my pistol grip for each one I heard about getting killed, too.
You know what I found funniest? The muslim who showed me which drawer he kept his bottle of Scotch. He knew his Qu'ran just as well as the one who they all made fun of because he was devout. Habib the terp was the most polite, respectful, and well-mannered of our group of terps in Afghanistan. And let me tell ya, the guys in the Green Zone in Baghdad thought they had it bad because they had to dodge mortars and rockets once in a while; while me and my two team members, along with about 38 Italians and 80 Fijians and ex-pats, were going to bed surrounded by 1,200 Iraqis each night.
When your authors can talk about islam in terms of living amongst it, like Sapped and others can, then maybe I'll give 'em a cursory read.
It's easy to call the sky blue. But maybe ya oughta stick yer head out the window and see if yer right.
And just so we're crystal clear on what I'm trying to say: It's easy to hate the sinner, forgetting to separate them from the sin. But that means you're just full of hate.