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Religions > Atheism |
| User: |
"maff" |
| Date: |
15 Jul 2005 04:50:16 AM |
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Ehsan Masood |
Throw the book at Osama
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1528946,00.html
Many British Muslims do not understand the Qur'an
Ehsan Masood
Friday July 15, 2005
The Guardian
I turned on my radio on Tuesday morning to hear the one voice that,
foolishly, I hoped would remain silent after Thursday's bombs: the
BNP's Nick Griffin, being interviewed on the Today programme.
Griffin was in top form, arguing that the problem with Muslims is their
text, which is a book of violence. What might come as a shock to the
BNP faithful is that Griffin's reasoning comes straight out of the
al-Qaida manual. This is the equivalent of running a key-word search
through the Qur'an; hunting for sentences that contain words such as
"infidel", "war" or "violence"; and then reproducing these sentences on
websites to declare that Islam equals violence. Not one Muslim
commentator I know has bothered to tackle this issue with the forensic
detail it demands.
Ehsan Masood
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