you apologize for your faith subjecting myslef, my family and friends to a dhimmi status and we will talk. It is YOUR religion that proclaimed I must never speak of my views to a muslim, it is your religion that refused our congregation the ability to renovate our church and it is your religion that forced us to be chided day in and day out by "moderate" muslims like yourself. The difference between you and I is I believe I am right but am willing to regard you as equals. You on the other hand think you are right and consider your path the truth and try to force it down my throat. But the facts are you can't apologize to one who is so clearly wrong, why should you apologize for an infidels rejection of Allah surely my treatment is just.
explain this one
Surat Al-Baqarah 2:216 - Fighting has been enjoined upon you while it is hateful to you. But perhaps you hate a thing and it is good for you; and perhaps you love a thing and it is bad for you. And Allah Knows, while you know not.
and you really don't want to start talking about the hadiths do you?
First of all, speak for yourself..
now, unlike yourself, i will address the verse u just pulled out of the hat...
The Qur'an makes it clear that, whether we want it or not, war is a necessity of existence, a fact of life, so long as there exist in the world injustice, oppression, capricious ambitions, and arbitrary claims. This may sound strange. But is it not a matter of historical record that humanity from the early dawn of history up till now has suffered from local, civil and global wars? And is it not also a fact that, more often than not, victorious allies settle their disputes over their gains and the status of their vanquished enemies through wars and threats of war?
FYI, teh Quran is not a buffet, u can't just pick teh surahs u dont like and start to judge the entirety of the book based of that..
dont get me wrong, there are mnay muslims today who do things completely contrary to the teachings of Islam...but then again, religion goes wrong. (afterall, i dont judge Jesus's teachigns of the bible when i see Christian evangelics bomb abortion clinics, or teh crusades"
So it’s clear that war is not an objective of Islam nor is it the normal course of Muslims. It is only the last resort and is used under the most extra ordinary circumstances when all other measures fail. This is the actual status of war in Islam. Islam is the religion of peace: its meaning is peace; one of Allah’s Names is Peace; the daily greetings of Muslims and angels are peace; Paradise is the abode of peace, the adjective “Muslim” means Peaceful. Peace is the nature, the meaning, the emblem and the objective of Islam. Every being is entitled to enjoy the peace of Islam and the kindness of the peaceful Muslims, regardless of religious or geographical or racial considerations, so long as there is no aggression against Islam or the Muslims. If non-Muslims are peaceful with the Muslims or even indifferent to Islam, there can be no ground or justification to declare war on them. There is no such thing as religious war to force Islam on non-Muslims, because if Islam does not emerge from deep convictions, from within, it is not acceptable to Allah, nor can it help its professor.
now, since u love buffets, ima start question the Bible.
1. In genesis ch 30 Jacob takes stripped rods and put it in a troth and had animals looking at it while they mated. the offsrpings then came out with stripped fur. in other words, if im having intercourse with my wife while watchign Barney the big purple dinosaur, my kids will be born big, purple, and have a tail.
2. Bible said earth is 5768 yrs old. look at the geneology of luke, (Even one Christian evangelical tried to convince christians that dinosaurs and humans once lived peacefully on earth...ummm, sorry brother, but thats the flintstones)
3. in Dueteronomy ch 21 it talks about having sex with captives
4. Book of Magi, it talks about zorastrian priests from Iran following a star, hovering over a stable...Do you know how big a star is? physically impossible
5. In Dueteronomy, Jesus says, "The kings that dont accept me, brign them hither and slay them before me"
AND LAST BUT DEF NOT LEAST,
6 Ezekiel ch 23. verses 20 and 21
"There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses. So you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when in Egypt your bosom was caressed and your young breasts fondled."
you have some explaining to do my friend
i rest my case