Those threats didn't strike you immiediately at the outset of reading the Qu'ran?
Yes, and by Don Richardson's count about one in nine verses are about consequences. It just impressed me more having read each and every one of them over and over ad nauseum.
I also read that without the mind numbing repetition the Quran could be about - I think it was - 1/7th it's size.
I wonder if the mind numbing repetition is the gateway for Satan into one's mind as it is when one repeats mantras and such.
That's the first thing I noticed, which is why I couldn't read the Qu'ran at the time I was living in that London apartment surrounded by Islamic hostility everyday. It was like having a piece of their hatred in my house as a token of masochism or something. I t was a sick experience reading the Qu'ran. So I ended up not learning a thing way back then.
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So because I'm still in the U.S. where books are cheaper I decided at last to buy a copy of the Qu'ran again. One of my friends who was with me was very hostile about me even picking one up.
I was concerned about where my money was going too, but I bought a thread-bare used paperback copy at Amazon used books for a buck or two.
He started begging me not to, and stood in the 'religion' section complaining that he could feel the evil coming off the shelf. He told me to stop trying to select the best translation because "they're all stupid and equally evil". After I selected one he told me to keep outside my house. Here is my Qu'ran:
Haleem, Abdel M.A.S., trans. The Qur'an ("A New Translation"). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
This is part of the 'Oxford World's Classics' series [this a classic?]
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COULD you please provide a study guide to the Qur'an in this section of your Forum.
Since later Suras abrogate earlier suras, you will find most of the violent stuff in the later - particularly post Medina - verses. (that is post "Hijra" when Muhammad changed the direction they were praying from Jerusalem to Mecca, and made their "holy" day Friday instead of the Sabbath (Saturday). In other words, early Mecca Muhammad wandering around getting laughed out of town. I understand his tall tale of riding on a flying donkey-mule one night from Mecca, to Jerusalem (claiming to pray in the temple in Jerusalem that had been torn down 500 years earlier) with the next leg up to "paradise", and back to Mecca by morning.
Later verses after he is in Medina and the Jews reject him as a prophet and he beheads 800 innocent Jewish farm boys and their dads and grandpas, and presses their little sisters, moms and grandmoms into sexual slavery. Then he and his boys return to Mecca with blood in their eyes for those that laughed him out of town.
Here's a link that lists the chronology and whether the verses were "revealed" in Mecca or later in Medina
http://www.islamchristianforum.com/index.php?topic=609.0 You are aware most people don't have time for the full Bible when they want to learn Christianity in general from its primary source. So they end up reading the most important excerpts: Genesis, Covenant sections, most essential Prophecies only, et cetera. For this Bible excerpts are provided, e.g. Gen. 1-3; Matt. 5-7.
I'm referring to a mere reference highlight of sections, like that, for essential parts of the Qur'an; including the highlighted expose discourse which constitutes your YouTube videos.
Present and future readers of this Forum would be grateful for such a 'Quick Gateway To The Qur'an', particulary high-school students since the internet opens them at a young age to 'niche topics' like this.
THANK YOU. :-)
There's a list of war related verses here
http://www.beholdthebeast.com/#violence_islamWord searches like those I listed are a good approach
Hadith search
http://www.searchtruth.com/searchHadith.phpQuran search
http://www.searchtruth.com/search.phpTry this search - coitus - someone tried to pretend it was just one lone wolf verse and that Muhammad and his boys didn't rape prisoners, but the Hadith tells a different story.
http://www.searchtruth.com/searchHadith.php?keyword=coitus&translator=1&search=1&book=&start=0&records_display=10&search_word=all
