Entymology teaches us that Islam means submission to Allah but it is much more certainly submission to the black stone of Al-Kabba who cannot speak or hear. Without kissing the stone to be in contact with, the expulsion from paradise will happen. No personal judgement is required, just obedience and submission. What is pure designates body purity not different than washing pots and pans.
One Sura contains prayer to God for the extermination of Jews and Christians (9:30), but a later verse in the same chapter (9:71) says that the peoples of the book (Jews and Christians) are guardians of each other. The Koran affirms the equality of all in the face of life and death (54:21), but describes a father on being told of the birth of a daughter: “his face becomes black and he is full of rage” (43:17).
The Sura entitled “Women” teaches that the absence of contradiction in the Koran proves the book’s divine origin (it was dictated over a period of twenty years, at Mecca and Medina, to man who, as a sweeper-up of camel dung, could neither read nor write). Marwan governer of Medina established his choice to one version of Koran who then burned all other versions in order to avoid confrontation.
On one occasion the Prophet teaches that the reward for good is paradise (3:136), but on another he asks (55:60), “Is the reward of goodness aught but goodness?” He affirms that everything proceeds from the will of God, who knowingly leads men astray (45:23), but in a latter chapter, he says the opposite: that every man is responsible for his own acts and deed. Not for nothing is the prophet the heir of Moses and Jesus.
There is the Koran’s injection to kill the unbelievers (8:39) and polytheists (9:5), but praise in the very next verse for those who offer them asylum (9:6).
Many verses authorize mass slaughter (4:56, 4:91 and 2:191-194). But Sura (5:32) states that: killing a man who has committed no violence on earth is the same as killing all men.
In (5:51), the Kroan says, “do not take the Jews and the Christians for friends”. But earlier in the same chapter (5:5) it permits a man to marry a chaste woman who follows one of the other two books.
The Koran contains sentences which are incomplete and not fully intelligible without the aid of the commentaries, foreign words, unfamiliar Arabic words, and words used with other than the normal meaning, adjectives and verbs inflected without observance of the concords of gender and number. There is more than one hundred koranic aberrations have been noted. Mohammad indulged the appetites of a man and abused the claims of a prophet. There are abrupt changes of rhyme, repetition of the same rhyme word or rhyme phrase in adjoining verses. The passages are not homogeneous differing in the treatment of the same subject. There are changes of pronoun from singular to plural, from second to third person and so on. The Sura recounting the story of Joseph is erotic in tale, certainly not to be written in a book that its origin is divine. The Koran is like a doctor without sunshine. This is a diabolic book.
Sura (4:82) states that the Koran issued directly from Allah. It takes no time to conclude that every page teems with contradictions. The Koran consists of one hundred and fourteen suras or chapters, each chapter begins by repeating: in the name of Allah, the beneficent, the merciful. Mercy is simply keeping the punished alive. Allah has names that can erase any mercy or grace, Allah is a warrior immune to pity. Names of Allah such as the degrader, the bringer of dishonor and disgrace, al-mumit (the killer), al-muntaqim (the blood avenger) make the sword, the yoke celebrated in beauty.
The Koran gives its stamp of approval to hunting down the impious (4:91), but another verse concerning those who have strayed from God recommends leaving them alone: ”We have not sent you as a keeper over them” (4:80). Verse 13:5 refers to infidels with chains on their necks, but verse 2:256 (often cited as proof of Islam’s tolerance) states, “There is no compulsion in religion.....”
If one argues that Islam is as peaceable and tolerant, all he needs to do is to select material from the book to give this point of view. The book is just like a bowl of cherry picking. If you want to paint Islam as feminist religion, then Aisha will be the reason. Another has gone so far as to assert that the Koran predicted the conquest of space (15:33) and the invention of cybernetics! But perhaps this is the right place to stop.
The Koran is a book based on personal benefit. For example, what does it mean to contextualize a verse that calls for a massacre of the Jews? Does it mean explaining the call as function of the period, of the historical context, of the reason for writing and thinking such thing in the tribal moment? and afterward? Does anti-Semitism disappear when we show that its roots reach down into a loam fertilized by its history and geography? Does the call to crime suddenly and magically cease to be a call to crime? Whatever we think of the context, we cannot alter the fact that the words were written down in black and white. Even if a contrary injunction is to be found elsewhere in the text, anti- Semitism is also there, and is expressed with an equal sense of legitimacy.
Yet somewhat paradoxically, Muslim enthusiasts for contextualization consider their book sacred, divine, inspired, revealed, and directed by God. As a result, the Koran becomes rationally untouchable. But to serve their own interests, these enthusiasts shift registers and abruptly lean toward a historical reading depending on their dialectical needs, they seek both faith and reason, belief and documentation, fable and truth. At one moment navigating on mystical terrain, at another on the philosophical level, they are impossible to pin down, never on the same wavelength as a reader free of prejudices or conviction and determined on a real reading of the text.
The analysis shown above concludes that a book teaching on how to fry a chicken has better sum than a book hot on intellectual damage with its chemistry. The snake is deadly and silent and obsession says die hard.
Remember: The Koran book serves a death instinct consubstantial with the neurosis of “a one only God called Allah”.
The Koran doubts Islam’s ability to provide any solutions to modern-day problems. The Islamic law is a collection of reactionary tribal rules unsuited to contemporary societies. Can anybody accept that the black stone has all the energy of the universe collected?
Verses missing, verses added caused confusion. The verse of stoning for women adulatory which was an important part got lost, the Koran today demands flogging the adulteress. What is a true of Islamic law became untrue. The Shiites sect claim that Uthman left out a great many verses favourable to Ali for political reasons. The Koran is never on the same wave length of the Bible.
The truth of religions have many variations and versions. We have to fight our own choice of the truth.
Right now what is in Afghanistan will manifest in the Middle East Arab uprise. Friday prayers always score the bloodiest protests.