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Video: David Wood on the Qur’an and the Siege of Paris

Nov 16, 2015 9:04 am By Robert Spencer

The always superb David Wood of Answering Muslims takes apart some of the recent obfuscations from the media and political elites regarding the Paris jihad attacks.

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  1. Westman says

    Nov 16, 2015 at 9:13 am

    It would be fair to say that climate is a factor but only one factor in the migration to Europe. It would not be correct to say that climate causes violent Jihad. That belongs to Islam’s doctrines.

    If Angela Merkel offered us the opportunity to live in Hawaii at state expense would climate be a factor in our decision? If she does, I’m going.

    • Brian Brunner says

      Nov 16, 2015 at 9:21 am

      If “climate change” includes lead in the air, blood in the soil, and destruction and dissolution of a State, then yes; “The Climate is such that the inhabitants must live elsewhere”.

    • Jay Boo says

      Nov 16, 2015 at 9:37 am

      In the video David Wood eviscerates the myth of the often quoted ‘peaceful’ verse “If anyone kills a man it is as if he killed all mankind”

      • Westman says

        Nov 16, 2015 at 10:13 am

        Every time I see Quran 5:32 shortened and verse 33 excluded posted on Facebook it just tells me how much laziness there is on social media; the continual propagation of urban myths.

        • nacazo says

          Nov 16, 2015 at 11:04 am

          Well it is goo that you see that but it is not enough. Since this verse is so often misused. Have a ready cut an paste with an explanation. Register wherever that comnent appears and put thw wholw quran quotation. For example: Your quotation of qur’an 5:32 is completely misleading because it applies only to Jews not to muslims. Here is the complete quote in context: qur’an 5:32 : Because of that, We decreed upon the Children of Israel that whoever kills a soul unless for a soul or for corruption [done] in the land – it is as if he had slain mankind entirely. And whoever saves one – it is as if he had saved mankind entirely. And our messengers had certainly come to them with clear proofs. Then indeed many of them, [even] after that, throughout the land, were transgressors. Quran 5:33- “The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His messenger and strive to make mischief in the land is only this, that they should be murdered or crucified or their hands and their feet should be cut off on opposite sides or they should be imprisoned; this shall be as a disgrace for them in this world, and in the hereafter they shall have a grievous chastisement”

        • JIMJFOX says

          Nov 17, 2015 at 7:57 am

          Not laziness- far more sinister.

          Taqiyya, or kitman; lying or omission to support Islam.
          Just another Muslim tactic to mislead and confound the ‘najis kuffar’.

  2. dswami says

    Nov 16, 2015 at 9:15 am

    This piece was wrtiien by a Muslim in Singapore :
    Sulaiman Daud of Singapore shared on his fb, 14 November:

    I want to thank well-meaning non-Muslims who, in the wake of these attacks, have emphasised that they have been carried out by a small, twisted minority. A terrorist’s goal is to sow hatred and discord, and by not giving in, you are defeating their plans.

    But I want to say that as a Muslim, I wish that we weren’t so quick to emphasise that this has nothing to do with us. While I personally have never killed anyone and none of my friends and family have ever resorted to violence, radicalism has everything to do with Islam. And the failure to address that out of a well-intentioned commitment to tolerance is making the problem worse.

    ISIS is a Muslim organisation, and it is an Islamic problem. Let me say it again to be perfectly clear. ISIS is a Muslim organisation, and they are a cancer at the heart of Islam. And the problem will not go away until Muslims confront that.

    ISIS attackers scream ‘Allah hu’akbar’ during their attacks.
    ISIS recruits cite Qur’anic verses as justification for the rape and enslavement of women.
    ISIS soldiers kill archaeologists, gay men and women, and people who refuse to convert to Islam because they are blasphemers.

    There are no Christians in ISIS. There are no Buddhists, Jews, Pagans, Taoists, Houngans, Catholics, Wiccans, Hindus or even Scientologists in ISIS. ISIS is a Muslim organisation and they kill in the name of Islam.

    So don’t say that ISIS aren’t ‘true Muslims’ or that they are ‘not really Muslims’. Like any large organisation, ISIS exists in a spectrum. You have the aimless, restless teenager who never amounted to anything in his life and traveled to Syria because he can’t find a job and doesn’t know if the Qur’an is to be read from left to right or right to left. But you also have pious professionals, businessmen, and academics who read their Qur’an cover to cover, pray every day, were seduced into radicalism, and truly believe that the Islamic State’s goal of conquest is a noble one. The so-called ‘Caliph’ Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi has a doctorate in Islamic studies.

    So if you feel that Muslims are being oppressed or killed in Muslim countries, I expect you to also be just as outraged by ISIS. Because they have killed more Muslims in Iraq, Syria and Jordan than the entire US army. They have done more damage to the name and reputation of Islam than any Western nation. ISIS is Islam’s biggest enemy, not the US, not Israel or France or Germany or the Russians.

    We have to own the problem. We have to admit that this is a religious problem, and we need to renew our commitment to a secular country which treats all religions equally. I have believed in the importance of secularism all my life, and with every day that passes that belief grows stronger. Religion is no way to govern a nation. Not any religion, and not any nation.

    ISIS is not America’s problem, nor the British, nor the French. ISIS is not Syria or Iraq’s problem. ISIS is a problem for Muslims. And if you can’t admit that, you’re not really a good Muslim either.

    #LibertyFraternityEquality
    #LongLiveTheRepublic

    • Jack Diamond says

      Nov 16, 2015 at 12:06 pm

      Fine, except “Religion is no way to govern a nation. Not any religion, and not any nation” is contradicted by everything Muhammad said and did. Apostasy is not a new kind of Islam, a moderate Islam, it is just a (desperate) attempt to defang a ravenous beast (to save the ever-diminishing reputation of Islam). Owning up to ISIS-is-Islamic is honest, pretending Islam is secular is not. When Islam is secular it is because it has been forced to be by a superior and dominating force.

      • eduardo odraude says

        Nov 16, 2015 at 11:33 pm

        Agreed, Jack Diamond. The primary purpose of the global jihad is the defense and spread of Islamic law. Muhammad, the prime exemplar for Muslims, united religion and state in his own person. It is as if, instead of saying, “Give to Caesar what is Caesar, to God what is God’s,” Jesus had become Caesar. We’d have to imagine that when one of the disciples cut the ear of a soldier coming to arrest Jesus, Jesus thanked the disciple instead of what actually happened: Jesus rebuked him for the violence, and reputedly healed the soldier’s ear. Or imagine if Jesus had told Pontius Pilate not, “my kingdom is not of this world,” but said rather, “join me and you will be safe.”

        It’s true that a significant minority (15%, 20%?) of Muslims worldwide are consistently secular in their attitudes to government. But the majority, as you know, is not. And most of the cultural and religious leadership is not.

  3. خَليفة says

    Nov 16, 2015 at 9:38 am

    By “climate change” they mean “Political Climate Change”

    Just another pile of taqyia

  4. docfred says

    Nov 16, 2015 at 9:45 am

    A must listen to podcast regarding the atrocity in Paris and the entire subject of Islamism and its relation to terror. The eloquence, the brilliant light of reason, the common sense, and the urgency of the message is articulated no better then by my intellectual hero Sam Harris. This you want to listen to multiple times and forward and post to others:
    http://www.samharris.org/podcast/item/still-sleepwalking-toward-armageddon

  5. خَليفة says

    Nov 16, 2015 at 10:08 am

    Check out crime incidents and temperature.

    Police departments know crime increases as temperature rises, up to a point – then it decreases as temperature continues to rise – an example of what science calls the paradoxical response. ( occurs in many areas, blood sugar, etc. )

    This would suggest as temperatures continue to rise, Muslims should become more peaceful.
    Conclusion – Muslims can’t live peacefully at normal temperatures – Only extra hot will make them peaceful – Muslims will find peace in hell fire – but we all knew that already.

    • JIMJFOX says

      Nov 17, 2015 at 8:02 am

      Check out average temperatures in Saudi Arabia.
      You’re talking bollocks.

  6. Michael Copeland says

    Nov 16, 2015 at 11:20 am

    “Lulled to sleep”?
    Yes, by the Islamic Sleeping Pill….
    http://libertygb.org.uk/v1/index.php/news-libertygb/6095-the-islamic-sleeping-pill

  7. Mo says

    Nov 16, 2015 at 11:38 am

    I’ve watched to many of his videos, and this is now a favorite – I guess because it’s so clear.

    What gets me is that this is one of the most easy verses to sort out. All you have to do is read the full verse and have some basic reading comprehension. (And then read the next verse, which really clears it up.)

    I understand Muslims, their leftist apologists, politicians, and the media deliberately misusing it. But why can’t the average person simply READ and comprehend a few simple sentences? It’s right there, clear as day!

    • eduardo odraude says

      Nov 16, 2015 at 11:40 pm

      Normally, David Wood is one of my favorite internet teachers. He’s both brilliant and fearless. But when he deals with this verse I feel he tends not to take the strongest possible stand. He should not discuss French military activity, because in the mind of too many, that half justifies terror against France. The emphasis should rather be on the part of the verse that speaks of mere “mischief” as being punishable by grotesque violence. “Mischief,” as Wood points out, can mean almost anything, and in practice means whatever violates Islamic law. That should be the central emphasis of his exegesis.

  8. mortimer says

    Nov 16, 2015 at 12:27 pm

    K.5.32 refers to Jews only…not to Muslims who supposedly have the ‘new-improved’ version which involves massacring people of a different religious opinion which we now call GENOCIDE.

    Normative Islam is genocidal.

  9. Dave J says

    Nov 16, 2015 at 1:25 pm

    Ban, ban, ban,
    Ban the Quran!

    But read it first – you will then easily be able to condemn it as the illegal hate speech and incitement to violence that it truly is. Put Muslims on the defensive, give them the hopeless and impossible task of explaining how its actually all about Peace and Tolerance. Once their Book is declared illegal for good reason they might be slightly more inclined to examine their own beliefs.

    It’s a start.

  10. Markus Lukas says

    Nov 16, 2015 at 3:38 pm

    War is Peace.
    Freedom is Slavery.
    Ignorance is Strength.

    Islam = Ingsoc

  11. PRCS says

    Nov 16, 2015 at 6:02 pm

    It’s not just that 5:32 directs that to “the children of Israel” (and that the punishments listed in 5:33 are not included) but if you read from 5:27 through 5:32 you will see it’s actually the Jewish tale of Cain and Abel.

    Two Wikiislam entries:

    http://wikiislam.net/wiki/If_Anyone_Slew_a_Person
    http://wikiislam.net/wiki/Parallelism:_Sanhedrin_37a

    And this Answering Islam article:

    http://www.answering-islam.org/Quran/Sources/cain.html

  12. PRCS says

    Nov 16, 2015 at 7:17 pm

    I wish that David had noted for his audience that 5:27 thru 5:32 plagiarizes the Jewish tale of Cain and Abel; ergo “Allah’s” admonition to “the children of Israel”.

    Two relevant articles from Wikiislam:

    http://wikiislam.net/wiki/If_Anyone_Slew_a_Person
    http://wikiislam.net/wiki/Parallelism:_Sanhedrin_37a

    And the whole story from Answering Islam (which also mocks Muhammad’s “revelations”)
    http://www.answering-islam.org/Quran/Sources/cain.html

  13. PRCS says

    Nov 16, 2015 at 7:23 pm

    Test.

  14. SPLATA says

    Nov 16, 2015 at 9:43 pm

    Shabir trys hard , but his arguments. are flaccid . davids facts fortify my resolve that muhammad is the false profit . Jesus is the son of god the truth the light the way !

  15. dlbrand says

    Nov 16, 2015 at 10:04 pm

    Well said, DW. Good work.

  16. More Ham Ed says

    Nov 17, 2015 at 12:19 am

    A very accurate presentation. Thanks DW.

  17. JIMJFOX says

    Nov 17, 2015 at 8:06 am

    The great irony in this favourite piece of Muslim taqiyya is THEY are the ones to screech ‘out of context’ and ‘cherry picking’ to oppose criticism of their cult.

    And here they are, doing exactly what they accuse the infidels of doing!

    • mortimer says

      Nov 17, 2015 at 11:17 am

      Muslims are intellectually lazy. In debate, they commonly make huge and unsubstantiated claims, then retreat…running away before they may be challenged to defend their claims.

      I have not met Muslims with the ability to defend their claims. They are discouraged from intellectually exploring Islam, because it is extremely fragile and cannot survive being examined with rigor. Muslims who examine Islam closely invariably lose their faith in this cruel Death Cult.

  18. PatVeteran says

    Nov 17, 2015 at 10:03 am

    Each time I listen to David’s YouTube commentary, I always learn something new – I had read the koran 3 years ago, and I was appalled at the violence against Jews, Christians and the non-beleivers (the atheists folks by the way). David KNOWS the koran, Suri and Haddith of islam as well as Jewish and Christian scriptures. Yes, people misquote this Talmud sentence from the koran, and more the pity for their deception for themselves as well as for any readers. I ALWAYS take my used, second hand bookstore koran and check sources and quotes and read them for myself – most all the time, I reread the entire suri (chapter) to get the full effect of what barbaric CRAP Muhammed makes up to 1. Make HIM the big cheese leader of these murderering people and 2. Muhammed made it all up in the koran, changed, plagerized, and scrambled many characters from Old and New Scriptures, Zoroasterism, gnostic non-canonized literature to claim for himself. For example, look at those Assyrian winged human headed base relief scupltures in the mid-east DATING BACK TO 800 B.C. So Muhammed makes up this fantasy flight on one of these beasts to fly to Jerusalem then to 7 heavens. This way the lazy Muhammed CLAIMS JERUSALEM as a holy place for himself without EVER SETTING FOOT THERE! Wow! Lies flow through his rotten teeth and these fools beleive him! Even to this very day without one flea of proof!

  19. Mark says

    Nov 20, 2015 at 12:21 pm

    Quite true and it annoys me every time I see that line plastered around, especially if it’s used by politicians.

    But you’re right in that some, if not many Muslims might only know that particular line, and run with just that, not being aware of all the other stuff. Sometimes a better religion is born out of being ignorant of surrounding texts. Quite a common thing with religious scriptures.

    However, imams who spout that line obviously know the surrounding text. Those who are ignorant, don’t seem to want to understand the truth of how those texts can actually be used by fanatics.

    Back in 2013 with the Woolwich murder in London, that line was trotted out by a Muslim journalist, as well as our politicians. It took a Muslim lady (Irshad Manji) who was being interviewed by the journalist who used it, to let me know the truth. She pointed out the problem of verse quoting and that particular line. She said that there is an “unless” in it. That made me look it up and it all became clear. There was indeed koranic justification within that verse for the Woolwich killers. Maybe someone should have explained that to our deputy Prime Minister before he used the isolated line.

  20. Les Peoples says

    Nov 24, 2015 at 9:15 am

    Who actually wrote the Muslim Koran?
    Muhammad claims to be the true Author but because of his followers finding so many mistakes and misquotes, he devised a higher Deity he named “Allah” to back up his mistakes. Muhammad actually claimed that Satan gave him verses he placed in the book, since he was deceived into Satan telling him he was the angel Gabriel, he could have been deceived greatly! Muhammad became maddened and tried to take his own life on two occasions but was saved by women that held him from plunging to his sure death! No other mention of “Allah” is heard of or have heard Allah speak or give rewards other than virgins or feasts of food, [these found on earth today!] More than 600 years after Jesus walked on earth this ?religion came about and continues the great Crusades that we see happening today by this same cult. Who can find Allah as one to look up to that is greater than the One True God and His Son Jesus who offers eternity in heaven rather than Hells fire created for Satan from the beginning. Muhammad isn’t returning as he was poisoned by a Jewess for murdering her husband causing a long and painful death of Muhammad.

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