From the Time article:
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Redeker's article called the Koran "a book of extraordinary violence"
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Looks like Monsieur Redeker conveniently forgot the Old Testament. For some reason, I remembered reasoning for the genocide of Caananites and Amalekites (children specifically) as explained on
www.rationalchristianity.net :
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Why didn't God translate the children into heaven instead of having them die by the sword? Since the children lived in a world affected by sin, they faced its earthly consequences (Rom 5:12-14). Only a few righteous people were translated into heaven, namely Enoch (Gen 5:24, Heb 11:5) and Elijah (2 Ki 2:11). As noted above, since the children had not shown themselves to be righteous, they were not spared the common fate of death. It's worth noting that being killed with a sword (perhaps beheaded) was at the time one of the quickest ways for the children to die (as opposed to suffocation/strangulation, starvation, disease or being torn apart by wild animals - see Ex 23:28-29).
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But I digress... I guess we (Muslims) just can't help ourselves.
WE just have to collectively issue death threats,
WE are a viloent people who are incompatible with "democracy",
WE ... <insert something from MEMRI, Rutherford, Levant, the Byfields here) - the whole
billion of us just friggin act like we want to bring about the end of the world. Well, serves
US right when some of us react violently to the pathetic expressions of free insults-un speech. I am sure the Jews in Nazi Germany did the right thing while "free speech" against them as a group transformed into... you know the story.
Well, that feels better. Thank you CP for this marvelous opportunity to exercise the right to free speech, of which I've been congenitally unaware.