Radicals are savage people who claim to represent
Islam. But how do these fundamentalists draw such an interpretation from the
Koran?
The Koran speaks of a community that God makes apes
and pigs: This community is one that has emerged from those who have been given
a Book, in other words, from Christians and Jews (5:60–7: 166).
Another verse (2:65) speaks of “...those who
broke the Sabbath,” who are told to “Be apes.” It appears
from this that the community in question emerges from among the Jews. These
communities that are despised in those verses have one very important
characteristic: They are deniers and aggressive. The rebellious nature of this
community is described in the previous verses as their mocking believers’ faith
and acts of worship and their making problems for believers. One verse reads:
“You who
have faith! do not take as guardians any of those given the Book before you or
the disbelievers who make a mockery and a game out of your religion.” (5: 57)
The
words “...who make a mockery and a game out of your faith” require
closer inspection: Only those of the people from the People of the Book
(Christians and Jews) who mock religion being elevated as rulers and
administrators is condemned in the Koran. But what about those who
don't mock religion?
A couple of verses after the above verse, the
position of those people is described:
“Those who
have faith and those who are Jews and the Sabaeans and the Christians, all who
have faith in God and the Last Day and act rightly will feel no fear and will
know no sorrow.” (5: 69)
The same verse is repeated in verse 2:62, just
before verse 65, which speaks of “apes.”
In this verse, God imparts glad tidings to Jews who
believe in God and do good deeds (and also to Christians). They are freed from
fear in this world and the hereafter and they are rewarded. This is the glad
news of paradise. In other words, God loves them. How can a Muslim not
love those whom God loves?
Finally, just before verse 7:166, in which God says
“Be apes”, He praises good Jews in these terms:
“Among the
people of Moses there is a group who guide by the truth and act justly in
accordance with it.” (7: 159)
In these sections of these verses, it is unbelieving Jews who mock religion, that are
aggressive and make difficulties for believers who are despised, while honest
and pure Jews are
praised and rewarded. Just like Muslims who mock religion,
are aggressive and make things difficult for believers are despised in the
Koran, while pure and honest Muslims are praised...
Numerous verses that praise Jews and Christians are
rejected in the polluted world of the fundamentalists; many are totally unaware
of these verses. Others have described Jews in these terms. They cannot know
that it is aggressive mockers who are described as apes, not immaculate Jews.
There is no Koran in these people’s lives. They live isolated from the outside
world in tiny ghettos, and they are surrounded by a fundamentalist worldview
pervaded by hatred. Their religion is not Islam, though they think it is. For
that reason, the greatest scourge in the world is radicalism, a scourge on all
religions and ideas, and the main source of this is ignorance.
Those who disagree and favor war must not forget
that if the problem is ignorance, then guns, rockets, war, rage and hatred are
of no use. They just encourage the ignorant to be more hateful.
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