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Posted on August 26, 2014 by WashingtonsBlog
While the Koran Calls for
Violence, The Bible Is Even Worse … Calling for Genocide
Christians and Jews rightly point out that the Koran
is a violent text which calls on Muslims to attack “unbelievers”. But they fail
to see that the Bible is at least as violent.
NPR noted in 2010:
Religion historian
Philip Jenkins decided to compare the brutality quotient of the Quran and the
Bible.
“Much to my surprise,
the Islamic scriptures in the Quran were actually far less bloody and less
violent than those in the Bible,” Jenkins says.
Jenkins is a professor
at Penn State University and author of two books dealing with the issue: the
recently published Jesus Wars, and Dark Passages , which has not
been published but is already drawing controversy.
Violence in the Quran,
he and others say, is largely a defense against attack.
“By the standards of
the time, which is the 7th century A.D., the laws of war that are laid down by
the Quran are actually reasonably humane,” he says. “Then we turn to the Bible,
and we actually find something that is for many people a real surprise. There
is a specific kind of warfare laid down in the Bible which we can only call
genocide.”
It is called herem,
and it means total annihilation. Consider the Book of 1 Samuel, when God
instructs King Saul to attack the Amalekites: “And utterly destroy all that
they have, and do not spare them,” God says through the prophet Samuel. “But
kill both man and woman, infant and nursing child, ox and sheep, camel and
donkey.”
When Saul failed to do
that, God took away his kingdom.
“In other words,”
Jenkins says, “Saul has committed a dreadful sin by failing to complete
genocide. And that passage echoes through Christian history. It is often
used, for example, in American stories of the confrontation
with Indians — not just is it legitimate to kill Indians, but you are violating
God’s law if you do not.”
Jenkins notes that the history
of Christianity is strewn with herem. During the Crusades
in the Middle Ages, the Catholic popes declared the Muslims Amalekites. In the
great religious wars in the 16th, 17th and 19th centuries, Protestants
and Catholics each believed the other side were the Amalekites and should be
utterly destroyed.
***
El-Ansary, who teaches
Islamic studies at the University of South Carolina, says the Quran explicitly
condemns religious aggression and the killing of civilians. And it makes the
distinction between jihad — legal warfare with the proper rules of engagement —
and irjaf, or terrorism.
“All of those types of
incidences — [Sept. 11], Maj. Nidal Hasan and so forth — those are all examples
of irjaf, not jihad,” he says. According to the Quran, he says, those
who practice irjaf “are going to hell.”
***
In the end, the
scholars can agree on one thing: The DNA of early Judaism, Christianity and
Islam code for a lot of violence. Whether they can evolve out of it is another
thing altogether.
Indeed, the Nazis, the
Norwegian mass murderer and many others have committed terrorism in the
name of Christianity. Adolph Hitler professed to be a Christian, and churches
in Nazi Germany mainly supported the Nazis.
There are peaceful, contemplative Muslim sects –
think the poet Rumi and the whirling Sufis
– and violent sects, just as there are contemplative Christian orders and
violent Christian sects.
In the Old Testament, the Jews were always smiting
one tribe or another into oblivion. Some Jews still commit
terrorism. For example, Israel admits that an Israeli terrorist cell
operating in Egypt planted bombs in several buildings, including U.S.
diplomatic facilities, then left behind “evidence” implicating the Arabs as the
culprits (one of the bombs detonated prematurely, allowing the Egyptians to
identify the bombers, and several of the Israelis later confessed) (and see this and this).
A
prominent Jewish leader said that Jews used terror during the formation of Israel.
And some still call for genocide against the other guy. And see this.
Indeed, even fundamentalist
Hindus and Buddhists murder
“non-believers”.
As NPR notes, murder of outsiders is called for in
both the Koran and the Bible. So the question isn’t whether you’re
on one “team” or the other … it’s whether you’re mature enough to evolve
past the violent thousands-year-old worldview and act peacefully.
Most Muslims condemn Islamic terrorism, just as most
Christians condemn terrorism by fundamentalist Christians and most Jews condemn
terrorism by fundamentalist Jews.
As Christian writer and psychiatrist M. Scott Peck –
who served as the United States Army’s Assistant Chief Psychiatry and Neurology
Consultant to the Surgeon General of the Army, and held the rank of Lieutenant
Colonel – explained, there are different stages of spiritual maturity.
Fundamentalism – whether it be Muslim, Christian, Jewish or Hindu
fundamentalism – is an immature stage of development.
Indeed, a Christian fundamentalist who kills others
in the name of religion is much more similar to a Muslim – or Jewish, Hindu or
Buddhist – fundamentalist who kills others in the name of his religion
than to a Christian who peacefully fights for justice and truth, helps the
poor, or serves to bring hope to the downtrodden.
Postscript:
Sadly, the U.S. and our allies are
making matters worse by backing
the most barbaric, crazed, fundamentalist Muslims … and overthrowing the
moderate Arabs.
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