Yea, I had read your thread but am not qualified to comment (sometimes I do let that stop me).

But it did occur to me that there is at least one, and possibly more texts, that are alleged to "belong" in the Bible yet do not appear in any of the modern versions. I know nothing about them but can only wonder why, and also wonder if they might be along the same lines.

dunno. But I have seen/heard my share of Muslims state categorically that their religion condemns both murder and suicide.


>Jim,
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>I posted on this topic this morning. I was conversing with some Persians last nite who have denouced the islamic religion long before this.
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>According to them, islamics who practice the base religion, according to the koran, are supposed to kill nonbelievers. There are numerous remarks throughout the koran that state that those who kill nonbelievers, or those who have made any form of disparaging remarks against allah, will face no form of retribution when facing allah upon their own death.
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>It is the moderates, who choose to ignore many statements of the koran, who are the outsiders to the people in power in many of these countries.
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>Do you know of any other religion that would mark someone for death, as Rusdie was, for some disparaging remarks?
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>>Fair enough, Alex.
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>>My main point was that years and years and years of repetitive stories about the evil of Israel and the U.S. by virtually all of the middle eastern Arab world cannot help but take hold on some people.
>>That is my opinion of why there is such apparent deep hatred by Arabs/Muslims toward the U.S. (answering the question asked).