About that ‘Holy Quran’ Quote
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Andy McCarthy on what Obama left out when he quoted from the “Holy Koran” (I hesitate to refer to it as “Holy” - given the violence in its pages, but for now I’ll play along):
President Obama said the actions of
Muslim terrorists “are irreconcilable with the rights of human beings,
the progress of nations, and with Islam. The Holy Koran teaches that
whoever kills an innocent, it is as if he has killed all mankind; and
whoever saves a person, it is as if he has saved all mankind.”The president was drawing on Sura 5:32. Somehow, though, he managed to leave out the very next verse, Sura 5:33:
The punishment of those who wage war against Allah
and His Messenger, and strive with might and main for mischief through
the land, is: execution, or crucifixion, or the cutting off of hands
and feet from opposite sides, or exile from the land: That is their
disgrace in this world, and a heavy punishment is theirs in the
hereafter.*I must say that some of that sounds even worse than
waterboarding. But, in any event, it’s hard to see how ignoring it is
consistent with forming a “partnership between America and Islam must be based on what Islam is, not what it isn’t.”
I can see why President Obama left that part out, given it doesn’t fit in his agenda of glossing over the violent core of Islam.
Related: Obama Revisionism: Adams and Jefferson, Friends of Islam
