mike regish wrote:
That would do. But he quotes some much more undeniable text, too.

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mike regish wrote:
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Which leads to a question of mine as to whether or not the koran
actually
does give the option of killing nonbelievers...


Prophet, make war on the unbelievers and the hypocrites and deal
rigorously
with them. Hell shall be their home: an evil fate.

Hinges on the meaning of 'war'. Lyndon Johnson did not advocate
killing
poor people as part of his war on poverty.

Indeed, if the word in the text would be more accurately translated as
'jihad', then it could be interpreted as readily to mean to resist the
influence of unbelievers or to convert them. 'Jihad' may be translated
as 'struggle' war is but one variety of 'jihad'.

...

Just a small selection of quotes from Sam Harris' book. I'm looking for
the
part about death being the mandatory punishment for violation of the
commandments.

You mean something equivalent to "The wages of sin are death."????


'Jihad', meaning struggle works for the quotes posted in this thread.

Obviously, I cannot comment on quotes I have not read.

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