----- Original Message ----- From: "Her Serene Highness" <mbuch@mcsp.com>
You don't have to believe me. Just find this quote. It's from The Koran. "And thou takest vengeance on us only because we have believed on the signs of our Lord when they came to us. Lord! pour out constancy upon us, and cause us to die Muslims." It's in Sura VII. I have no doubt that you'll find it- but it will take you quite a while to do so with no page numbers and no way to go to each section separately.
Not trying to be a smart-### here, but I tried your example. Time to open PG's website and search for Koran... ~25 seconds. Clicked on the Koran link, it downloaded quickly (thanks to a T1 here at work! ;) ~ 5 seconds. Control-F, paste in the first four words from your quote ("And thou takest vengeance), hit return ... first hit was the right one. 5 seconds at most. Total time from reading your paragraph to reading the passage from the Koran... 35 seconds. This is why electronic citation is so much BETTER. I someone points me to the file they cited from, a quick search will turn it up in seconds and opposed to finding the book, flipping to the page and skimming down through the text to find the quote material. And just so you know I did find the material in the Koran... I will surely cut off your hands and feet on opposite sides; then will I have you all crucified." They said, "Verily, to our Lord do we return; And thou takest vengeance on us only because we have believed on the signs of our Lord when they came to us. Lord! pour out constancy upon us, and cause us to die Muslims." Then said the chiefs of Pharaoh's people-"Wilt thou let Moses and his people go to spread disorders in our land, and desert thee and thy gods?" He said, "We will cause their male children to be slain and preserve their females alive: and verily we shall be masters over them." **** Ah, the oneness of religion! Christianity is built upon the foundation of Judaism ... Islam references both ... Yet religious reasons are giving for so much fighting. Josh