Pacifier -
Reading it again, the Koran is very bulleted. It seems to go point to point to point with little flow (might be because of the trasnlation)--at least most of what I read did this, some of the later Suras weren't as bulleted.
So, you can take excerpts from it as each bullet is individual, unlike the passage you quoted which is just one small quote from the "Parable of the Mina"--16 verses long.
Specifically:
Sura 4, more towards the end
Sura 8, more in the beginning
etc.
Anyway, that is really not the point here.
These atrocities are commonly committed in Muslim states. Reasoning for these actions is taken from the Koran. Obviously, there has to be something there if so many millions of Muslims are believing that this is the correct way to behave. Either that or you have mass brain-washing and people are being taught and believing something that isn't real.
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