“To suggest the Koran preaches violence, as jihadi Muslims do by their conduct, or it’s message is reserved for a particular people, as understood by non-Muslims influenced by jihadi conduct, is a travesty against God of all creation, of Abraham and Moses, Jesus and Muhammad, of prophets known and unknown, and against the Koran.”
It is not a travesty – Islam was born in war and violence, and it grew solely because its followers were more effective at war than their enemies. To suggest an equivalence between Jesus and Muhammed is to pretend that a man who elevated the practise of war and violence to a mystical act is essentially the same as a men who healed the poor and sick, and who willingly suffered violence as an act of redemtption is to pretend that the essential stories of a religion have no bearing on their truth or value.
