NEW ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE QUR'AN PROFESSES TO SHOW THAT THE ISLAMIC HOLY BOOK TEACHES PEACE
BY ROBERT SPENCER
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
This is the work of Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri, which in itself makes it suspect. Tahir ul-Qadri is widely hailed as a “moderate” because of his massive Fatwa on Terrorism and Suicide Bombings, but that jaw-droppingly windy document is just another exercise in deception.In fact, Tahir ul-Qadri is the framer of Pakistan’s inhuman blasphemy laws. And here he purports to show how the Qur’an, properly understood, promotes peace. This only leads to the inevitable question: if this is so, why do so many Muslims worldwide misunderstand the Qur’an’s peaceful message, and why do they all misunderstand it in the same way?In reality, as I show in my “Blogging the Qur’an” series and in The Complete Infidel’s Guide to the Koran (which you can order here), mainstream and authoritative Islamic commentators understand the Qur’an to be teaching that is the Muslims’ responsibility to pursue warfare against and the subjugation of unbelievers. Here again, how is it that these men, who dedicated their lives to understanding the Qur’an properly, instead misunderstand it so drastically? I’m sure Tahir-ul-Qadri will have no answer to that.“Koran encyclopaedia hopes to promote peace,” by Kaya Burgess, The Times, August 6, 2019 (thanks to Mark):Extremists who take passages from the Koran out of context to justify violence will be challenged by an encyclopaedia published in the UK at the weekend — the first to re-order Koranic verses into themed chapters focusing on peace and women’s rights.The work is written in English and has been described as a remarkable achievement, designed to show why Islam is described as a peaceful religion.The Koran is written as it was “revealed” to the Prophet Muhammad in the early 7th century. Its 114 chapters and more than 6,000 verses are not in thematic order. Readers wishing to understand Islam’s teaching on a topic may have to find references scattered throughout the Koran….
