We in the west are just really just waking up to the true nature of Islam. It is NOT just a religion like any other. That is our big mistake.
As for cites, beloware some from the Quran.
Now, before you Islamic apologists and “useful idiots” tell me that the OIld Testament relates how the advancing Hebrews under Joshua wiped out the entire population of Jehrico, for example, let me explain that these are NOT obscure references to wars that happened centuries ago that hardly anyone knows or uses to justify anything today.
The following are verses from the Quran that are quoted EVERY DAY as we speak by militant Muslims to justify agressive war to spread Islam.
By the way, a Sûrah is like a Chapter in the Bible and a verse is. . . well, you get it!
There are a number of on-line translations of the Quran in English on the web (I am using a version by Mohammed Marmaduke Pickthall, an Englishman-Muslim. You can check out my references if you wish.
Sûrah IV, verse 76: Those who believe do battle for the cause of Allah.
Sûrah IV, verse 74: Let those fight in the way of Allah who sell the life of this world for the other. Whoso fighteth in the way of Allah, be he slain of be he victorious, on him We (that is Allah speaking, here) shall bestow a vast reward.
(In other words, people who fly airliners into office towers in the fight for Allah will be rewarded in the next life. In fact a few verses later is an infamous verse that was quoted with glee throughout the Muslim world on September 11, 2001:)
Sûrah IV, verse 78: “Whosoever ye may be, death will overtake you, even though ye were in lofty towers.”
Allah will not tolerate slackers and peaceniks:
Sûrah II, verse 216: “Warfare is ordained for you, though it is hateful unto you; but it may happen that ye hate a thing which is good for you, and it may happen that ye love a thing which is bad for you. Allah knoweth, ye know not.”
So shut up and strap on this dynamite, kid. Don’t argue with your religious leaders.
The idea that Christians and Jews are somehow treated as equals because they believe in the same God is completely contradicted by the following verse. Christians and Jews are tolerated, but only if they pay special taxes and are humiliated or “brought low”.
Sûrah IX, verse 29: “Fight against such of those as have been given the Scripture (i.e. Christians and Jews) as believe not in Allah nor the Lat Day. . . . and (who) follow not the religion of truth (i.e. Islam), until they pay the tribute readily, being brought low.”
Can you just imagine the outcry if any western country levied a special tax to be paid only by Muslims?
Get yourself a copy of the Quran and read it. It is the most boring, rambling, violent load of browbeating you can imagine. At least the Bible has some entertaining stories in it, even if they are mostly myths or half-remebered history.
I mean, stories like the Judgement of Solomon decreeing that the baby be cut in half or Jesus saying that the man who had never sinned could cast the first stone at the adulteress are at least interesting. The Quran is page after page after page after page of Mohammed ranting on and on, supposedly telling mankind what Allah said to him, and it is one passage after another after another of how Allah is going to fry your ass if you don’t do what Mohammed says.
There are even verses about how you should tie up your camels when forming a caravan. If Islam is meant for the whole human race, how much use is that passage for Islamic Inuit (Eskimos) in the Arctic or Muslims in New York or Paris? Do you honestly believe that an almighty being dictating a book for all humanity would have included such a localized detail? I am surprised Mohammed did not throw in a couple of his favourite recipes too!
Almost as hilarious are the passages in which Allah tells his Prophet that he (and no other Muslim) can have extra wives. Allah even told him it was all right for him in his fifties to marry a little girl of less than 10, and to have sex with her when she was nine. Her name is Alisha. Look her up.
When it came to sex, Allah was very permissive for good old Mohammed.
The best thing going for the Quran is that the majority of Muslims (if you count women, which is do) are illiterate or cannot read Arabic. So they mainly believe what their religious leaders tell them it says.
Another hilarious concept is that you CANNOT really comprehend the Quran in English or any other translation. You need to read it in Arabic, we are told. So now get this. Allah the almighty and all-wise dictates a book meant for all humanity, which, if it were genuine, would be the most important document that ever existed. But it cannot be accessed and understood except in a language that has never been spoken or read by any other than a small minority of the human race. Does that make a lot of sense?