Armed with such evidence, the Islamists then strive to persuade their heretofore peaceable and tolerant co-religionists that there is no choice but to subscribe to the most virulently intolerant interpretations of the Koran - and to join in a divinely ordered violent struggle (jihad) intended to subjugate "infidel" nations and populations.
But do Americans -- does the President believe that Americans have the right to burn the Koran if -- as horrible as it is -- if they want to do that?
One delegate asked the MP to pick up her copy of the Koran from the floor - saying to leave it at her feet was disrespectful.
Howeitat treatment was to bind up the part with snake-skin plaster and read chapters of the Koran to the sufferer until he died.
Sadly, for most of my family and friends in the West the Koran continues to work like a stop-gap, constantly reminding them that only Allah can engage in critical thinking.
After all, the former prime minister took a dim view of the Koran and adherents to the brutally repressive theo-political-legal program its authorities call Shariah.
Britain's promise made to Jews in the Balfour Declaration of November 1917 laid the grounds for a Jewish home in the lands where God -- so does the Koran (5:20-21) of the Muslims record -- instructed Moses to take his people.
"Mousavi was not allowed to recite the Koran verses said on such occasions and he was immediately surrounded by anti-riot police who led him to his car, " one person told AFP.
He was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood and in '44, he joined and swore allegiance to Hassan al-Banna on a Koran.
With US-Afghan negotiations over a strategic partnership still bogged down over issues like night-time raids and control of prisoners, Mr Karzai has been quick to seize the advantage - saying the Koran burning disaster would not have happened if the Afghans had been in charge.
In "Fitna, " Wilders juxtaposes verses from the Koran with Islamic terror attacks, mosque sermons inciting believers to murder non-Muslims, and proclamations by Islamic clerics that Muslims must kill all the Jews, conquer the world and subjugate non-believers.
She and her taxi driver husband had enrolled Yaseen in advanced classes at their local mosque as they wanted him to become Hafiz - an Islamic term for someone who memorises the Koran.
My understanding is that there is now some training of the service members in terms of how to deal with this kind of situation -- disposal of the Koran, respect for holy books, things like that -- for service members serving in Afghanistan.
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In discussing Islam we mean generally more or less what Muslims do in practicing their faith-tradition as they variously understand its meaning provided primarily in the Koran taken by them to be divinely revealed words to Muhammad.
There are believed to be more Muslims than Christians in Ivory Coast but Islam is dominant in the poorer north of the country so people there are less likely to buy a personal printed copy of their own religious guide - the Koran.
Such blue-chip financial institutions rely largely on 20 or so rock-star sharia scholars to certify that their financial products are in accord with the Koran and the Prophet's teachings.
And the second question is, does this administration have a message to Afghans and other Muslims talking about how they view the burning of the Koran and its -- and the significance of what it says about the United States?
The Koran itself, Koran 9, surah 9, verse 29, says to Muslims, fight the people of the book - and these, of course, include Jews and Christians - until they pay the jizya, which basically means tribute, to their overlords, until they pay the jizya with willing submission and feel themselves utterly subdued.
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Mr Rushdie, who is a non-practising Muslim, was seen in his book to be mocking Islam's Holy Book, the Koran, its prophet and his wives whose names he associated with prostitutes.
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