Islam's Hero to the Rescue
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There are so many Muslim deceptions and lies that I have made a category called Islamic Myths specifically to contain them. One of those lies is that the Quran condemns killing.

Infidels are easily deceived when Muslims quote Sura 5:32 - "... whoever kills an innocent, it is as if he has killed all mankind; and whoever saves a person, it is as if he has saved all mankind.." In fact, our own President quoted this very line in his speech in Cairo on June 4, 2009.

A reader from Tennessee calling himself "Light" left this comment in response to my article Only Arabs Can Truly Be Muslims:

is not that people dont understand the quarn,but are not willing to read it.When you read it, it speacifly says nothing negative that you hear from the media,or from others.For example about killing,it speciafly states if you intentionaly kill somone then it is like killing the whole of humanity so killing of any sort disqualifies you from islam and people who commite this error are not ignorent about islam but are catorgorized as islam just becuase of where they are from.

Now either he is purposely being deceptive or he may be an ignorant Muslim who has never actually read the Quran and simply repeats what others tell him is in the Quran because what both of these idiots, Obama and our Muslim friend from Tennesse, quoted is not in the Quran.

Here is what the Quran actually says at Sura 5:32:

On that account: We ordained for the Children of Israel that if any one slew a person - unless it be for murder or for spreading mischief in the land - it would be as if he slew the whole people: and if any one saved a life, it would be as if he saved the life of the whole people. Then although there came to them Our apostles with clear signs, yet, even after that, many of them continued to commit excesses in the land.”

Even a casual reader will note that this injunction applies only to the “Children of Israel,” which is to say, the Jews. This is not meant for nor does it apply to Muslims.

This verse allows Jews to kill someone if that person is a murderer or if that person has spread mischief in the land, such as adultery, fornication, waylaying, etc. It should be noted that Obama was wrong, the word "innocent" is nowhere in that verse.

And how should those who spread mischief be punished? What Muslims will not quote to infidels is the very next verse, 5:33:

Indeed, the penalty for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and strive upon earth [to cause] corruption is none but that they be killed or crucified or that their hands and feet be cut off from opposite sides or that they be exiled from the land. That is for them a disgrace in this world; and for them in the Hereafter is a great punishment,