So. A soldier has been sent back from Iraq for shooting at a koran. I cant help but wonder if this was WW2 and he was shooting at Mein Kampf or Hitler’s plans for the final solution. Would this have been an issue?
Yes its anoying to see constant nazi comparisons to everything. So lets have a brief look at Koran and decide for ourselves…
From TROP
Verse 5:60 even says that Allah transformed Jews of the past into apes and pigs. Verse 2:65 continues the theme.
Verse 7:176 compares unbelievers to “panting dogs” with regard to their idiocy and worthlessness.
A hadith says that Muhammad believed rats to be “mutated Jews” (Bukhari 54:524, also confirmed by Sahih Muslim 7135 and 7136).
Verses 46:29-35 even say that unbelieving men are worse than demons who believe in Muhammad.
O ye who believe! Take not the Jews and the Christians for friends. They are friends one to another. He among you who taketh them for friends is (one) of them. Lo! Allah guideth not wrongdoing folk. (5:51)
Sura (8:12) – “I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them”
There are hundreds of similar verses in Koran and various Islamic holy books.
Essentially, He should be sent back for shooting at a Koran, only if he missed. Its time we stopped pretending this is a war on some insane fringe group. This is an ideology no more or less than communism or Nazism and we can never win it if we pretend it is otherwise.
Eeyore