"So long as there is this book there will be no peace in the world"

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William Ewart Gladstone (1809–1898) was Prime Minister of Great Britain four times: 1868–74, 1880–85, 1886 and 1892–94. He called the Qur'an an "accursed book" and once held it up during a session of Parliament, declaring: "So long as there is this book there will be no peace in the world."

Times have changed a great deal. Now the votaries of the book he saw as such an impediment to peace have triumphed: an Islamic reading room is being set up at the library Gladstone founded near his home in North Wales. In this BBC audio report (thanks to Andrew), Gladstone's great grandson Christopher Parish and Professor Richard Aldous, head of history at University College Dublin, tie themselves into knots trying to come up with a reason why Gladstone would have approved of this reading room. Gladstone, you see, was a man of his time, but he actually made favorable comments about Muhammad in the margins of a biography of the founder of Islam, and his remarks weren't as extreme as those of some of his contemporaries...

It doesn't add up. The text of the Qur'an has not changed from the late 19th century to the early 21st. What has changed is the prevailing attitude toward the book. Now it has become a manifestation of bigotry and hatred to see in the Islamic holy book anything but peace and tolerance. But the text of the book remains the same. If it was an impediment to peace in Gladstone's day, it is now. If it is an uplifting exhortation to peace and tolerance now, then it was in Gladstone's day as well.

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2009/01/so-lon...-the-world.html

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"So long as there is this book there will be no peace in the world"


It doesn't add up. The text of the Qur'an has not changed from the late 19th century to the early 21st. What has changed is the prevailing attitude toward the book. Now it has become a manifestation of bigotry and hatred to see in the Islamic holy book anything but peace and tolerance. But the text of the book remains the same. If it was an impediment to peace in Gladstone's day, it is now. If it is an uplifting exhortation to peace and tolerance now, then it was in Gladstone's day as well.

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ABSOLUTELY INDEED.

I don't know of any other widely practiced cult or religion that has

SUCH A HELL FOSTERED OBSESSION WITH

BLOODY DEATH,
MAYHEM,
CHILD ABUSE,
ABUSE OF WOMEN
. . .
. . .
. . .

That anyone would dare be caught making excuses for the pile of slug poo from the lower reaches of hell's deepest cesspool . . . is beyond mind boggling.

Quote: ThirstyMan wrote in post #2

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Quote: Rev wrote in post #1

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"So long as there is this book there will be no peace in the world"


It doesn't add up. The text of the Qur'an has not changed from the late 19th century to the early 21st. What has changed is the prevailing attitude toward the book. Now it has become a manifestation of bigotry and hatred to see in the Islamic holy book anything but peace and tolerance. But the text of the book remains the same. If it was an impediment to peace in Gladstone's day, it is now. If it is an uplifting exhortation to peace and tolerance now, then it was in Gladstone's day as well.

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Gladstone, calling it as it was and is......

To pretend otherwise is to live in a fantasy of one's own creation....

One need only look at the places where Qur'an is mandated to conclude that this is not a holy book of "peace and tolerance."

Any denial of this truth is not the starting point for true world peace as some would suppose, it is the starting point for deception and domination by Qur'an people.

Our Master, Christ, taught us to live out a different truth. It is only possible as the gift of the Holy Spirit lives within.

Our challenge is to be guided not by worldy strength and deception, but by a proper understanding of peace and wisdom.

John 14:27
"Peace I leave with you, my peace I give to you: not as the world gives, give I to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid."

And Matthew 10:16:
"Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves."

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