The oldest Quran? So what?

I can't stand the people calling for a stop to religious debates. Why? They found an old Koran - great. Now we can see just how far back the hateful doctrine of Islam goes. You don't have to be a right-wing bigot to spot an intolerant ideology. Many of us who speak out against Islam are liberal in every sense of the word - and we despise Islam and the Koran because it is the antithesis of our modern values.

This is usually the point where people point to the other monotheistic faiths and the barbarism of the Bible. Today, it is almost exclusively Muslims (who believe their book to be, word for word, the literal truth of God) who follow the inhuman commandments of their holy book. So the argument falls flat on its face.

Find me a large group of Christians and Jews who force millions of women to cover their faces from the world (no, it's not a choice no matter how many times you say it); who still accept and condone slavery; who view holy war and suicide missions as the highest form of devotion; who throw gays from tall buildings; who kill their own daughters for the "crime" of having sex or being raped...

There are many Islamic States other than ISIS - and they are all horrible places to live unless you are a man and the 'right' kind of Muslim - Saudi, Pakistan, Sudan, Afghanistan, Iran, Somalia, Libya...

There are also plenty of 'Christian' nations and only one Jewish one. In every instance, the Christian states, and Israel, are far superior to any state which follows even a lax form of Sharia. Again, this is because Muslims still believe every word of their book and still follow the teachings of Mohammed, a maniacal, genocidal Arab warlord.

All of the trouble we see coming from the Islamic world and Muslim communities in the west are easily understandable and make perfect sense when you come to the realization that believing and following Islam and Mohammed are the problem - the teachings are rotten to the core and are completely incompatible with secularism, democracy, and human rights.

It is only when we start making excuses for the behavior of Muslims and blaming all of their problems on external factors that we begin to confuse the issue - which only makes matters worse. Muslims are not victims, nor are they a minority, and they are almost always the cause of their own problems because the theological doctrine of Sharia that millions upon millions of Muslims want to see implemented worldwide is a travesty.

There was no Golden Age of Islam - there were Muslim conquerors and dhimmi subjects; there were slaves and concubines; there was mass genocide from India to southern Europe. For nearly nine centuries Islam brutally subjugated everyone in its path, destroyed languages and cultures, and takes credit for merely assimilating the great works of others.

The Islamic empires collapsed not because of politics or economics, but because of Islam itself. Islam lends itself to supremacist thinking, lethargy, and intolerance; there is no room for progressive ideas from within Islam - everything must come from without. And when the more Islamic segments of a society hold any influence whatsoever, it leads to disaster.

The only thing that has kept Islam from rearing its ugly head was western colonialism followed by the military juntas put up in its place. Once the dictators started falling we began to see exactly what Islam is; and it is no different from Moghul Islam (which massacred Hindus by the millions) or the fabled Islam of Andalusia (which slaughtered thousands of Jews in a single afternoon because two of their number had risen above Dhimmi status).

Despite the assumptions you will make due to my name, I was raised a Muslim by Muslim parents in a Muslim country for the first 17 years of my life. I believed in the truth of Islam, largely because I was ignorant of what it actually was. Most Muslims have no idea what Islam teaches, but they will defend it viciously because they are taught to do so, and because it is an extension of their identity.

Many Muslims who realize the truth about Islam will embrace it fully and become Jihadists or sympathizers. However, there are enough who will reject it outright upon discovering what Islam says about the treatment of women, the keeping of slaves, that Christians and Jews and polytheists are lower than scum, that adulterers should be stoned to death, and so many more atrocities.

This is not done 'in the name of Islam' it is MANDATED directly by Mohammed and by the Koran. Koranic verses which may seem more tolerant than others have been abrogated and superseded by the violent ones - any Islamic scholar will tell you as much. And again, I don't care what the bible says because Jews and Christians are not engaged in barbaric behavior to nearly the same insidious level as Muslims are because of some old words in some old book.

Jews and Christians have long ago learned to laugh at themselves and the ridiculous stories. The ones who hold onto the Bible as literal truth are scoffed at and ridiculed by everyone else. Not so in Islam. Try a little experiment - the next time you are at a gathering of friends who identify as Christian, try reading from Leviticus and watch the horrified reactions and looks of shock.
Now, try the same with a group of Muslims while reading about beheading and cutting off body parts from the Quran and they will nod in agreement and praise Allah for his wisdom.

Islam is a problem because Muslims believe in it, it really is that simple. So you can take this old Koran they just found along with all the others and do what you should do with any atrocious book - ignore it. Sure, keep it on the bookshelves because it's a part of human history and culture, but it is a very bad part of human history, and one that we should all be trying to finally put behind us.