{"id":679,"date":"2006-06-14T17:24:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-14T17:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=679"},"modified":"2006-06-14T17:24:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-14T17:24:00","slug":"679","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=679","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Why Muslims want to kill us<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gordon Nickel<\/a>, who teaches at a Christian university in Canada, discusses–verse by verse–all those Koranic commands about killing “unbelievers,” “idolators,” and “polytheists”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At face value, therefore, polytheists appear to be at greater risk than Jews or Christians.<\/em> <\/p>\n

Yes, that would be us Pagans today, I think, not just someone in the Middle East centuries ago. You think differently?<\/p>\n

Tags: Polytheism<\/a>, Islam<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why Muslims want to kill us Gordon Nickel, who teaches at a Christian university in Canada, discusses–verse by verse–all those Koranic commands about killing “unbelievers,” “idolators,” and “polytheists”. At face value, therefore, polytheists appear to be at greater risk than Jews or Christians. 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