07-19-2007, 08:18 PM
Thanks for the reply Muslimah. There are some interpretors that have said that ٱدْعُ إِلَىٰ سَبِيلِ رَبِّكَ بِٱلْحِكْمَةِ وَٱلْمَوْعِظَةِ ٱلْحَسَنَةِ applies to both Muslims and non-Muslims.
Also, Ahmed doesn't even see us as Muslims. He claims that we are the true enemy. In either case, I believe that the verse is more than suitable in both these situations.
Onto the killing of apostates:
Some have stated that this law is only specific to Islam. This is not the case. It is very clear that those who follow the Old Testament are to abide to the same law.
Deu 13:6 <b>If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which [is] as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods,</b> which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;
Deu 13:7 [Namely], of the gods of the people which [are] round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the [one] end of the earth even unto the [other] end of the earth;
Deu 13:8 Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him,<b> neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him: </b>
Deu 13:9 <b>But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.</b>