Koranic Contradictions

    One of the major contradictions in the Koran is the 114 verses that speak of love, peace, and forgiveness. These verses were "heard" by Muhammad in Medina where he had to tread lightly and look nice as there was much opposition to his new religion, which included destroying the statues of other people's gods in public places. It appears that intolerance and respect for other people's property were lacking in Islam from the beginning.
    However, when Muhammad moved to Mecca, he was in a very powerful position having driven out two Jewish tribes and having killed the men of another Jewish tribe,and taken their women, children, and property. Now he didn't have to tread lightly. Now he had "revealed" to him Sura 9:5 ( the Koran is not in chronological order) which said, "Fight and slay the pagans wherever you find them, beleaguer them, lie in wait for them in every strategy (of war)..." This verse is known as the Verse of the Sword, and it abrogates the 114 verses of love, peace, and forgiveness.
    Islamic scholars have attempted to overcome these contradictions by deciding that the more recent verses override (nasikh) the earlier ones. Of course, any thinking person would have to ask why, if Allah was all-knowing and all-powerful,  would he contradict himself? Muhammad headed that question off at the pass by "hearing" Angel Gabriel say that Allah said that any Muslim who questioned anything about Islam should be killed. That's called ad baculum logic - logic of the stick. It's the logic of avoiding bodily harm which brings us back to the lynch pin of radical Islam: force. Why did Muhammad have such an extreme love of force? What happened to him?
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major
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 Is not what he says,
 But what he does,
 And what he allows others,
 To do in his presence."
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