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RE:to jamsheed abumohammed
by JGN on Jul 19, 2008 08:59 PM

Mr.manojcshah, this is the back-ground of the verse quoted by Mr. Jamshed:

It is at this point that Mohammed received an anti-pluralistic and anti-compromise ?revelation?: ?Say, o disbelievers, I do not worship what you worship, and you do not worship what I worship, and I will not worship what you have been wont to worship, nor will you worship that which I worship. To you your religion and to me my religion.? (Q.109; note that both fools and knaves sometimes quote the latter sentence as proof of Mohammed's pluralism, when the context actually shows it to mean the exact opposite.) On another occasion, viz. around the deathbed of Mohammed's uncle Abib, the Meccans again pleaded reconciliation and pluralism with the words: Let him have his religion and we will have ours?. But once more Mohammed refused all compromise and demanded that they accept his monotheism and his claim to prophethood, nothing less. (Ishaq/Guillaume:191/278

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