DrZoidberg
Contributor
You are not addressing the reality that the religious content of the multiple quoted surah echoes the history of Muslim conquests which were driven by the same religious motivation as Hamas which is the Islamization of the entire world while eradicating those who "defy Islam" and those who will not convert to Islam and serve Allah and those who will not be abiding to a fundamentalist and radicalized interpretation of Islam.
Muslim conquests were always driven by a religious motivation. The occupation of conquered land always included the motivation of converting natives to Islam. It is a religiously motivated expansion not one based on "just wanting the same land".
I am very surprised you are not seeing the blue prints of such same religion motivated expansion in the Hamas Charter.
I think this is false. Back before the Enlightenment in the 18'th century there was no difference between religion and politics. They were interchangeable concepts. Before the printing press all religious conquests was just about getting some land. What Mohammed did was open up the concept a bit, and create a kind of super-religion. Where the same religion could be interpreted in several different, but equally true, ways. That's the schtick about "religions of the book". This was a really novel way to sort-of-separate politics from religion. At least a little bit. And it worked well. But this concept really only worked as a political tool then and there. It's very context dependent. Which is why early Islamic decrees often come across as so random and silly today,
This is the reason why Mohammed made a thing about NOT converting Jews and Christians to Islam. He even made it forbidden, just to hammer home the point. He wanted them to be religiously equal (even if the Muslims had all the power). The Ottomans sort of kept this tradition. But let Ottomans to convert... I forget when. But it was quite late. 12'th century or something.
So the goal of Mohammed and Islam was NOT to convert anybody. The goal was to build an empire. Which they did. Today we think of this as disingenuous. As if the religious epiphanies of Mohammed was political manipulation. But the pre-litterate world didn't see it that way. A world without authorities readily available to be consulted gets a very fluid concept of Truth.
We can read from the Koran, that if Mohammed was anything, it was pragmatic. He really seems like a guy who could think on his feet.
Our idea of religion was really born in the Enlightenment. A product of post-printing press technology. Modern Christianity, Islam and Judaism have almost nothing to do with the same religions at the time of the Islamic conquest. They are best viewed as completely modern inventions.
Hammas on the other hand are just fucking cunts. They're like football hooligans in a position of political power. Not a shred of Mohammed's pragmatism. It can be argued that they're the result of 50 years of failed appeasement. And just have given up. Not longer trying to win. Now they're just trying to annoy Israel as much as possible. As if in, if they can't win, they can at least make the Jewish victory less tasty. A childish and silly attitude.
Anyhoo