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When Killing 2,996 People Is Like Killing All of Mankind

March 19, 2025

Like millions of you, I watched on television what happened that awful day. No matter how I meet my end, it can never compare to the horrific way the 9/11 victims died. As I am thinking about them, a posting to that effect and another lie told about Islam.

In the history of the modern world, there probably was never a more representative sample of humanity than the nearly three thousand people whose life was brutally snuffed out on September 11, 2001.

They gave truth to a lie that was a snippet of Verse 5:32 about "whoever kills a soul is like one who has killed the whole of mankind" which was repeated ad nausea in the days that followed their deaths by influential people who should have known better. Even President George W. Bush, who repeated an expression that is not found in the Koran, that of Islam being a “Religion of Peace”, fell for the deception.

Revelation 5:32 was proof, clerics and community leaders argued, that Allah did not approve of the attacks, conveniently leaving out the portion about retaliation (italics mine).

5:32 For that reason (the murder of Abel by Cain), We decreed for the Children of Israel that whoever kills a soul, not in retaliation for a soul or corruption in the land, is like one who has killed the whole of mankind; and whoever saves a life is like one who saves the lives all of mankind. Our Messengers came to them with the clear proofs; but afterwards many of them continued to commit excesses in the land.

In the next verse, the fabrication is even more evident as Allah, by equating "corrupting the land", e.g., expressing doubts about what Muhammad revealed of the Koran to fighting Him and His Messenger is effectively making all unbelievers eligible for a gruesome death at the discretion of the believers.

5:33 Indeed, the punishment of those who fight Allah and His Messenger and go around corrupting the land is to be killed, crucified, have their hands and feet cut off on opposite sides, or to be banished from the land. That is a disgrace for them in this life, and in the life to come theirs will be a terrible punishment.

If they repent, in effect become Muslims, you may spare their lives; but you already knew that!

5:34 Except for those who repent before you overpower them. Know, then, that Allah is All Forgiving, Merciful