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Muslims believe that there is no God but Allah and <strong>Mohammed</strong> is his final Prophet. <strong>Mohammed</strong><br />
is believed to be perfect and the Koran tells Muslims repeatedly to emulate his behaviour. As we<br />
already know, Muslims can choose to follow <strong>Mohammed</strong>’s Meccan example, as most <strong>of</strong> them do<br />
or follow the Medina example as the Jihadists do. Since earlier verses are abrogated by later ones,<br />
the Medinan Koran is better, but since the Koran is perfect the Meccan Koran is also valid.<br />
To a Western mind this is very confusing. By our logic, if two things contradict each other then at<br />
least one must be wrong. Western logic is founded on truth and only one thing can be true. In<br />
<strong>Islam</strong>ic logic, “truth” is anything which advances <strong>Islam</strong>. Two things therefore can contradict one<br />
another, and yet both are “true”.<br />
The confusion this causes is deliberate, and <strong>Islam</strong> <strong>of</strong>ten uses it to its own advantage. Its hard<br />
(Medinan) side hides behind its s<strong>of</strong>ter (Meccan) side. This is one reason why “moderate” Muslims<br />
may complain about Jihadists to Kaffirs, but will never confront the Jihadists themselves as they<br />
know that the Medina example is the better one.<br />
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