Title: eye opening
Product review: I'm on my third reading of this book and have had access to a pocket-sized Qur'an (helpfully provided gratis while working in Libya and published by the King Fahd Complex in Saudi Arabia).By looking up quotations cited by Mr Spencer from the Qur'an and comparing them with this authorized translation, I am struck by the close approximation of his source (presumably the Dawood version) and the Saudi sanctioned one. Indeed, my version has the added advantage of an English commentary by the authors which elaborates on the thorny issue of the term 'jihad'. There seems no doubt whatsoever that this term is used not in the personal struggle every human being has to overcome bad and promote good in his psyche, but in the 'lesser jihad' interpretation of defending Islam through pre-emptive attacks on all and any who oppose it.
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