A Two-Hour Koran (A Taste of Islam)

I read this "Cliff Notes" version of the Koran, then I reread it and underlined significant passages. My thought, since 9/11, is that main stream conventional wisdom didn't really tell us a true picture of Islam. What did we all learn in College about the Koran? Academia has told us the Koran is just like the Bible. Educated adults that I have encountered have said the same thing for the last forty years. There is an overlap, but to say the two books are just alike is poor scholarship. The story of Moses is mentioned 39 times in the Koran. I find it particularly instructive that the Koran's telling of the role of Jesus. " The Messiah, Jesus, the son of Mary is only Allah's messenger". Therefore the role of Jesus, according to the Koran, is to announce the coming of Mohammed in the 7th century. "Far be it from Allah to have a son." These means that Christians, according to the Koran, have their scripture in error. In the Koran there is one set of rules for the Muslim believer and a different set of rules for the unbeliever. Therefore there is no "Golden Rule" in Islam. I have three books by the premier scholar of the middle east, Bernard Lewis. The writings of Bernard Lewis are a trusted source for people of the middle east. He provides good information, but in a way that is very sympathetic to the Muslim community. Overall it seems the facts of Islam that Academia has presented to us are "sugar coated." The author. Bill Warner, identifies these Academics as apologists. I think Bill is right on the money.

Doctor Warner does not need to spell out what you will find in the Koran; neither does he. He takes very good care to let the Koran tell you all about itself by itself. The verses are carefully arranged so that it becomes clear how its content shaped political islam and how political islam shaped its content. The two are so strongly intertwined that there is no discernible difference. Indeed, for all practical purposes the two are one and the same thing.As an added bonus, the narrative clearly shows how the verses helped the prophet Mohammed fulfill his short-term goals, such as goading his followers to the battlefield, justifying the stealing of someone else's wife, intimidating opponents into submitting to his will, having multiple wives, imposing his will on them etc. One might almost start to believe that the Koran was written for the purpose of serving Mohammed's own agenda.Clear into mind comes the passage where Mohammed's secretary was put on a deathlist for being an apostate to the religion. His reason for doing so; on writing down the revelations of the prophet, the prophet regularly accepted the secretary's improvements to his own texts. This caused the secretary to lose faith in the true nature of islam. Surely the Koran was not all made up, was it?Overall, a quick and revealing introduction-level work into the Koran. Strongly recommended, especially for those islam apologists who so seldom show any real knowledge of the work at the center of the ideology.

A Two Hour Koran (A Taste of Islam Book 1) ... Bill WarnerThe 2 hr qoran was very helpful in putting the story of Mo and Al in proper chronological order with contextual explanations, as Bill Warner prefaced. It confirmed and expanded my knowledge about islam that I have learned from many other sources I have read and studied since 2001/9/11; and my attempt to read it when I was reading various religions books as an early teenager (it put me off the most).Because of the distressing and challenging story told, I had to read it in several sessions over several days - a full 2 hours was just too much to take all at once.This book will help jolt many kafirs (like most of us humans) and madhammadan apostates into realizing the evil threat that Mo's Al "religion" - political islam - pose to human civilization, his and his followers crimes, and indeed life on this planet.Question: Will our wills and love for Life be stronger than the madhammadans' declared love of death?

This is an objective book on how to read the Koran. I read the Koran last year. Then I found this helpful booklet as a guide to re-read the Koran (which is organized by chapter length). This book discusses the smattering of a few stories scrambled from the Torah, Prophets mentioned in the Old Testament, (remember this timeframe in within the 700s a.d.) it mentions people in the New Testament, and also teachings in the Persian Zoroasterism. This is a good reference should you wish to know about how Mohammed conquered other tribes, including Arabs who differed, subjugated other peoples, Jews and Christians, took their wealth, accession used based upon Ezekiel and Jesus Christ. Not necessary as some claim, to be read in Arabic to be understood from a pure learning perspective rather than worship - after all we laymen don't use Hebrew to read the Old Testament, or Greek to read the New Testament. To understand how Islam treats women and Kafirs, this is an excellent booklet. Be sure to check out: [...] from Bill Warner's commentaries and other books available in this series.

An easy to read , logical progression, of a book that about 10% of Muslims have read. If you are looking for something spiritually uplifting, the Koran is definitely not that. I was amazed at all the admonitions in the book about unbelievers. I can honestly say, Allah is not much kinder to Muslims either. Theirs is very narrow path to follow and allows for no deviation. The world would be a harsh and cruel place if Islam was to dominate.

Dr. Warner's makes the hardest part of Islam to understand easy.If you want college level theology classes, read all of Dr. Warner's books and watch his videos on YouTube. I learned more about Islam or free (or very cheap) from him than I did from a $32,000 a year religious school. He changed my mind - that rarely happens. Like him, I've yet to find anyone who can disprove his facts or logic, yet many still reject his conclusions. It is sad to see ideology triumph over academics.I appreciate that his presentation is both historical and Humanist.

A good starting point for those who wish to try and have some understanding as to what can be found in the Quaran

This is an eye opener to the ideology of what Islam represents

Great I like it seems like honest description of what is happening and also scientific the rest we will see.

top quality information recommend

a brilliant work done for the average person to understand