CAIR to give away free Korans

Twenty-five thousand of them, to be exact. (From Agape Press.)

At least one evangelist and former Muslim is not worried about CAIR making much headway with this gesture:

W. L. Cati, founder of Zennah Ministries, believes most Americans would probably find the Islamic sacred text hard to decipher. "If you really try to read that book," she says, "it's very confusing. The Koran was put together not by chronological events, like [in] the Bible; it's all sporadic. It was put together from the largest sura [or chapter] to the shortest sura, vice-versa."

Besides, Cati contends, a reading of just a few key verses would likely scare off most rational readers. "All they've got to do is read suras like 'Take not Jews and Christians as your friends,'" she suggests, or "Sura 47:4, that says, 'When you meet the unbelievers, smite at their neck and make a great slaughter of them.'"

Or Sura 9:5, which states: "Then when the forbidden months are past, fight and slay the infidels wheresoever ye find them; seize them, besiege them, ambush them with every ambush. But if they will get their minds right and follow Allah and pay the poor-due [Arabic zakat actually a 2.5% due], then let them go their ways: Lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful."

This Koran giveaway just might have an impact, after all--but not what CAIR intends. Let the Muslims convict themselves, with their own words, of treason and incitement to murder.

In contrast:

the inspired words of the Holy Bible are meant to move hearers to repent and seek salvation.

Then we have Romans 13:1, which states: "Let every soul subject itself to the ruling powers-that-be, because no power is, that does not come from God." In short, the Bible does not exhort its followers to overthrow governments. God makes kingdoms (a word I use loosely to mean "nation-states and their governments") and breaks them. But the Koran exhorts Muslims to do the making and breaking. Theirs is a gospel of works; ours is a Gospel of faith.