Did i say Arabs were learned before Islam? No i didn't. What i did say was the Quran came to guide these very people from that said ignorance.Post-Islamic boom of education is a topic you can research yourself. Muslims were proponents of science when Europe was in the dark ages(clichéd but true).
Unfortunately we have stumbled into the same dark ages due to being distanced from our religion, which enjoins education and critical thinking.
You summarize those 100 issues into one sentence because all those issues have a proper reason in Islam and you don't have a rebuttal for it. E.g Homosexuality is NOT ok, not even in the anatomical sense. It is banned in every major religion, not just islam. The rest of the books were corrupted later on when man saw fit. The Quran, whose defense from corruption Allah himself has assumed, is still available in it's original form for all to see.
As for x,y and z not being your friends, i dont know what you are referring to. If it is the verse of the Quran you are referring to then that has sound basis. You may do your research on it. I am not defending any Mullah or scholar and neither am i responsible for the said Mullahs cry to kill people. Islam has nothing to do with people using it for their own gain and ignorant people following them.
My analogy flew by you because you grabbed the wrong idea from it.. The analogy was to show you how you can't learn a higher concept without having basic knowledge about the concept. Similar is the case with the Quran. This is besides the fact that the majority of the Quran is plain and simple. You just like to pick a few verses which reuqire context so that you may hide behind those and ignore the simpler aspects of the Quran. Also, the Quran didn't come out of the blue. It was revealed in 23 years which i would hardly refer to as "coming out of the blue". Had you the basic concepts of Islam you would not have made such a statement. Hence my argument for you to learn basics before taking on more challenging concepts.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
-ARISTOTLE
You are not even ready to entertain the concept that Islam is a peaceful religion so what is the use of arguing?
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