Steve, SAB/Q Readers,
Here are my notes on Sura 9, not yet noted by SAB/Q:
Intolerance = Int
Injustice = Inj
Cruelty and Violence = CV
Absurdity = Abs
Contradiction = Con
Science and History = SH
Most of the annotations look pretty straightforward and non-controversial to me, provided that one does not actually adopt Koran-based morality.
Notes on verses about broken treaties, marked with * , require some background research. My own reading on this suggests that Mohammad was not justified in breaking the treaties, and probably never intended to honour treaties in the first place. A discussion of this issue of Mohammad's treaty breaking, from a critical/skeptical perspective, can be found at www.faithfreedom.org/debates/Waqasp3.htm
New Notes.
*9:1-3. Allah-Mohammad grants permission to break a treaty with the idolaters.
Inj
9:2. You cannot escape Allah. Allah will confound the disbelievers.
Int, Inj
*9:4. Treaty? What treaty? Like the one Allah-Mohammad nullified in 9:1-3? The treaty doesn't seem to do much for the idolaters in 9:5-17, nor in much of the rest of the Quran. Those idolaters who are not protected by treaty must be killed, converted to Islam, or subjugated.
Inj
9:6. Protect idolaters if they seek your protection, so that they may convert to Islam. Is this offer of protection fair if those who refuse Islam, after it has been offered, must be killed or subjugated?
Int, Inj
9:7-9:10. Most of the idolaters are wrong-doers, hypocrites, evil.
Int
...when they have the upper hand they dishonour treaties and disrespect Muslims, and debar them from following Allah's way ...rather like how Mohammad treats the idolaters (9:1-9:17) and disbelievers generally (47:34-35)!
Abs, Inj
9:11. They are your brethren in religion only if they convert fully to Islam. (No interfaith dialogue and respect here).
Int
9:13. Wage warfare on an entire group of people over what some of them are alleged to have done to Mohammad and his associates.
Inj, CV
9:14. Go ahead and fight! No problem! Allah will help defeat the enemy and will heal the jihadists' wounds!
Abs
9:16. With His psychic powers, Allah knows what you do.
Abs
9:18-20. Good...pay the poor-due...but only if they are Muslims. (Never help non-Muslims, 28:86). Only Islam is accepted by Allah. Those Muslims who strive more and give more to Islam are of much greater worth to Allah.
Int
9:31: Allah-Mohammad claims Christians and Jews believe monks and rabbis are Lords, partners with God. In fact, the status of monks and rabbis in Christianity and Judaism is, by comparison, actually much lower than the status that Muslims give to Mohammad. (Do they treat Mohammad as partner to Allah?
Abs, SH
9:38-39. Believers! What's wrong with you? You value this life and don't want to follow Islam? Not up for the jihad? Are you sick?
Abs
9:38-39. Believers who don't want to fight must fight. This shows compulsion in religion, but apologists cite part of 2:256 out of context, suggesting that there is no compulsion in religion. If the principle of abrogation is applied, 9:39 abrogates the apologists' part of Sura 2:256.
Int, Inj, CV, Con
9:40: Allah supported Mohammad with hosts that no one else could see.
Abs
9:42-9:49. Those who make excuses for not going on the jihad, or who ask for leave, are liars. Their faith is too weak. They are evil-doers who have failed in their duty to Allah. Better leave them at home; otherwise they would only cause trouble. They are going to hell anyway.
Int, Inj
9:53-9:55. Allah does not accept anything from casual or hypocritical Muslims. They are disbelievers who will be punished in this world and in the hereafter.
Int, Inj
9:60: Good...but this help is only to be given if they are Muslims (28:86).
Inj
9:62: They cannot please Allah except by becoming true believers.
Int, Inj
9:64-9:69. The hypocrites and apostates among you have no excuse. For their transgression, which is disbelief, they will be cursed and sent to hell for a lasting torment. Their works shall perish. They are losers.
Int, Inj, CV
9:70: Disbelievers should have believed what the prophets said. It's their own fault that Allah wiped them out for disbelieving.
Int, Inj
9:71. Good...but this sentiment only applies to strict, obedient, believing Muslims. They must never help (28:86) and never befriend the disbelievers (4:144), who are all evil (2:91, 2:99), wicked (9:125) enemies (63:4) of Islam.
Int, Inj
9:75-79. Hypocrites and apostates have lied to Allah. They have broken their covenant with him and will receive a painful doom. All disbelievers are going to hell anyway (9:80).
Int, Inj
9:78: Psychic Allah knows their secret thoughts.
Abs
9:81-9:87. Oh, those slackers! Those casual Muslims who sit behind Mohammad! They give neither their wealth nor their lives to Allah's cause. They may laugh now, but they'll weep later. They will not be given a chance to repent after the first time sitting out. They are useless and their hearts are sealed. They (and their children?) will be punished in this world and in hell!
Int, Inj
9:86-95. It is not enough to strive for Islam with one's wealth, sitting at home. Those who are called upon to fight, but who make excuses and sit at home, are unclean and their abode is hell (9:95). Only those who strive for Islam with their wealth and their lives will be rewarded.
Int, Inj
9:97-98. Some of the wandering Arabs are more prone to ignorance, disbelief, hypocrisy, and treachery.
Int
9:99. Only those wandering Arabs who are true believers are accepted.
Int, Inj
9:101. The hypocrites hidden among you will be chastised (twice!) and will receive a painful doom.
Int, Inj, CV
9:107-110. Those who set up an alternative place of worship are disbelievers, wrong-doers, and liars. They make a hostile move against Allah. Believers should not go there. Any place of worship that is not built upon the foundation of Allah is precarious. It will topple into hell-fire. Those who worship in it will never cease to regret it in their hearts--unless their hearts are torn to pieces.
Int, Inj, CV
9:114: When Abraham found out that his father was an enemy of Allah, Abraham then disowned his father. (The Koran presents this religiously intolerant disowning as proper, righteous).
Int
9:115: Billions of people have never even heard of Allah. Obviously Allah has not made clear to them what they should avoid.
Abs, Inj
9:127: Those who doubt the revelations are ignorant; a "folk who understand not." Allah turns their hearts away.
Int
Here are my notes on Sura 9, not yet noted by SAB/Q:
Intolerance = Int
Injustice = Inj
Cruelty and Violence = CV
Absurdity = Abs
Contradiction = Con
Science and History = SH
Most of the annotations look pretty straightforward and non-controversial to me, provided that one does not actually adopt Koran-based morality.
Notes on verses about broken treaties, marked with * , require some background research. My own reading on this suggests that Mohammad was not justified in breaking the treaties, and probably never intended to honour treaties in the first place. A discussion of this issue of Mohammad's treaty breaking, from a critical/skeptical perspective, can be found at www.faithfreedom.org/debates/Waqasp3.htm
New Notes.
*9:1-3. Allah-Mohammad grants permission to break a treaty with the idolaters.
Inj
9:2. You cannot escape Allah. Allah will confound the disbelievers.
Int, Inj
*9:4. Treaty? What treaty? Like the one Allah-Mohammad nullified in 9:1-3? The treaty doesn't seem to do much for the idolaters in 9:5-17, nor in much of the rest of the Quran. Those idolaters who are not protected by treaty must be killed, converted to Islam, or subjugated.
Inj
9:6. Protect idolaters if they seek your protection, so that they may convert to Islam. Is this offer of protection fair if those who refuse Islam, after it has been offered, must be killed or subjugated?
Int, Inj
9:7-9:10. Most of the idolaters are wrong-doers, hypocrites, evil.
Int
...when they have the upper hand they dishonour treaties and disrespect Muslims, and debar them from following Allah's way ...rather like how Mohammad treats the idolaters (9:1-9:17) and disbelievers generally (47:34-35)!
Abs, Inj
9:11. They are your brethren in religion only if they convert fully to Islam. (No interfaith dialogue and respect here).
Int
9:13. Wage warfare on an entire group of people over what some of them are alleged to have done to Mohammad and his associates.
Inj, CV
9:14. Go ahead and fight! No problem! Allah will help defeat the enemy and will heal the jihadists' wounds!
Abs
9:16. With His psychic powers, Allah knows what you do.
Abs
9:18-20. Good...pay the poor-due...but only if they are Muslims. (Never help non-Muslims, 28:86). Only Islam is accepted by Allah. Those Muslims who strive more and give more to Islam are of much greater worth to Allah.
Int
9:31: Allah-Mohammad claims Christians and Jews believe monks and rabbis are Lords, partners with God. In fact, the status of monks and rabbis in Christianity and Judaism is, by comparison, actually much lower than the status that Muslims give to Mohammad. (Do they treat Mohammad as partner to Allah?
Abs, SH
9:38-39. Believers! What's wrong with you? You value this life and don't want to follow Islam? Not up for the jihad? Are you sick?
Abs
9:38-39. Believers who don't want to fight must fight. This shows compulsion in religion, but apologists cite part of 2:256 out of context, suggesting that there is no compulsion in religion. If the principle of abrogation is applied, 9:39 abrogates the apologists' part of Sura 2:256.
Int, Inj, CV, Con
9:40: Allah supported Mohammad with hosts that no one else could see.
Abs
9:42-9:49. Those who make excuses for not going on the jihad, or who ask for leave, are liars. Their faith is too weak. They are evil-doers who have failed in their duty to Allah. Better leave them at home; otherwise they would only cause trouble. They are going to hell anyway.
Int, Inj
9:53-9:55. Allah does not accept anything from casual or hypocritical Muslims. They are disbelievers who will be punished in this world and in the hereafter.
Int, Inj
9:60: Good...but this help is only to be given if they are Muslims (28:86).
Inj
9:62: They cannot please Allah except by becoming true believers.
Int, Inj
9:64-9:69. The hypocrites and apostates among you have no excuse. For their transgression, which is disbelief, they will be cursed and sent to hell for a lasting torment. Their works shall perish. They are losers.
Int, Inj, CV
9:70: Disbelievers should have believed what the prophets said. It's their own fault that Allah wiped them out for disbelieving.
Int, Inj
9:71. Good...but this sentiment only applies to strict, obedient, believing Muslims. They must never help (28:86) and never befriend the disbelievers (4:144), who are all evil (2:91, 2:99), wicked (9:125) enemies (63:4) of Islam.
Int, Inj
9:75-79. Hypocrites and apostates have lied to Allah. They have broken their covenant with him and will receive a painful doom. All disbelievers are going to hell anyway (9:80).
Int, Inj
9:78: Psychic Allah knows their secret thoughts.
Abs
9:81-9:87. Oh, those slackers! Those casual Muslims who sit behind Mohammad! They give neither their wealth nor their lives to Allah's cause. They may laugh now, but they'll weep later. They will not be given a chance to repent after the first time sitting out. They are useless and their hearts are sealed. They (and their children?) will be punished in this world and in hell!
Int, Inj
9:86-95. It is not enough to strive for Islam with one's wealth, sitting at home. Those who are called upon to fight, but who make excuses and sit at home, are unclean and their abode is hell (9:95). Only those who strive for Islam with their wealth and their lives will be rewarded.
Int, Inj
9:97-98. Some of the wandering Arabs are more prone to ignorance, disbelief, hypocrisy, and treachery.
Int
9:99. Only those wandering Arabs who are true believers are accepted.
Int, Inj
9:101. The hypocrites hidden among you will be chastised (twice!) and will receive a painful doom.
Int, Inj, CV
9:107-110. Those who set up an alternative place of worship are disbelievers, wrong-doers, and liars. They make a hostile move against Allah. Believers should not go there. Any place of worship that is not built upon the foundation of Allah is precarious. It will topple into hell-fire. Those who worship in it will never cease to regret it in their hearts--unless their hearts are torn to pieces.
Int, Inj, CV
9:114: When Abraham found out that his father was an enemy of Allah, Abraham then disowned his father. (The Koran presents this religiously intolerant disowning as proper, righteous).
Int
9:115: Billions of people have never even heard of Allah. Obviously Allah has not made clear to them what they should avoid.
Abs, Inj
9:127: Those who doubt the revelations are ignorant; a "folk who understand not." Allah turns their hearts away.
Int
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is worse than killing. And fight not with them at Al-Masjid-al-Harm (the sanctuary at Makkah),[41] unless they (first) fight you there. But if they attack you, then kill them. Such is the recompense of the disbelievers. 
