I don't know who this Taliban spokesperson is but he pulls no punches.
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Some key content in the Quran.
When the Quran speaks of treating others well, it only applies to other Muslims. Non-Muslims (Jews, Christians) have no rights and can be treated any way you please. It is not a crime to rape, murder, or enslave a non-Muslim.
The Quran was revealed to Mohammed in a series of visions from the angel Jibril (Gabriel). Galatians 1:8-9 warns against any scripture revealed after Christ, the final revelation, with these words "But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let them be under God’s curse! As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let them be under God’s curse!"
Even though it is claimed to be the "perfect and unchanging word of Allah", the Quran has many internal contradictions. This is resolved by the concept of abrogation (Naskh), in which anything Allah revealed later supersedes anything written earlier. How the "perfect and unchanging word of Allah" can be inconsistent with itself is a mystery to me.
The Quran is not written in chronological order. It is organized by length of verse. Islamic scholars have produced Quran's sorted by chronological order.
The final revealed truth in the Quran is the "verse of the sword" (Q9.5) which counsels Muslims on how to treat Christians and Jews. It reads "So when the sacred months have passed away, then slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them captives and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush, then if they repent and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate, leave their way free to them; surely Allah is Forgiving, Merciful." According to Muslim scholars, the Sword verse abrogates over a hundred pacifist verses that call for peaceful coexistence and religious tolerance with non-Muslims. This verse instructs to kill non-Muslims unless they convert to Islam, or agree to live as subjects and pay the jizya (tax assessed to dhimmis, non-Muslims living under Muslim rule). Generally dhimmis are treated as an underclass. They have few if any legal rights, and are prohibited from most jobs or business ownership opportunities, rendering them unable to pay the tax, at which point they either convert to Islam, are required to leave the country, or are killed.