Hmmm. just reading back a little.
I know the guy in the video is trying to sell his books, but if people scroll forwards past that, then there is an interesting point of view and a lesson.
Ok . . . it is not worthwhile to debate with people who don't have an understanding of the subject under consideration.
and . . . Ok, again, who has actually watched the op's posted video all the way through?
Hands, up . . . I have.
It seems to me that some folks want Islam to be benign (I know I do) and want to make apologies for it but they argue for tolerance and "understanding" of something about which they make little effort to educate themselves and of which they know very little.
It seems that their wants, their desires, take front of stage, and they aren't willing to do any reading or undertake any education about a subject on which they already have formed an (information-deficient) opinion.
Their desire is what is important to them and an informed opinion takes second place to what they wish were true.
I would very much like islam to be a compassionate and tolerant and understanding faith; but . . .
Did anyone watch the video in full?
Does anyone have anything intelligent to say regarding the parts of the koran which were at first written in Mecca and then later, written in Medina?
Does anyone understand that the parts written in Medina were written later and are considered to have more authority and even to abrogate earlier Meccan suras if there is a conflict of teaching?
It is difficult on this board to keep posters to the discussion of the OP, because many seem to have the attention span of a goldfish and go off topic swimming into their own particular sea of irrelevant distraction.
So, has anyone else actually watched the complete video from the OP?
and have they anything to say which is thereby informed and relevant?
