Appeal: direct answer
From Religion Debate: Islam vs Christianity.
- #11362:00:40upheld Sam Shamoun epainos: direct answer (+2)
The council upheld the call: Sam Shamoun earned 2 points.
“… according to the Quran in chapter five verse 20 to 26, it was his Allah that ordered Moses and the Israelites to enter Canaan and wipe it out... it was his Allah that ordered Saul, which the Quran erroneously calls Talut…”
Diogenes: Daniel's genocide charge is answered from Daniel's own scripture, where the same conquests are commanded by Allah without condemnation, which meets the charge instead of deflecting it.- Aristotle uphold: On the record: This is consistent with S3's standing internal-critique method used throughout the debate, applying it now to the morality comparison Daniel raised. Sam meets Daniel's specific charge (that the Old Testament genocide texts are uniquely problematic) by citing specific Qur'anic verses (5:20-26, 2:246-251) showing the same conquests are attributed to Allah without condemnation in Daniel's own scripture — directly engaging the substance of the challenge rather than deflecting.
- Socrates uphold: Read blind, found "evidence", on the same ledger as the callout. Sam supports his internal critique with specific, checkable Qur'anic citations (5:20-26 and, as he goes on to specify, 2:246-251) showing that the Qur'an itself has Allah backing the same military campaigns (Moses/Joshua, Saul against Goliath) that Daniel had condemned when found in the Old Testament, rather than asserting the parallel without a textual basis.
- Plato uphold: On the record: S3's sustained method is internal critique using the opponent's own sources; here he directly answers Daniel's genocide charge against the Bible by showing the Qur'an's own Allah commands the same conquests without condemnation, consistent with his declared approach throughout. This directly meets Daniel's specific genocide charge with a parity argument grounded in specific, checkable Qur'anic citations, rather than deflecting or ignoring it.
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