four (from tanzil.net and qran.org). Rodwellʼs (1861)
chronological ordering is the centre column, showing that
for over 150 years, educated English speakers have had
the chronological ordering of the Koran available to
them.
Whilst there is obviously slight disagreement about
where some chapters fit in the chronological ordering, we
can see that for 150 years it has been agreed that chapters
nine and five (the chapters commanding genocide and
apartheid) are chronologically among the last three
chapters of the Koran. That this is so, means the
commands in those chapters abrogate any contradictory
verses occurring in earlier chapters. When one knows that
the most violent and discriminatory verses of the Koran
occur at the end, this explains to everyone why the world is
facing endless jihad. It explains why Muslims kill to
subjugate non-Muslims.
We have taken the chronological ordering from
tanzil.net (which is one of the worldʼs best websites for
studying the Koran), and we reversed it (to emphasize the
importance of abrogation). Column two above is rendered in
bold so that in crossing successive pages of this Appendix
the reader can see which columns is the tanzil.net ordering.
For those who still do not believe the chronological
orders above, we suggest you acquire a copy of W.
Montgomery Watt, Bellʼs Introduction to the Qurʼan. Bell
and Watt were two of Britain’s foremost twentieth-century