> am yet to find an English copy of the Koran to read.
You can have this one (http://home.comcast.net/~ccdesan/QURAN.txt) - it's been marked up for an old indexing program called WordCruncher (dos-based, it still works) but that doesn't make it too difficult to read.
> Islam itself is no more militant and bent than Christianity While it's true that many abominations and atrocities have been committed, and wars waged, in the name of both religions, if you get down to the brass tacks of the actual doctrines, Islam is much more violent and less tolerant than Christianity. Strip away all the hype and focus on what Deity is asking humanity to do, and how to live, and you find that all the oppressive, inhuman doctrines advocated by the Taliban and their ilk are based in a strict reading of the Qur'an. It's almost as if the Bible consisted of the Old Testament only, which is mostly war, incest, idolatry, and whoredom. Once you filter out the xenophobic tint, http://www.thereligionofpeace.com gives a lot of good information about what Islam really is.
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Date: 2009-06-28 09:42 pm (UTC)You can have this one (http://home.comcast.net/~ccdesan/QURAN.txt) - it's been marked up for an old indexing program called WordCruncher (dos-based, it still works) but that doesn't make it too difficult to read.
> Islam itself is no more militant and bent than Christianity
While it's true that many abominations and atrocities have been committed, and wars waged, in the name of both religions, if you get down to the brass tacks of the actual doctrines, Islam is much more violent and less tolerant than Christianity. Strip away all the hype and focus on what Deity is asking humanity to do, and how to live, and you find that all the oppressive, inhuman doctrines advocated by the Taliban and their ilk are based in a strict reading of the Qur'an. It's almost as if the Bible consisted of the Old Testament only, which is mostly war, incest, idolatry, and whoredom. Once you filter out the xenophobic tint, http://www.thereligionofpeace.com gives a lot of good information about what Islam really is.