[farhad]

Originally posted by Lauren

I agree, they focussed on the bad.

But the fact that some bad exists within the Qu'ran (and it's not just how you interpret it... some of the lines in the Qu'ran cannot be interpreted in any other way) shows that it's claim to pure good is refutable?

About female circumcision - you cannot take the blame away from Islam for that. The Qu'ran has been the instigator of damning regimes (Ayatollah Khomeini, for example), just like Christianity has been the instigator to damning groups (Westboro Baptist Church, for example).

Why do people constantly tell me religion is for peace, yet I see it being used for bad?

I'm interested in both Sticks' and farhad's point on this, WITHOUT quoting religious texts, please.

(As you see, I didn't go for the sensationalist perspective of 'Religion is not peaceful because people bomb for their religion' etc - because I feel the Ayatollah's regime was much more lasting and representative of the Qu'ran interpretation).

I dont think any bad exist in Quran its mainly some passages were translated differently and some of them totally taken out of context like sword fight if you read the whole chapter doesn't nowhere refer to humanity as whole, it refersto the Pagan tribes that broke their treaty whole killed not just muslims but chrisitians and jews, Prophet mohammed came and gave equal rights to Jews and chrisitian that were living in the land, C4 isn't best place to learn about quran. to understand the Quran you need read the whole chapters, genetle mutation does exist, niether wife beating which contradicts the Prophets action and word on authentic sayings. What they did is they were talking about womens rights, and they didn't mention anything about inheritance, womens in Islam are not allowed to forced into marriage, their divorce right, financail obligation, according to statistic 1/3 women convert to islam, I'm sure if Islam treated women badly then why would they even convert?