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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

To play devil's abracadabra... Perhaps people can "misrepresent" that fact in exactly the same way that members of every other religion misrepresent, reinterpret, or outright deny large chunks of their holy texts which are just as out there bat**** bonkers?

You know, like the Christians who want to pretend that it's suddenly OK to be gay or that we shouldn't kill adulterers, or that there aren't countless examples of God being petty, vengeful and violent, etc., or that there hasn't been oceans of blood spilled in the name of Christianity, When it's all quite clearly written there in black and white?

Not that I'm actually defending the Quran here or any other aspect of Islam or any other religion... I'm just saying, there's this hilarious hypocrisy afoot here in the West when people bleat "look! Look what it says in this evil Muslim book!!" and insist upon taking every word literally, whilst at the same time insisting blue-in-the-face that their own violent little book is "open to interpretation"