Bowdlerize Your Quran
By
Sumit Paul, New Age Islam
9 January
2023
GGS
wonders who're these Muslim suicide bombers and who equips them with logistics
and ammunition to carry out all these self-destructive suicide bombings. It's
the ambiguity of your Quranic verses that produces such reprehensible
characters who kill Kafirs as well as their own brethren by blowing themselves
up.
Just think
for a moment, do the followers of any other religions, viz, Judaism,
Christianity, Islam, Zoroastrianism, Sikhism, Bahai, Buddhism, Jainism,
Hinduism and quasi-faiths indulge in blowing themselves up and killing innocent
people? Only Muslims are involved in such gory and ghastly acts. Why?
Anwar
Shaikh (an apostate who converted to Vedic Hinduism and rechristened himself as
Aniruddh Gyaan Shikha) wrote in his book ' Islam and Terrorism ' that
there are everlasting interpretative gulf and loopholes between the Quran and
the comprehension of the followers (read Muslims). This needs some enumeration.
Though all
man-written scriptures are somewhat obscure and unintelligible, there's not so
much ambiguity in them. That a huge group of people draws killing instincts and
negative interpretations from certain verses and some (apologists) from the
same faith aver that these people have misunderstood the meaning of certain
Quranic verses is a plain hogwash. This is glossing over the gross
transgressions perpetrated by a humongous chunk of Muslims who'll kill yet
proclaim that Islam is a religion of peace!
When errors
of interpretations are so many and the same faith produces poles asunder
personalities like Rumi and Osama Bin Laden, the interpretative obscurity of
the Quran becomes all the more obvious.
Didn't
Rumi, despite being a Muslim, rather audaciously say that his Masnavis were the
Quran in Pahlavi and he left out the bones of the original Quran and retained
only the pulp in his Masnavis?
In other
words, he hinted that he eliminated the bogus parts of the Quran and retained
what was sublime and exalted in it.
However
hard an apologist may try, at least 26 verses in the Quran are potentially
dangerous to mankind. Suicide bombers find them edicts from Allah and go on
killing and self-destructing spree.
Unless a
whole body of willing and fearless Muslim scholars systematically removes the
most equivocal verses from the Quran and purges it of all obscurities, suicide
bombers will continue to kill the innocent people and average Muslims will go
on casting aspersions on Kafirs. Bowdlerize your Quran.
----
A regular columnist for New Age Islam, Sumit Paul
is a researcher in comparative religions, with special reference to Islam. He
has contributed articles to the world's premier publications in several
languages including Persian.
URL: https://newageislam.com/islam-politics/bowdlerize-quran-muslims-islam-/d/128830
New Age Islam, Islam Online, Islamic
Website, African Muslim News, Arab World News, South Asia News, Indian Muslim News, World Muslim News, Women in Islam, Islamic Feminism, Arab Women, Women In Arab, Islamophobia in America, Muslim Women in West, Islam Women and Feminism