Muslims Who Kill for the Qur'an Should Read it Instead

[drakonyx]

Afghans are venting their rage after the U.S. military inadvertently sent some copies of the Qur'an to a pit to be burned. A handful of people have been killed in violence related to demonstrations over the incident.

I completely fail to understand how adherents of a religion that speaks so forcefully against idol worship - in this case, Islam - could act this way. It makes utterly no sense. Most Sunni Muslims even go so far as to prohibit the creation of images meant to depict Mohammad or other prophets, on the grounds that such images encourage idolatry.

The irony is that here are people who identify themselves as Muslims valuing an inanimate object ahead of human life. It's a book. Pages bound by leather or cardboard. Words on paper. And it's not as though it's the only copy. If one copy of the Qur'an is lost, there are millions of others readily available in scores of languages around the world. The catastrophic fire in Alexandria that destroyed a huge library of books that can never be replaced is infinitely more tragic than the loss of a single Qur'an. Those books were irreplaceable. The ideas they contained were silenced for eternity. Yet when a single copy of the Qur'an is accidentally destroyed, the words set forth on paper by Mohammad 14 centuries ago endure.

Read more here:
http://www.theprovocation.net/2012/02/muslims-who-kill-for-quran-should-read.html

[Whisp]

1. bibles should be read too, especially the Jesus parts.

if you are into that.

Sanasicktorium obviously isn't.

[Zalatix]

2. Problem is no major religion's laws support killing non-believers.

[Lost-in-FL]

3. It would help if they could READ the Koran...

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/af.html


Literacy:
definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 28.1%
male: 43.1%
female: 12.6% (2000 est.)

[Warpy]

4. They don't read the Quran any more than most religious nuts

here read the bible. They know some of the stories and a lot of the catch phrases, but neither group knows the context and context is often everything.

Both react with naked fury when something nasty is done to their respective holy books even when there are warehouses of copies around to be had. Both groups are idolators, replacing statues of the Emperor and golden calves with a book they've never read.

The meanest and most worthless person on the planet is worth infinitely more than one of those books, something that is in those books that their idolators will never get.

I dislike burning books on general principle. However, they're still things and things can be replaced. It's harder to replace people who get killed in the crossfire.

[Ferretherder]

5. +1000.

Nail head, meet hammer.

[HopeHoops]

6. Just as with Christians, they use "selected excerpts" to justify murder.