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Originally Posted by Nabeel
It's a poorly worded question: do you mean 'deleting' as a political gesture, some equivalent of the American pastor's aggression, or 'deleting' just as tidying-up a reader?
By anyone's standards, the Koran is an important book: it created a language (Arabic), an Empire or two (the Arab Empire in North Africa and Spain, the Ottoman Empire) and a religion. However, the previous points about interpretation are important: the idea that you can just open up a Koran and then understand what one billion Muslims think makes no sense.
And, by-the-way, I'm a born-again atheist.
Nabeel
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It's true that you can't just open a Qu'ran and instantly understand what a billion Muslims are thinking, but reading it does help to understand their mythology (I use that term in the academic sense with no judgment intended as to it's veracity), and thus opens a major window into understanding them as a group. It is the language which has helped shape their thinking and in which they express themselves.
Born-again atheist: does that mean you've been born-again again?
I understand.
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