[AvenueIngres]

One of the theological cornerstones of Islam, is that the Quran is the perfect, direct and unalterable word of Allah.

If you have faith in Allah, if you truly believe that he is the author of this world, and if you accept Muhammad as its prophet. Then, I genuinely wonder what room is left for compromises. How do you interpret "Kill the apostates"? How can you, in good faith, pretend it is an allegory?

This is what Islam requires from its followers: blind and complete trust. It is not only a sacred book. The Quran is a civil code that aims to regulate every minute of the lives of its adherents. And let's stop kidding ourselves. It is not a peaceful religion either. Islam has conquest and expansion ingrained in its DNA. The Muslim world is extremely orthodoxical. There are peaceful Muslims living in the West. They are peaceful in spite of their holy book, not because of it. Those individuals should be celebrated.

We're asking a violent bedouin who lived in a pre-medieval era to share our hierarchy of values and ethical system. This is anachronistic and cannot end well. Muhammad was not a hippie. He was a warlord.

[dan7678]

Thanks for your opinion. Quite a few intelligent people disagree with you. Please see below.

http://oxfordstudent.com/2013/05/30/debate-this-house-believ...

[AvenueIngres]

You linked to an article where half the "arguments" made are either valid but are disjoint with the mainstream schools of Islam (in face, that they all live in the West is a good hint that they would probably be considered apostates elsewhere - I counted one Ahmadi). Anecdotally, none of them either published or studied at Al-Azhar.

The other half are just threats.

So, really, I'm quite disappointed because I am looking for someone to contradict me.

>Quite a few intelligent people disagree with you.

Okay